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9 unusual facts about George Pullman


George Pullman

After President Abraham Lincoln was assassinated, Pullman arranged to have his body carried from Washington, D.C. to Springfield on a sleeper, for which he gained national attention, as hundreds of thousands of people lined the route in homage.

Georges Nagelmackers

After a proposal to George Pullman to collaborate on developing the European market was rebuffed Nagelmackers returned to Europe.

Gwendolyn Brooks College Preparatory Academy

George Pullman, upon his death in 1897, bequeathed the sum of $1,200,000 to provide for the building and endowment of a "free school of manual training for the benefit of the children of persons living or employed at Pullman." An additional bequest was made by Mrs. Pullman, and the Pullman Free School of Manual Training opened its doors on the site in September, 1915.

Orleans County Courthouse Historic District

Solon Beman's 1894 stone church, endowed by his patron George Pullman, has been described as the finest in the village Pullman once called home.

The next year George Pullman, the railroad-car entrepreneur who had lived in Albion as a young cabinetmaker around 1850, agreed to build a Universalist church in the village (named Pullman Memorial Universalist Church).

Pullman, Chicago

Historic Pullman was built in the 1880s by George Pullman as workers' housing for employees of his eponymous railroad car company, the Pullman Palace Car Company.

Pullman, Michigan

The post office was renamed Pullman in 1901, apparently after George Pullman.

Raising of Chicago

By 1860, confidence was sufficiently high that a consortium of no fewer than six engineers—including Brown, Hollingsworth and George Pullman—took on one of the most impressive locations in the city and hoisted it up complete and in one go.

Sleeping car

The man who ultimately made the sleeping car business profitable in the United States was George Pullman, who began by building a luxurious sleeping car (named Pioneer) in 1865.


Main Street Station Hotel and Casino and Brewery

Main Street Station offers a self-guided tour which includes a portion of the Berlin Wall, stained glass from the Lillian Russell Mansion, doors and facade from the Kuwait Royal Bank, doors from the George Pullman Mansion, Louisa May Alcott pullman car, chandeliers from the Coca-Cola building and Figaro Opera House, and various statues.


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