1010 Green Bay

The history of the site of the building at 1010 Green Bay, which is located in both Winnetka and Glencoe, dates back to Glencoe’s first settlers, the Taylor family. Anson and Lisa Taylor arrived in the area in 1835, building the first settler home in Glencoe near present-day Sheridan Road. Their son, John Taylor, was born in the family’s log cabin in 1855. Around 1881, John built a house at present-day 1010 Green Bay when he married Maria Stupey from Highland Park. The Taylor’s house remained on this site until the late 19th or early 20th century when it was moved to an unknown location.

By the late 1930s, Winnetka’s Hearthstone House Restaurant, which was first opened in 1923, had outgrown it’s 110-seat location at 920 Linden (now Green Bay) in Hubbard Woods. To expand, the restaurant’s owner, Donald G. Robertson, purchased the old Taylor homestead in 1940 and hired architect Ralph Stoetzel to design the current building as a 240-seat restaurant across three dining rooms with a private party room on the second floor.

While the Hearthstone House Restaurant was open for several decades, it lasted less than ten years in the expanded restaurant building. In 1949, the Hearthstone House officially closed at 1010 Green Bay.

That year, the owners sold the property to Charles A. Stevens & Co., one of the country’s largest women’s clothing and accessories stores. Founded in 1886 as catalog business, Charles A. Stevens opened its flagship store (designed by Daniel Burnham) in Chicago on State Street in 1912. The women’s fashion store was immensely successful, eventually opening 29 locations in Chicago and its suburbs. Like it’s Chicago flagship, the Winnetka/Glencoe location proved successful for many decades. In 1988, however, the chain’s success ran its course and the company filed for bankruptcy and closed all its remaining locations.

After Charles A. Stevens & Co. closed, the building at 1010 Green Bay changed hands again when it was purchased by Bank of America. The Bank of America has been open at 1010 Green Bay for over 20 years and remains in business there today.

While the building has been renovated to suit the needs of the various businesses that have occupied it, several of its noteworthy features remain, including its signature white columns and decorative entryway.