The National Park Service (NPS) is pleased to announce that Pullman National Monument & State Historic Site have received the prestigious 2022 Landmarks Illinois Richard H. Driehaus Foundation Preservation Award in the category of Rehabilitation. This award honors the collaborative partnership of federal and state agencies, non-profit organizations, and preservation advocates for their decades of leadership and advocacy work in Chicago’s Pullman community that led to the establishment of Pullman National Monument & State Historic Site, and the subsequent $35 million rehabilitation of the iconic Pullman Administration Clock Tower Building for adaptive reuse as the new National Park Service visitor center and remediation and redevelopment of the surrounding 12-acre historic factory grounds. In addition to the NPS, the award recognizes the significant contributions of Illinois Department of Natural Resources (IDNR), Chicago Neighborhood Initiatives, the National Park Foundation, the Positioning Pullman Project Team led by the National Parks Conservation Association, and the Historic Pullman Foundation.
“For more than a century, Pullman has been recognized as a model industrial town, and now Pullman also serves as a model for preservation partnerships,” said NPS Superintendent Teri Gage. “Merging the missions, bureaucracy, and complex relationships of government, non-profits, and passionate preservationists was no easy task, but absolutely worth the effort. Working together, we’ve accomplished what none of us could have done on our own.”
Pullman State Historic Site was established in 1991, when the State of Illinois acquired Hotel Florence and the Pullman factory complex. When Pullman National Monument was designated a unit of the National Park Service in 2015, IDNR donated the Administration Clock Tower Building to the NPS. The co-located Pullman National Monument and State Historic Site now operate collaboratively under the terms of a Cooperative Management Agreement to preserve the historic resources of Pullman and to interpret the stories of industrial and railcar history, labor struggles and achievements associated with the Pullman Company, including the rise and role of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters; and to interpret the history of urban planning and design of which the planned company town of Pullman is a nationally significant example.
The visitor center is open daily from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Additional information is available on the Pullman National Monument website at www.nps.gov/pull or by calling (773) 468-9310.
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