For over 40 years, the best advice for an avid book collector going to Chicago was, "stop at Nedwick's".When Jerry Nedwick died, many people referred to his passing as "the end of an era".He was part earth tradesman, part idealistic dreamer.In 19966, after Nedwick died, Wayne Yenawine, then the director of libraries at the University of Louisville, bought 60,000 volume remaining stock and, in honor of the dealer, identified it as "The Jerry Nedwick Collection".gorgeous 14-room, nine-fireplace building at 2013 S. Prairie was the only mansion left on the street that had always been a private residence. It was built by LeRoy Beers in 1894 for William Henry Reid, who'd made a fortune running supplies on the Mississippi during the Civil War and had later become one of the founders of the Bank of America. Several owners had followed, the last being Jerrold Nedwick, a bookseller who'd stacked his volumes from floor to ceiling and never shown much interest in upkeep.When Nedwick died in 1966 the mansion went on the market as a teardown. Charles Haffner III, a member of the Donnelley family and the supervisor of the firm's land acquisitions, thought the property could be used to expand the company's parking lot, but he wanted to tour the sagging relic first. He took Neff along."When Mr. Haffner and I walked into the foyer we looked at the mahogany wainscoting, the subdued and artistic stained glass, and the flawless 1890s style tile mosaic floor
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