Diagonally northwest from it is the
McCormick mansion, site of the present
1000 Lake Shore Plaza building. The
diagonal street in the lower right is Rush
Street, which had begun its development
as one of the city's major concentrations
of restaurants and night clubs.

(Photograph, Kaufmann and Fabry. Courtesy
Chicago Historical Society.)

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## 2. Lake Shore Drive, South from Oak Street, 1915

"The Drive changed so rapidly between 1910 and 1920 that it was a surprise to many a returned traveler of that time," wrote Henry Justin Smith in 1931. "Not only did it acquire the co-ops, in which many a family found a less onerous and less heavily taxed domicile than the old homestead; but the street traffic grew heavy; the honk of horns became deafening, the odor of motor exhausts more pervasive. New wealth invaded the Drive; new families mingled with the old. By 1924, or before that, people had come to see its development as resembling that of New York's upper Park Avenue, and they predicted that before long it would be a region of still more luxurious apartment structures, north of Lincoln Park." Rent for apartments along the drive by the mid-20's averaged from $6,000 to $15,000 annually. At the right is the 999 North Lake Shore Drive Building, erected in 1912 with a ten-story design by Marshall and Fox.

(Courtesy Chicago Historical Society.)

## 3. North Lake Shore Drive, South from East Lake Shore Drive, 1963

The rapid change which Henry Justin Smith observed in the twenties was even more apparent in the 1950's and 1960's as it was for the period when the Drive began its boom. New high-rise hotels, motor motels, and apartment buildings rose ever higher, dwarfing their older neighbors.

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