Illinois and Michigan Canal Warehouse - Lockport, IL
by Susan Rissi Tregoning
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Illinois and Michigan Canal Warehouse - Lockport, IL
Artist
Susan Rissi Tregoning
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Photograph - Photography
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This handsome limestone warehouse dating to 1839 is the Gaylord Building. Built as the construction depot for the Illinois & Michigan Canal, it stored all the Canal’s building materials and then later housed a variety of commercial ventures. Today, it is both an exhibition gallery and the Public Landing Restaurant.
Construction on the Illinois and Michigan Canal began in 1836 and was completed in 1848. The 96-mile-long Canal was the last link needed to connect the Atlantic Ocean at the Port of New York to the Gulf of Mexico at the Port of New Orleans via the Great Lakes. One of the few successful canals in the country its construction debt was paid off by 1871 something few canals ever accomplished. The Canal helped to make Chicago a transportation and economic hub of the nation.
Lockport, Illinois, was located about 1/3 of the way between the I&M Canal’s starting point in Bridgeport on the Chicago River and the ending point in LaSalle, Illinois, on the Illinois River, making it a natural location for the I&M canal headquarters. All canal planning, staging, and warehousing operations were located here.
The Gaylord Building is one of 29 National Trust Historic Sites and was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975.
Copyright 2022 Susan Rissi Tregoning
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July 17th, 2022
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