Pullman National Historical Park & State Historical Site

The Pullman National Historical Park and State Historic Site opened to visitors on Labor Day 2021.  Just over 140 years after George Pullman purchased 4000 acres of land on which he would build his Railroad Company Empire.  Together with architect Solon Beman and landscape architect Nathan Barrett, they would create an entire planned community.

Vacant since the 1960s, the original Administration Building with its iconic clock tower and the adjacent factory complex was nearly destroyed by fire in 1998.  Following the site’s 2015 designation as a National Monument by President Obama, an all-volunteer planning endeavor known as Positioning Pullman spurred momentum to rehabilitate the factory campus and share its stories of industry, architecture, urban planning, social justice, engineering, labor practices, and race relations.

The adaptive reuse of the Clock Tower Administration Building as the Pullman National Monument Visitor Center, the re-creation of the historic Worker’s Gate, and the interpretive rehabilitation of the 12-acre Factory Site transformed America's first planned industrial community into America's first urban national park.