The Cable House is a Richardsonian Romanesque

Richardsonian Romanesque

Richardsonian Romanesque is a style of Romanesque Revival architecture named after architect Henry Hobson Richardson, whose masterpiece is Trinity Church, Boston , designated a National Historic Landmark...

–style house near Michigan Avenue, at 25 East Erie Street, in Chicago, Illinois

Illinois

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, United States

United States

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. The house was built in 1886 by Cobb and Frost

Cobb and Frost

Cobb and Frost was an American architectural firm. Cobb and Frost was founded in Chicago, Illinois by Henry Ives Cobb and Charles Sumner Frost in 1882. The firm was dissolved in 1889 when Cobb began work on designing the Newberry Library...

 for Ransom R. Cable. It was designated a Chicago Landmark

Chicago Landmark

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on October 2, 1991. In 1902 the house was purchased by Robert Hall McCormick for his son, Robert Hall McCormick III. It was here where Marconi stayed in 1917. The house is located in a neighborhood once dubbed "McCormicksville" due to the concentration of family members living around this neighborhood.