Pullman
About this Library
Pullman Branch was rededicated July 30, 1994 after undergoing a major renovation. Featured artwork at the branch includes: an acrylic on canvas entitled Jazz: Still a Four-Letter Word, by Orisegun Olomidun and a glass and ceramic tile mosaic entitled Come Journey Through Corridors of Treasures by Nina Smoot-Cain and Kiela Songhay Smith. The art was funded through the Percent for Art Ordinance administered by the City of Chicago Public Art Program.
Pullman Branch was originally part of the campus of the Pullman School of Manual Training, now the Gwendolyn Brooks Preparatory High School, Chicago Public Schools, just to the west of the historic Pullman Factory. A. F. Hussander designed the branch. The brick and terra cotta facades were designed in the classical style, using Corinthian plasters, bracketed cornices and ornamental spandrels depicting open books. The land and building funds were donated to the City of Chicago by the widow of George Mortimer Pullman, railroad tycoon and founder of the town of Pullman. The Pullman Branch was located at several other locations before the present building was constructed in 1927.