History of the Nickerson Mansion: 1919

List of citizens who purchased and donated the Nickerson Mansion

Above: List of citizens who purchased and donated the Nickerson Mansion from “Surgeons Pick Chicago as Site of Huge School,” Chicago Daily Tribune, December 21, 1919.

Now City Landmark, Mansion Saved by Fellow Citizens


Chicago Daily Tribune, December 21, 1919

Surgeons Pick Chicago as Site of Huge School

The administrative home of the American College of Surgeons was officially located in Chicago yesterday. Regents of the college, meeting at the Congress hotel, accepted as a gift from Chicago citizens a site and building at 40 East Erie street. The latter, built by S.M. Nickerson (now dead but for many years a leading banker), was for a generation one of the show residences of the city. The donors are citizens of Chicago.

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