This is the Glessner House completed in 1887. Glessner was a part owner of International Harvester and on Prairie Avenue also lived the Kimballs (Kimball Piano Co.), the Marshall Fields, Brach of the candy company, George Pullman of Pullman RR cars, and Armour, the meatpacking guy, etc., etc. This house was designed by Henry Hobson Richardson of Brookline, MA, the most famous American architect of the day. It looks to me like a Florentine palazzo.
This style of architecture is called Richardson Romanesque. He was all over Harvard last year.
Of course, they were tearing down all of the mansions in the 1960s until the preservation movement took hold.
In the same block is the Clark House, the oldest house left in Chicago which was built in 1831. It has been moved a number of times.
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