Parisian Starckness
[Philip T. Starck House (1925) Mayo & Mayo, architects /Images & Artwork: designslinger]
At a glance, you might think this house sits on a street in a chic Parisian neighborhood, but
instead we're in a residential area on Chicago's north side. Designed in 1925 by the father and son team of Ernest and Peter Mayo for Philip T. Starck, the house looks French, elegant and expensive.
[Starck House, 330 W. Wellington, Chicago /Image & Artwork: designslinger]
Philip Starck's father started a Chicago piano manufacturing company in 1891, and by
the time Starck the son became president, the P.A. Starck Piano Company had made the family very rich. Starck paid another wealthy city scion, meat packing heir J. Ogden Armour $69,500 for the property. Ironically the land had once been the water's edge of Lake Michigan, but by the time Starck made his purchase decades of landfill had pushed the shoreline 1/2 mile to the east.
[Starck House details, March 5, 2010 /Images & Artwork: designslinger]
Starck only lived in his $250,000, 16-room mansion for a brief ten years. He died in 1935
at the relatively young age of 54 and the family piano company, taken over by his son, survived until the late 1960s. Philip's widow Mildred owned the home until 1951 when the house was purchased by the Ephpheta Center, a school for the deaf. The Beaux Arts box is once again a single family manse, the residence of a wealthy Chicago financier.
More piano related material wealth in: The Newman Triplets and A Temple of Music.
Posted by designslinger at 4/26/2010 3:07 AM 
Categories: Architecture, History, Preservation
Tags: Philip T. Starck Mayo and Mayo mansions Chicago
Categories: Architecture, History, Preservation
Tags: Philip T. Starck Mayo and Mayo mansions Chicago
Thank you for the pictures.
I have pictures of the inside from 1950 if you are interested.
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We'd love to see the pics, and create another post about the Starck house with the interior snaps if possible. The photo credit would go to you or to the person who took the photos, if you have that info. Have to be careful about giving credit where credit is due. You can write us here or email us at: designslinger@yahoo.com
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