From the Village of Glencoe's website:

The Tudor Revival style was very fashionable following the first World War and an elaborate example, with leaded windows, gables and four imposing chimneys, was built for department store magnate E.F. Wieboldt in 1929. The architect was Ralph Edward Stoetzel, who himself lived in Glencoe for 50 years.

Born in Chicago in 1874, Marshall lacked a formal architectural education but compensated with drive, imagination and social connections. He apprenticed for a Chicago architect, then set up his own shop after the century turned. One of his commissions, the Iroquois Theatre, was the site of a disastrous 1903 fire that caused the deaths of more than 600 people. Yet Marshall’s star continued to ascend.

Today we are surrounded by Marshal designs - The Blackstone and Drake Hotels, the South Shore Cultural Center,  the Edgewater Beach complex, and the Cuneo Mansion in Vernon Hills as well as several grand east Lake Shore Drive residences.

Built in 1921 -- not as a home but as a place to entertain lavishly, according to a 1948 Life magazine article-- Marshall’s 32-room, pink stucco Wilmette mansion (below) was outfitted with rooms for exotic partying, including a tropical garden and Egyptian solarium.

From the Benjamin Marshall Society Facebook Page:
"In designing his (1921-1924) home and studio in Wilmette, Benjamin Marshall gathered exquisite and rare objects and elements from all over the world.

This is the glass enclosed two-story garden and swimming pool, with a ceiling and windows that would open with the touch of a button.

The garden in the 75' x 110' x 50' space was lined with tropical palms, hanging ferns, and other rare plants. The swimming pool was lined with turquoise tiles from Algiers."

Goldblatt Bros. Inc.In 1905, Simon and Hannah Goldblatt moved with their children from Poland to Chicago. In 1914, two of their sons, Maurice and Nathan Goldblatt, opened a store at Chicago and Ashland Avenues, in a neighborhood that was then home to many Polish immigrants. Over the next 10 years, the firm's annual sales rose from about $15,000 to $1.4 million. As the operator of medium-size department stores that offered goods at low prices, Goldblatt Bros. prospered even during the Great Depression. By 1933, the company exceeded $20 million in annual sales, and owned five stores in Chicago, as well as stores in nearby Joliet, and Hammond, Indiana. Goldblatt's entered the city's high-rent retail district in 1936, when it opened a store on State Street. By the end of World War II, when younger brothers Louis and Joel Goldblatt began to lead the company, it had 15 stores and 2,500 employees. When the company's operations peaked in the 1970s, it had 47 stores, close to $250 million in annual sales, and about 8,000 employees in the Chicago area. Yet, the company was losing money quickly, having trouble competing with rival discount chains such as Kmart. After it entered bankruptcy, the chain was purchased in 1985 by JG Industries Inc. The flagship State Street store was purchased by DePaul University. By the 1990s, Goldblatt's was a chain of about 15 Chicago-area department stores, located mainly in the kind of low-income immigrant neighborhoods in which the company had started in the 1910s. In 2003, with only six stores remaining in Chicago, the company liquidated.

This entry is part of the Encyclopedia's Dictionary of Leading Chicago Businesses (1820-2000) that was prepared by Mark R. Wilson, with additional contributions from Stephen R. Porter and Janice L. Reiff.