This Queen Anne-style residence and carriage house were designed in 1885 by John Mills Van Osdel, Chicago’s first professional architect. Commissioned by Rev. Elijah H. Gammon (1819–1891), an abolitionist, Methodist minister and presiding elder, successful industrialist, and philanthropist. The home features elaborate interior details.

Gammon died in July 1891. Per his will, the property was transferred—following the death of his wife, Jane C. Gammon (née Prindle) in December 1892—to the Gammon Theological Seminary in Atlanta, Georgia, which he founded in 1882 to train African American ministers. In 1894, James P. Prindle purchased the property.

After Prindle’s death in March 1916, the house was a series of residence-based funeral homes for the next six decades. It operated as Hollister Funeral Home (1917–1931), Burnett & Johnson Funeral Home (June 1931–1947), and finally Johnson Funeral Home (August 1947–1977), owned by Norman E. Johnson. The upper floors served as living quarters, while the basement housed the mortuary.

In 1977, Joseph F. Marconi acquired the property, which he named Gammon Corner, for Ms. Donali Ltd., an established boutique, and his family’s residence. He remodeled, subdivided, and leased the carriage house, which he expanded to the south in 1984, for retail use. In 1988, Marconi expanded the house to the south for a junior fashion shop, Emis. Bee-Attitudes Antiques Shop opened in May 2001.