![]() ![]() These awards led to their adoption on thousands of farms in England, France, Russia, and other countries, as well as in the United States, where it is universally regarded as the farmer’s friend. McCormick, in his nomination, by the Emperor, as Knight of the Legion of Honor. It has been awarded the first prize at all the great international exhibitions, from the World’s Fair, in London, in 1851, to the Paris Exposition, in 1868 and the last named the grand gold medal was awarded, and an extraordinary distinction conferred on Cyrus H. That the preparations made for a largely increased production of the celebrated McCormick reaper are justified, finds sample proof in the past. McCormick and a magnificent block at the northwest corner of Lake street and Wabash avenue, by Mr. Among them we may mention the Reaper Block on the site of the old Larmon Block, and the McCormick Building on the site at the corner of Randolph and Dearborn streets, by C. The firm has also contracted for the erection of a three-story boarding-house, with thirty rooms and upwards of fifty cottages for their workmen, furnishing pleasant homes, at a cheap rate, to those employed in the works, without long journeys morning and evening.Ī large number of first-class buildings are also being erected in or near the business centre of the city by these enterprising men. The total cost will be about half a million dollars. The buildings are well drained, will be lighted with gas made on the premises, and heated by steam apparatus made by the Crane Brothers’ Manufacturing Company. Indeed, the utmost care has been taken, in the arrangement of the works, to guard against damage by fire, the whole building being constructed in sections, with interior walls, and double iron doors connecting the departments, while an ample supply of water and steam can be turned on and part in case of emergency. The engines will be of 300-horse-power, low pressure, built by the Ouyahoga Engine Works, of Cleveland, Ohio, and both boiler and engine house will be strictly fire-proof. The central building of the factory, 40 by 217 feet, and two stories high, with deep basement, will be used for storing, cleaning castings, grinding cutters, and preparing different parts of the reaper. The foundry buildings are 90 by 216 feet, with furnaces and an engine house adjoining. The blacksmith shop is 90 by 100 feet, and 28 feet high. ![]() The woodworking department will occupy nine rooms, each 60 by 100 feet. The buildings have a northern frontage if 360 feet, four stories high, and three parallel wings extend back from this to the river. The works cover an area of 21 acres, and the buildings will contain six acres of floor-room. Walker, Esq., and lying on the north bank of the new South Branch of the river, having a dock frontage of 1,320 feet near the intersection of Western and Blue Island avenues, and adjacent to the bridge. The new works are located in the new southwest manufacturing district, on 155 acres of ground purchased from S. They have now, however, in process of construction, a new factory, or rather a new set of factories, which will enable them manufacture 25,000 machines per annum, more easily than they could turn out 1,500 only thirteen years ago. Arrangements were at once made to manufacture machines in temporary quarters, to supply the more urgent demands, and about half as many have been produced as in the year previous. The next year’s work would have been greater than this, but for the fact that buildings, machinery, patters, and, in fact every vestige of the establishment except energy and muscle, was resolved into its original elements a year ago. The next twelve years that product was increased ten fold, the enormous number of `15,000 machines having been placed on the market for 1871, some 700 workers being engaged in their production. In 1848 they manufactured 500, and the last number was trebled in 1849. In 1847 the initial production was doubled. The McCormick factory was established in 1846, and 100 machines were turned out that year. Their immense factory, on the north bank of the river, near Rush street, was a mechanical marvel in itself, as its products were wonder of the agricultural world, and the rapidity of their growth was almost as astonishing as their extent. The McCormicks are best known in conjunction with their celebrated reaper, which is now in use in almost every country of the civilized world. The McCormick losses were not far short of $2,000,000 their expenditures in rebuilding will be even greater than this amount. Scarcely any other name stood out so prominently in the list of losers by the fire as that of McCormick and scarcely any is so extensively identified with its restoration. Location: Western and Blue Island avenues ![]()
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