Pullman State Historic Site (Hotel Florence)

Fifteen miles south of the Chicago loop, at the center of the historic planned industrial Pullman community, Pullman State Historic Site uses historic structures and public programs to showcase 19th and 20th Century industrial society. The signature Clock Tower Administration Building and Assembly Shops and the grand four story Hotel Florence give tangible evidence to the national and international influences of Pullman — on transportation, industrial design, architecture, labor, urban and town planning and landscape design — in the contemporary context of America’s post-industrial economy, where much of the evidence of the industrial age has already disappeared.