Andrew McNally, 1836-1904[Memorials, messages of condolence, and press notices . and his increasing family. The dwellinghe ultimately did construct occupied the center of thegrounds; it was in three stories, frame, with a stone andbrick basement. Here the McNallys lived until theattractive home was destroyed in the great fire of thence early in the morning of October loth,they fled to Evanston and occupied for a few monthsthe former home of Dr. Evans. Then, moving back tothe city, Mr. McNally rented a house at the corner ofWest Monroe, near Hoyne Avenue, and there for a yearand a h
Andrew McNally, 1836-1904[Memorials, messages of condolence, and press notices . and his increasing family. The dwellinghe ultimately did construct occupied the center of thegrounds; it was in three stories, frame, with a stone andbrick basement. Here the McNallys lived until theattractive home was destroyed in the great fire of thence early in the morning of October loth,they fled to Evanston and occupied for a few monthsthe former home of Dr. Evans. Then, moving back tothe city, Mr. McNally rented a house at the corner ofWest Monroe, near Hoyne Avenue, and there for a yearand a half he resided. In the meantime he had pur-chased eighty acres of land at Elmhurst and built him-self a house in which he dwelt for three years. Heattempted to get pleasure there by cultivating his tractin plain farmer fashion, but of that he tired. Conse-quently he found a buyer for his holdings and with hisfamily returned again to the city and occupied a houseon Dearborn Avenue for one year, or during the time hewas building a block of six houses on his late fire-swept 260. ground on Lincoln Avenue. In one of these houses hedwelt for about seven years. Next he bought lots onNorth Park Avenue, opposite Lincoln Park, and erectedsix stone houses there, one of which he occupied him-self and others he gave to his daughters. Here con-tinued to be his Chicago home, and to it he was justready to return from California when he unexpectedlydied. For twenty-four years Andrew McNally, with , and most of these years with some other mem-bers of his family, passed his winters in Southern Cali-fornia. That length of time ago the greatest part ofthat country was a desert. A few acres of land wherenow is some part of a magnificent street or avenue ofPasadena had been reclaimed from the surroundingwastes and on the side of a noble foothill stood the onlytourist hotel in the neighborhood, which was known asthe Sierra Madre Villa. The first four years of sojourning in that
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