Statement of Significance (as of designation - December 30, 1970):
Constructed 1880-1884 for George M. Pullman (1831-1897), engineer and industrialist, Pullman was a completely planned model industrial town, representing a dramatic and pioneering departure from the unhealthy, over-crowded makeshift and unsanitary living conditions found in working-class districts in other 19th century industrial cities and town. In 1894, it was the focus of a bloody and violent strike which spread nation-wide over the railroad networks, prompting President Grover Cleveland to intervene with Federal troops and resulted in the use for the first time of the Sherman Anti-Trust Act to smash the unions.

Condition:
Severe physical deterioration of east assembly shops. Inapropriate alterations conducted by property owners.

Partial conservation of 1881 Hotel Florence under design. Maintenance/Interpretive pathways and site improvements on factory site.