https://www.jbachrach.com/blog daily 0.75 2024-09-03 https://www.jbachrach.com/blog/2022/11/30/a-study-in-quadrangles-the-university-of-chicago-campus monthly 0.5 2022-12-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/ed51ed6e-6f8b-4fef-a0b8-b158b70c1ce6/Columbian-Midway-Plaisance.jpg Blog - A Study in Quadrangles: The University of Chicago Campus - Make it stand out World’s Columbian Exposition, Midway Plaisance, 1893. C.D. Arnold, photographer. Courtesy of Ryerson and Burnham Art and Architecture Archive, Art Institute of Chicago. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/3a805b5b-72d2-4ad0-81d3-f9cb8fe8d281/Cobb-Gate.jpg Blog - A Study in Quadrangles: The University of Chicago Campus - Make it stand out Cobb Gate. Photo by Nathaniel Parks. Courtesy of Ryerson and Burnham Art and Architecture Archive, Art Institute of Chicago. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/6800cba2-5144-421f-b374-580673976dd0/campus-view-ferris-wheel2.jpg Blog - A Study in Quadrangles: The University of Chicago Campus - Make it stand out View of the campus from the Ferris Wheel, 1893. University of Chicago Photographic Archive, apf2-02561. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/5a687def-77ae-48fe-b6c1-f769e0a1d716/circle-drive.jpg Blog - A Study in Quadrangles: The University of Chicago Campus - Make it stand out This photograph shows one of the most important elements of the Olmsted Brothers Plan--the tree-lined north-south axis with its circle drive in center, 1913. University of Chicago Photographic Archive, apf2-02754. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/dd6fd71f-792a-41ee-adc7-6c8ef3aa8469/Frederick-Law-Olmsted.jpg Blog - A Study in Quadrangles: The University of Chicago Campus - Make it stand out Frederick Law Olmsted, Jr. Courtesy of Palos Verdes Library District Local History Center Collection. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/e3b7bddc-9801-48bb-8ebe-8e3753182487/UofC-Southwest-Quad.jpg Blog - A Study in Quadrangles: The University of Chicago Campus - Make it stand out University of Chicago Southwest Quadrangle. Photo by Julia Bachrach. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/d989edbb-1cab-4c98-9649-5696a5d9a872/John-Charles-Olmsted.jpg Blog - A Study in Quadrangles: The University of Chicago Campus - Make it stand out John Charles Olmsted. Courtesy of Seattle Municipal Archives. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/e7eb0845-fd82-47d4-8385-13530364cd32/Washington_University-plan.jpg Blog - A Study in Quadrangles: The University of Chicago Campus - Make it stand out Preliminary Plan for Washington University. Olmsted, Olmsted & Eliot, 1895. Courtesy of U.S. Dept. of Interior, National Park Service, Frederick Law Olmsted National Historic Site. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/c9f9e764-c505-432b-9238-f921f10eb89e/UofC-plan-Olmsted-1902.jpg Blog - A Study in Quadrangles: The University of Chicago Campus - Make it stand out The University of Chicago, Preliminary Plan for Campus. Olmsted Brothers, December 31, 1902. Courtesy of U.S. Dept. of Interior, National Park Service, Frederick Law Olmsted National Historic Site. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/34e166b3-06c2-4e6a-91e0-34584c740e4a/UofC-plan-Cobb.jpg Blog - A Study in Quadrangles: The University of Chicago Campus - Make it stand out This rendering of Cobb’s plan for the UChicago campus appeared in “The University of Chicago,” The Architectural Record, IV, No. 2, December 1894. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/4413e95e-341b-4d65-88cd-533dbb58aa35/Midway-Plaisance.jpg Blog - A Study in Quadrangles: The University of Chicago Campus - Make it stand out View of the University of Chicago and Midway Plaisance in 1907. University of Chicago Library, Special Collections Research Center, apf2-02572. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/94504915-6cde-4b32-badd-066b46abe456/class-gift.jpg Blog - A Study in Quadrangles: The University of Chicago Campus - Make it stand out This photograph of the 1898 class gift (a stone drinking fountain), shows the barren conditions of the landscape at that time. University of Chicago Photographic Archive, apf2-01634. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/5ad032c0-e80e-4c9f-b50f-a6c6be86f4a7/botany-pond.jpg Blog - A Study in Quadrangles: The University of Chicago Campus - Make it stand out Botany Pond. Photo by Julia Bachrach. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/bd11358a-cb31-42cd-a7d6-e45dd80049b1/Nancy-Foster-Hall.jpg Blog - A Study in Quadrangles: The University of Chicago Campus - Make it stand out Nancy Foster Hall (Women’s Dormitory) and Southeast Quad. University of Chicago Photographic Archive, apf2-02470. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/b037fc99-329c-4b68-a24a-e73f753e7323/Chicago-Studies-Urban-Hike.jpg Blog - A Study in Quadrangles: The University of Chicago Campus - Make it stand out UChicago students on a Chicago Studies Urban Hike. Photo by Julia Bachrach. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1e62375a-70bc-4ce5-b86e-a157bc43cbe3/Beauty-Scheme-1901.jpg Blog - A Study in Quadrangles: The University of Chicago Campus - Make it stand out O.C. Simonds’s UChicago plan was published in an article entitled “Beauty Scheme for the University of Chicago Campus,” Chicago Tribune, April 15, 1901. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/c35ef163-2256-434f-8128-62d576c5a1e8/Fisheries-Building.jpg Blog - A Study in Quadrangles: The University of Chicago Campus - Make it stand out Henry Ives Cobb’s Fisheries Building at the World’s Columbian Exposition, 1893. C.D. Arnold, photographer. Courtesy of Ryerson and Burnham Art and Architecture Archive, Art Institute of Chicago. https://www.jbachrach.com/blog/2022/10/28/the-fascinating-story-of-the-japanese-garden-on-jackson-parks-wooded-island monthly 0.5 2022-11-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/d3875064-f11f-4232-936d-14cbe0ed4618/Wooded-Island-aerial.jpg Blog - The Fascinating Story of the Japanese Garden on Jackson Park’s Wooded Island - Make it stand out Aerial view of the Wooded Island, ca. 1935. Chicago Park District Records: Special Collections, Chicago Public Library, Photograph. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/55d755fa-6a00-49e4-b4e0-4abb93846aca/Japanese-Garden-Plan.gif Blog - The Fascinating Story of the Japanese Garden on Jackson Park’s Wooded Island - Make it stand out Plan for Japanese Garden, Wooded Island, Jackson Park. South Park Commission, ca. 1934. Chicago Park District Records: Special Collections, Chicago Public Library, Drawing. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/fc0b9106-de4e-4b37-9fdc-99fa928090c4/plan.jpg Blog - The Fascinating Story of the Japanese Garden on Jackson Park’s Wooded Island - Make it stand out Map Showing Progress Made in the Improvement of the Eastern Division of South Park, 1880. Olmsted Archives, National Park Service. Note: The non-colored part of the map shows the unimplemented portion of Olmsted’s original plan, which included a large peninsula area that would later be reshaped into the Wooded Island. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/bd0b927d-8142-443c-8850-d7f6d11948bc/Japanese-Garden-Brochure.jpg Blog - The Fascinating Story of the Japanese Garden on Jackson Park’s Wooded Island - Make it stand out Japanese Tea Gardens Brochure and Menu, ca. 1935. Chicago Park District Archives. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/f20a364f-043c-4625-9912-2e11810617de/view-toward-Moon-Bridge.jpg Blog - The Fascinating Story of the Japanese Garden on Jackson Park’s Wooded Island - Make it stand out View of Garden towards Moon Bridge, which is currently boarded up. 2022. Photo by Julia Bachrach. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/6930abd3-478c-4ee3-b817-fd1f449b4a0c/Grand-Basin-WCE.jpg Blog - The Fascinating Story of the Japanese Garden on Jackson Park’s Wooded Island - Make it stand out Grand Basin of the World’s Columbian Exposition Jackson Park, Chicago, Illinois. From Puck Magazine, 1893. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/f81dc386-224f-44d8-a431-319175e8320e/Japanese-Tea-Garden-Lagoon.jpg Blog - The Fascinating Story of the Japanese Garden on Jackson Park’s Wooded Island - Make it stand out View of Japanese Tea Garden from Lagoon. From Official Views Of The World's Columbian Exposition, 1893. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/df4b4592-43c8-4f38-b146-7d0f988cdb3a/Dedication-Ho-o-den.jpg Blog - The Fascinating Story of the Japanese Garden on Jackson Park’s Wooded Island - Make it stand out Dedication of the Ho-o-den, 1893. From The Dream City: A Portfolio of Photographic Views of the World’s Columbian Exposition. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/2ddd4dc1-9767-4acb-bf01-fd096c166228/Osato-Wedding-Tea-House-reverse2.jpg Blog - The Fascinating Story of the Japanese Garden on Jackson Park’s Wooded Island - Make it stand out Left: “Pretty Society Girl, Bride of Artist, Very, Very Happy,” Omaha Evening Bee, January 14, 1919. Right: Osato’s Japanese Tea House in Jackson Park, ca. 1935, Mildred LaDue Mead, photographer. University of Chicago Photographic Archive. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/2b4bc7cd-2d3c-425d-abac-e41f6471e236/Ho-o-den-1893.jpg Blog - The Fascinating Story of the Japanese Garden on Jackson Park’s Wooded Island - Make it stand out Japanese Ho-o-den. Photograph by C.D. Arnold, 1893. Ryerson and Burnham Art and Architecture Archive, Art Institute of Chicago. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/561231e0-c76c-4f15-8ed4-bc8421633d12/Expo-Map.jpg Blog - The Fascinating Story of the Japanese Garden on Jackson Park’s Wooded Island - Make it stand out Souvenir Map of the World’s Columbian Exposition, 1893. Library of Congress. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/f28e8566-9828-4dc6-a5a6-0b7c611cdb9d/details.jpg Blog - The Fascinating Story of the Japanese Garden on Jackson Park’s Wooded Island - Make it stand out Top: Close-up of one of the original carved transom panels that is now exhibited in the Art Institute of Chicago. Bottom: Chicago Park District staff members discovered three of the Ho-o-den’s painted sliding doors hidden away in a storage space in 2015. They are now in the collections of the Art Institute. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/8a5d3537-3307-4cd4-866e-d38a17c585b8/South-Park-Commissioners-Minutes.jpg Blog - The Fascinating Story of the Japanese Garden on Jackson Park’s Wooded Island - Make it stand out Minutes of the South Park Commissioners, January 7, 1895. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/98c6ed26-c141-45b0-818f-e94fc4da2ec2/Byrne-Moon-Bridge.jpg Blog - The Fascinating Story of the Japanese Garden on Jackson Park’s Wooded Island - Make it stand out Mayor Jane Byrne and other dignitaries on the Moon Bridge in the newly restored Japanese Garden, 1980. Chicago Park District Records: Special Collections, Chicago Public Library, Photograph. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/0a426a3b-7527-479d-8d43-f8fb52fac6bb/Japanese-Garden.jpg Blog - The Fascinating Story of the Japanese Garden on Jackson Park’s Wooded Island - Make it stand out Japanese Garden on Jackson Park’s Wooded Island, 2022. Photo by Julia Bachrach. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/539e0fd2-4f5f-4e0e-bbd8-5e3440661bba/Jodan-no-ma.jpg Blog - The Fascinating Story of the Japanese Garden on Jackson Park’s Wooded Island - Make it stand out “The Jodan-no-ma, or Central Hall of the Ho-o-den at the World’s Columbian Exposition,” From The Decorator and Furnisher, Vol. 23, No. 5, Feb. 1894. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/b6997b82-25de-477c-b9ec-267ec1cf1660/Japanese-Garden-colorized.jpg Blog - The Fascinating Story of the Japanese Garden on Jackson Park’s Wooded Island - Make it stand out Colorized Glass Slide of Ho-o-den and Japanese Garden, ca. 1935. Chicago Park District Records: Special Collections, Chicago Public Library, Photograph. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/cf9d2540-99a3-484f-9647-5fde0207f637/Skylanding-Ono.jpg Blog - The Fascinating Story of the Japanese Garden on Jackson Park’s Wooded Island - Make it stand out Yoko Ono’s Skylanding sculpture stands on the site of the Japanese Pavilion, 2022. Photo by Julia Bachrach. https://www.jbachrach.com/blog/2022/9/29/the-bagley-house-one-of-frank-lloyd-wrights-earliest-independent-commissions monthly 0.5 2022-10-31 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/ecdb5eb7-3a79-4e91-a9da-2dc91e9cdc71/FBB.jpg Blog - The Bagley House: One of Frank Lloyd Wright’s Earliest Independent Commissions - Make it stand out Frederick P. Bagley, ca. 1910. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/a4bd3a0c-3cc8-4cf7-8f4b-2c7e643f74a8/GHB.jpg Blog - The Bagley House: One of Frank Lloyd Wright’s Earliest Independent Commissions - Make it stand out Grace Hodges Bagley. Courtesy of Portraits of Suffragists, 1911. Cary Chapman Catt Papers, Bryn Mawr College Special Collections. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/7e7c754f-6891-4028-b487-45ff5dd731dc/Rascher-Atlas-Begley-tenement.jpg Blog - The Bagley House: One of Frank Lloyd Wright’s Earliest Independent Commissions - Make it stand out Located at 186-188 Pacific Avenue, the Bagley tenement building is the pink (brick) dumbbell-shaped structure located near the top right side of this map, next to the yellow (frame) freight house. Rascher’s Atlas Vol. 2, Sheet 86, 1891, Revised to Jan 1901. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/14c760ec-f30c-4c89-b81c-0fdbf4d50e3f/Hull_House%2C_Chicago.jpg Blog - The Bagley House: One of Frank Lloyd Wright’s Earliest Independent Commissions - Make it stand out Post Card View of Hull House, ca. 1905. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/5c6ab5d1-17b5-4790-878d-f0b5def824ef/fireplace.jpg Blog - The Bagley House: One of Frank Lloyd Wright’s Earliest Independent Commissions - Make it stand out Left: Bagley House original fireplace. From Frank Lloyd Wright to 1910 by Grant Carpenter Mason. Right: Some original red marble appears to have been reused in a completely altered version of the fireplace surround. Photo by Julia Bachrach. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/add64da4-ae3b-489e-a61f-ba14148e6930/Bagley-House-1940.jpg Blog - The Bagley House: One of Frank Lloyd Wright’s Earliest Independent Commissions - Make it stand out Bagley House, ca. 1940. Photo by Gilman Lane. Courtesy of Oak Park Public Library. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/d71bb795-a5a3-4d7f-8770-768bf999dcb6/article.jpg Blog - The Bagley House: One of Frank Lloyd Wright’s Earliest Independent Commissions - Make it stand out Excerpt from “Ready for Slum Display: Charts and Photographs of Chicago Tenements Prepared,” Chicago Tribune, December 16, 1899. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/5ef97f7f-9894-45c4-825a-f4b03f4c4817/yuletide.jpg Blog - The Bagley House: One of Frank Lloyd Wright’s Earliest Independent Commissions - Make it stand out “Yuletide Cheer for Foreign Women,” Boston Globe, December 22, 1917. Note, Grace Bagley is shown at center of the three women on the right side of the photograph. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/b8cbba40-d206-4c26-b14e-141fce7031bb/Frank-Lloyd-Wright-portrait.jpg Blog - The Bagley House: One of Frank Lloyd Wright’s Earliest Independent Commissions - Make it stand out Frank Lloyd Wright, ca. 1895. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/fc85fb8b-624c-4169-9d5b-891baedb2667/Bagley-House-historic-rev.jpg Blog - The Bagley House: One of Frank Lloyd Wright’s Earliest Independent Commissions - Make it stand out Bagley House, ca. 1900. Courtesy of Hinsdale Historical Society. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/caf633de-f239-4ff0-93b0-411eef24739c/Bagley-baptismal-font.jpg Blog - The Bagley House: One of Frank Lloyd Wright’s Earliest Independent Commissions - Make it stand out Baptismal font designed by Frank Lloyd Wright for Frederick P. Bagley & Co., 1894. The Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation Archives (The Museum of Modern Art, Avery Architectural & Fine Arts Library, Columbia University, New York) 9413.0001. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/7e7eadc0-277b-4133-972d-49dcd54c0cf2/Bagley-House-sketch.jpg Blog - The Bagley House: One of Frank Lloyd Wright’s Earliest Independent Commissions - Make it stand out Frederick Bagley Residence, Frank L. Wright, architect. Annual Exhibition of the Chicago Architectural Sketch Club, 1894. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/01f8b37f-d9e5-448c-a4e2-4db1dd435d48/FrederickBagleyEvent2021.jpg Blog - The Bagley House: One of Frank Lloyd Wright’s Earliest Independent Commissions - Make it stand out Jerry and Jeannette Goldstone, previous owners (left), and Safina Uberoi and Lukas Ruecker, new owners (right), in front of the Bagley House, 2021. Photo by Marcello Rodarte. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/2bcb3093-4f82-4ce4-99f4-901f1b43f71d/Fanny-Barrier-Williams.jpg Blog - The Bagley House: One of Frank Lloyd Wright’s Earliest Independent Commissions - Make it stand out Fanny Barrier Williams, 1900. Courtesy of New York Public Library. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/5c98a480-0c0a-49a6-9c1d-3be1cc0285d1/foster-1.jpg Blog - The Bagley House: One of Frank Lloyd Wright’s Earliest Independent Commissions - Make it stand out Wright’s Stephen and Almeda Foster House. Photo by Eric Allix Rogers. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/b76d49d6-1d54-43e9-973a-c600151c5800/Bagley-by-Marcello-Rodarte.jpg Blog - The Bagley House: One of Frank Lloyd Wright’s Earliest Independent Commissions - Make it stand out Frederick and Grace Bagley House, Hinsdale, Illinois. Photo by Marcello Rodarte. https://www.jbachrach.com/blog/2022/8/29/john-warner-norton-and-chicagos-mural-tradition monthly 0.5 2022-09-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/11fec5e0-ebf1-41f7-b253-cdf2f0691650/Art-Institute-ca.1912.jpg Blog - John Warner Norton and Chicago’s Mural Tradition - Make it stand out View of the Art Institute and Michigan Avenue, ca. 1912. Courtesy of Chicago History Museum, IChi-61047. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/0424a039-e307-420a-9009-60e943b622a1/Hamilton_Historical.jpg Blog - John Warner Norton and Chicago’s Mural Tradition - Make it stand out Completed in 1916, John Warner Norton Hamilton Park mural series includes depictions of American statesmen, pioneers, and exquisite landscape scenery. Photo by James Iska. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/092d7de0-22b4-432b-af45-d8dd50003d08/Fuller_EarlyExplorers.jpg Blog - John Warner Norton and Chicago’s Mural Tradition - Make it stand out John Warner Norton painted this arched panel as part of his 1914 Early Explorer mural series in the Fuller Park Field House. Photo by James Iska. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/916e13f1-8820-4420-89c4-4660202a4580/mural-Midway-Gardens.jpg Blog - John Warner Norton and Chicago’s Mural Tradition - Make it stand out John Warner Norton’s mural for Midway Gardens, ca. 1914. Courtesy of Ryerson and Burnham Art and Architecture Archives, Art Institute of Chicago. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/7ec97a9a-0c8a-44ec-8558-1afa30f57403/Overview-Sherman.jpg Blog - John Warner Norton and Chicago’s Mural Tradition - Make it stand out View of Sherman Park with tenement houses in the background, ca. 1910. Chicago Park District Records: Photographs, Special Collections, Chicago Public Library. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/bb68c830-f610-41e1-b9eb-f0aac9fd2aa2/Colliers-cover.jpg Blog - John Warner Norton and Chicago’s Mural Tradition - Make it stand out Anita Parkhurst Willcox produced the artwork for this cover of Collier’s, January 15, 1921. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/7fb3d46c-04cf-4a47-849a-a29836960acc/Cliff-Dwellers.jpg Blog - John Warner Norton and Chicago’s Mural Tradition - Make it stand out The Cliff Dwellers’ “Navaho” mural by John Warner Norton. Photo courtesy of The Cliff Dwellers. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/852c610e-eb90-4f03-92d3-7c0e41a2070e/Seron.jpg Blog - John Warner Norton and Chicago’s Mural Tradition - Make it stand out Nouvart Dzeron, A Daughter of Armenia. Art Institute of Chicago. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/d6546c5f-7c18-4fdd-a4d4-eb92b5669e99/John-Warner-Norton.jpg Blog - John Warner Norton and Chicago’s Mural Tradition - Make it stand out John Warner Norton from John Warner Norton by Jim L. Zimmer, 1993. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/819c60a6-9a7d-4870-85d9-d6d30278c28c/Liberty-Bonds.jpg Blog - John Warner Norton and Chicago’s Mural Tradition - Make it stand out Norton’s Liberty Bond Poster, 1918. Library of Congress. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/36afe9bc-1e8f-4d6c-a096-10a00322f2e5/billboard-painting.jpg Blog - John Warner Norton and Chicago’s Mural Tradition - Make it stand out Lucille Patterson Marsh painting a billboard in New York City, ca. 1917. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/d262f230-4c87-4b38-aaa2-158ee33fc411/G_Sherman_AmHist.jpg Blog - John Warner Norton and Chicago’s Mural Tradition - Make it stand out View of murals in Sherman Park field house assembly hall. Photo by James Iska. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/ec2e9503-9792-40e9-bb40-c48e65d9eb73/Social-Progress-Journal-1919.jpg Blog - John Warner Norton and Chicago’s Mural Tradition - Make it stand out Beatrice Braidwood created the illustrations for this poem which appeared in Social Progress in 1919. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/e9185f1f-121d-48d3-af09-7e27f4983b89/RoughRiders.jpg Blog - John Warner Norton and Chicago’s Mural Tradition - Make it stand out Teddy Roosevelt and His Rough Riders, 1898. Library of Congress. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/6f3a54e8-dd7d-4369-8847-e0f595635371/Sherman-Joliet-Marquette.jpg Blog - John Warner Norton and Chicago’s Mural Tradition - Make it stand out Joliet and Marquette mural panel by Beatrice Braidwood. Photo by James Iska. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/3af9269d-6797-428a-b6cd-b084abdf789a/Anita-Parkhurst-rev.jpg Blog - John Warner Norton and Chicago’s Mural Tradition - Make it stand out Anita Parkhurst depicted in “Pretty Girls Who Illustrate,” The Buffalo Times, , January 21, 1917. https://www.jbachrach.com/blog/2022/7/28/drama-on-astor-street monthly 0.5 2022-08-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/604bf326-5f4e-4b6b-89dc-33708d434d8f/Braun-Hause-Vesta-George.jpg Blog - Drama on Astor Street - Make it stand out Vesta and George P. Braun’s house was designed and built in 1912. Photo by Julia Bachrach. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/4bb4ad21-45f9-4d61-affb-252ad95b8872/Astor-Park-Condominiums.jpg Blog - Drama on Astor Street - Make it stand out To build the Park Astor Condominiums at 1515 N. Astor Street, a beautiful historic residence was destroyed in the late 1960s. Photo by Julia Bachrach. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/ec508859-8b4a-4b1e-9098-23c0940db913/portraits.gif Blog - Drama on Astor Street - Make it stand out These headshots of George P. Braun, Jr., and Mrs. Vesta Braun were published in the Chicago Tribune on January 21, 1922. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/7a51ce45-67a7-4ec9-861f-fc4be6c41f9d/Astor-Street.jpg Blog - Drama on Astor Street - Make it stand out View of 1223 and 1221 N. Astor Street. Photo by Julia Bachrach. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1e255e49-13d5-4c6a-aeea-530dc734d20c/1362-Astor-rev.jpg Blog - Drama on Astor Street - Make it stand out The McFatriches lived in a luxury apartment in this building at 1362 N. Astor Street. Courtesy of Chicago History Museum, ICHI-15262. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/f649bc2c-bb32-4a74-98e1-acbc1c3cc985/oleomargarine.png Blog - Drama on Astor Street - Make it stand out Advertisement for Braun & Fitts Oleomargarine, Chicago Tribune, October 19, 1898. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/92d1ad7b-9001-4c8f-b3e0-b6bae8bd152a/1224-N-Astor.jpg Blog - Drama on Astor Street - Make it stand out Architect John E. Youngberg designed this residence at 1224 N. Astor Street. Photo by Julia Bachrach. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/2d686605-608f-49d1-9fbb-715e3678754a/1221-N-Astor.jpg Blog - Drama on Astor Street - Make it stand out I uncovered a colorful story that took place in the 1920s in this stately Tudor style residence at 1221 N. Astor Street. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/12ac1f32-d0dd-460f-8ff1-1a08b59d841f/moving-truck.gif Blog - Drama on Astor Street - Make it stand out “Home on Gold Coast in Siege as Wife Sues: Mrs. G.P. Braun Jr. Asks Divorce,” Chicago Tribune, January, 21, 1922. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/5ea9ed9c-f8a0-42ff-912c-ebbfee16e178/Vesta.gif Blog - Drama on Astor Street - Make it stand out “It’s Different Now,” Chicago Tribune, January 24, 1922. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/3eee20f0-e2b9-4540-a4cd-53e5097fe5ee/Auction-1924.jpg Blog - Drama on Astor Street - Make it stand out “Display Ad – Household Goods,” Chicago Tribune, May 25, 1924. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1115d264-751b-4744-a692-dbd9517ddd22/30-E-Scott.jpg Blog - Drama on Astor Street - Make it stand out Vesta Braun purchased 30 E. Scott Street in May of 1924 and married William M. Scudder there a few months later. Photo by Julia Bachrach. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/4bdf2f21-8586-4929-83c2-d79a7997e2e5/Punch-and-Judy.jpg Blog - Drama on Astor Street - Make it stand out Miss Josephine Powers and Miss Vesta McFatrich, The Chicago Inter-Ocean, July 28, 1907. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/79ffa1e0-29a0-4d15-add8-1385262be4a5/Braun-Lake-Geneva.png Blog - Drama on Astor Street - Make it stand out Residence of George P. Braun, from “The Echoes as Beautiful Today as in Yesteryear.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/070b2cdb-e8a4-4635-adcf-d10b17eeb542/3408-Prairie-Ave.jpg Blog - Drama on Astor Street - Make it stand out The McFatrich family lived at 3408 S. Prairie Avenue before moving to the Gold Coast around 1907. Photo by Julia Bachrach. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/23abafe7-b7df-47e0-9a2f-74548d1e9ab5/Scott-St-modern.jpg Blog - Drama on Astor Street - Make it stand out The modern house at 55 E. Scott. Photo by Julia Bachrach. https://www.jbachrach.com/blog/2022/7/1/under-the-radar-works-of-the-talented-and-prolific-benjamin-h-marshall monthly 0.5 2022-07-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/643f82b0-f9ca-4a93-b88c-431050c6276c/Edgewater-postcard.jpg Blog - Under the Radar Works of the Talented and Prolific Benjamin H. Marshall - Make it stand out Postcard view of Edgewater Beach Hotel and Apartments. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/5e641fc7-6c4d-47d4-ae2e-8c59e56bb020/Cedar-Ave.jpg Blog - Under the Radar Works of the Talented and Prolific Benjamin H. Marshall - Make it stand out 49 E. Cedar Avenue. Photo by Julia Bachrach. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/f0af9bcd-1ed3-41a7-bd29-2152a87ed8c8/Marshall.jpg Blog - Under the Radar Works of the Talented and Prolific Benjamin H. Marshall - Make it stand out Benjamin H. Marshall, 1912. From Chicago: Its History and Its Builders, A Century of Marvelous Growth by Josiah Seymour Currey. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/62370ded-19b2-4692-a2e6-735f152891d3/Morrison-Apartments.jpg Blog - Under the Radar Works of the Talented and Prolific Benjamin H. Marshall - Make it stand out Morrison Apartments on N. Astor and E. Division Streets. Photo by Julia Bachrach. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/41606236-5ddf-4ec8-9078-19a5638d1a01/McNally-Clow-House.jpg Blog - Under the Radar Works of the Talented and Prolific Benjamin H. Marshall - Make it stand out Harry B. and Elisabeth McNally Clow House. Photograph courtesy of the Lake Bluff History Museum. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/a4302047-76ac-4978-9e0f-75de5d375da6/Salsbury-Apartments-crop.jpg Blog - Under the Radar Works of the Talented and Prolific Benjamin H. Marshall - Make it stand out “Salsbury Apartment Building,” Inland Architect and News Record, 1899. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/0d61a522-9a2d-4ee8-a002-d3e9c4a212c9/Harvard-School-ad.gif Blog - Under the Radar Works of the Talented and Prolific Benjamin H. Marshall - Make it stand out “Display Ad,” Chicago Tribune, August 21, 1891. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/27ca654f-f9ce-4771-9e48-323a628a541f/Wilson-House.jpg Blog - Under the Radar Works of the Talented and Prolific Benjamin H. Marshall - Make it stand out Horatio and Lillie Wilson House at 4936 S. Ellis Avenue. Photo by Julia Bachrach. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/7ae35465-bd53-412a-89ec-f0fcc89253bb/Marshall-State-Parkway.jpg Blog - Under the Radar Works of the Talented and Prolific Benjamin H. Marshall - Make it stand out 1550 N. State Parkway. Photo by Eric Allix Rogers. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/99df8b53-75a0-42c3-af14-301b924fa082/Salsbury-Apartments-ad-rev.jpg Blog - Under the Radar Works of the Talented and Prolific Benjamin H. Marshall - Make it stand out “Classified Ad,” Chicago Tribune, August 6, 1899. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/8de9e428-87ac-46b4-878f-818be30e3f95/Park-Place-Hotel-Peck-Postcard.jpg Blog - Under the Radar Works of the Talented and Prolific Benjamin H. Marshall - Make it stand out Postcard view of Park Place Hotel, Traverse City, Michigan. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/de60715a-48df-4fb5-93bc-b047266382d1/Marshall-Cedar-Street.jpg Blog - Under the Radar Works of the Talented and Prolific Benjamin H. Marshall - Make it stand out Benjamin Marshall designed and lived in this luxury apartment building at 49 E. Cedar Street with his family for many years. Photo by Julia Bachrach. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/4189f29d-5dc2-435f-96e9-245cdb46406a/Morrison-Apartments-entry.jpg Blog - Under the Radar Works of the Talented and Prolific Benjamin H. Marshall - Make it stand out Close-up of Entryway to Morrison Apartments. Photo by Julia Bachrach. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/ebd91b31-17e5-4150-9154-3a8c97db0d4f/Bode.jpg Blog - Under the Radar Works of the Talented and Prolific Benjamin H. Marshall - Make it stand out Bode Apartments at 5825 S. Blackstone Avenue. Photo by Julia Bachrach. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/484d2586-add4-4dbe-8ed4-186515160187/Schuttler-Rollins.jpg Blog - Under the Radar Works of the Talented and Prolific Benjamin H. Marshall - Make it stand out Schuttler & Rollins Apartments, 2355 N. Commonwealth. Photo by Julia Bachrach. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/263ca9fc-564c-4c07-a879-8c0bfe519436/Green-Lake-resort.jpg Blog - Under the Radar Works of the Talented and Prolific Benjamin H. Marshall - Make it stand out “Wisconsin Resort to Rival Famous Lake Placid,” This Chicago Tribune rendering shows Marshall’s Lawsonia Country Club, now Roger Williams Inn, Green Lake, Wisconsin. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/f7838b42-ce49-40cc-88bb-434c44acde54/South-Shore-CC-interior.jpg Blog - Under the Radar Works of the Talented and Prolific Benjamin H. Marshall - Make it stand out South Shore Country Club (Cultural Center) Interior View. Photo by Eric Allix Rogers. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/e9d43eed-720a-4354-8be8-d7b3d4e8fd0b/Marshall-wedding.jpg Blog - Under the Radar Works of the Talented and Prolific Benjamin H. Marshall - Make it stand out “Miss Elizabeth Walton Weds Benjamin Marshall,” The Inter Ocean, February 2, 1905. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/44aa8efb-8ab1-4504-9ca4-2807da921c57/South-Shore-CC.jpg Blog - Under the Radar Works of the Talented and Prolific Benjamin H. Marshall - Make it stand out Marshall & Fox’s South Shore Country Club (now South Shore Cultural Center). Photo by Eric Allix Rogers. https://www.jbachrach.com/blog/2022/5/27/the-beautiful-buckingham-fountain monthly 0.5 2022-07-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/077ae483-f8b2-44e7-a280-c2b2c43ca474/fountain-control-room.jpg Blog - The Beautiful Buckingham Fountain - Make it stand out Winner of London’s 1953 “Most Perfect Secretary,” contest in the control room showing the dimmers and levers used to mechanically operate the fountain. Chicago Park District Records: Photographs, Special Collections, Chicago Public Library. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/ebf2bba0-c9ba-4008-b0c4-592b6e21f9c8/Grant-Park-general-view.jpg Blog - The Beautiful Buckingham Fountain - Make it stand out Grant Park General View, Bennett, Parsons, Frost & Thomas. 1922. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/e39fbd07-a411-44f5-9147-c5c52dda752c/fountain-brochure.jpg Blog - The Beautiful Buckingham Fountain - Make it stand out Buckingham Fountain brochure, ca. 1928. Courtesy of Chicago Park District. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/46aeda51-8c22-445d-a525-db5ffa4df447/Buckingham-poster.jpg Blog - The Beautiful Buckingham Fountain - Make it stand out Buckingham Fountain Poster. John Buczak, artist. WPA, Federal Art Project, 1939. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/faa78c20-5e43-42cc-af9a-5b1734ead2aa/Fontaine-des-Cygnes.jpg Blog - The Beautiful Buckingham Fountain - Make it stand out Exhibitted at the Exposition des arts décoratifs in 1925, Marcel Loyau’s bronze sculpture Fontaine des Cygnes now sits at the center of a rondpoint at the Place Denfert Rochereau in the suburb of Boulogne Billancourt. Photo courtesy of Wikicommons. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/5ada72a6-5688-4135-ba6a-9ee3549e9384/Plan-of-Chicago.jpg Blog - The Beautiful Buckingham Fountain - Make it stand out Figure CX, 1909 Plan of Chicago, by Daniel H. Burnham and Edward H. Bennett. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/5df2cd50-87b9-4080-9cc7-b55fc594d3ae/Kate-Buckingham.jpg Blog - The Beautiful Buckingham Fountain - Make it stand out Kate Buckingham. Photo courtesy of Findagrave.com. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/7895f71f-8359-4cda-b44c-a84658794fe1/fountain-and-pump-room.jpg Blog - The Beautiful Buckingham Fountain - Make it stand out View of fountain overlooking pump house roof. Photo by Julia Bachrach. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/19f6705e-9998-4355-b8b4-d8a0d17ba900/fountain-vertical.jpg Blog - The Beautiful Buckingham Fountain - Make it stand out Clarence Buckingham Fountain during the major display, 2009. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/78617270-e2dc-42da-904f-098c91a6227b/Bennett.jpg Blog - The Beautiful Buckingham Fountain - Make it stand out Edward H. Bennett. Courtesy of Burnham & Ryerson Art and Architecture Archive, Art Institute of Chicago. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/7ca106e5-c0e3-401e-b35a-99f52a77f46a/Grant-Park-Olmstead.jpg Blog - The Beautiful Buckingham Fountain - Make it stand out Revised Preliminary Plan for Grant Park, Olmsted Brothers, 1903. Chicago Park District Records: Drawings, Special Collections, Chicago Public Library. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/c21b7302-3c40-4073-a0f2-f8a2eb5ba7b5/fountain.jpg Blog - The Beautiful Buckingham Fountain - Make it stand out Clarence Buckingham Fountain, Grant Park. Photo by Carol M. Highsmith, 2017. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1915d481-4b9a-455e-b100-9e05471e7533/Seahorses.jpg Blog - The Beautiful Buckingham Fountain - Make it stand out Marcel Loyau and an unidentified man in front of Buckingham Fountain seahorses, 1926-1927. Courtesy of Ryerson & Burnham Art and Architecture Archive, Art Institute of Chicago. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1c61a5ef-aa84-494f-82ce-16f3c9f5a3aa/fountain-construction.jpg Blog - The Beautiful Buckingham Fountain - Make it stand out Buckingham Fountain during construction, ca. 1925. Chicago History Museum, DN-0081336. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/ba5932d0-4286-44dd-8d3d-9e7258939b94/Grant-Park-1908.jpg Blog - The Beautiful Buckingham Fountain - Make it stand out Grant Park in the Early Spring of 1908. Report of the South Park Commissioners. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/c349776f-9b58-4cfd-adc1-1bd2a7ff30d5/model.jpg Blog - The Beautiful Buckingham Fountain - Make it stand out Model of the Clarence Buckingham Fountain, ca. 1927. Courtesy of Ryerson & Burnham Art and Architecture Archive, Art Institute of Chicago. https://www.jbachrach.com/blog/2022/4/27/chicago-celebrates-frederick-law-olmsteds-200th-birthday monthly 0.5 2022-05-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/33fae473-c9a6-4ddf-b587-649af7189559/Captive-balloon-ferris-wheel-Midway-Plaisance.jpg Blog - Chicago Celebrates Frederick Law Olmsted’s 200th Birthday - Make it stand out Captive Balloon and Ferris Wheel on the Midway Plaisance, World’s Columbian Exposition, 1893. Courtesy of the Library of Congress. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/0dd6a457-d051-4cfb-b17f-8ac0f2096e5f/WPCC-and-WTTW.jpg Blog - Chicago Celebrates Frederick Law Olmsted’s 200th Birthday - Make it stand out Marc Vitali and Felix Méndez of WTTW with Harvey Cobb, Jr. of the WPCC. Photo by Yvonne Cary Carter. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/2be85475-94ad-410f-9cb7-9dc8c71580a6/Washington-Park-Camera-Club.jpg Blog - Chicago Celebrates Frederick Law Olmsted’s 200th Birthday - Make it stand out Members of the Washington Park Camera Club and Hyde Park Historical Society with me on a walking tour of Washington Park, May, 2021. Photo by Yvonne Cary Carter. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/4d1a1a61-6090-40ed-97d5-78aa115b9715/photo-pairing-sheep.jpg Blog - Chicago Celebrates Frederick Law Olmsted’s 200th Birthday - Make it stand out WPCC member Linda Jones-Woodey paired these Washington Park Meadow images. She captioned them as follows, Left: 1910, sheep grazed in the meadow to keep it trimmed and fertilized. Right: 2021, geese fly in and keep it well fertilized. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/785e82e2-3762-43a1-b235-1c7df4669cb4/lagoon.jpg Blog - Chicago Celebrates Frederick Law Olmsted’s 200th Birthday - Make it stand out With a lagoon that loops around a large island, the Olmsted Brothers design for Sherman Park is reminiscent of much of their father’s work. Photo by Julia Bachrach. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/ecc47e20-c0a9-417b-ac69-561df751447b/YCC-JB.jpg Blog - Chicago Celebrates Frederick Law Olmsted’s 200th Birthday - Make it stand out About a week ago, Yvonne Cary Carter and I took this photograph together in Jackson Park near some ofthe blossoming cherry trees. Photo by Yvonne Cary Carter. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/8a745425-26a8-4b89-81d5-1924e727a8e2/photo-pairing-love.jpg Blog - Chicago Celebrates Frederick Law Olmsted’s 200th Birthday - Make it stand out WPCC member Fred Lott created this “Then and Now” pairing, which he titled “Love in Washington Park. Top: ca. 1900, Bottom: 2019. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/e73d2461-30eb-4004-99d7-ac80cada4546/Then-and-now-Washington-Park-Men-on-Bench.jpg Blog - Chicago Celebrates Frederick Law Olmsted’s 200th Birthday - Make it stand out While “South Park Then and Now” is mostly composed of photo pairings with an archival image on the left and a contemporary image on the right, it also includes this composite image, which looks like the ca. 1910 man and 2021 man are sharing a bench. Yvonne Cary Carter, Photographer. (The 2021 man is Duane Savage of the WPCC.) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/db92792a-15e0-4ba6-ad0e-8d322af6ff75/House-resolution.jpg Blog - Chicago Celebrates Frederick Law Olmsted’s 200th Birthday - Make it stand out Illinois House Resolution No. 654 declaring April 26, 2022 as Frederick Law Olmsted Day. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/aedb0cb0-1358-4973-a9c1-a59fd1f919a8/Olmsted-1890.jpg Blog - Chicago Celebrates Frederick Law Olmsted’s 200th Birthday - Make it stand out Frederick Law Olmsted, Sr., ca. 1890, Historic New England, Gift of Joseph Hudak, Olmsted Brothers, Brookline, MA https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/3e86e5ac-f83b-4cea-b24b-b00c5ed2687a/South-Park-original-plan.png Blog - Chicago Celebrates Frederick Law Olmsted’s 200th Birthday - Make it stand out Original Plan for South Park, Olmsted, Vaux & Co. Landscape Architects, 1871, Chicago Park District Records, Chicago Public Library, Drawing 659. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/82ee05af-00cd-42b0-ad2b-ba3deafc5df8/photo-pairing-Japanese-Pavilion.jpg Blog - Chicago Celebrates Frederick Law Olmsted’s 200th Birthday - Make it stand out WPCC member Yvonne Cary Carter produced this “Then and Now” pairing that shows the Japanese Pavilion on Jackson Park’s Wooded Island in the mid-1930s (top), and Yoko Ono’s sculpture at the same location in 2021 (bottom). https://www.jbachrach.com/blog/2022/3/31/mary-long-rogers-midcentury-landscape-architect-and-urban-planner monthly 0.5 2022-04-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/60ef07d1-7052-4d7f-b5f5-5d67786d17de/Southtown-planning.jpg Blog - Mary Long Rogers: Midcentury Landscape Architect and Urban Planner - Make it stand out “Basic Framework for Rehabilitation of Southtown,” Lincoln Rogers and Mary Long Rogers, Southtown Planning Association, ca. 1940. Burnham and Ryerson Art and Architecture Archive, Art Institute of Chicago. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/c56832c9-e0fa-4519-89e3-5a68d18a1257/Saturday-Evening-Post-river.jpg Blog - Mary Long Rogers: Midcentury Landscape Architect and Urban Planner - Make it stand out “River Stay Away from My Door,” Saturday Evening Post, December 7, 1940. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/6b1ca6ab-f861-4d4d-94df-6fec219b783c/play-and-landscape-areas.jpg Blog - Mary Long Rogers: Midcentury Landscape Architect and Urban Planner - Make it stand out “Jane Addams Homes Proposed New Design of the Play Areas and Landscaping,” Mary Long Rogers, Landscape Architect, July 10, 1941. Burnham and Ryerson Art and Architecture Archive, Art Institute of Chicago. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/f8194991-8b83-4162-97ff-a7d1bad0dc1e/Mary-and-Raymond-Jr.jpg Blog - Mary Long Rogers: Midcentury Landscape Architect and Urban Planner - Make it stand out Mary with her son Raymond Dart Whitmore, Jr., 1938. Photo courtesy of Janeen Gieseke. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/390120fb-a459-465a-be47-e9e50dee811d/Mary-Long-Rogers.jpg Blog - Mary Long Rogers: Midcentury Landscape Architect and Urban Planner - Make it stand out A: Mary Long Rogers, ca. 1942. Photo courtesy of Janeen Gieseke. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/8e9a01d1-1aa0-4ab9-baeb-ee1fa53f2650/Jane-Addams-Homesjpg.jpg Blog - Mary Long Rogers: Midcentury Landscape Architect and Urban Planner - Make it stand out Close-up view of “Jane Addams Homes Proposed New Design of the Play Areas and Landscaping,” July 10, 1941. Burnham and Ryerson Art and Architecture Archive, Art Institute of Chicago. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/d5c654e4-ec59-483a-909f-b7e61c03df97/Illio-Yearbook-1926.jpg Blog - Mary Long Rogers: Midcentury Landscape Architect and Urban Planner - Make it stand out Mary Long is in the bottom row, third from the right, in this Gamma Phi Beta Sorority photograph. From The 1926 Illio. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/fbd47e84-5920-401a-903f-5ed53cb248e2/Shawneetown-colleagues.jpg Blog - Mary Long Rogers: Midcentury Landscape Architect and Urban Planner - Make it stand out Mary Long Whitmore and some colleagues on Shawneetown levee. Photo courtesy of Janeen Gieseke. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/dfa38f07-0b63-43ff-bb3e-069431d06f54/Katharine-and-Stephen-Longs-House-Metropolis-IL.jpg Blog - Mary Long Rogers: Midcentury Landscape Architect and Urban Planner - Make it stand out Mary Long Roger’s parents built this mansion in Metropolis, Illinois, in 1929. From Pictorial History of Massac County, Illinois. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/9d29b709-974f-48b6-a1f5-518a293d491d/Shawneetown-aerial.jpg Blog - Mary Long Rogers: Midcentury Landscape Architect and Urban Planner - Make it stand out Aerial view of new Shawneetown following Mary Long Rogers’ plan, ca. 1945. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/6d97fd96-4906-4572-a969-c53cb581b695/flood.jpg Blog - Mary Long Rogers: Midcentury Landscape Architect and Urban Planner - Make it stand out Damage done during the 1937 flood near Shawneetown, Illinois. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection, The New York Public Library. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/9e372270-9465-4d26-8311-49bc15654744/Long-Carson-Paducah.jpg Blog - Mary Long Rogers: Midcentury Landscape Architect and Urban Planner - Make it stand out Mary Long Whitmore with Luther Carson, donor of a park and fairgrounds in Paducah, Kentucky, ca. 1937. Photo courtesy of Janeen Gieseke. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/29aefb45-a57c-4b85-86bd-728c6911acf8/Shawneetown-at-work.jpg Blog - Mary Long Rogers: Midcentury Landscape Architect and Urban Planner - Make it stand out Mary Long Whitmore is shown working on her Shawneetown model in her mother’s garage, ca. 1937. Photo courtesy of Janeen Gieseke. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/36bccf83-ae7d-4070-abfd-4db431cf57cf/Mary-child.jpg Blog - Mary Long Rogers: Midcentury Landscape Architect and Urban Planner - Make it stand out Mary and her mother, Katharine Bedford Wilson Long, 1907. Photo courtesy of Janeen Gieseke. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/7ac76d2a-35a3-4c51-bd3b-3e668f4c7a3e/Becker-House.jpg Blog - Mary Long Rogers: Midcentury Landscape Architect and Urban Planner - Make it stand out Presentation drawing of the James and Hortense Becker House, Highland Park, Illinois, 1957. Art Institute of Chicago. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/5d96e671-1c80-4311-bf4c-1b979218ba73/Minsch-House.jpg Blog - Mary Long Rogers: Midcentury Landscape Architect and Urban Planner - Make it stand out Perspective drawing of the Mr. and Mrs. Robert Minsch House, Highland Park, Illinois, 1960. (N.B., Rogers signed the left side and Kuh the right side of this drawing.) Art Institute of Chicago. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/3b35efac-481f-4d42-b3fb-e6e37b16e361/Mary-Raymond-family.jpg Blog - Mary Long Rogers: Midcentury Landscape Architect and Urban Planner - Make it stand out Mary with her son and his family 1973. This photo, taken in the house Mary designed, shows a painting of Half Dome that she created. Photo courtesy of Janeen Gieseke. https://www.jbachrach.com/blog/2022/3/1/ravenswoods-deagan-building-has-a-storied-past monthly 0.5 2022-03-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/66dfe2b6-cb5e-4ade-a9e6-d10753cd1126/CTA_Brown_Line_Train_Ravenswood.jpg Blog - Spotlight on Ravenswood’s Deagan Building - Make it stand out In the early 1900s, the Northwestern Elevated (now the CTA Brown Line) began offering passenger service to Ravenswood. The Deagan Building is visible just southeast of the “L” in this photograph. Photo courtesy of Wikicommons. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/3c699066-b900-4ef9-9f6a-e3927b38fcd0/Progess-Company-building.gif Blog - Spotlight on Ravenswood’s Deagan Building - Make it stand out “The Progress Co.’s Building: New Buildings Mark Industrial Development in Chicago,” Chicago Tribune, December 12, 1909. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/d3f4041d-7634-4470-811a-53ff102f9adb/Deagan-Berteau-facade.jpg Blog - Spotlight on Ravenswood’s Deagan Building - Make it stand out Deagan Building, 1770 W. Berteau Avenue. Though difficult to see in this photograph, the Deagan name stretches across the top of the clock tower. Photo by Julia Bachrach. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/94b6405c-8d7a-49f4-97d9-2f4637784711/Deagan-letterhead.jpg Blog - Spotlight on Ravenswood’s Deagan Building - Make it stand out J.C. Deagan, Inc. letterhead. From Made in Chicago Museum. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/353738de-a46a-4d18-af27-948bec2ea8ee/Deagan-cover.PNG Blog - Spotlight on Ravenswood’s Deagan Building - Make it stand out Advertisement for J.C. Deagan Inc., from Top Rung Tower Chime website. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/694a4a8d-f7eb-4f62-ba77-3c96093dca0d/Fields-Warehouse.jpg Blog - Spotlight on Ravenswood’s Deagan Building - Make it stand out The Olson Rug Company factory at 4000 W. Diversey later served as a gigantic warehouse facility for Marshall Field & Company. Photo by Cray M. Kennedy. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/ab24c2f3-14cf-4736-8f8c-4e953c1ceef1/Fischer-Furniture.jpg Blog - Spotlight on Ravenswood’s Deagan Building - Make it stand out Fischer Furniture Building, 400-418 W. May Street. Photo by Cray M. Kennedy https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/5be91b49-7709-47f9-9e51-58013e9ed570/Clock-Tower.jpg Blog - Spotlight on Ravenswood’s Deagan Building - Make it stand out Close-up of the Deagan (Progress Company) Building Clock Tower. Photo by Julia Bachrach. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/e46326ac-80d4-4205-a6cd-7d313349bd00/Pyle.jpg Blog - Spotlight on Ravenswood’s Deagan Building - Make it stand out Pyle-National Company complex, 1334-1360 N. Kostner Avenue. Photo by Cray M. Kennedy. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/cd450cec-801c-4abc-addc-287f85b94884/Progress_Magazine.jpg Blog - Spotlight on Ravenswood’s Deagan Building - Make it stand out The Progress Magazine, May, 1910. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/e3954628-3f6d-4b13-878b-f7cbd3e8a6ee/Fields-Warehouse-sign.jpg Blog - Spotlight on Ravenswood’s Deagan Building - Make it stand out Now called the Fields, the old factory/warehouse complex is a major mixed-use development. Photo by Cray M. Kennedy. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/967c2720-7536-4a5a-8cb4-bb55d15b6e2e/Be-Cured-of-Grip-1899.jpg Blog - Spotlight on Ravenswood’s Deagan Building - Make it stand out Superintendent Frank E. Davidson provided a testimonial for Celery Compound as a cure for a condition known as grip. Chicago Tribune, February 12, 1899. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/f1097b2e-5568-47e0-8ff5-837b6b2f8cd4/Hawthorne_Works_tower.jpg Blog - Spotlight on Ravenswood’s Deagan Building - Make it stand out The Hawthorne Works Tower in Cicero, Illinois is the sole remaining vestige of Frank E. Davidson and William Patterson’s vast Western Electric Complex. Photo by Harman courtesy of Wikicommons. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/c5cc83fe-e9b2-4bfa-8af2-1153e03a66e4/Deagan-Entryway.jpg Blog - Spotlight on Ravenswood’s Deagan Building - Make it stand out Entrance to the Deagan Building. Photo by Julia Bachrach. https://www.jbachrach.com/blog/2022/1/27/ode-to-the-american-foursquare monthly 0.5 2022-02-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/b967ebd5-e194-42bc-9d27-8145656f32b6/Piper-Hall-2.jpg Blog - Ode to the American Foursquare - Make it stand out The Albert G. Wheeler House is now known as Piper Hall. Photo by Julia Bachrach. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/37bbcb86-a76b-421b-8f1e-15b161c65a8b/Carpentry-and-Contracting-1919-floor-plan-2.jpg Blog - Ode to the American Foursquare - Make it stand out First floor plan for the Stevenson (now called Colvin) House at 5940 N. Sheridan Road. From Carpentry and Contracting, 1919. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/832924d8-0019-4633-8631-2c886d6bf5f7/Berger-from-Inland-Arch-2.jpg Blog - Ode to the American Foursquare - Make it stand out The Joseph Downey House was featured in Inland Architect in August of 1906. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/69e8eebd-60a9-44a0-9094-207ceea264d2/Lamberts-Suburban-Architecture-rev.jpg Blog - Ode to the American Foursquare - Make it stand out Residence of Geo. J. Smith from Lambert’s Suburban Architecture, 1894. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/2ac851a6-448d-4efc-b990-0f2ef7c98d3c/Rozek%E2%80%94House-addition.jpg Blog - Ode to the American Foursquare - Make it stand out Rozek House with its 1920s front addition. Photo by Julia Bachrach. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/12e63d8b-5ee7-42a8-b753-643db49020fb/Gunder-House.jpg Blog - Ode to the American Foursquare - Make it stand out Residence of Mr. S. H. Gunder, Book of the North Shore, 1910. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/5a76ebeb-1529-4ed6-b958-68571444dbfb/Berger-Park.jpg Blog - Ode to the American Foursquare - Make it stand out The Joseph Downey House at 6205 N. Sheridan Road is Berger Park’s south mansion. Photo by Julia Bachrach. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/c726e516-f57e-4165-983c-7f35373dc3a8/Downey-Mansion.jpg Blog - Ode to the American Foursquare - Make it stand out The 1906 Joseph Downey House, a large classic American Foursquare, is now the Berger Park Cultural Center. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/3a0a71cd-f749-4f87-9ce9-79b07c403b8b/Telfer.jpg Blog - Ode to the American Foursquare - Make it stand out Contractor/developer Thomas E. Telfer’s Foursquare at 5540 N. Wayne Street. Photo by Julia Bachrach. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/c7427905-4c89-4c08-ae8f-7dfff8a1ca19/Rozek-Family.jpg Blog - Ode to the American Foursquare - Make it stand out Anna Rozek and her sons Gerald and Theodore, Jr., in front of their new Foursquare home at N. Hermitage and W. Highland Avenue, ca. 1909. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/442c04cb-b33e-4018-b7b3-98abf56ed61a/Stayart-Zuncker.jpg Blog - Ode to the American Foursquare - Make it stand out Huehl & Schmid’s Foursquares include the Stayart House at 536 W. Barry Avenue (left) and the Zuncker House at 2312 N. Kedzie Avenue (right). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/18416693-558f-4aa6-b857-7ae88e7f3fca/Colvin-House.jpg Blog - Ode to the American Foursquare - Make it stand out Designed by George Maher for Harry M. Stevenson, the magnificent Foursquare at 5940 N. Sheridan Road is known as the Colvin House in honor of its second owners. Photograph by Julia Bachrach. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/2e021d5f-4b22-437b-8158-578f2458aeb9/Johnson-House-6118-Sheridan.jpg Blog - Ode to the American Foursquare - Make it stand out Residence of Dr. C.N. Johnson, Book of the North Shore, 1910. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/0180474a-ba10-4336-9201-ce9ae5ebce0d/Carol-Highsmith-WV.jpg Blog - Ode to the American Foursquare - Make it stand out American Foursquares in Parkersburg West Virginia. Photo by Carol M. Highsmith, 2015. Courtesy of West Virginia Collection, Carol M. Highsmith Collection, Library of Congress. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/26dbeafa-c89d-4411-908d-3ced9dc996db/Queen-Anne-Style.jpg Blog - Ode to the American Foursquare - Make it stand out An exuberant Queen Anne style residence of the late 1880s, the Robert and Mary Childs House is located in Hinsdale, IL. Photo by Julia Bachrach. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/35e893f7-3c43-468a-aedf-498fb1f21e0d/foursquare-row.jpg Blog - Ode to the American Foursquare - Make it stand out Telfer developed this row of Foursquares on the 1500 block of W. Birchwood Avenue in 1912. Photo by Julia Bachrach. https://www.jbachrach.com/blog/2021/12/28/huehl-amp-schmid-an-overlooked-architectural-firm-that-shouldnt-be monthly 0.5 2022-01-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/fff78730-390c-4608-a31c-70393f71a06f/Stayart-House.jpg Blog - Huehl & Schmid: An Overlooked Architectural Firm That Shouldn’t Be - Make it stand out Stayart House at 536 W. Barry Avenue. Photo by Julia Bachrach. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/844cb24e-cf4b-425b-992e-4d09c9db6224/Syria_Mosque_Pittsburgh-PA.jpg Blog - Huehl & Schmid: An Overlooked Architectural Firm That Shouldn’t Be - Make it stand out The Huehl, Schmid & Holmes-designed Syria Mosque of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Photo by Edward J. Shourek, courtesy of Wikicommons. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/2b34931d-9a8f-42b6-b2fb-245f33c3ee9a/Chamber+of+Commerce.jpg Blog - Huehl & Schmid: An Overlooked Architectural Firm That Shouldn’t Be - Make it stand out Postcard view of Baumann & Huehl’s Chamber of Commerce Building, formerly at the southeast corner of La Salle and Washington streets. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/c628c55e-e4d7-495f-8039-4b3867487cb0/Medinah-corner-rev.jpg Blog - Huehl & Schmid: An Overlooked Architectural Firm That Shouldn’t Be - Make it stand out Medinah Temple. Photo by Julia Bachrach. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/3cb7e40e-76e8-4d17-8da6-af7c084d5018/Juvenile-Court-Building.jpg Blog - Huehl & Schmid: An Overlooked Architectural Firm That Shouldn’t Be - Make it stand out Harris W. Huehl’s Juvenile Court and Detention Center was located on Ewing (now W. Cabrini) and S. Halsted Streets, ca. 1910. Chicago History Museum, ICHi-051228. ICHi-051228 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/c98a0a81-acb4-4c0a-ad57-8f8d6e72847d/West-Side-Masonic-Close-up.jpg Blog - Huehl & Schmid: An Overlooked Architectural Firm That Shouldn’t Be - Make it stand out West Side Masonic Temple at 12 S. Oakley Blvd is now the Greater Bethlehem Healing Temple. Photo by Julia Bachrach. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/46fc296a-cbdf-4bb2-bedc-6df682eedd60/Spry.jpg Blog - Huehl & Schmid: An Overlooked Architectural Firm That Shouldn’t Be - Make it stand out S.A. Spry House at 4849 S. Ellis Avenue. Photo by Julia Bachrach. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/a077e185-b52a-46a2-a6b2-d29ebc7e4593/Vette-%26-Zuncker.jpg Blog - Huehl & Schmid: An Overlooked Architectural Firm That Shouldn’t Be - Make it stand out The Vette & Zuncker Meatpacking plant stands at 220 S. Green Street. Photo by Julia Bachrach. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/b7754f74-785a-415e-8d66-824bbfa35969/Medinah-4.jpg Blog - Huehl & Schmid: An Overlooked Architectural Firm That Shouldn’t Be - Make it stand out Medinah Temple. Photo by Julia Bachrach. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/a185b325-53ba-4c7a-9fe1-bf5c01ec1977/Huehl-and-Schmid.jpg Blog - Huehl & Schmid: An Overlooked Architectural Firm That Shouldn’t Be - Make it stand out Left- Harris W. Huehl from “Mayor’s Selections for Vacancies on School Board,” Chicago Tribune, October 26, 1915. Right- Richard G. Schmid, 1924, Courtesy of Medinah Country Club https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/49e08637-b8a5-4b00-b724-17f0debd39f0/Aloha-Flats.jpg Blog - Huehl & Schmid: An Overlooked Architectural Firm That Shouldn’t Be - Make it stand out Aloha Flats at 668-672 W. Sheridan Road/3915-3917 N. Pine Grove Avenue. Photo by Julia Bachrach. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/673b80be-5f81-431a-bafa-c8040215d3aa/Medinah-Made-of-Clay.jpg Blog - Huehl & Schmid: An Overlooked Architectural Firm That Shouldn’t Be - Make it stand out View of Medinah Temple from “Finest Temple Made of Clay,” Brick and Clay Record, December 15, 1912. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/47aadbfe-a784-4b5a-a5cc-5d8afcc27ea7/2914-N-Broadway.jpg Blog - Huehl & Schmid: An Overlooked Architectural Firm That Shouldn’t Be - Make it stand out Built for James H. Hanson, Huehl & Schmid’s 1894 corner flat building is located at what is now 2914-2916 N. Broadway Avenue. Photo by Julia Bachrach. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/314a3f04-d549-44c6-96eb-b0830be40ccc/Medinah_Country_Club-Illinois.jpg Blog - Huehl & Schmid: An Overlooked Architectural Firm That Shouldn’t Be - Make it stand out Medinah Country Club. Photo by Dan Perry, Courtesy of Wikicommons. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/7ff054c9-a591-41f6-8f44-e42c538cf26e/Zuncker-House.jpg Blog - Huehl & Schmid: An Overlooked Architectural Firm That Shouldn’t Be - Make it stand out The Zuncker House stands at 2312 N. Kedzie Blvd. in the Logan Square Boulevards Historic District. Photograph by Julia Bachrach. https://www.jbachrach.com/blog/2021/11/29/wilmettes-gillson-park-a-gorgeous-historic-landscape-that-stands-the-test-of-time monthly 0.5 2021-12-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/71675d36-c4d2-4770-9768-6c6eebd6a2b9/Excavating.jpg Blog - Wilmette’s Gillson Park: A Gorgeous Historic Landscape that Stands the Test of Time - Make it stand out Excavations for the North Shore Channel near Linden Avenue in Wilmette, 1908. Photo courtesy of Metropolitan Water Reclamation District. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/f8234ee4-60bc-4f0e-ad55-932bae89bdfc/Gilson-curving-drive.jpg Blog - Wilmette’s Gillson Park: A Gorgeous Historic Landscape that Stands the Test of Time - Make it stand out One of the beautiful curving drives in Gillson Park. Photo by Julia Bachrach. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/f6732207-ebd3-4a1b-bf78-3e62530d8a6e/Vattman-Park-shelter.jpg Blog - Wilmette’s Gillson Park: A Gorgeous Historic Landscape that Stands the Test of Time - Make it stand out Benjamin Gage’s design for Vattmann Park included a shelter, wading pool, and fountain. The American City, 1918. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/c9f464e4-7bac-49e8-8d3e-d9056f10764b/Washington-Park-Plan.jpg Blog - Wilmette’s Gillson Park: A Gorgeous Historic Landscape that Stands the Test of Time - Make it stand out Design for the Development of Washington Park, Wilmette by C.D. Wagstaff and Robert E. Everly, January 23, 1937. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1ead0e80-006f-43d5-8170-401f4a0bd5cd/Gilson-tree-fall.jpg Blog - Wilmette’s Gillson Park: A Gorgeous Historic Landscape that Stands the Test of Time - Make it stand out Although Gillson Park has a naturalistic-looking landscape, the greenspace is composed of “made land.” Photo by Julia Bachrach. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/ef186a7f-020c-4756-b486-2c33afe36825/ampitheater.jpg Blog - Wilmette’s Gillson Park: A Gorgeous Historic Landscape that Stands the Test of Time - Make it stand out Construction of the amphitheater, 1937. Courtesy of the Wilmette Historical Museum. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/0e4066fc-4297-49c6-a061-5b99de17ebb1/drainage-canal-bridge.jpg Blog - Wilmette’s Gillson Park: A Gorgeous Historic Landscape that Stands the Test of Time - Make it stand out Drainage Canal Bridge, Sheridan Road, ca. 1910. Courtesy of the Wilmette Historical Museum. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/947de8ce-52d6-46f2-8f45-ed78a8b91368/Wagstaff.jpg Blog - Wilmette’s Gillson Park: A Gorgeous Historic Landscape that Stands the Test of Time - Make it stand out Charles D. Wagstaff, The Illinio: A Yearbook Produced by the Junior Class of the University of Illinois, 1917. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/9d85659e-80b2-4d3e-8a46-02ee51fc1871/Overlook-drive-south.jpg Blog - Wilmette’s Gillson Park: A Gorgeous Historic Landscape that Stands the Test of Time - Make it stand out Overlook Drive looking south. Photo by Julia Bachrach. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/cf0edff1-1142-4adf-8ad4-b63cf710d04e/Everly.jpg Blog - Wilmette’s Gillson Park: A Gorgeous Historic Landscape that Stands the Test of Time - Make it stand out Robert E. Everly, “Named U.S. Park Representative at Meeting in London,” Chicago Tribune, April 28, 1957. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/3bb1fe44-ccd7-4754-8b04-ecbe351cb111/Washington-Park-Landscape-Plan.jpg Blog - Wilmette’s Gillson Park: A Gorgeous Historic Landscape that Stands the Test of Time - Make it stand out Benjamin E. Gage created the “Landscape Plan for Washington Park,” around 1915. From Park and Cemetery Magazine. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/99dbaed6-42b3-413b-a025-40d85e3c918f/stonework.jpg Blog - Wilmette’s Gillson Park: A Gorgeous Historic Landscape that Stands the Test of Time - Make it stand out Left: Stratified stone wall and steps in Gillson Park. Photo by Julia Bachrach. Right: The Jensen-designed stratified stonework in Columbus Park, Chicago, ca. 1925. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/97640353-ba4b-421a-99e4-cb180324bec5/dogs.jpg Blog - Wilmette’s Gillson Park: A Gorgeous Historic Landscape that Stands the Test of Time - Make it stand out Tippy, a new friend named Simone, and Stella enjoying Gillson Park’s Dog Beach. Photo by Julia Bachrach. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/6ca233a7-4e95-4054-a018-a43447d0d20f/council-ring.jpg Blog - Wilmette’s Gillson Park: A Gorgeous Historic Landscape that Stands the Test of Time - Make it stand out Some of Gillson Park’s stonework emulates the work of the pre-eminent Prairie style landscape architect, Jens Jensen. The park even has an example of Jensen’s favorite element—the council ring. Photo by Julia Bachrach. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/5715b4fc-02d9-4575-8e67-906aed0df34a/Washington-Park-early-planting.jpg Blog - Wilmette’s Gillson Park: A Gorgeous Historic Landscape that Stands the Test of Time - Make it stand out This photograph was taken soon after the park’s original drives and walks were created and initial trees were planted, 1917. Wilmette Historical Museum. https://www.jbachrach.com/blog/2021/10/26/learning-from-lake-shore-drive monthly 0.5 2021-11-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/937850b0-b5d8-4526-9b85-9b94b5483d13/LSD-from-Exmoor.jpg Blog - Learning from Lake Shore Drive - Make it stand out View of Shore Drive from the window of the Exmoor (630 W. Sheridan Road). Courtesy of Chicago History Museum, iCHi- 17819, ca. 1900. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/a81f01eb-7417-4585-bfe7-59320321c9f4/3314-NLSD.jpg Blog - Learning from Lake Shore Drive - Make it stand out The elegant apartment building at 3314 NLSD originally had seven 18-room suites. Photo by Julia Bachrach. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/de09bc22-ccbf-45ea-b638-c53c0dd2ee30/LSD-north-from-Hancock.jpg Blog - Learning from Lake Shore Drive - Make it stand out View of DuSable Lake Shore Drive looking north from the John Hancock Center. Photo by Eric Allix Rogers. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/3b7e205d-cfb6-4749-addc-34c706889b64/999-NLSD12.jpg Blog - Learning from Lake Shore Drive - Make it stand out Architects Marshall & Fox designed the sumptuous 1912 apartment building at 999 NLSD. Photograph by Julia Bachrach. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/d00c960d-0f04-4ca8-a2a4-d27c4beb762e/Lincoln-Park-Extension-sea-wall.gif Blog - Learning from Lake Shore Drive - Make it stand out Sketch No. 2, Protection for Sea Wall, November 28, 1898. Chicago Park District Records: Drawings, Special Collections, Chicago Public Library. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/0252d1ec-70ce-419a-a011-f7a1398d3481/Lincoln-Park-Extension-Breakwater-Plan2.gif Blog - Learning from Lake Shore Drive - Make it stand out Cross Section of Proposed Protection for Sheridan Road Blvd. Near Belmont Avenue, J. Richter Engineer, July 21, 1897. Chicago Park District Records: Drawings, Special Collections, Chicago Public Library. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/44997be3-526d-4219-a3dd-6bd110f5c1d5/Lincoln-Park-Plan-1880.png Blog - Learning from Lake Shore Drive - Make it stand out Plan of Lincoln Park by Olof Benson, Landscape Gardener and Superintendent, ca. 1880. Courtesy of Norman B. Leventhal Map & Education Center. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/86cd3a10-4646-4569-a847-8d3900ea052c/LSD-Romanesque.jpg Blog - Learning from Lake Shore Drive - Make it stand out Although Romanesque style residences were once quite prevalent along NLSD, only two remain—the Carl Heisen House (left) and Mason Starring House (right) at 1250 and 1254 NLSD. Photo by Julia Bachrach. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/40e19397-48af-4a74-b529-cdf47c34c29a/Holabird-Roche.jpg Blog - Learning from Lake Shore Drive - Make it stand out Holabird & Roche designed both of these single-family residences—the Aldis House on the left and Rockwell House on the right. Photos by Julia Bachrach. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/607d67e6-1259-4cfd-a443-785ddb6d2c83/Howard-Van-Doren-Shaw.jpg Blog - Learning from Lake Shore Drive - Make it stand out Completed in 1911, Howard Van Doren Shaw’s 1130 NLSD was one of the area’s earliest co-operative buildings. Photo by Julia Bachrach. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/937db1a0-f5e2-48b7-9c2c-7f59ad89f4f5/Lincoln-Park-Extension-Simmonds.jpg Blog - Learning from Lake Shore Drive - Make it stand out Plan of Lincoln Park Extension, Chicago, by O.C. Simonds, 1911. Courtesy of United States Department of the Interior, National Park Service, Frederick Law Olmsted National Historic Site. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/5b96394a-d5a4-4b80-8a66-b89689be2b89/LSD-Palmer-Mansion.jpg Blog - Learning from Lake Shore Drive - Make it stand out View of Lake Shore Drive with Palmer Mansion on the left. Detroit Publishing Company Photograph Collection, ca. 1905, Library of Congress. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/fc9d85db-b767-4665-bbe0-e14e254b9c7c/LSD-north-from-Oak-1925.jpg Blog - Learning from Lake Shore Drive - Make it stand out Lake Shore Drive looking north from Oak Street, ca. 1925. Newberry Library, CB&Q A-5-3 Record Group A-5 Box 64 Folder 346. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/74979c41-f41e-4354-83a6-ef6b50bbaca8/Old-Lake-Shore-Drive.jpg Blog - Learning from Lake Shore Drive - Make it stand out Old Lake Shore Drive (now part of the Lincoln Park Zoo parking lot in the roadbed of Cannon Drive), ca. 1885. Chicago Park District Records: Photographs, Special Collections, Chicago Public Lib https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/f65e5e0e-3c88-4fa1-9f83-1f2a4f369447/Exmoor-Atelier.jpg Blog - Learning from Lake Shore Drive - Make it stand out Originally known as the Exmoor Flats, the Atelier was one of the early elevator apartment buildings that took advantage of the new extension of the Drive. Photo by Julia Bachrach. https://www.jbachrach.com/blog/2021/9/28/the-olmsted-legacy-in-chicago monthly 0.5 2021-10-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1632861600103-ZCZSN0COP6O97NAUEGWU/Fountain-of-Time.jpg Blog - The Olmsted Legacy in Chicago - Make it stand out L: Then photo of Fountain of Time in Washington Park, ca. 1922. Chicago Public Library Special Collections, unprocessed photograph album.R: Now photo by Duane Savage, Washington Park Camera Club, 2021. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1632863189524-G4JLXNFG8UX6OB6CY88B/East-Lagoon-Columbian-Exposition.jpg Blog - The Olmsted Legacy in Chicago - Make it stand out East Lagoon with boats during World’s Columbian Exposition, Photograph by C.D. Arnold. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1632861860905-3ZDP7WJM13F4HODXIN49/Portrait_of_Frederick_Law_Olmsted.jpg Blog - The Olmsted Legacy in Chicago - Make it stand out “The Late Frederick Law Olmsted: The Most Distinguished American Landscape Architect,” The World’s Work, October, 1903. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1632860934809-R8PUDYTIIRDBVH7EPM11/Washington+Park+Camera+Club.jpg Blog - The Olmsted Legacy in Chicago - Make it stand out Members of the Washington Park Camera Club taking photographs in the park. Photo by Yvonne Cary Carter, Washington Park Camera Club. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1632862522064-0ZCAGHQJDHM3KHR4ZEIA/sheep.jpg Blog - The Olmsted Legacy in Chicago - Make it stand out Flock of Sheep in Washington Park, Chicago, 1909. Courtesy of Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1632862277249-42TBPHP2S2R0SAH5SGDB/plan-south-park.jpg Blog - The Olmsted Legacy in Chicago - Make it stand out Plan of South Park (now Jackson and Washington Parks and Midway Plaisance), Olmsted & Vaux, 1871. Courtesy of Newberry Library. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1632865866371-XWG5PNGVZ7GW6Q1HQEF5/Canal-in-the-Midway.gif Blog - The Olmsted Legacy in Chicago - Make it stand out “Canal in the Midway,” Chicago Tribune, August 24, 1894. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1632865654218-IBAZLO78S47J07GK9Y6E/Midway-Plaisance.jpg Blog - The Olmsted Legacy in Chicago - Make it stand out Study for the Midway Plaisance, Olmsted, Olmsted & Eliot, Landscape Architects, 1894. Courtesy of the National Park Service, Frederick Law Olmsted National Historic Site. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1632860798709-5III4902RE5OP5MWH7GM/Foggy-Night-Falls-On-North-Field-Duane-Savage-11-20-12.jpg Blog - The Olmsted Legacy in Chicago - Make it stand out Olmsted & Vaux’s South Open Ground remains an important feature of Washington Park today. Photo by Duane Savage, Washington Park Camera Club. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1632862861401-VXKXJ0TNHGXZO4SAHZWR/Jackson-Park-fair-construction.jpg Blog - The Olmsted Legacy in Chicago - Make it stand out Jackson Park, View northwest from tower of Fire Engine House (during World’s Fair construction), October 1891. Chicago Public Library, Special Collections, WCE CDA 1.17. Photograph by C.D. Arnold. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1632866066146-J0PNPQ4L39R4YWZHPXUW/Sherman-Park-Lagoon.jpg Blog - The Olmsted Legacy in Chicago - Make it stand out North end of Sherman Park lagoon, ca. 1930. Chicago Park District Records: Special Collections, Chicago Public Library, Photograph cgp_spe_p00001_098_018_001.jp2 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1632862089302-IZ5IGOABBXJEG8RJP0QJ/Ohlmstead-Central-Park.jpg Blog - The Olmsted Legacy in Chicago - Make it stand out Map of Central Park 1868, from Reprinting of the “Greensward Report,” Courtesy of the National Park Service, Frederick Law Olmsted National Historic Site. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1632865320099-P2Q538ZDPXTWO7NAWOEO/East-Lagoon.jpg Blog - The Olmsted Legacy in Chicago - Make it stand out Contemporary View of Jackson Park’s East Lagoon. Photo by Julia Bachrach. https://www.jbachrach.com/blog/2021/8/30/women-who-built-chicago-two-additional-hidden-figures monthly 0.5 2021-09-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1630339585324-691MVLOY3MACXUASPPAA/Lund-bungalow.jpg Blog - Women Who Built Chicago: Two Additional Hidden Figures - Make it stand out Ethel Vera Lund began working for her father’s architectural firm, A.G. Lund, in the early 1920s, when the office produced many fine residences including this one at 6730 S. Cregier Avenue. Photo by Julia Bachrach. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1630342399370-MZ8I7RSPZL1ZM2GLJM1T/Lund-three-flat.jpg Blog - Women Who Built Chicago: Two Additional Hidden Figures - Make it stand out The 1922 three-flat at 6746 S. Oglesby Avenue is among the vast array of apartment structures created by Vera Lund’s family firm. Photo by Julia Bachrach. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1630339723657-62UCWDPAL6V7X7YFCJ43/Powhatan-interior.jpg Blog - Women Who Built Chicago: Two Additional Hidden Figures - Make it stand out Morgan and Fairman’s interior mural mosaics at the Powhatan. Photo by Eric Allix Rogers. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1630340764138-X2TFSURUS2K8UT8GW2I7/News_of_the_Architects.gif Blog - Women Who Built Chicago: Two Additional Hidden Figures - Make it stand out “News of the Architects,” Chicago Tribune, April 16, 1922. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1630342652981-97MUQ8J2RPM14JSYWQ5C/Walgreens-Coleman.jpg Blog - Women Who Built Chicago: Two Additional Hidden Figures - Make it stand out L.F. Coleman’s Walgreens at 757 N. Michigan Avenue was built in the late 1940s. Courtesy of Walgreens. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1630340331012-Q2ICHMGICXUF5VTMKRGU/Avalon-Regal-2.jpg Blog - Women Who Built Chicago: Two Additional Hidden Figures - Make it stand out Close-up of Avalon Theater’s richly-decorative interior. Photo by Eric Allix Rogers. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1630340512201-NKEPCKWLZ44J97GL9CCR/Margaret-Bush-1a.jpg Blog - Women Who Built Chicago: Two Additional Hidden Figures - Make it stand out Margaret T. Fairman Bush, from Pictorial Living Magazine, ca. 1955. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1630342008294-EX0XAG17TV44ZYBRLG9Z/Lund-Yearbook.jpg Blog - Women Who Built Chicago: Two Additional Hidden Figures - Make it stand out Ethel Vera Lund, Cap and Gown (University of Chicago Yearbook), 1916. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1630340908979-MJ7YQ0W4R01PO01CES3O/ChicagoBicycleClub1898.jpg Blog - Women Who Built Chicago: Two Additional Hidden Figures - Make it stand out Designed by A.G. Lund and completed in 1898, this cottage-like structure served as the clubhouse for the Chicago Bicycle Club. Photo Courtesy of Steve Casteel (stevecasteel@chicagobikeadventures.com). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1630340131924-MUCYO6JWTRBJM23AO5AC/Avalon-Regal-1.jpg Blog - Women Who Built Chicago: Two Additional Hidden Figures - Make it stand out Fairman’s design work for Charles Morgan included mural mosaics for the Moorish Revival style Avalon Theater at 1641 E. 79th Street later known as the New Regal Theater. Photo by Eric Allix Rogers. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1630342140128-58Y26TG8PJS201X0TVS6/Lund-bungalow-row.jpg Blog - Women Who Built Chicago: Two Additional Hidden Figures - Make it stand out The A.G. Lund firm produced many small brick bungalows, including this trio located at 7538, 7540, and 7542 S. East End Avenue. Photo by Julia Bachrach. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1630348581926-JYDKC0G8B7YQURH33XQB/Maud-Maulers-1916-rev.jpg Blog - Women Who Built Chicago: Two Additional Hidden Figures - Make it stand out Vera Lund is depicted in the center of this photograph. “Maud Mullers of Palos Park,” Chicago Tribune, July 22, 1916. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1630342539212-8PHBIRV2QHQEYR6Q6L0T/Lund-mixed-use.jpg Blog - Women Who Built Chicago: Two Additional Hidden Figures - Make it stand out A.G. Lund designed this mixed-use structure at 1510 E. 82nd Street in the late 1920s or early 1930s. Photo IL6741© Indiana Limestone Company. Courtesy, Indiana Geological and Water Survey, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1630339399723-7ADJKJ9DRH6BFQSU91MX/Powhatan-mural.jpg Blog - Women Who Built Chicago: Two Additional Hidden Figures - Make it stand out Margaret T. Fairman assisted architect Charles Morgan in designing the colorful mural mosaics that adorn the Powhatan Apartments. Photo by Eric Allix Rogers. https://www.jbachrach.com/blog/2021/7/29/its-all-happening-at-the-zoo monthly 0.5 2021-08-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1627587625993-79SFWXLOTDGBTXTRKLRP/Sea-lion-exhibit-1889.jpg Blog - It’s All Happening at the Zoo - Make it stand out Lincoln Park Zoo Sea Lion Exhibit, 1889. Chicago History Museum, ICH-19476. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1627587760693-GIPFOBR63WXSK69VS50J/carousel.jpg Blog - It’s All Happening at the Zoo - Make it stand out During our recent visit to Lincoln Park Zoo, my grandnephew Cooper and I rode the Endangered Species Carousel. Photo by Wendy Littlefield. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1627592646317-WJ3PAUHIQGYG08Y4NLEA/animal-price-list.jpg Blog - It’s All Happening at the Zoo - Make it stand out Left: Cover of price list from Carl Hagenbeck, German animal trainer and dealer, ca. 1900. Right: Completed order from Lincoln Park Zoo, ca. 1900. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1627595279009-AP2PMF4QV4M5UPGRFY0G/Lion-House-ca1912.jpg Blog - It’s All Happening at the Zoo - Make it stand out Lion House, ca. 1912. Barnum & Barnum, photographers. Chicago History Museum. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1627670831595-ASEYK5JXC2ZT6FE6NYXN/Lincoln-Park-birdhouse.jpg Blog - It’s All Happening at the Zoo - Make it stand out I pointed out the ornamental bird perched on the cornice above the Bird House entrance to Cooper. Photo by Wendy Littlefield. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1627591537334-GALL6KNHKTEKBZ71JSX2/Lincoln-Park-bear.jpg Blog - It’s All Happening at the Zoo - Make it stand out Bear in Tree, ca. 1900. Chicago Public Library Special Collections, Chicago Park District Archives, Photograph 067_011_007. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1627590135331-5L3MU7O49BLKR7CRB5AQ/flamingos.jpg Blog - It’s All Happening at the Zoo - Make it stand out Cooper pointing out the flamingos and other birds on a remnant portion of Swain Nelson’s original pond. Photo by Julia Bachrach. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1627590891528-IZMPNRNJJMPCHG6BR0J4/Lincoln-Park-contract.gif Blog - It’s All Happening at the Zoo - Make it stand out Contract between Nelson & Benson and Lincoln Park Commissioners, August 1, 1873. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1627590563191-55JYIMT36RZZUSLK6NKS/Old-Lake-Shore-Drive.jpg Blog - It’s All Happening at the Zoo - Make it stand out This stretch of Old Lake Shore Drive aligns with Cannon Drive and is now part of the Lincoln Park Zoo parking lot, ca. 1890. Chicago Park District Records: Photographs, Special Collections, Chicago Public Library. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1627587890833-O34LY8VBXOAUV6M32F3I/swamps-to-parks-exhibit.jpg Blog - It’s All Happening at the Zoo - Make it stand out “From Swamps to Parks Building Chicago’s Public Spaces,” is on display in the Harold Washington Library’s 9th floor exhibit hall. Courtesy of Chicago Public Library. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1627588207633-ZPG8HSIWB5RSUXIC1W7W/Lincoln-Park.jpg Blog - It’s All Happening at the Zoo - Make it stand out Original Plan for Lincoln Park by Swain Nelson, 1865. Chicago History Museum. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1627591893310-KFH1K3W208IQAO2E51B3/Lincoln-Park-elephant-canopy.jpg Blog - It’s All Happening at the Zoo - Make it stand out “Canopy for Elephant,”1898.Chicago Public Library Special Collections, Chicago Park District Archives, Drawing 3189. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1627589909954-0WYQZ3EKDN6T2339NPTO/swans.jpg Blog - It’s All Happening at the Zoo - Make it stand out Swans on the Lake, Central Park, New York, ca. 1865. Courtesy of the Library of Congress. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1627590395816-REOXS2ATCCZ027A4B3NP/Lincoln-Park-buffalo.jpg Blog - It’s All Happening at the Zoo - Make it stand out “King of Lincoln Park Herd of Buffalo,” vintage postcard, ca. 1900. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1627595579262-1QBT96O3CVNBZNUBK9Q3/Park-Place-Cafe.jpg Blog - It’s All Happening at the Zoo - Make it stand out Cooper and me in front of the old aquarium, now the Park Place Café. Photo by Wendy Littlefield. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1627592038919-5G4ZYP0S799WUWD8WBNN/Lincoln-Park-elephant-Duchess.jpg Blog - It’s All Happening at the Zoo - Make it stand out Cy De Vry offering Duchess a drink of water, ca. 1900. Chicago History Museum, DN-000782. https://www.jbachrach.com/blog/2021/6/28/spotlight-on-chicagos-patent-medicine-industry monthly 0.5 2021-07-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1624895244983-YG60Z86LUSBSHIT8F46J/Foley-almanac.jpg Blog - Spotlight on Chicago’s Patent Medicine Industry - Make it stand out Cover of the 1914 Foley & Company Almanac. Courtesy of Made in Chicago Museum: madeinchicagomuseum.com/single-post/foley/ https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1624892703787-EDXDA9TAC62OSGOBK30J/Colliers-cover.jpg Blog - Spotlight on Chicago’s Patent Medicine Industry - Make it stand out E.W. Kimble’s cartoon “Death’s Laboratory,” appeared on the cover of Collier’s in 1905, suggesting that greedy patent medicine companies were poisoning their customers. Courtesy of the Library of Congress. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1624895862308-LQSUNGBVSE0P09NP0PEQ/N-and-F-laboratories.jpg Blog - Spotlight on Chicago’s Patent Medicine Industry - Make it stand out F & F Laboratories operated out of the industrial complex at 3501 W. 48th Place from the late 1930s until 2015. (A. Epstein produced the mid-1940s addition on the west side of the complex.) Photo by Julia Bachrach. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1624894980407-ZK9LH40CWVCYI6493WYS/Foley-building.jpg Blog - Spotlight on Chicago’s Patent Medicine Industry - Make it stand out By 1905, Foley & Co. had a staff of 84 women and 26 men who worked out of two stories of this building at 319-333 W. Ohio Street. Photo by Julia Bachrach. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1624895390776-8DJMHYXH7F94EY0NJGOM/Foley-building-GeorgeSt.jpg Blog - Spotlight on Chicago’s Patent Medicine Industry - Make it stand out Foley & Co.’s structure at 2835 N. Sheffield was built in two stages, with the first three stories in 1912, and the upper two, seven years later. Photo by Julia Bachrach. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1624892615855-N00C5NAOKRR0P7OVBWDJ/industrial-buildings.jpg Blog - Spotlight on Chicago’s Patent Medicine Industry - Make it stand out These industrial buildings at W. Jackson Boulevard and N. Sangamon Street, ca. 1945, were all later demolished. Photographic Images of Change by Burke and Dean, University of Illinois at Chicago Special Collections Department. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1624893092849-C688M1IA4BAB5718ZYZO/patent-medicine-ad-Kuriko.jpg Blog - Spotlight on Chicago’s Patent Medicine Industry - Make it stand out On March 4, 1904, this advertisement for the laxative called Dr. Peter’s Kuriko appeared in the Utah-Korrespondenten, a newspaper geared towards Swedish immigrants. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1624894439983-SB67ME76FN3SL2IHT613/Fahrney-building-Ravenswood.jpg Blog - Spotlight on Chicago’s Patent Medicine Industry - Make it stand out Dr. Peter Fahrney & Sons operated out of 4541 N. Ravenswood Avenue from the early 1950s until the 1970s. Photo by Julia Bachrach. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1624896037956-GTH3X5UEYYW0IDU5EPBK/DDD-Laboratories.jpg Blog - Spotlight on Chicago’s Patent Medicine Industry - Make it stand out Now a residence, the building at 3845 N. Ravenswood Avenue housed D.D.D. Laboratories from about 1915 to the late 1920s. (The firm that made treatments for Eczema and other skin diseases.) Photograph by Julia Bachrach. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1624892238668-12UL7DYTYY3VH6DV2VEW/Foley-GeorgeSt.jpg Blog - Spotlight on Chicago’s Patent Medicine Industry - Make it stand out Foley & Co., makers of cough syrups and other medicines, built this small industrial structure at 945-947 W. George Street in 1927. Photo by Julia Bachrach. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1624894637534-U8XP09OWWJWA435IU1L6/Foley-ad-honey-and-tar.jpg Blog - Spotlight on Chicago’s Patent Medicine Industry - Make it stand out “Display ad for Foley’s Honey & Tar,” Akron Daily Democrat, February 27, 1901. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1624895719825-ZRWM52MZYBWUE4XEUM4W/Foley-building-GeorgeSt.jpg Blog - Spotlight on Chicago’s Patent Medicine Industry - Make it stand out Kitty corner from their N. Sheffield Avenue structure, the Foley & Co. building at 945-947 W. George Street was completed in 1927. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1624894138525-VAEX8JJUH4DMFU4SU1HT/Fahrney-building-WashingtonBlvd-entry.jpg Blog - Spotlight on Chicago’s Patent Medicine Industry - Make it stand out Close-up of Dr. Peter Fahrney & Sons front entryway. Photo by Julia Bachrach. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1624892893972-JM1SEWB6AQG9KPOQJL4X/Fahrney-Blood-Cleanser.jpg Blog - Spotlight on Chicago’s Patent Medicine Industry - Make it stand out Advertisement for Fahrney’s Blood Cleanser, ca. 1885. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1624894171603-QDFSSBLTSO78XNP8JWDP/Fahrney-building-WashingtonBlvd.jpg Blog - Spotlight on Chicago’s Patent Medicine Industry - Make it stand out Architect Nelson Max Dunning designed the 1917 Peter Fahrney & Sons manufacturing building at 2501 W. Washington Boulevard. Photo by Julia Bachrach. https://www.jbachrach.com/blog/2021/5/28/alexander-l-levy-another-talented-jewish-architect-in-chicago-history monthly 0.5 2021-06-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1622222541014-DXNM8P8XPE5WK31WHOAW/school-Levy.jpg Blog - The Architectural Legacy of Alexander L. Levy - Make it stand out Ray Elementary School was Hyde Park High School when Levy taught there at the turn of the 20th century. Photo courtesy of Bill Latoza. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1622240992027-0N77U6E8PEBAI16NYC1L/Marshall-Square-Theatre-Levy.jpg Blog - The Architectural Legacy of Alexander L. Levy - Make it stand out The 1917 Marshall Square Theater is now called Apollo’s 2000. Photo by Julia Bachrach. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1622241906803-V4GN7TAYNLPAH5DCAYBD/Kenmore-Ave.jpg Blog - The Architectural Legacy of Alexander L. Levy - Make it stand out In the early 1930s, Levy & Klein had their office at 5552 W. Kenmore Avenue in the Bryn Mawr Apartment Hotel, a building they had designed several years earlier. Photo by Julia Bachrach. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1622307883872-1FCT1CQL50WT2OG4FVPM/Douglas-Auditorium-Levy3.jpg Blog - The Architectural Legacy of Alexander L. Levy - Make it stand out Close-up of Alexander Levy’s 1910 Douglas Auditorium. Photo by Julia Bachrach. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1622222397252-SINO4WC601FCSDK2UK69/Glenwood-Ave-Levy.jpg Blog - The Architectural Legacy of Alexander L. Levy - Make it stand out Levy designed the stately twelve-flat at 5454-5456 N. Glenwood Avenue in 1912. This is the building in which our condo is located. Photo by Julia Bachrach. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1622222636118-OCAPRH9CB72NGRJTOTYM/medinahbuilding1893.jpg Blog - The Architectural Legacy of Alexander L. Levy - Make it stand out Medinah Building from Rand McNally’s Bird’s Eye Views of Chicago, 1893. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1622241239486-BRGYAI2TDF2CIWH3BCMY/Grenada.jpg Blog - The Architectural Legacy of Alexander L. Levy - Make it stand out View of Granada Theater during its demolition, 1990. Photo courtesy of Historic American Building Survey. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1622242049589-464R46BJGP6IV1B76HAM/Bryn-Mawr-storefront.jpg Blog - The Architectural Legacy of Alexander L. Levy - Make it stand out Alexander L. Levy designed this 1935 storefront block at 1055 W. Bryn Mawr Avenue, directly west of the Bryn Mawr Apartment Hotel. Photo by Julia Bachrach. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1622241091954-LWKJVVW1WORPXNV7ZFA0/Eric-Rogers-Russian-Baths.jpg Blog - The Architectural Legacy of Alexander L. Levy - Make it stand out K. Levy & Klein’s North Avenue Bath House. Photo by Eric Allix Rogers. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1622222248514-8WB9ZEKU81918NYJ02YK/Levy.jpeg Blog - The Architectural Legacy of Alexander L. Levy - Make it stand out Alexander L. Levy, from History of the Jews of Chicago. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1622240847860-7SCGW9D0L8RUMK76T0FM/Douglas-Park-Auditorium-Levy.jpg Blog - The Architectural Legacy of Alexander L. Levy - Make it stand out Douglas Park Auditorium. Photo by Julia Bachrach. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1622240233368-WIJ42WXI9PSVI4EOHR9Y/orphan-home-Levy.jpg Blog - The Architectural Legacy of Alexander L. Levy - Make it stand out Levy’s Marks Nathan Orphan Home opened in 1912 at 1528 S. Albany Street. Photo by Julia Bachrach. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1622239787792-N0X1Z2NWHVUTJFKM2UVL/BriarPlace-Levy.jpg Blog - The Architectural Legacy of Alexander L. Levy - Make it stand out Alexander L. Levy designed this Greystone three-flat at 714 W. Briar Place in 1904. Photo by Julia Bachrach. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1622240647063-UX8JWW1KWDLDDLQXHPV8/StBasil-Levy.jpg Blog - The Architectural Legacy of Alexander L. Levy - Make it stand out Levy designed what is now the St. Basil Greek Orthodox Church as a synagogue for Ohave Sholom Miriampol’s growing congregation in 1910. Photo by Julia Bachrach. https://www.jbachrach.com/blog/2021/4/30/remembering-the-adventure-playland-on-washington-parks-bynum-island monthly 0.5 2021-05-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1619793815545-CRDTH6CZED5H7SAXIY5O/Bynum-Obituary.jpg Blog - Remembering the Adventure Playland on Washington Park’s Bynum Island Marshall F. Bynum, from “Services Set Thursday for M.F. Bynum, 57,” Chicago Tribune, November 4, 1969. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1619791366879-84Z07GIPZBZYUB62FDWY/Bynum-Island-color-1970.jpg Blog - Remembering the Adventure Playland on Washington Park’s Bynum Island Washington Park’s Adventure Playland, 1970. Chicago Park District Records: Special Collections, Chicago Public Library, Photographs. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1619793305594-WQ2LKI97APQT1Y5JQNVV/Washington-Park-aerial.jpg Blog - Remembering the Adventure Playland on Washington Park’s Bynum Island Aerial photograph of The Mere, island, and surrounding landscape on the southeast side of Washington Park, ca. 1935. Chicago Park District Records: Special Collections, Chicago Public Library, Photographs. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1619792464518-LROD2TIC9KF499FOBI09/sheep.jpg Blog - Remembering the Adventure Playland on Washington Park’s Bynum Island Sheep on Washington Park’s meadow, ca. 1910. Chicago Park District Records: Special Collections, Chicago Public Library, Photographs. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1619806618585-9TJ1AMY52L7KV0DZ6EES/arnold-randall.jpg Blog - Remembering the Adventure Playland on Washington Park’s Bynum Island General Superintendent Arnold L. Randall. Photo courtesy of Forest Preserves of Cook County. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1619791597974-2APR1IZB903K16LCEXDH/Bynum-Playground-moonscape.jpg Blog - Remembering the Adventure Playland on Washington Park’s Bynum Island Children playing in “moonscape area” on Bynum Island in Washington Park, ca. 1970. Chicago Park District Records: Special Collections, Chicago Public Library, Photographs. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1619791842811-MH3W4JYFU9V37Z8PWFRN/Olmstead-Vaux-Plan-South-Park.gif Blog - Remembering the Adventure Playland on Washington Park’s Bynum Island Olmsted & Vaux’s 1871 Plan of South Park. Chicago Park District Records: Special Collections, Chicago Public Library, Plan and Drawings. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1619792137598-JCBKWKWHWGV3IHKYKH9E/Washington-Park-improvements-1880.jpg Blog - Remembering the Adventure Playland on Washington Park’s Bynum Island This plan shows the improvements made to Washington Park by 1880. Chicago Park District Records: Special Collections, Chicago Public Library, Plan and Drawings. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1619794146631-GC3SOLB0QX78PKRIOZJB/Washington-Park-Playland.gif Blog - Remembering the Adventure Playland on Washington Park’s Bynum Island Washington Park Regional Playland Plans, Chicago Park District, October, 1969. Chicago Park District Records: Special Collections, Chicago Public Library, Plans and Drawings. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1619795960763-1E4QZEAJ77QTTH09J1K3/Camping-on-Bynum.jpg Blog - Remembering the Adventure Playland on Washington Park’s Bynum Island CPD outdoor camping on Bynum Island, 2009. Photograph courtesy of the Chicago Park District. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1619795402008-MILJFGNV96VAOVS0ILK6/Bynum-Chicago-Tribune.jpg Blog - Remembering the Adventure Playland on Washington Park’s Bynum Island Arnold Randall is one of the children depicted in this photograph that was published in the Chicago Tribune on August 26, 1975. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1619792922293-UNTBPA0ST41Z8M23UOCA/Pool-and-Mere.jpg Blog - Remembering the Adventure Playland on Washington Park’s Bynum Island This view shows The Pool and The Mere to the south, ca. 1910. Chicago Park District Records: Special Collections, Chicago Public Library, Photographs. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1619797299717-D4GGMNI7UL6J0QML708B/Pulley-Ride-1970-rev.jpg Blog - Remembering the Adventure Playland on Washington Park’s Bynum Island Kids on ziplines in the Adventure Playland, 1970. Chicago Park District Records: Special Collections, Chicago Public Library, Photographs. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1619793162831-EAVB5P21A3Q8HM5Q47WX/rustic-bridge.jpg Blog - Remembering the Adventure Playland on Washington Park’s Bynum Island Rustic bridge, ca. 1910. Chicago Park District Records: Special Collections, Chicago Public Library, Photographs. https://www.jbachrach.com/blog/2021/3/25/the-great-chicago-quiz-show-now-and-then monthly 0.5 2021-04-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1616705741611-G85MFUMJD7FGRAEU20FA/Cowan-Louis.jpg Blog - THE GREAT CHICAGO QUIZ SHOW: Now and Then Louis G. Cowan, University of Chicago Photographic Archive, apf1-01960r. Special Collections Research Center, University of Chicago Library. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1616706554190-MO1622YOUE7GF570FOAL/bird-expert.jpg Blog - THE GREAT CHICAGO QUIZ SHOW: Now and Then “Bird Expert at 4,” Chicago Tribune, April 22, 1937. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1616707494883-W9CNYTVCALVZ3LFM5G02/Wednesday-in-MS.jpg Blog - THE GREAT CHICAGO QUIZ SHOW: Now and Then Dorothy Height and Polly Cowan are depicted on the left side of this 1964 photo showing participants in “Wednesdays in Mississippi,” a program in which northern and southern women came together to advocate for civil rights. Photo courtesy of the National Park Service. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1616705510571-IK8SQ9VXRNVLQTEHZVZ8/behind-the-scenes.jpg Blog - THE GREAT CHICAGO QUIZ SHOW: Now and Then Behind the scenes with Geoffrey Baer during the recording of my segment. Photo courtesy of WTTW. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1616705339548-U3J8HK8O14J6EGDHDKJP/Geoffrey-Baer.jpg Blog - THE GREAT CHICAGO QUIZ SHOW: Now and Then Geoffrey Baer’s THE GREAT CHICAGO QUIZ SHOW premiered on March 26, 2021. Photo courtesy of WTTW. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1616705619299-7RIGXCLF45ML8RLF0685/quiz-kids.jpg Blog - THE GREAT CHICAGO QUIZ SHOW: Now and Then Advertisement for Quiz Kids, 1944. Courtesy of Wikimedia. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1616707011160-GBSVVI5QAUZHKJ6OCOE2/Carson-Pirie-Scott-quiz-kid.gif Blog - THE GREAT CHICAGO QUIZ SHOW: Now and Then “Display Ad,” Chicago Tribune, October 2, 1941. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1616707140623-81XC95TBKWQ9L9BWKRXG/Merchandise_Mart.jpg Blog - THE GREAT CHICAGO QUIZ SHOW: Now and Then Merchandise Mart, Chicago. Photo courtesy of Wikicommons. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1616706107428-0E55ZE2WVD2ZGZA79R14/Polly-and-Lou-Cowan.jpg Blog - THE GREAT CHICAGO QUIZ SHOW: Now and Then “Polly and Louis G. Cowan,” Fort Worth Star Telegram, December 22, 1955. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1616707320242-P49PPK2TPM3D073QMSQ2/WBBM-radio.gif Blog - THE GREAT CHICAGO QUIZ SHOW: Now and Then “Display Ad,” Chicago Tribune, October 5, 1952. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1616704948549-18FVCW1CZ5H3MYNHD1QG/Great-Chicago-History-Show.jpg Blog - THE GREAT CHICAGO QUIZ SHOW: Now and Then That’s me on the screen answering Geoffrey Baer’s questions via Skype for the upcoming THE GREAT CHICAGO HISTORY SHOW. I will be a panelist on the 4th episode, which will first air on April 16th at 8:00 p.m. Photo courtesy of WTTW. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1616706767966-ZGMVC7JBLCTMIVETQOEI/prodigys-progress.jpg Blog - THE GREAT CHICAGO QUIZ SHOW: Now and Then “The Prodigy’s Progress: Gerard Darrow,” Life Magazine, September 29, 1941. https://www.jbachrach.com/blog/2021/2/25/the-alarm-one-of-chicagos-oldest-public-monuments monthly 0.5 2021-04-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1614360296725-AC605L4TE1A5T7XSLIHF/The_Alarm-after1974.jpg Blog - The Alarm: One of Chicago’s Oldest Public Monuments View of The Alarm after it was moved in 1974. (By this time, the missing bronze plaques had been replaced with granite ones and a bronze peace pipe, originally held by the standing figure, had been stolen.) Chicago Park District Records: Special Collections, Chicago Public Library, Photographs. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1614359414292-B8ZYX5K79MS3BSFLJYYO/TheAlarm-1925.jpg Blog - The Alarm: One of Chicago’s Oldest Public Monuments View of The Alarm with its original bas relief plaques, ca. 1925. Chicago Park District Records: Special Collections, Chicago Public Library, Photographs. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1614358120963-KLH1QRVFCW2D7QHEL52Q/John-J-Boyle.jpg Blog - The Alarm: One of Chicago’s Oldest Public Monuments John J. Boyle. Courtesy of Wikimedia. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1614357667204-DDDQGELNCPE766TXNAP5/Ryerson-Hills-advertisement.gif Blog - The Alarm: One of Chicago’s Oldest Public Monuments Advertisement for Ryerson, Hills & Co. From Muskegon and its Resources, 1884. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1614272314951-4KG0BQY1Y3287QT54H6Z/TheAlarm.jpg Blog - The Alarm: One of Chicago’s Oldest Public Monuments The Alarm, Lincoln Park. Photo courtesy of Chicago Park District. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1614357241404-FL19XJJY20H9AW47GXER/The_Alarm.jpg Blog - The Alarm: One of Chicago’s Oldest Public Monuments View of The Alarm, with Ryerson’s inscription on the base. Photo by Julia Bachrach, 2010. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1614361043333-VIIUR53D2GAJ9PC7U90T/Peacepipe-bas-relief.jpg Blog - The Alarm: One of Chicago’s Oldest Public Monuments Top: One of John J. Boyle’s original four bas relief plaques that embellished its base, this one was entitled “The Peace Pipe.” Photograph by Percy H. Sloan, Courtesy of Newberry Library. Bottom: Recreated “The Peace Pipe” plaque. Photo courtesy of Chicago Park District. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1614357792375-P2IHM1TDI2BD33PWICAF/Mary-Ann-Ryerson.jpg Blog - The Alarm: One of Chicago’s Oldest Public Monuments Mary Ann Campua Ryerson, University of Chicago Photographic Archive, apf1-07378. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1614357988917-KOBZHAA8RLBB562681AJ/Grand-Pacific-Hotel.jpg Blog - The Alarm: One of Chicago’s Oldest Public Monuments Grand Pacific Hotel, 1912. Courtesy of Wikicommons. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1614372463885-DCY6SZET4BF9OQD4O7Q4/Columbus-Monument-Grant-Park-rev.jpg Blog - The Alarm: One of Chicago’s Oldest Public Monuments Left: Columbus Monument in Grant Park, ca. 1940. Chicago Park District Records: Special Collections, Chicago Public Library, Photographs. Right: Base of the monument after the bronze figure of Columbus was removed on July 24, 2020. Courtesy of James Conkis, Wikicommons. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1614358687916-6XJO48QVICQZWWU3LJAW/Inter-Ocean-sketch-The-Alarm.jpg Blog - The Alarm: One of Chicago’s Oldest Public Monuments This illustration of the Alarm appeared in the Inter Ocean on December 22, 1889. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1614359776516-DM8ZPM0OIS6C7414WFHC/Stone_Age_America_1887.jpg Blog - The Alarm: One of Chicago’s Oldest Public Monuments John J. Boyle’s Stone Age in America, Fairmount Park, Philadelphia. Photo courtesy of Wikicommons. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1614360152370-DZVH38UBEEW0G3W7A75R/Frank-Leslies-Illustrated-Newspaper-The-Alarm.jpg Blog - The Alarm: One of Chicago’s Oldest Public Monuments “The Indian Group for Lincoln Park, Chicago,” Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Newspaper, December 22, 1883. https://www.jbachrach.com/blog/2021/1/28/gertrude-deimel-kuh-midcentury-landscape-architect monthly 0.5 2021-11-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1611855602103-GRTVWZWI24UEPAL99ZGP/Dart-Arenberg-house2.jpg Blog - Gertrude Deimel Kuh: Midcentury Landscape Architect Kuh’s landscapes for Modern residences included the stunning 1950s Milton Arenberg House, the work of architect Edward Dart. (Unfortunately, this Highland Park house was recently demolished.) Photo courtesy of Matthew Seymour. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1611857363981-4W6BU1K6JO8DNFBDC6X9/Lowenthal-garage-court.jpg Blog - Gertrude Deimel Kuh: Midcentury Landscape Architect Richard Loewenthal House Garage Court, Photo by Julia Bachrach, 1988. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1611854931923-04RST1DPUGVHOH1YYQEM/Lowenthal-landscape.jpg Blog - Gertrude Deimel Kuh: Midcentury Landscape Architect Specializing in residential landscapes, Kuh often designed the grounds for large, stately homes. She created this lovely “outdoor room” for the Richard Loewenthal House at 1418 Waverly Road. Photo by Julia Bachrach, 1988. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1611856970364-7F0859EEZMOYLYYTIK8F/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Gertrude Deimel Kuh: Midcentury Landscape Architect Mary Rogers Long produced this presentation drawing of Kuh’s plan for the Donald Lubin House in Highland Park, 1956. Courtesy of Art Institute of Chicago. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1611856675862-8CWT58SK7S6EAH0THSVK/Gertrude-Deimel-travel.jpg Blog - Gertrude Deimel Kuh: Midcentury Landscape Architect This photograph of Gertrude Deimel was likely taken during one of her frequent trips abroad, ca. 1930. Courtesy of Thomas Deimel. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1611856009479-7GAC7JBJI2AWKFEYYOA2/Jackson-Shore-Apts.jpg Blog - Gertrude Deimel Kuh: Midcentury Landscape Architect Gertrude Eisendrath lived with her parents, her sister Elsa, and a servant in the luxurious Jackson Shore Apartments at 5490 South Shore Drive from 1920 until her marriage to Jerome Deimel in 1925. Photo courtesy of Wikimedia. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1611858262788-DV2CC2VXQMBLMD2ZGM63/rival-California.jpg Blog - Gertrude Deimel Kuh: Midcentury Landscape Architect Describing a house designed by Ernest “Tony” Grunsfeld, III, with a Gertrude Kuh-landscape, a Chicago Tribune article of May 1, 1967 suggests that this North Shore residence and its setting rival the California coastline. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1612038216275-301GOXW1EPUPC1JHT3UR/Loeb.jpg Blog - Gertrude Deimel Kuh: Midcentury Landscape Architect Design for the Property of Mr. and Mrs. Allan Loeb, Gertrude Deimel Kuh, 1957. Courtesy of the Art Institute of Chicago. This plan for the grounds of a home on a sloped ravine site shows how Gertrude Kuh was respectful to the natural setting while also accommodating the needs of a modern family and providing privacy. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1611854068000-0B2QKUMRJSEF3RGE6NCM/Gertrude-Deimel-Kuh-portrait.jpg Blog - Gertrude Deimel Kuh: Midcentury Landscape Architect Gertrude Deimel Kuh, ca. 1950, Photo courtesy of Thomas Deimel. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1611855821778-1MZ0T9DD5GC0ROSB6KBN/Training-Women-as-Gardeners.jpg Blog - Gertrude Deimel Kuh: Midcentury Landscape Architect “Training Women as Gardeners,” Boston Globe, October 26, 1913. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1611855410273-701JPHL0JBYHRLQTJWW8/Fanny-and-Gertrude.jpg Blog - Gertrude Deimel Kuh: Midcentury Landscape Architect Gertrude and her mother, Fannie Eisendrath, ca. 1895. Courtesy of Thomas Deimel. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1611856224096-02ZRR1CF2PDVAL622J5L/North-Shore-Garden-Club-1929.jpg Blog - Gertrude Deimel Kuh: Midcentury Landscape Architect This Chicago Tribune, August 17, 1929 indicates that along with Gertrude Deimel, active members of the North Shore Garden Club included the Rosenwalds’ daughter, Mrs. Edith Stern; Mrs. Clair Florsheim, wife of shoe company president Harold M. Florsheim; and Gertrude’s aunt, Mrs. Marjorie Eisendrath. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1611856465559-CI0SKLCLJZNC4JF6AZ1S/Jensen-Memorial-stone.jpg Blog - Gertrude Deimel Kuh: Midcentury Landscape Architect Augusta Rosenwald Memorial, Jens Jensen Park, Highland Park. Photo by Bob Laemle. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1611858064545-D5Z1S6PTPL3C3TLF8EFA/Strauss-Pool-House.jpg Blog - Gertrude Deimel Kuh: Midcentury Landscape Architect Kuh likely updated the landscape of the Strauss House in Highland Park, adding modern pool, without destroying the stonework that edged the original Jensen-designed pool. Photos by Julia Bachrach, 1988. https://www.jbachrach.com/blog/2021/1/4/meet-the-steinbrechers monthly 0.5 2021-01-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1609778693471-UFL4UPSLH9O4U1F1YUN0/Steinbrecher-congressional-election-poster.jpg Blog - Meet the Steinbrechers Paul Steinbrecher congressional campaign poster, 1912. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1609777870098-XERNG6TIETYXP7YZQE81/Edith-Steinbrcher-infant.jpg Blog - Meet the Steinbrechers Edith Steinbrecher is shown with her mother Anna Anderson, and two daughters, Betty (in her mother’s lap) and Ann, standing nearby, ca. 1915. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1609779852471-VVB0BMOPZ1GI0QFOYBRQ/home-Schiller.jpg Blog - Meet the Steinbrechers This row house at 48 E. Schiller was the Steinbrecher home from the mid-1920s until Edith died in 1971. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1609780369810-RF9FCM9OTUS3QL1CZ64O/City-Club-Steinbrecher.gif Blog - Meet the Steinbrechers “Head of the City Club Outlines Plans of Year,” Chicago Tribune, September 26, 1937. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1609780685284-GOIITB587F1ETH9ZS6ND/Carl-Sandburg-music.jpg Blog - Meet the Steinbrechers Carl Sandburg, 1930. Chicago History Museum, DN-0094246 Chicago Sun-Times/ Chicago Daily News collection. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1609790252492-UVTOCCO7LHGYAKVWV7ZR/George-Paul-and-Fritz2.jpg Blog - Meet the Steinbrechers Paul Steinbrecher is depicted in the middle with his brother George on the left and Fritz on the right. Photo ca. 1900. (This and most of the other historic photographs are courtesy of my friend Paul Steinbrecher.) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1609791300557-W20ZGCAP46Y9FG6PFC8U/Carl-Sandburg-inscription2.jpg Blog - Meet the Steinbrechers Carl Sandburg thanked Ann Steinbrecher for her role as unofficial secretary in an inscription of his book, Abraham Lincoln: The War Years, 1938. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1609790928387-ZZOL4IFQB3U0YVJZ8U77/Paul-Steinbrecher-crop.jpg Blog - Meet the Steinbrechers Paul Steinbrecher, ca. 1925. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1609778964446-0MLCS1NHYVCP8CKCFC64/home-Oakdale-Ave.jpg Blog - Meet the Steinbrechers Steinbrecher home at 418 W. Oakdale Avenue. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1609777178339-Q5DJ7BAJCI2QM0RLGLK3/Paul-Steinbrecher-family-home.jpg Blog - Meet the Steinbrechers Paul Steinbrecher (the grandnephew) in front of the Steinbrecher family home at 419 W. Armitage Avenue. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1609777465086-N8YDG9IMI0AJ97AGDTMV/UofC-BaseballTeam-Japan-Steinbrecher.jpg Blog - Meet the Steinbrechers Fritz Steinbrecher is fourth from the left in this photograph of the University of Chicago baseball team at Kamakura, Japan, 1910. University of Chicago Photographic Archive apf4-00142, Special Collections Research Center, University of Chicago Library. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1609779747802-Z7PN3WEJXR5G6IH9DYTD/HughMG-Garden-Apartment.jpg Blog - Meet the Steinbrechers Left: “Realty News in Pictures,” Chicago Tribune, January 21, 1917, with rendering of the Hugh M.G. Garden apartment house leased out by Paul Steinbrecher & Co. Right, Photograph of same building at 3330 N. Lake Shore Drive. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1609790347841-J2I74NIP7RCYSCNLF97S/classified-homes.jpg Blog - Meet the Steinbrechers Houses for Sale by Paul Steinbrecher & Co., Chicago Tribune, April 5, 1914. (Steinbrecher’s firm ran thousands of classified ads in the Tribune over the years.) https://www.jbachrach.com/blog/2020/11/27/fieldhouses-a-chicago-innovation monthly 0.5 2020-12-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1606756025422-QJD5BBEO7CK3T7CPLBNU/Davis-Squre-map.jpg Blog - Park Fieldhouses: A Chicago Innovation Davis Square Vicinity Map, 1910. Chicago Park District Records: Special Collections, Chicago Public Library, Drawings. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1606494769560-AZ4WZU4WN0KGQ2GKXW2D/Davis-Square-swimming-suits.jpg Blog - Park Fieldhouses: A Chicago Innovation Boys in line for bathing suits in Davis Square Fieldhouse, ca. 1905. Chicago Park District Records: Special Collections, Chicago Public Library, Photographs https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1606493835329-O3Q7QW6POPVWUC07YWX4/women-children-street.jpg Blog - Park Fieldhouses: A Chicago Innovation Women and children in the street, ca. 1902. Chicago History Museum DN-0000522. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1606494866050-EXQDQNTKYYPQU0RX5HAP/Sherman-House-Fieldhouse.jpg Blog - Park Fieldhouses: A Chicago Innovation Sherman Park Fieldhouse. Photo courtesy of Wikimedia. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1606493986246-DYZM520ZB4IBN04NKFIB/Swimming-lagoon-McKinley.jpg Blog - Park Fieldhouses: A Chicago Innovation McKinley Park swimming lagoon, ca. 1905. Chicago Park District Records: Special Collections, Chicago Public Library, Photographs. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1606494308795-OL5T62CW1R3VLU1JQVLV/girls-gymnasium-Mark-White-Square.jpg Blog - Park Fieldhouses: A Chicago Innovation A pass the ball relay in the girls gymnasium of Mark White Square, 1905. Chicago Park District Records: Special Collections, Chicago Public Library, Photographs. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1606491590786-0JMTXWRK6XJODZK7KAN5/Fieldhouse-wading-pool.jpg Blog - Park Fieldhouses: A Chicago Innovation Fieldhouse and Wading Pool at Mark White Square, S. Halsted and W. 29th streets, Chicago, ca. 1905. Chicago Park District Records: Special Collections, Chicago Public Library, Photograph. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1606492450820-7W4ADCN0KSKWHFY75QFZ/Davis-Square-Fieldhouse-pool.jpg Blog - Park Fieldhouses: A Chicago Innovation Representing, in small scale, the Exposition’s Court of Honor, many of the fieldhouses (as shown here at Davis Square) were designed as an architectural complex surrounding an outdoor swimming pool. Photo courtesy of Woodhouse Tinucci Architects. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1606491380978-NEB23WOEECVIJSPZXBCL/Davis-Fieldhouse.jpg Blog - Park Fieldhouses: A Chicago Innovation Davis Square Fieldhouse. Photo courtesy of the Chicago Park District Department of Planning and Construction. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1606492074642-IVXGIMW35UXQYBWYRD24/Columbian-exposition-Court-water.jpg Blog - Park Fieldhouses: A Chicago Innovation World’s Columbian Exposition Court of Honor Looking West, 1893. Chicago Public Library, Special Collections, WCE CDA 2_5. Photograph by C.D. Arnold. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1606494172747-QE8Y5UHGO1M7C3LECGBC/public-bathing-Davis-Square.jpg Blog - Park Fieldhouses: A Chicago Innovation Public bathing facilities in Davis Square Park, ca. 1905. Chicago Park District Records: Special Collections, Chicago Public Library, Photographs. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1606494605908-1KZIEFDOVURANX4ZFH76/Fieldhouse-Hamilton-Park.jpg Blog - Park Fieldhouses: A Chicago Innovation Hamilton Park Fieldhouse. Photo by Michael Lange, Chicago Park District. https://www.jbachrach.com/blog/2020/10/30/from-swamps-to-parks-building-chicagos-public-spaces monthly 0.5 2020-11-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1604076226283-5SNMN6RYCHQH9ZC8JYQO/Palace-Fine-Arts-contemporary.jpg Blog - From Swamps to Parks: Building Chicago’s Public Spaces Museum of Science and Industry, 2010. Photo courtesy of Wikimedia. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1604072537109-NHLNUI1QWQYVINF1BGX3/exhibit.jpg Blog - From Swamps to Parks: Building Chicago’s Public Spaces Johanna Russ and I are shown here standing in the section of the exhibit that explores the history of the fieldhouse, a building type invented in Chicago’s parks. Handmade toys in the vitrine between us came from a toy lending library in one of the fieldhouses. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1604073787325-MJIDA0RNHOA6L6SIZFSH/detail-drawing-Palace-Fine-Arts.jpg Blog - From Swamps to Parks: Building Chicago’s Public Spaces Galleries of Fine Arts, World's Columbian Exposition: Sheet, No. 7, Detail of central part north and south elevations, Daniel H. Burnham, Charles B. Atwood, 1891. Chicago Public Library, Chicago Park District Archive, Drawing CPD409N. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1604072853548-02OSLVYRFC41OC1G83S4/Ed-Uhlir.jpg Blog - From Swamps to Parks: Building Chicago’s Public Spaces Ed Uhlir showing artifacts in the sub-basement vault. From “Hidden Treasures: A Cache of Historic Blueprints Could Usher in Another Golden Age for Chicago’s Parks,” Chicago Tribune, March 22, 1987. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1604075797584-21V1NX14F8VMAATPP4QR/Palace-Fine-Arts-disrepair.jpg Blog - From Swamps to Parks: Building Chicago’s Public Spaces Fine Arts Pavilion in disrepair, 1929, Chicago Park District Records: Special Collections, Chicago Public Library, Photograph 046_029_002. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1604072173191-LBC3UACEOO5O1H1PB1WI/MSI-construction.jpg Blog - From Swamps to Parks: Building Chicago’s Public Spaces The Museum of Science and Industry was built as the Palace of Fine Arts for the World’s Columbian Exposition. This photograph documents the building’s construction, circa 1892. Photograph by C.D. Arnold. Chicago Public Library, C.D. Arnold Photographic Collection, Volume I, Plate 46c. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1604074119348-65O2443F9JHEMSMK4Y2I/Palace-Fine-Arts-finished.jpg Blog - From Swamps to Parks: Building Chicago’s Public Spaces Finished Palace of Fine Arts, 1893. Photograph by C.D. Arnold. Chicago Public Library, C.D. Arnold Photographic Collection, Volume III, Plate 42. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1604074290867-2KOGC57JK6IBJC0ZU0EI/Palace-Fine-Arts-detail.jpg Blog - From Swamps to Parks: Building Chicago’s Public Spaces Old Palace of Fine Arts, showing Caryatid detail, 1935. Chicago Public Library, Chicago Park District Photograph 046_023_015. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1604075943586-MBQIIMMWVFA8FFZB21R0/Museum-Science-Industry-completed.jpg Blog - From Swamps to Parks: Building Chicago’s Public Spaces Aerial view of completed Museum of Science and Industry, ca. 1933. Chicago Park District Records: Special Collections, Chicago Public Library, Photograph. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1604076146697-2FKGP3EMM0RKAAIP0NO4/Museum-Science-Industry-chicks.jpg Blog - From Swamps to Parks: Building Chicago’s Public Spaces The Museum of Science and Industry’s baby chicks exhibit was a popular attraction from the mid-1950s to the late 1990s, when it was moved to Lincoln Park’s Farm in the Zoo, ca. 1970. Chicago Park District Records: Special Collections, Chicago Public Library, Photograph 046_024_001. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1604073342863-QCQQYJRJGJRVWYRZTMXQ/Chicago-Public-Library-Special-Collections.jpg Blog - From Swamps to Parks: Building Chicago’s Public Spaces Left: Chicago Public Library’s Special Collections Reading Room. Right: One of the many storage cabinets that house the Chicago Park District collection behind the scenes at Harold Washington Library. Photos courtesy of Chicago Public Library. https://www.jbachrach.com/blog/2020/9/29/promontory-point-a-lovely-lakefront-landscape monthly 0.5 2020-10-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1601390194376-J7MZ77Q62FFBCA483706/lake-front-1909-plan.jpg Blog - Promontory Point: A Lovely Lakefront Landscape Burnham’s vision for a linear park along the lakefront between Grant and Jackson Parks included a peninsula at its south end. Plan of Chicago, 1909, Plate L. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1601389996005-VO6AEELLHNHV1XH3RQK6/Burnham+portrait.jpg Blog - Promontory Point: A Lovely Lakefront Landscape Portrait of Daniel Hudson Burnham. Art Institute of Chicago. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1601389865263-ZZ9VC6USAXDC57BK8ZQU/Promontory-Point-under-const.jpg Blog - Promontory Point: A Lovely Lakefront Landscape Aerial view of filling operations to create Promontory Point in Burnham Park, ca. 1930. Chicago Park District Records: Photographs, Special Collections, Chicago Public Library. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1601390830212-XYFL8Y17X4D3NYPG3B12/Promontory-Point-Sunday.jpg Blog - Promontory Point: A Lovely Lakefront Landscape Sunday at the Point. Photo by Marc Monaghan. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1601389277580-7ZC2VFD88OAY7CDC2P9A/Promontory-Point.jpg Blog - Promontory Point: A Lovely Lakefront Landscape Promontory Point in autumn. Photo by Marc Monaghan. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1601389422994-E3IXHKXUOTPXXTOI965T/Promontory-Point-aerial.jpg Blog - Promontory Point: A Lovely Lakefront Landscape Aerial View of Promontory Point looking southwest, ca. 1940. Chicago Park District Records: Photographs, Special Collections, Chicago Public Library. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1601390608504-U0RCW38LWHRM34U9Y8GE/original-bench.jpg Blog - Promontory Point: A Lovely Lakefront Landscape Original hexagonal bench and path in Promontory Point. Chicago Park District Records: Photographs, Special Collections, Chicago Public Library. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1601390329782-PESCWK7B9C63RWQQ6HOZ/Century-of-Progress-aerial.jpg Blog - Promontory Point: A Lovely Lakefront Landscape Aerial view of A Century of Progress, 1934, Chicago Park District Records: Photographs, Special Collections, Chicago Public Library. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1601389922483-HQMF7HWDNXI618JAKN3B/Promontory-Point-view-from-step-stones.jpg Blog - Promontory Point: A Lovely Lakefront Landscape View of Promontory Point from its Step Stone edge, 1940. Chicago Park District Records: Photographs, Special Collections, Chicago Public Library. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1601390694679-SDBP7XSSSKW0E4UGKHCV/PromontoryPointHistoricDistrict_0013.jpg Blog - Promontory Point: A Lovely Lakefront Landscape One of four council rings created in 1989 when Caldwell consulted on landscape improvements, 2017. Photo by Julia Bachrach. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1601390409668-FM6UCIH1PHFJK9PJD7FL/Promontory-Point-pavilion.jpg Blog - Promontory Point: A Lovely Lakefront Landscape Promontory Point Pavilion, 2017. Photo by Julia Bachrach. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1601390979280-BKNTDUVPBCK5DN18E5XG/Fathers-Day-At-The-Point.jpg Blog - Promontory Point: A Lovely Lakefront Landscape Family on step-stone revetments at Promontory Point. Photo by Marc Monaghan. https://www.jbachrach.com/blog/2020/8/28/anna-baird-early-20th-century-developer-and-builder-of-apartments-in-chicago monthly 0.5 2020-09-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1598888435530-4K7LC04C94CHILN4UATE/bank.jpg Blog - Anna Baird: Early 20th Century Developer and Builder of High-Grade Apartments in Chicago Woodlawn Trust and Savings Bank (Ingalls Stone Company advertisement). Chicago Architectural Sketch Club, 1924, p. 262, Ryerson and Burnham Libraries, The Art Institute of Chicago. Digital file # casc.1924_150. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1598643580777-Z82Z6JPJ7F9WLSHZWHJY/6-flat.jpg Blog - Anna Baird: Early 20th Century Developer and Builder of High-Grade Apartments in Chicago Anna Baird erected these three 6-flats on the 6800 block of S. Cornell Avenue in 1915. Photo by Julia Bachrach. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1598644222996-U865AMBVZJ0SGI8QW8TX/Baird-Woodlawn-Ave-home.jpg Blog - Anna Baird: Early 20th Century Developer and Builder of High-Grade Apartments in Chicago Anna Baird owned, lived, and worked in this three-flat at 6541 S. Woodlawn Avenue for more than two decades, Photo by Julia Bachrach. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1598642799908-DBTNGV5IN8A4CTEW8XAU/12-flat.jpg Blog - Anna Baird: Early 20th Century Developer and Builder of High-Grade Apartments in Chicago Anna Baird developed this 12-flat at 1500 E. 69th Place in 1917. Photo by Julia Bachrach. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1598643305692-IO61PG3SGXPURW7MYKVP/Baird-Woodlawn.jpg Blog - Anna Baird: Early 20th Century Developer and Builder of High-Grade Apartments in Chicago This building at 6634 S. Woodlawn Avenue was one of many three-flats developed by Anna Baird. Photo by Julia Bachrach. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1598645717459-0RZCU1U7QOGDQ7030LJL/Baird-quote.jpg Blog - Anna Baird: Early 20th Century Developer and Builder of High-Grade Apartments in Chicago “A Woman Always,” Champaign Daily Gazette, January 29, 1919. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1598644510235-J7MVK7DWW15GSRVQVV8X/headline.gif Blog - Anna Baird: Early 20th Century Developer and Builder of High-Grade Apartments in Chicago “Kills Children and Self With Police Pistol, Chicago Tribune, January 16, 1916. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1598642819684-RZTZ6S2GPKUK8IWQNY57/Baird-portrait.jpg Blog - Anna Baird: Early 20th Century Developer and Builder of High-Grade Apartments in Chicago Photo of Anna Baird, “A Composite Woman,” American Lumberman, November 27, 1920. The article describes the businesswoman as a “brunette with snappy brown eyes.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1598646292769-Y4CK844NNBMSEZDW94WR/Columbian-Exposition-Transportation-Building-under-construction.jpg Blog - Anna Baird: Early 20th Century Developer and Builder of High-Grade Apartments in Chicago World’s Columbian Exposition Transportation Building under construction, 1892, Chicago Public Library, Special Collections, WCE CDA 1.58. Photograph by C.D. Arnold. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1598646098526-G55MCJHUNHB8FYSX32AZ/Baird-passport.jpg Blog - Anna Baird: Early 20th Century Developer and Builder of High-Grade Apartments in Chicago Anna Baird’s passport photograph, 1922. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1598645555821-5IYHPZTADD8Z3VW6M1LM/Oglesby.jpg Blog - Anna Baird: Early 20th Century Developer and Builder of High-Grade Apartments in Chicago Top- Photo of apartments built by Anna Baird, American Lumberman, November 27, 1920. Bottom- Anna Baird developed this apartment building at 6936 S. Oglesby Street in 1917. Photo by Julia Bachrach. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1598643401862-3PWTVXJCZIXYQ29N3XI4/brickwork.jpg Blog - Anna Baird: Early 20th Century Developer and Builder of High-Grade Apartments in Chicago Close-up of brickwork on apartment structure at 6396 S. Oglesby Avenue designed by Lund and developed by Baird. Photo by Julia Bachrach. https://www.jbachrach.com/blog/2020/7/30/a-cough-drop-magnate-and-a-modern-architectnbsp-morris-n-fox-and-john-v-mcpherson monthly 0.5 2020-08-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1596231563288-QBQAX67XKPUU0DQQ1TQU/McPherson-ONeil-House.jpg Blog - Cough Drop Magnate and Modern Architect: Morris N. Fox and John V. McPherson Top: Interior view of O’Neil House, Hammond Times, May 18, 1965. Bottom: Interior view of same space today. Photo courtesy of David Carter. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1596135936471-485F8MZRHXSVDKN3DCUM/Move-to-Chicago-1936.jpg Blog - Cough Drop Magnate and Modern Architect: Morris N. Fox and John V. McPherson “Sugar Too High, Moves,” Nebraska State Journal, April 9, 1936. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1596136738329-9UV65G9WI4G12Z4229FA/Keck-Keck-Gottschalk.jpg Blog - Cough Drop Magnate and Modern Architect: Morris N. Fox and John V. McPherson Left- Front entryway of the Keck, Keck, and Gottschalk cooperative building in Hyde Park, Right-West façade of same building. Photos by Julia Bachrach. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1596137310825-GGDF25UDNL655PG2LX02/McPherson-Helen-Stark-House.jpg Blog - Cough Drop Magnate and Modern Architect: Morris N. Fox and John V. McPherson Built using his modular system, McPherson’s Helen Stark House in Highland Park, Illinois, received attention from the Tribune in 1954. Photo courtesy of James Jagel. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1596137171432-XREKL8PTFCHP4TA1G2SF/McPherson-Floosmoor.jpg Blog - Cough Drop Magnate and Modern Architect: Morris N. Fox and John V. McPherson This 1952 McPherson-designed house in Flossmoor, Illinois recently sold. Photo courtesy of Scott Mehaffey. (Additional photos can be seen from a recent real estate listing.) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1596135626229-1RNMMXXAFZV1TOT1D7VS/F-F-Cough-lozenges.jpg Blog - Cough Drop Magnate and Modern Architect: Morris N. Fox and John V. McPherson F & F Throat Lozenges, ca. 1940. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1596136875734-YDNSWLVCSJIUKX6ODX1I/South-McPherson-3-flat.jpg Blog - Cough Drop Magnate and Modern Architect: Morris N. Fox and John V. McPherson Fox residence’s south façade and adjacent yard/garden. Photo by Julia Bachrach. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1596137997739-CAO9PWMHC5ULABNB2OTV/McPherson-ONeil-exterior.jpg Blog - Cough Drop Magnate and Modern Architect: Morris N. Fox and John V. McPherson Exterior of the O’Neil House, Munster, Indiana. Photo courtesy of David Carter. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1596135262322-1HROQBUXIL4XT7BVS3LT/McPherson-3-flat.jpg Blog - Cough Drop Magnate and Modern Architect: Morris N. Fox and John V. McPherson Morris N. Fox commissioned architect John V. McPherson to design this 1941 three-flat at 6700 S. Bennett Avenue. Photo by Julia Bachrach. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1596135445080-E1K6K1D26363R32VSVPN/Olympia-Fields-House-2.jpg Blog - Cough Drop Magnate and Modern Architect: Morris N. Fox and John V. McPherson John McPherson designed this house in Olympia Fields, Illinois, in the early 1950s. Photo courtesy of Scott Mehaffey. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1596136315685-LLIQBO5XC5292VLETMEI/Entryway-Mcpherson-3-flat.jpg Blog - Cough Drop Magnate and Modern Architect: Morris N. Fox and John V. McPherson Close-up of front entryway to Morris N. Fox low-rise. Photo by Julia Bachrach. https://www.jbachrach.com/blog/2020/6/29/a-woman-worth-remembering-mrs-anna-walker monthly 0.5 2020-07-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1593454979586-Y5E547VQ6U2Z4YUZK1MX/Union_Park_Orchestra.jpg Blog - A Woman Worth Remembering: Mrs. Anna Walker Mrs. Anna Walker is depicted here as the conductor of the Union Park Orchestra, ca. 1935. Chicago Park District Records: Photographs, Special Collections, Chicago Public Library. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1593455687593-85R9MQ76882WOYHSGJ6O/Census-tracts-of-Chicago-1934.jpg Blog - A Woman Worth Remembering: Mrs. Anna Walker Anna Walker’s neighborhood is shown as a dark-shaded rectangle west of downtown in “Census Tracts of Chicago 1934: Percent Total Population Negro,” From The Tenements of Chicago 1908-1935 by Edith Abbott. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1593468987476-51PNIQWOQ0JD12KLYJJ5/On_Our_Broadway.jpg Blog - A Woman Worth Remembering: Mrs. Anna Walker “On Our Broadway,” Chicago Park District Recreation News, Volume III, No. 10, October 1939. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1593467875578-74R6HEY0XL9FY0H1V5OZ/Union_Park_pool2.jpg Blog - A Woman Worth Remembering: Mrs. Anna Walker Union Park Swimming Pool and Natatorium, ca. 1920. Chicago Park District Records: Photographs, Special Collections, Chicago Public Library. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1593455402784-QZWB71A7Q23B6XCGBAWW/Presbyterianism.jpg Blog - A Woman Worth Remembering: Mrs. Anna Walker The Pittsburgh Daily Post ran this article about Presbyterianism and the Negro on March 1, 1909 shortly, after Rev. J.G. Walker published the pamphlet. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1593533619641-8EE8PEG8L6GFHRFWU2PH/theatrical_production.jpg Blog - A Woman Worth Remembering: Mrs. Anna Walker Theatrical production at Union Park, ca. 1950. Chicago Park District Records: Photographs, Special Collections, Chicago Public Library. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1593468183502-E0S2O496UEP42MYKQLX0/Union_Park_fieldhouse.jpg Blog - A Woman Worth Remembering: Mrs. Anna Walker The old West Park System office building was remodeled into a much-needed field house for Union Park, ca. 1935. Chicago Park District Records: Photographs, Special Collections, Chicago Public Library. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1593468420417-HHI0AT8W2XO4IKBWKUSI/Joe_Louis.jpg Blog - A Woman Worth Remembering: Mrs. Anna Walker Heavyweight Boxing Champion Joe Louis visited the staff of Union Park. Mrs. Anna Walker is depicted on his right side, ca. 1938. Chicago Park District Records: Photographs, Special Collections, Chicago Public Library. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1593533314752-JZI2AOOT5IRWO2T503W4/music_festival.jpg Blog - A Woman Worth Remembering: Mrs. Anna Walker Program for West Chicagoland Music Festival. Courtesy of the Griffin family. https://www.jbachrach.com/blog/2020/5/29/boon-or-boondoggle-wpa-put-craftsmen-to-work-in-chicagos-parks monthly 0.5 2020-06-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1590789746441-U1OYAPT47XZ6WJAJV4FD/Washington-Park-WPA-revised.jpg Blog - Boon or Boondoggle?: WPA Crafts Workers in Chicago’s Parks WPA workers building sidewalks in Washington Park, ca. 1938. Chicago Park District Records: Photographs, Special Collections, Chicago Public Library. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1590763185079-34QXTT5S8LJZ5JEH15AC/toy-elephant.jpg Blog - Boon or Boondoggle?: WPA Crafts Workers in Chicago’s Parks These wooden elephants were part of a zoo toy set made by WPA workers during the Depression. Photo courtesy of Special Collections, Chicago Public Library. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1590764441282-E6NT5BDOC7O4YF8WOF0W/model-airplanes-CPD.jpg Blog - Boon or Boondoggle?: WPA Crafts Workers in Chicago’s Parks The CPD Recreation Division published booklets to train instructors to teach programs such as model airplane building, ca. 1936. Courtesy of Special Collections, Chicago Public Library. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1590765609562-Z6B979SNDM2I7LQKJBJ1/toy-lending-library.jpg Blog - Boon or Boondoggle?: WPA Crafts Workers in Chicago’s Parks Children playing in the toy lending library, Chicago Park District Records: Photographs, Special Collections, Chicago Public Library. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1590764013406-JD2KG92A2587YWOI5RGI/archery-lesson.jpg Blog - Boon or Boondoggle?: WPA Crafts Workers in Chicago’s Parks Chief Whirling Thunder teaching a woman how to shoot with a bow and arrow, 1947. Chicago Park District Records: Photographs, Special Collections, Chicago Public Library. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1590764236496-9T524NNC443XU17XPOYQ/dinghy.jpg Blog - Boon or Boondoggle?: WPA Crafts Workers in Chicago’s Parks Boys making their own Rainbow Fleet dinghy, ca. 1938. Chicago Park District Records: Photographs, Special Collections, Chicago Public Library. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1590763687604-FEZXASDL0SUK8WT4VAZI/instructors-birdhouses.jpg Blog - Boon or Boondoggle?: WPA Crafts Workers in Chicago’s Parks Instructors from South Side parks attended a workshop so that they could teach birdhouse-making, ca. 1935. Chicago Park District Records: Photographs, Special Collections, Chicago Public Library. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1590763911913-11QGSDHYLK5SZM0C8F1M/archery-making-gear.jpg Blog - Boon or Boondoggle?: WPA Crafts Workers in Chicago’s Parks Park patrons making archery gear, ca. 1938. Chicago Park District Records: Photographs, Special Collections, Chicago Public Library. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1590765404964-HSAM2AYX9IXU4GPQ1VCC/toy-lending.jpg Blog - Boon or Boondoggle?: WPA Crafts Workers in Chicago’s Parks Left: These toys made by WPA workers through the “toy lending” program. Right: Every toy had a WPA stamp. Photo courtesy of Special Collections, Chicago Public Library. https://www.jbachrach.com/blog/2020/4/29/growing-together-chicagos-longstanding-tradition-of-community-gardening monthly 0.5 2020-05-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1588177991770-AGXVWPRRTNATDKYH568R/Wading-Pool.jpg Blog - Growing Together: Chicago’s Community Gardening Tradition Jensen’s improvements to Humboldt Park included this Japanese-style shelter and children’s wading pool, ca. 1910. Chicago Park District Records: Photographs, Special Collections, Chicago Public Library. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1588178448957-0CWYE8VGI2IXYXZ7UUV7/Cornell-Eckhart.jpg Blog - Growing Together: Chicago’s Community Gardening Tradition Top: Cornell Square was one of the original South Side neighborhood parks designed by the Olmsted Brothers and D.H. Burnham & Company, ca. 1905. Chicago Park District Records: Photographs, Special Collections, Chicago Public Library. Bottom: Aerial view of the Jensen-designed Eckhart Park, ca. 1910, from Annual Report of the West Park Commissioners. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1588177313561-098WCPEARPGT3P2GVBLM/Jensen.jpg Blog - Growing Together: Chicago’s Community Gardening Tradition Jens Jensen, ca. 1910. Courtesy of Morton Arboretum. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1588176835614-U2A7J3OLIOKQAOC1C4GA/Community-Garden-Abbott.jpg Blog - Growing Together: Chicago’s Community Gardening Tradition Child tending community garden in Abbott Park. Photo courtesy of Chicago Park District. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1588177925541-QK19L5P6Y4QH134GAEGW/Plea-fo-Playgrounds.gif Blog - Growing Together: Chicago’s Community Gardening Tradition A Plea for Playgrounds, Special Park Commission, 1905, p. 11. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1588191529651-LXZI1S8WUN4U4167E7BK/Senn-Unity-Garden.jpg Blog - Growing Together: Chicago’s Community Gardening Tradition Senn Unity Garden. Photo courtesy of Chicago Park District. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1588191057563-FWSOUDCM0OAHJVK8MZNQ/Jensen-park-system.jpg Blog - Growing Together: Chicago’s Community Gardening Tradition Jensen’s Plan for a Greater West Park System (1918), published 1920. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1588178651432-XN1FFOXZJW07979VKOU4/Children-Garden-Eckhart.jpg Blog - Growing Together: Chicago’s Community Gardening Tradition Children’s Gardens, Eckhart Park, Annual Report of the West Park Commissioners, 1915. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1588190882741-THWA84K5J1ZMIX25VTE3/Children-Garden-Harrison.jpg Blog - Growing Together: Chicago’s Community Gardening Tradition Left: “’Kiddies Cut Living Cost,” Chicago Tribune, August 29, 1914. Right: Harrison Park children’s garden, ca. 1918. Chicago Park District Records: Photographs, Special Collections, Chicago Public Library. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1588191329194-DE3L93PBY1ZE3ERTGI6C/Market-Garden.gif Blog - Growing Together: Chicago’s Community Gardening Tradition Proposed Community Market Garden Adjoining Park Site, Plan for a Greater West Park System (1918), published 1920. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1588177198485-4O8RZ7THF775VVROG6CP/Community-Garden-Dvorak.jpg Blog - Growing Together: Chicago’s Community Gardening Tradition Children’s Garden in Dvorak Park, ca. 1910. Chicago Park District Records: Photographs, Special Collections, Chicago Public Library. https://www.jbachrach.com/blog/2020/3/30/ef9sydft52zg8rat1o72k93un0jawa monthly 0.5 2020-04-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1585583880069-BQD3SBFUWACBGR1POI5I/wedding-announcement-2nd.jpg Blog - The Marvelous Mrs. Emily Ryerson “Private Wedding Ceremony for Mrs. Ryerson,” Chicago Tribune, December 11, 1927, p. 18. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1585582315971-X59QVP4QVLMGBK835L19/Lakeview-Ave-entry.jpg Blog - The Marvelous Mrs. Emily Ryerson Entryway of Emily Ryerson’s row house at 2700 N. Lakeview Avenue. Photo by Julia Bachrach. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1585595256432-H2C0B2BDBK4DTRRIM391/wedding-announcement-1st.jpg Blog - The Marvelous Mrs. Emily Ryerson “Cupid Smiles on Them: Wedding of Miss Borie and Mr. Ryerson of Chicago,” Philadelphia Inquirer, February 1, 1889, p. 3. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1585594915327-LUHIR8MXSAC1F446BWXV/Lakeview-Ave-entry2.jpg Blog - The Marvelous Mrs. Emily Ryerson L: Main Façade, House of Henry Corwith Dangler, Architectural Forum, Volume 36, April, 1922, p. 138. R: Close up view of Dangler House at 2708 N. Lakeview. Photo by Julia Bachrach. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1585583568509-PRZXRC511REAJLPG87D1/Lakeview-Ave-lookingsouth.jpg Blog - The Marvelous Mrs. Emily Ryerson View of Row Houses looking south from 2704 N. Lakeview Avenue. Photo by Julia Bachrach. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1585581147112-XURRMDOCAQEMLX38RE6H/portraitEmilyRyerson.jpg Blog - The Marvelous Mrs. Emily Ryerson Emily (née Borie) Ryerson. Photo from United States Passport Application. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1585581876107-6AEUS5SELNQC2LKDZ1UK/Titanic.jpg Blog - The Marvelous Mrs. Emily Ryerson RMS Titanic, 1912. Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1585582511238-11JYNIUJE43CFYAW3XA1/row-houses.jpg Blog - The Marvelous Mrs. Emily Ryerson Lakeview Row Houses from “Domestic Architecture of Henry Corwith Dangler, Architect, “Architectural Forum, Volume 36, April, 1922, p. 137. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1585580844222-TBT5744WGB0U7BHVUT3N/Lakeview-Ave.jpg Blog - The Marvelous Mrs. Emily Ryerson In 1917, Mrs. Emily Ryerson and several prominent friends built the 2700-2710 N. Lakeview Avenue row houses as their own homes. Photo by Julia Bachrach. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1585583332248-DGBF1PFEOYFZWVS2VDN8/kits-of-comfortI.jpg Blog - The Marvelous Mrs. Emily Ryerson “Kits of Comfort for French Troopers in the Trenches,” Chicago Tribune, February 16, 1915, p. 3. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1585581714202-FJB4W0AKTW5HW89C2CH9/StJamesCathedral.jpg Blog - The Marvelous Mrs. Emily Ryerson https://www.jbachrach.com/blog/2020/2/26/how-things-have-changed-the-history-of-winter-sports-in-chicagos-parks monthly 0.5 2020-03-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1582751528067-4EZ56IWKSKHZHOB3MO39/Mardi-Gras-ice-skating-participants.jpg Blog - How Things Have Changed: The History of Winter Sports in Chicago’s Parks Chicago Daily News Mardi Gras Ice Skating Carnival in Garfield Park, 1929. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1582748472650-ZX2YH6WCI6CA5ABRG962/skating-tribune.gif Blog - How Things Have Changed: The History of Winter Sports in Chicago’s Parks “Sports of Winter,” Chicago Tribune, January 8, 1888. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1582748151766-2LJQTJ3T5E1ZY30VSN64/contemporary-skating.jpg Blog - How Things Have Changed: The History of Winter Sports in Chicago’s Parks Ice skaters on the Midway Plaisance Rink. Photo by David Silverman. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1582752118617-AI300T8BBY7TER1PF881/zamboni.jpg Blog - How Things Have Changed: The History of Winter Sports in Chicago’s Parks Zamboni grooming the ice on the Midway Plaisance rink. Photo by David Silverman. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1582748740124-78JIT5Y8HM0Y7RYND2Q1/skating-outdoor.jpg Blog - How Things Have Changed: The History of Winter Sports in Chicago’s Parks Skating in Lincoln Park, ca. 1900. Chicago Public Library Special Collections, Chicago Park District Archives, Photos. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1582748920702-LWFC3QAS77OF8Y5HSBW9/curling-postcard.jpg Blog - How Things Have Changed: The History of Winter Sports in Chicago’s Parks Curling in Washington Park, ca. 1900. Post card. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1582750229156-AZ09ZH0DQXES21V0OS33/silver-skates-competition.jpg Blog - How Things Have Changed: The History of Winter Sports in Chicago’s Parks Silver Skates Competition in Humboldt Park, 1917. Chicago Public Library Special Collections, Chicago Park District Archives, Photos. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1582751367470-76JWUKF5RY4339R3XQGL/Mardi-Gras-ice-skating-participant.jpg Blog - How Things Have Changed: The History of Winter Sports in Chicago’s Parks Participant in the Chicago Daily News Mardi Gras Ice Skating Carnival, 1929. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1582749295662-2F2VDQSGJMUZ0WI1JF1D/toboggan.jpg Blog - How Things Have Changed: The History of Winter Sports in Chicago’s Parks Boys sledding on the Midway Plaisance toboggan slide, 1906. Courtesy of Chicago History Museum, DN-0004461 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1582752004282-6ACXS30CKTTWK1HS8GVW/father-daughter-skating.jpg Blog - How Things Have Changed: The History of Winter Sports in Chicago’s Parks Father, daughter, and dog on Midway Plaisance, 1992. University of Chicago Photographic Archive, apf7-05698. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1582749906910-6KH1DFDEI7CRTVKGAFF6/skating-races.jpg Blog - How Things Have Changed: The History of Winter Sports in Chicago’s Parks Skating Races at Wrightwood Playground, Annual Report of the Special Park Commission for the Year Ending 1913 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1582749656622-CV374ZC9SYG2XHV3SDPC/ski-slide.jpg Blog - How Things Have Changed: The History of Winter Sports in Chicago’s Parks Ski Slide in Humboldt Park, 1907. Chicago Public Library Special Collections, Chicago Park District Archives, Photos. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1582751809825-E0CLYIYI4KXZO9790SD5/skating-ideal-weather.jpg Blog - How Things Have Changed: The History of Winter Sports in Chicago’s Parks “Ideal Skating Weather Draws Crowd of 5,000 to Midway Plaisance,” Chicago Tribune, December 27, 1926. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1582750444828-NXWS3OAYWH1NZQXNC4U8/silver-skates-competition-Garfield.jpg Blog - How Things Have Changed: The History of Winter Sports in Chicago’s Parks Silver Skates Competition in Garfield Park, 1937. Chicago Public Library Special Collections, Chicago Park District Archives, Photos. https://www.jbachrach.com/blog/2020/1/30/dr-max-thorek-a-remarkable-chicagoan monthly 0.5 2020-02-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1580424029408-GVIDDKIFZR6AER1I4A5W/paperweight.jpg Blog - Dr. Max Thorek: A Remarkable Chicagoan Bronze paperweight honoring Dr. Thorek’s founding of the International College of Surgeons, 1948. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1580416545067-LAE4HD8CVDQX9V1EVJWM/Thorek-hospital.jpg Blog - Dr. Max Thorek: A Remarkable Chicagoan Thorek Hospital, 850 W. Irving Park Road. Courtesy of Thorek Memorial Hospital. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1580418141656-ZMQPPCABYQB3CQJHANDS/American-Hospital.jpg Blog - Dr. Max Thorek: A Remarkable Chicagoan American Hospital opened in 1917 at 850 W. Irving Park Road. From History of Medicine and Surgery in Chicago, 1922. (The facility was later rebuilt and renamed Thorek Memorial Hospital.) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1580423630689-NRRWIVSSGMSJMJZ721IR/Lake-Shore-Towers.jpg Blog - Dr. Max Thorek: A Remarkable Chicagoan Left: Lake Shore Towers at 3920 N. Lake Shore Drive. Photo by Julia Bachrach. Right: “Display Ad,” Chicago Tribune, March 24, 1928. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1580423854725-YE1N7B1UEEI9L62H65HJ/writ.gif Blog - Dr. Max Thorek: A Remarkable Chicagoan “Dr. Thorek Granted Writ in Fight Over Co-op Flat,” Chicago Tribune, June 6, 1930. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1580418316326-RPAPK1ILWA6W1FO1Q480/Houdini.jpg Blog - Dr. Max Thorek: A Remarkable Chicagoan Harry Houdini, ca. 1905. 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(Note: Although this photograph is undated, I think the snare drum player must be Max Thorek!) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1580417518090-8M4J1TF00VLT1NSGNWZC/passport.jpg Blog - Dr. Max Thorek: A Remarkable Chicagoan Max Thorek’s Application for Renewal of Passport includes a photograph of all three members of the Thorek family, 1921. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1580416984673-ZHMTDN8YN0UPV1L5NNEB/Thorek-birthday.jpg Blog - Dr. Max Thorek: A Remarkable Chicagoan “Today’s Birthday: Dr. Max Thorek,” The Ithaca Journal, March 10, 1952. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1580417918053-2OE2WAHD5LL16JQFK6P4/Hospital-for-Theater-folk-1914.jpg Blog - Dr. Max Thorek: A Remarkable Chicagoan “Plan $200,000 Hospital for Theatrical Folk,” Chicago Tribune, February 4, 1914. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1580424309120-9TCHKSAU7X5IIIPN5YZQ/Thorek-book.jpg Blog - Dr. Max Thorek: A Remarkable Chicagoan Max Thorek’s book Camera Art as a Means of Self-Expression was published in 1947. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1580416299486-TCECM080CT6J5JTH44HV/Thorek.jpg Blog - Dr. Max Thorek: A Remarkable Chicagoan Dr. Max Thorek. From Official Reference Book of Press Club of Chicago, 1922. https://www.jbachrach.com/blog/2020/1/3/chicagos-apartment-hotels-of-the-roaring-twenties monthly 0.5 2020-01-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1578166835335-QLJJ8AYRSIMUVN11YNF5/Palais-Brompton.jpg Blog - Chicago’s Apartment Hotels of the Roaring Twenties Left: “Display Ad for Palais Brompton Bonds,” Chicago Tribune, December 10, 1922, p. A16. Right: The Palais Brompton is now the Majestic Hotel. Photo by Julia Bachrach. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1578092623440-CL0MFJXIF1GMQ8F01TWT/Belden-Stratford-hist2.jpg Blog - Chicago’s Apartment Hotels of the Roaring Twenties The Belden Stratford fronts directly onto Lincoln Park. Chicago History Museum Hedrich-Blessing Collection, 1939, HB-O5472-B. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1578091939400-ON5H9SAC6PE1TW5BQ14A/Park-Lawn.jpg Blog - Chicago’s Apartment Hotels of the Roaring Twenties The Park Lawn Apartment Hotel was built at 1819 N. Humboldt Boulevard directly across Humboldt Park in the late 1920s. Photo by Julia Bachrach. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1578248508150-LQLRQKYSQNFGJ9K8C6CN/Eastwood-Beach-ad-contemporary.jpg Blog - Chicago’s Apartment Hotels of the Roaring Twenties Left: “Display Ad for Eastwood Beach Apartments” Chicago Tribune, March 12, 1925, p. 13. Right: Eastwood by the Lake, 811 W. EastwoodAvenue. Photo by Julia Bachrach. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1578165116976-KH24BV4ZE7FWKSBWEGK1/Palais-Brompton-doorway.jpg Blog - Chicago’s Apartment Hotels of the Roaring Twenties Close-up view of Palais Brompton (now Majestic Hotel). Photo by Julia Bachrach. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1578168660664-YKMO7W0G1R4JRZGSO0AP/Windermere.jpg Blog - Chicago’s Apartment Hotels of the Roaring Twenties Windermere Hotel, 1642 E. 56th Street. Photo courtesy of Antonio Vernon. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1578168094918-HWPHE7JBK2FTEGB9JF5E/Beldmont-Hotel-2.jpg Blog - Chicago’s Apartment Hotels of the Roaring Twenties “Display Ad for Belmont Hotel,” Chicago Tribune, April 6, 1924, p. 12. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1578250910030-B0VTKYDDYQQJ7WV0F35I/Belden-Stratford-2.jpg Blog - Chicago’s Apartment Hotels of the Roaring Twenties The Belden Stratford was among Chicago’s many lavish apartment hotels of the 1920s. Photo by Julia Bachrach. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1578164497899-9L31SKKPQJ9U9E3LWXHL/Sheridan-Plaza.jpg Blog - Chicago’s Apartment Hotels of the Roaring Twenties Sheridan Plaza, 4607 N. Sheridan Road. Photo by Julia Bachrach https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1578248614768-T3SDGWR546XY06BHWT6E/Eastwood-Beach-historic.jpg Blog - Chicago’s Apartment Hotels of the Roaring Twenties Eastwood Beach Apartment Hotel from Modern Apartment Hotels Thruout [sic] United States by Robert Carroll Cash, 1917. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1578166965976-9JBQ98QMZA68005B1AVE/Annabelle.jpg Blog - Chicago’s Apartment Hotels of the Roaring Twenties The apartment hotel at 661 W. Sheridan Road is now called Anabelle Apartments. Photo by Julia Bachrach. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1578167815379-EF50VDTL5RJ3JQHXGEPN/Beldmont-Hotel-1.jpg Blog - Chicago’s Apartment Hotels of the Roaring Twenties Belmont Hotel, 3170 N. Sheridan Road. Photo by Julia Bachrach. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1578167621624-ZJ74AXTXVKRSLA025L53/Belden-Stratford-1.jpg Blog - Chicago’s Apartment Hotels of the Roaring Twenties Belden Stratford, 2300 N. Lincoln Park West. Photo by Julia Bachrach. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1578169209523-ZE6CVUIW13YKIO3LH1ET/Guyon-Ballroom.jpg Blog - Chicago’s Apartment Hotels of the Roaring Twenties “Display Ad for Guyon’s Paradise Ballroom,” Chicago Tribune, October 9, 1927, p. W3. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1578164810220-JIOFV3GDZIJ1RH1HBN67/Sheridan-Plaza-text.jpg Blog - Chicago’s Apartment Hotels of the Roaring Twenties “Classified Ad,” Chicago Tribune, April 3, 1921, p. 94. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1578168866822-Z4D7J9JS7CFI8ZEUKYDO/Guyon.jpg Blog - Chicago’s Apartment Hotels of the Roaring Twenties Guyon Hotel, 4000 W. Washington Street. Photo by Julia Bachrach. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1578092145630-2WRTUSEXD9SUK6YQI6BV/women-beach.jpg Blog - Chicago’s Apartment Hotels of the Roaring Twenties Two Women Playing Beach Ball at Clarendon Beach in the Uptown Community, 1916. Chicago History Museum, DN0066757. https://www.jbachrach.com/blog/2019/11/26/chicagos-apartment-hotels-of-the-1910s monthly 0.5 2020-01-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1574803558899-IGU3LXQ336SSAJWM3GHZ/beds.jpg Blog - Chicago’s Apartment Hotels of the 1910s “The Apartment Hotel— Its Primary Function,” Buildings and Building Management, May, 1919, p. 58. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1574799888854-GADJUZYIOQSLBME2KY2W/Surf-Apartments-Hotel.gif Blog - Chicago’s Apartment Hotels of the 1910s Display ad for the Surf Apartment Hotel, Chicago Tribune, April 14, 1918. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1574882725846-KEOHYYL06UB0RKNMMXZL/Kelshore-Entrance.jpg Blog - Chicago’s Apartment Hotels of the 1910s The 1915 Kellshore Apartment Hotel, 718-756 W. Irving Park Road. Photo by Julia Bachrach. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1574800085511-ZDG019HGVIHMA11M2KBN/Surf-Apartments-Hotel-SeniorHousing.gif Blog - Chicago’s Apartment Hotels of the 1910s The 1918 Surf Apartment Hotel at 501 W. Surf Street is now a senior housing facility known as Britton Budd Apartments. Photo by Julia Bachrach. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1574801815610-FXWIWILP4Z0RB1ASAWY2/Cambridge-Ad.jpg Blog - Chicago’s Apartment Hotels of the 1910s Classified advertisement for Cambridge Apartment Hotel, Chicago Tribune, August 5, 1917. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1574802874304-3WU37CUNRTX7GBZGEJQD/Kellshore.jpg Blog - Chicago’s Apartment Hotels of the 1910s Left: Kellshore Apartment Hotel from Modern Apartment Hotels Thruout [sic] United States by Robert Carroll Cash, 1917. Right: Kellshore Apartments Hotel, now called Irving Courts Apartments, 718-756 W. Irving Park Road. Photo by Julia Bachrach. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1574800544537-SNGXXARDWSIVX2F8EOB7/Bryson-modernday.jpg Blog - Chicago’s Apartment Hotels of the 1910s Bryson Apartment Hotel, 2701 Wilshire Boulevard, L.A. Courtesy of Wikicommons. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1574803849627-N4X9PBVUFYV93E7S2FN6/Cooper-Carlton.jpg Blog - Chicago’s Apartment Hotels of the 1910s The Cooper-Carlton Apartment Hotel, ca. 1920. Ryerson & Burnham Archives, Art Institute of Chicago. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1574803705533-06UM2RCLHDY8AN12FYUQ/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Chicago’s Apartment Hotels of the 1910s Cooper-Carlton Apartment Hotel, now Del Prado, 5307 S. Hyde Park Boulevard. Photo by Eric Allix Rogers. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1574799481712-0ROB7W4WG7ES0E18O8G2/Kellshore-Apts.jpg Blog - Chicago’s Apartment Hotels of the 1910s Kellshore Hotel entryway. Photo by Julia Bachrach https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1574800364212-A24CXSBEQ85E8C8RA3F0/Bryson.jpg Blog - Chicago’s Apartment Hotels of the 1910s The Bryson Apartments, Los Angeles. From “Apartment Hotels— Present and Future,” by Walter W. Ahlschlager, Hotel World, November 3, 1917. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1574802466781-COL1Y5GFD4NBY0FGLLNV/Cambridge-2.jpg Blog - Chicago’s Apartment Hotels of the 1910s Left: Cambridge Apartment Hotel from Modern Apartment Hotels Thruout [sic] United States, by Robert Carroll Cash, 1917. Right: Cambridge Apartment Hotel, 530 W. Diversey Parkway, designed by W.W. Ahlschlager. Photo by Julia Bachrach. https://www.jbachrach.com/blog/2019/10/31/michaelsen-amp-rognstad-architects-of-fanciful-jazz-age-buildings monthly 0.5 2020-01-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1572541159445-K0J3PH3EY37FBXU2OZUT/Garfield-Park-Dome-Building.jpg Blog - Michaelsen & Rognstad: Architects of Fanciful Jazz Age Buildings Garfield Park’s “Gold Dome Building,” ca. 1980, Chicago Park District Records: Photographs, Special Collections, Chicago Public Library. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1572538769456-0DIZJQVQSIDEPLYCF125/Michaelsen-Rognstad-facades.jpg Blog - Michaelsen & Rognstad: Architects of Fanciful Jazz Age Buildings Left: In 1922, Michaelsen & Rognstad created the existing façade for what is now a restaurant 535 N. Wells Street. Photo by Julia Bachrach. Right: The architects produced this commercial structure at 4705 S. Street for a realty firm in 1925. Photo by David Silverman. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1572549586923-ZIEDDAABBEA0TFTHAG4J/Humboldt-Park-Boat-House2.jpg Blog - Michaelsen & Rognstad: Architects of Fanciful Jazz Age Buildings Left: Humboldt Park Field House Rendering in Report of the West Chicago Parks on $10,000,000 Bond Issue, 1929. Right: Humboldt Park Field House, 2004. Photo courtesy of Chicago Park District. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1572541319206-ZMWF70XSZIAC7ZB6IH7A/Carter-Hotel.jpg Blog - Michaelsen & Rognstad: Architects of Fanciful Jazz Age Buildings The East 7th Street Hotel, now Carter Hotel, 1 E. Balbo Drive. Photo by Eric Allix Rogers. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1572536062772-9PKVDO5D3VBZOKFGL5A0/Garfield+Park+dome.jpg Blog - Michaelsen & Rognstad: Architects of Fanciful Jazz Age Buildings Garfield Park’s “Gold Dome Building” Photo by Julia Bachrach. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1572536405393-4T3TNQR1N2ZDN2GL3KKD/Michaelsen-home.jpg Blog - Michaelsen & Rognstad: Architects of Fanciful Jazz Age Buildings In 1919, Michaelsen designed this house at 6040 N. Northcott Ave. as a one-story home. Photo by Julia Bachrach. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1572539943281-VNB46Q5PCPEDDFPSWDQ9/Merchants-Association-Bldg.jpg Blog - Michaelsen & Rognstad: Architects of Fanciful Jazz Age Buildings On Leong Merchant’s Association Building, now Pui Tak Center, 2216 S. Wentworth Avenue. Photo by David Silverman. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1572548446384-ZE1W3NX35G6SGE5CZ3P7/Austin-Town-Hall-Fieldhouse.jpg Blog - Michaelsen & Rognstad: Architects of Fanciful Jazz Age Buildings Left: Independence Hall. Photo by Captain A.E. Theberge, NOAA Corps. Right: Austin Town Hall Field House, ca. 1935, Chicago Park District Records: Photographs, Special Collections, Chicago Public Library. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1572540066195-AZ6DLJAT8L064NMGOG9S/Won-Kow.jpg Blog - Michaelsen & Rognstad: Architects of Fanciful Jazz Age Buildings Won Kow, 2233-39 S. Wentworth. Photo by David Silverman. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1572540780637-FOGFXVE8FO27P1ODJ6U7/California-Bldg.jpg Blog - Michaelsen & Rognstad: Architects of Fanciful Jazz Age Buildings Goodhue’s California Building in Balboa Park. Photo by Bernard Gagnon. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1572540684675-3CVQDPM8L3XTVV3HAT8P/North-Side-Auditorium-Metro.jpg Blog - Michaelsen & Rognstad: Architects of Fanciful Jazz Age Buildings The historic North Side Auditorium is now Cabaret Metro, 3730 N. Clark Street. Photo by Julia Bachrach. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1572568702831-X1PGN2NGKAG9LNYD8H0W/China-architecture-details.jpg Blog - Michaelsen & Rognstad: Architects of Fanciful Jazz Age Buildings Ernst Boerschmann published photos of China in 1925 that inspired Michaelsen & Rognstad’s architectural designs in Chinatown. Left: End of Bridge in Summer Palace, Peking, from Picturesque China by Ernst Boerschmann. Right: Terra cotta dragon detail, On Leong Merchant’s Association. Photo by David Silverman. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1572537458271-8RH1A0UV0SYKC50UQWN7/Inland+bank.jpg Blog - Michaelsen & Rognstad: Architects of Fanciful Jazz Age Buildings Michaelsen & Rognstad’s 1922 Milwaukee Irving State Bank later became the Inland Bank. (Long sheathed by modern façades, the building was demolished in 2016.) Photo courtesy of Northwest Chicago Historical Society. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1572536851844-S7HJSCG3I7Y7OFY1VFUC/Michaelsen-Rognstad.jpg Blog - Michaelsen & Rognstad: Architects of Fanciful Jazz Age Buildings Christian S. Michaelsen is depicted on the left, and Sigurd A. Rognstad on the right. From Report of West Chicago Parks on $10,000,000 Bond Issue, 1929. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1572540319011-EC7H9TEVW1UANLNJT73D/Midwest-Athletic-Club.jpg Blog - Michaelsen & Rognstad: Architects of Fanciful Jazz Age Buildings The Midwest Athletic Club, 6 N. Hamlin Avenue, Chicago. Photo by Andrew Jameson. https://www.jbachrach.com/blog/2019/9/27/early-20th-century-women-architects-in-chicago monthly 0.5 2020-01-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1569603698878-KZ9SNVOF7611B09OKKME/Griffin-portrait.jpg Blog - Early 20th Century Women Architects in Chicago Marion Mahony Griffin, Photo courtesy of New-York Historical Society. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1569616940643-15BKFKOW53KIR93R2037/T-Square-Society.jpg Blog - Early 20th Century Women Architects in Chicago Members of the T-Square Society. (Bertha Yerex, Juliette Peddle, and Ruth Perkins are all depicted in this photograph.) Michiganensian, Volume 24, 1920, p. 665. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1569605661850-DNE1PIVBV3GV50GACQDK/Studio.jpg Blog - Early 20th Century Women Architects in Chicago Perkins, Fellows, & Hamilton Studio, 815 E. Tower Court, Chicago. Photo by Julia Bachrach. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1569606360193-QM6ZZOD7J3PC0B5RN95W/Christmas-scene.jpg Blog - Early 20th Century Women Architects in Chicago Christmas print depicting timber frame European home by Juliette Peddle, undated. Ball State University, Juliette Peddle Architectural Drawings. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1569606209679-QD9AGSQI1IJOYMUKIVPO/Lawrence-House.jpg Blog - Early 20th Century Women Architects in Chicago B.G. Lawrence House at 2710 Payne Street in Evanston. Photo by Julia Bachrach. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1569606556341-HLQI4AHFARRPVR479Q2B/Whitman-House-Payne.jpg Blog - Early 20th Century Women Architects in Chicago Bertha Y. Whitman-designed house at 2525 Payne Street, Evanston. Photo by Julia Bachrach. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1569605042573-WXGLB3GN6K6WTGNH4OW3/National-Real-Estate-Journal.jpg Blog - Early 20th Century Women Architects in Chicago Martini’s Plan for a Cottage in Englefield, National Real Estate Journal, 1917, p. 17. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1569615949984-3FD36E2T65Y08MUX8NKB/Martini-article.jpg Blog - Early 20th Century Women Architects in Chicago “How I Became and Architect,” by Elisabeth A. Martini, Life and Labor, Volume 8, 1918. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1569606010898-L8J3N96JDIJ1LC1T5KF4/Cottage.jpg Blog - Early 20th Century Women Architects in Chicago Whitman produced many single-family houses in Evanston including this lovely brick cottage at 1717 Harrison Street. Photo by Julia Bachrach. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1569605436773-N6J58D9OT2QWU1LPS3UX/St-Lukes-Lutheran-Church-rev.jpg Blog - Early 20th Century Women Architects in Chicago St. Luke’s Lutheran Church, Park Ridge, IL, designed by Elisabeth A. Martini. Photo by Julia Bachrach. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1569603411256-JRVVCCQN5EISNBN8Y1M8/Whitman-house.jpg Blog - Early 20th Century Women Architects in Chicago Bertha Yerex Whitman designed this fine single-family house, built in 1930 at 2430 Central Park Avenue in Evanston, Illinois. Photo by Julia Bachrach. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1569616178980-9R604WDWUY4GZX5709VD/Nedved-article-1931.gif Blog - Early 20th Century Women Architects in Chicago “Elizabeth Nedved New Head of Women’s Architectural Club,” Chicago Tribune, September 13, 1931, p. 26. https://www.jbachrach.com/blog/2019/8/30/swedish-architects-in-chicago-history monthly 0.5 2020-01-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1567345430839-U9HG2ACO1SYMV4C7OF98/Ebenezer-Lutheran-Church.jpg Blog - Swedish Immigrants in Chicago’s Architectural History Swedish immigrants founded Edgewater’s Ebenezer Lutheran Church and hired Andrew E. Norman to design their limestone-fronted edifice. Photo by Julia Bachrach. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1567183172580-R0UTQ3C6V1TRR1WRNBCF/Hallberg-red-brick.jpg Blog - Swedish Immigrants in Chicago’s Architectural History With red face brick and a mansard roof, even the rear façade of 1254 N. Lake Shore Drive is impressive. Photo by Julia Bachrach. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1567184921027-73M4W5K090YXJ3NBBV8F/Andrew-the-Ice-Skater.jpg Blog - Swedish Immigrants in Chicago’s Architectural History Andrew E. Norman, ca. 1885. Photograph courtesy of Chris Kale Corcoran. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1567182986687-9SSPVSAD0L98TZ5P4U9U/Mason-Brayman-Starring.jpg Blog - Swedish Immigrants in Chicago’s Architectural History L.G. Hallberg designed the Mason Brayman Starring mansion at 1254 N. Lake Shore Drive. Photo by Julia Bachrach. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1567186244524-BLLGX2U2G7WB3EZ35782/Lund.jpg Blog - Swedish Immigrants in Chicago’s Architectural History Lund-designed courtyard building at 6700-6710 S. Merrill Avenue. Photo by Julia Bachrach. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1567184220432-TYSMVK4NBTCF0VTVPFYM/Nyden-Swedish-Element.jpg Blog - Swedish Immigrants in Chicago’s Architectural History John A. Nyden, The Swedish Element in Illinois by Ernest W. Olson, 1917. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1567184786580-KEOYN9I4UJJBRCT63RP5/Swedish-Covenant.jpg Blog - Swedish Immigrants in Chicago’s Architectural History Nyden designed the Swedish Covenant Church in Edgewater. Photo by Jeff Reuben. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1567185726793-1LNBDBGDK51SA1QVXCXS/Norman-ClarkSt.jpg Blog - Swedish Immigrants in Chicago’s Architectural History Norman designed this building at 6318-6320 N. Clark St. in 1909 to house a saloon with flats above. Photo by Julia Bachrach. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1567185877978-78HU8VVZETIQSJ3VSFB4/Ebenezer-Church.jpg Blog - Swedish Immigrants in Chicago’s Architectural History Ebenezer Swedish Lutheran Church during construction, 1907. Photograph courtesy of Chris Kale Corcoran. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1567183567394-PJT4VYQD5FUW1XGPGF6N/3314LakeShoreDrive.jpg Blog - Swedish Immigrants in Chicago’s Architectural History L.G. Hallberg, Jr., produced this luxury apartment building at 3314 N. Lake Shore for businessman Charles B. Smith. Photo by Julia Bachrach. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1567183926509-GV2PVBOV0RFMW8LB09XC/Sandegren-apartments.jpg Blog - Swedish Immigrants in Chicago’s Architectural History Sandegren-designed apartments at 813-819 W. Buena Avenue. Photo by Julia Bachrach. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1567186031531-1J4L4XQNS4H5T4MT9P6J/Strandels.jpg Blog - Swedish Immigrants in Chicago’s Architectural History Strandel’s store and flats at 5357 N. Ashland. Photograph by Julia Bachrach. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1567183785972-FPUFCHKWA7HX1DX8UH41/Sandegren-Swedish-Element.jpg Blog - Swedish Immigrants in Chicago’s Architectural History Andrew Sandegren, The Swedish Element in Illinois by Ernest W. Olson, 1917. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1567184601663-07DYUUECZP7VGKNBF2SL/Nyden-courtyard.jpg Blog - Swedish Immigrants in Chicago’s Architectural History Nyden’s courtyard building at 544-550 Sheridan Road in Evanston. Photo by Julia Bachrach. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1567184375114-V201LK0XVS66PS01G5JD/Victory-monument.jpg Blog - Swedish Immigrants in Chicago’s Architectural History Victory Monument at 3500 S. Martin Luther King Drive. Photo courtesy of Wikicommons. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1567185511629-PQ9PL9P8FNOHG0X3P6YL/Rozek-house.jpg Blog - Swedish Immigrants in Chicago’s Architectural History Left: Rozek House with its original front soon after its 1908 completion. Right: Rozek House with Norman’s front addition. Photo by Julia Bachrach. https://www.jbachrach.com/blog/2019/7/29/emil-r-zettler-artist-teacher-and-creator-of-architectural-ornamentation monthly 0.5 2020-01-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1564441013915-WCXAYFGH8AEJ5SZZV4OI/SecondNationalBank.jpg Blog - Emil R. Zettler: Artist, Teacher, and Creator of Architectural Ornamentation Emil R. Zettler produced the sculptural embellishments for the George Elmslie-designed Old Second National Bank in Aurora, Illinois. Photo by Linda Barnes. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1564514830858-7FNUTETIKU4WB1JUHWM9/TempleSholom-capitals.jpg Blog - Emil R. Zettler: Artist, Teacher, and Creator of Architectural Ornamentation Temple Sholom Capitals. Photo by Eric Allix Rogers. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1564441679566-6ZJ575AH5NRBPHWMM8IH/Zettler-portrait.jpg Blog - Emil R. Zettler: Artist, Teacher, and Creator of Architectural Ornamentation Emil Robert Zettler, From Staley Journal, 1926. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1564497432535-00931YRFIJCTHN2VOOYT/church-Zettler.jpg Blog - Emil R. Zettler: Artist, Teacher, and Creator of Architectural Ornamentation Zettler’s ornamentation at Edgewater Presbyterian Church, 1020 W. Bryn Mawr Avenue, Chicago. Photo by Julia Bachrach. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1564498108450-EJ20N3AZT9POIUKI4IFE/capitals.jpg Blog - Emil R. Zettler: Artist, Teacher, and Creator of Architectural Ornamentation Close-up views of Emil Zettler’s capitals for Old Second National Bank, Aurora, Illinois. Photos by Earl R. Shumaker. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1564441173192-MF3SEJB1JF59UGI2YZFP/Heritage-Coins.jpg Blog - Emil R. Zettler: Artist, Teacher, and Creator of Architectural Ornamentation Official commemorative medal sculpted by Emil R. Zettler for A Century of Progress, Chicago’s second World’s Fair, 1933. Photo courtesy of Heritage Auctions. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1564496968245-VOP714916KX7F95B0JZH/Tree-Studios.jpg Blog - Emil R. Zettler: Artist, Teacher, and Creator of Architectural Ornamentation Tree Studios. Photo by Steve Minor. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1564514973145-K9QKML7ASXHQRRC9PADI/WyandotteHighSchool.jpg Blog - Emil R. Zettler: Artist, Teacher, and Creator of Architectural Ornamentation Wyandotte High School, Kansas City. Photo courtesy of Wikimedia. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1564496773445-DV3Z2A24MTGVAVVLGNVY/Job-Zettler.jpg Blog - Emil R. Zettler: Artist, Teacher, and Creator of Architectural Ornamentation Zettler’s award-winning 1916 sculpture of Job. From Staley Journal, 1926. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1564497235849-B2EOOH6BV2BW3NN3WALX/Perkins+Hamilton+Fellows+Studio.jpg Blog - Emil R. Zettler: Artist, Teacher, and Creator of Architectural Ornamentation Close-up of Perkins, Hamilton & Fellows Studio, 815 E. Tower Court, Chicago. Photo by Julia Bachrach. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1564514357331-CD7UA3LIXVZ15QEONBWO/PalmerHouse.jpg Blog - Emil R. Zettler: Artist, Teacher, and Creator of Architectural Ornamentation Close-up of Zettler’s adornments to the Palmer House, 17 E. Monroe Street. Photo by Julia Bachrach. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1564497075057-M7SYN55923FE2J1F37RW/Frank-Logan-Medal.jpg Blog - Emil R. Zettler: Artist, Teacher, and Creator of Architectural Ornamentation Logan Medal by Emil Zettler. Photo courtesy of Art Institute of Chicago. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1564497662423-U2GCUUQHRSGY3JV743XS/detail-of-a-great-window.jpg Blog - Emil R. Zettler: Artist, Teacher, and Creator of Architectural Ornamentation “Detail of Great Window,” Capitol Building and Loan Association, Topeka, Kansas (demolished, 1968). From Western Architect, 1924. https://www.jbachrach.com/blog/2019/6/27/charitas-and-its-sculptor-ida-mccelland-stout monthly 0.5 2020-01-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1561661237202-Q6IZQKJ5F1ZSQF1AC9SY/Charitas-Casteel.jpg Blog - Charitas and its Sculptor: Ida McClelland Stout Charitas in its newest location in Lincoln Park. Photo courtesy of Steven Casteel. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1561661734256-X4GRYCR1H8X54745ATHA/obit.jpg Blog - Charitas and its Sculptor: Ida McClelland Stout Talented Sculptress Dies,” Decatur Review, September 5, 1927, p. 12. (Getty Images mistakenly identifies Ida McClelland as an African-American artist. The mislabeled photo depicts Fanny Stout, not Ida McClelland Stout.) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1561662829740-V1FROKWVMCME4Z13T2A4/children.jpg Blog - Charitas and its Sculptor: Ida McClelland Stout Woman and children standing along the edge of the original circular fountain, looking at Charitas, 1925. Courtesy of the Chicago History Museum, DN-0079249. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1561661990042-4DX863K38GRBC3GBGPKQ/registration.jpg Blog - Charitas and its Sculptor: Ida McClelland Stout “Certificate of Registration of American Citizen” for Ida McClelland Stout, December 6, 1911. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1561662152736-TR7NLK8UOOEYC1NFJRHF/sundial.jpg Blog - Charitas and its Sculptor: Ida McClelland Stout Ida McClelland Stout’s Sun Dial, The Garden Magazine, January, 1922. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1561663423362-VFGTMS3BDCX5W6B5JIRR/charitas-locations-lincoln-garfield.jpg Blog - Charitas and its Sculptor: Ida McClelland Stout These photographs show Charitas in its second and third locations, in Lincoln Park in 1953 (L) and the Garfield Park Conservatory in the 1970s (R). Chicago Public Library Special Collections, Chicago Park District Archives, Photos. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1561663550205-E1KPOCZVG9M4H309EEL2/solti.jpg Blog - Charitas and its Sculptor: Ida McClelland Stout Sir Georg Solti Bust in Lincoln Park, ca. 2000. Photo courtesy of Jyoti Srivastava. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1561663822673-SIGEECUPIZC58XNGEJZ7/location-current.jpg Blog - Charitas and its Sculptor: Ida McClelland Stout Charitas at its existing location in Lincoln Park south of Theater on the Lake, 2018. Photo courtesy of Jeff Zoline. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1561662319678-L0PLVNYUVSJCUB0QGONN/Charitas-process.jpg Blog - Charitas and its Sculptor: Ida McClelland Stout Ida McClelland Stout at work on Charitas, 1922. Courtesy of Chicago History Museum DN-0074540. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1561663709756-ETPKVO0EJGRZJBJ3OF7S/theater.jpg Blog - Charitas and its Sculptor: Ida McClelland Stout Charitas on the lawn adjacent to Theater on the Lake, 2016. Photo by Julia Bachrach. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1561662509651-GC7J7FN35EOI45AWYLM1/location.jpg Blog - Charitas and its Sculptor: Ida McClelland Stout Charitas and circular fountain in its original location just west of the Daily News Sanitarium for Sick Babies. Chicago Public Library Special Collections, Chicago Park District Archives, Photos. https://www.jbachrach.com/blog/2019/6/3/home-on-the-park monthly 0.5 2020-01-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1559322757591-549E9LELG72LZWJ7QLG7/par-bears.jpg Blog - Home on the Park Black bears at Indian Boundary Park Zoo, ca. 1935. Courtesy of Rogers Park West Ridge Historical Society, R002-0103. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1559318916137-XNN1YNCZTW0ICS51T09Y/park_gables-exterior.jpg Blog - Home on the Park Park Gables Cooperative Building. Photo by Eric Allix Rogers. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1559318882481-XGEWCPD4S85ZHRMXSBUF/park_gables-arch.jpg Blog - Home on the Park View from the Park Gables courtyard looking towards Indian Boundary Park. Photo by Eric Allix Rogers. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1559322788862-FR4DUYXT4TN0X84JALJE/park-gables-pool.jpg Blog - Home on the Park Indoor Swimming Pool at the Park Gables. Photo by Eric Allix Rogers. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1559323104809-1ZAOHPSCLTFD3PYJMI1X/park-castles-render.gif Blog - Home on the Park “Display Ad 46,” Chicago Tribune, April 4, 1926, p. B6. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1559322530633-OPR0NP1FBRDX3AXEF9QQ/park-manor-render.gif Blog - Home on the Park “Display Ad 16,” Chicago Tribune, January 10, 1926, p. 17. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1559322703542-VVDKDP99FKJYVDWJGUNH/armory.jpg Blog - Home on the Park St. Peter Armory, St. Peter, MN. Courtesy of Wikimedia. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1559322424378-1YK12ML2PC0VR3AQ8K6D/park.jpg Blog - Home on the Park View of original Indian Boundary Park field house and playground, ca. 1927. Chicago Public Library Special Collections, Chicago Park District Archives, Photos. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1559322877300-PGAR57NTKOODP8PMTFIV/Ind-Boundary-Coops-brochure-1928-1.gif Blog - Home on the Park Rendering from Park Gables Marketing Brochure, ca. 1927. Gubbins, McDonnell & Blietz. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1559322470042-6YRYPJFU15Y7IUOL6EPQ/co-operative-apartment-ad.gif Blog - Home on the Park “Display Ad 15,” Chicago Tribune, May 17, 1925, p. 16. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1559322821288-QC59MKQJ9TWGGF4S0W6X/park-panorama.jpg Blog - Home on the Park Panoramic view of Indian Boundary Park with Park Gables, Park Castles, and Park Manor in the distance. Chicago Public Library Special Collections, Chicago Park District Archives, Photos. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1559323002368-ZQPF239XAMXM4E33ODOE/park_gables-courtyard.jpg Blog - Home on the Park View of Park Gables courtyard looking north. Photo by Eric Allix Rogers. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1559322387579-EL3F2WQC6N1PCYV10GSK/architect-rendering.jpg Blog - Home on the Park Rendering by Roffe Beman of the Clarence Hatzfeld-designed Indian Boundary Field House, ca. 1930. Chicago Public Library Special Collections, Chicago Park District Archives, Photos. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1559322627584-QBZNJDKRAXBUVXGS70HD/castle.jpg Blog - Home on the Park View of Park Castles, Park Manor, and east end of Indian Boundary Park, ca. 1930. Courtesy of Rogers Park West Ridge Historical Society, P045-0101. https://www.jbachrach.com/blog/2019/4/29/lincoln-park-a-legacy-on-the-lakefront monthly 0.5 2020-01-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1556637166370-GSCDJMXW5NAJUO6LAFVC/McCrea.jpg Blog - Lincoln Park: A Legacy on the Lakefront Annette McCrea. Photo courtesy of the Cultural Landscape Foundation. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1556570148961-0FC2WE6QDDNCGAYM6VHA/Swain_Nelson.jpg Blog - Lincoln Park: A Legacy on the Lakefront Swain Nelson. Courtesy of Ed Gyllenhaal, Glencairn Museum, Bryn Athyn, PA. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1556636220151-U067D6K3HBCDC95FFYBI/Lincoln_Park_Boulevards.jpg Blog - Lincoln Park: A Legacy on the Lakefront Plan of Lincoln Park and Boulevards, 1887. Chicago Park District Records: Drawings, Special Collections, Chicago Public Library. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1556636827705-PNG51MDTPL2S0YZMZU3H/Lincoln_Park_Lagoon.jpg Blog - Lincoln Park: A Legacy on the Lakefront Postcard view of South Lagoon, ca. 1900. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1556636432292-VFGHRXHQWBRC1BRU8IHO/Lincoln_Park_Pavilion.jpg Blog - Lincoln Park: A Legacy on the Lakefront Rustic Pavilion in Lincoln Park, from the Report of the Commissioners and A History of Lincoln Park, 1899, by I.J. Bryan. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1556644906682-ZYUX7ZCFNCX9GFB7KU0H/Lincoln_Park_Extension-rev.jpg Blog - Lincoln Park: A Legacy on the Lakefront Map of Lincoln Park, 1903. Chicago Park District Records: Drawings, Special Collections, Chicago Public Library. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1556569206791-607AMG6JDW203IVAXN29/Lincoln_Park_South_Pond.jpg Blog - Lincoln Park: A Legacy on the Lakefront South Pond occupies the oldest part of Lincoln Park. Photo by Julia Bachrach. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1556637322122-ORER2FJBHZ68TOKGOSDG/Lincoln_Park_aerial.jpg Blog - Lincoln Park: A Legacy on the Lakefront Aerial view of Lincoln Park looking south from Foster Avenue, ca. 1935. Chicago Park District Records: Photographs, Special Collections, Chicago Public Library. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1556569370368-DXIVSGA9RTTN4801ANZY/Cemetery-Couch.jpg Blog - Lincoln Park: A Legacy on the Lakefront The Couch Tomb is one of the few above-ground reminders of Lincoln Park's beginnings as a cemetery. Photo by Julia Bachrach. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1556569546912-JBUYS2RZA277XTOBWNZK/Rauch.jpg Blog - Lincoln Park: A Legacy on the Lakefront Dr. John H. Rauch. Photo courtesy of National Institute of Health "First Ten Presidents of the American Health Association." https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1556570524256-W78LMYNW3G3TPYEHGRJF/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Lincoln Park: A Legacy on the Lakefront Original Plan of Lincoln Park by Swain Nelson. 1865, Chicago History Museum. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1556635960469-W94P90KNVRPRRLF110BK/Lincoln_Park_Zoo.jpg Blog - Lincoln Park: A Legacy on the Lakefront Lincoln Park Zoo, ca. 1900. Chicago Park District Records: Photographs, Special Collections, Chicago Public Library. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1556569701253-RV8P1V4YJ29GO7OH7S4T/Cemetery_Park_plat.jpg Blog - Lincoln Park: A Legacy on the Lakefront Plat of Cemetery Park, 1863, from Report of the Commissioners and A History of Lincoln Park, 1899, by I.J. Bryan. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1556637053884-3CBK7GJ5B5RISWVB7O8B/Carlson_Cottage.jpg Blog - Lincoln Park: A Legacy on the Lakefront Carlson Cottage. Photo by Julia Bachrach. https://www.jbachrach.com/blog/2019/4/1/elizabeth-kimball-nedved monthly 0.5 2020-01-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1553803962143-NAPETEPJQTLJNQ82ZV3S/industrial-art.gif Blog - Elizabeth Kimball Nedved: A Hidden Woman in Chicago’s Architectural History “Display Advertisement” for Church School of Art, Chicago Daily Tribune, September 7, 1919, p. D9 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1553805749480-60L94XPUTGPBU1FXYT6T/Coonley-School.jpg Blog - Elizabeth Kimball Nedved: A Hidden Woman in Chicago’s Architectural History Avery Coonley School, Downers Grove, Illinois designed by Hamilton, Fellows & Nedved with architect Wauldren Faulkner. Photo courtesy of Jean Follett. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1553807794734-YST6BWHHZX5JQSSQMHGO/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Elizabeth Kimball Nedved: A Hidden Woman in Chicago’s Architectural History Watercolor by Elizabeth Kimball Nedved, Pencil Points, Vol. VI, No. 3, August 1925. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1553804603888-1P4U8PLNRY4I4T3YXU5S/yearbook-Rudolph.jpg Blog - Elizabeth Kimball Nedved: A Hidden Woman in Chicago’s Architectural History The Cycle, Armour Institute Yearbook, 1925. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1553803305633-QXNJDEVNVVVTVPA0D4JW/A.jpg Blog - Elizabeth Kimball Nedved: A Hidden Woman in Chicago’s Architectural History Sunset Point, Eagle River, Wisconsin, designed by Nedved & Kimball. Courtesy of Wisconsin State Historic Preservation Office, AHI # 21559, 2005. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1553805664950-3RVY9IXWYN42YR0FR48R/FLW-GlasnerHouse.jpg Blog - Elizabeth Kimball Nedved: A Hidden Woman in Chicago’s Architectural History The Nedveds owned the Frank Lloyd Wright-designed Glasner House in Glencoe for over 40 years. 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Courtesy of Chicago History Museum, DN-0075467. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1553807831654-O3DVUSG0UY1NZ9YCEJUF/PencilPoints-1927.jpg Blog - Elizabeth Kimball Nedved: A Hidden Woman in Chicago’s Architectural History “Ca’ d’Oro Venice,” Elizabeth Kimball Nedved’s watercolor of the famous Palazzo Santa Sofia was published in Pencil Points, Vol. VIII, No. 4, April 1927. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1553807347714-4HG4NAIJ8A53492JVTPV/Wyandotte.jpg Blog - Elizabeth Kimball Nedved: A Hidden Woman in Chicago’s Architectural History Wyandotte High School, Kansas City, Kansas. Photo courtesy of Wikicommons. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1553805337620-NHOMQB2YMZ73SGPNMAFE/church-pulpit.jpg Blog - Elizabeth Kimball Nedved: A Hidden Woman in Chicago’s Architectural History Austin Presbyterian Church, Rudolph and Elizabeth Nedved Architects, 1927. Chicago Architectural Sketch Club Collection. Ryerson & Burnham Libraries, Art Institute of Chicago. https://www.jbachrach.com/blog/2019/2/27/pfzmk0gvq3jo6t4s7s7k761wvcb1a8 monthly 0.5 2021-06-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1551371282777-WQSCDT810VL5L7000ZVF/bulletin.jpg Blog - Prairie Style in the Parks Cover of Wilhelm Miller’s 1915 bulletin, The Prairie Spirit in Landscape Gardening. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1551374238402-Z3YAJD1DAC8XL1A1SMQ1/Columbus-Park-waterfall.jpg Blog - Prairie Style in the Parks Left: View of Columbus Park Waterfall, ca. 1930. Chicago Park District Records: Photographs, Special Collections, Chicago Public Library. Right: View of Columbus Park Waterfall, 2017. Photo by Julia Bachrach. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1551373589922-Z88VHKXBZIZPTWJ4ASJB/Humboldt-park-rockery.jpg Blog - Prairie Style in the Parks Proposed Rockery Display into the Lagoon in the Western Part of Humboldt Park, Jens Jensen, 1907. Chicago Park District Records: Drawings, Special Collections, Chicago Public Library. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1551372869534-BFCRQRIWFT5ILQ7KFY89/revised-gateway-sketch-Humboldt.jpg Blog - Prairie Style in the Parks Revised Gateway for the Corner of Division St. and California Ave. in Humboldt Park, Jens Jensen, 1911. Chicago Park District Records: Drawings, Special Collections, Chicago Public Library. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1551374537606-TB2XJNX7HIKGTOTBPUO6/Humboldt-boat-house.jpg Blog - Prairie Style in the Parks Humboldt Park Boat House, ca. 1915. Chicago Park District Records: Photographs, Special Collections, Chicago Public Library. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1551373183122-ZXCO55R7T3Q9TZU0ISQS/revised-gateway-Humboldt.jpg Blog - Prairie Style in the Parks Photograph of Jensen’s improvements to the corner of Division St. and California Ave. in Humboldt Park, 1912. Chicago Park District Records: Photographs, Special Collections, Chicago Public Library. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1551372146271-FLSRVQBT37XCV6SF9GLA/graceland-cemetery.jpg Blog - Prairie Style in the Parks Graceland Cemetery, ca. 1912, from The Prairie Spirt in Landscape Gardening https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1551372038157-HT9DKHVR5CMLA0NC8YHZ/drummond-house.jpg Blog - Prairie Style in the Parks William Drummond House, River Forest, Illinois. Photo courtesy of Teemu08 (talk). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1551373782825-O0IWZPK50PHAH8QMN188/rockery-waterfall-Humboldt-couple.jpg Blog - Prairie Style in the Parks Couple sitting near a rocky cascade in Humboldt Park, ca. 1912. Chicago Park District Records: Photographs, Special Collections, Chicago Public Library. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1551309883895-PKGE4O0LVZPKR1KKJC5X/A.jpg Blog - Prairie Style in the Parks Jens Jensen-designed council ring and surrounding landscape in Columbus Park. Photo by James Iska. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1551373397667-GBUSTGEUEI7YTFB91OTN/Humboldt-prairie-river.jpg Blog - Prairie Style in the Parks Humboldt Park Prairie River. Photo by James Iska. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1551374373036-R15L395AU4HK57YB2C2G/lilypool-1.jpg Blog - Prairie Style in the Parks Alfred Caldwell Lily Pool in Lincoln Park. Photo by Brooke Collins. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1551372292590-QHDE0GK69O7OP4IXC1CE/walking-club.jpg Blog - Prairie Style in the Parks Saturday Afternoon Walking Club, ca. 1910. Photo courtesy of Morton Arboretum. https://www.jbachrach.com/blog/2019/1/31/a-world-apart-chicagos-imperial-towers monthly 0.5 2020-01-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1548956046444-97SBE8KWZ6HAVW67HKDW/Imperial-Towers-architects-drawing.gif Blog - A World Apart: Chicago’s Imperial Towers Rendering from “Big Marine Drive Project Set,” Chicago Tribune, February 9, 1960. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1548955182890-D6K46FODL9JAO4OR620O/Imperial-Towers-cover.jpg Blog - A World Apart: Chicago’s Imperial Towers Cover of the Imperial Towers: A World Apart marketing pamphlet. Art Institute of Chicago, Ryerson & Burnham Archives. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1548955541323-2RG80CU0FK65DK2DBLU5/Imperial-Towers-int-1.jpg Blog - A World Apart: Chicago’s Imperial Towers The abstract flowing shapes of the black and white terrazzo of the lobby floor are evocative of Japanese garden elements. Photo by Eric Allix Rogers. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1548953806575-4XK0EYQEDH2B3ZNNTZH7/Imperial-Towers-ext-1.jpg Blog - A World Apart: Chicago’s Imperial Towers The Imperial Towers is a Mid-Century Modern high-rise with a “Far Eastern” flair. The swirling, abstract forms of its mosaic panels represent Japanese garden elements. Photo by Eric Allix Rogers. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1548956327390-WR9XCTQMZ3JKFTNO35Z6/Imperial-Towers-ext-4.jpg Blog - A World Apart: Chicago’s Imperial Towers According to long-term residents, this mini “volcano” was originally topped by a gas flame that provided a molten-lava-like element at night. Photo by Eric Allix Rogers. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1548954284696-4VQPXXNUE45BB41VONL8/brochure-front.jpg Blog - A World Apart: Chicago’s Imperial Towers Imperial Towers: A World Apart, marketing pamphlet produced by Powell, Schoenbrod and Hall. McNally and Quinn Records, Art Institute of Chicago, Ryerson & Burnham Archives, Series 1, OP 1.17, ca. 1961. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1548955605369-3401LI0AXB1CO58TLDRS/Imperial-Towers-int-2.jpg Blog - A World Apart: Chicago’s Imperial Towers An etched glass bonsai tree is the centerpiece of the circular window above the lobby desk. Photo by Eric Allix Rogers. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1548956172093-VI4RC885OM8GASFJR6G3/Imperial-Towers-ext-3.jpg Blog - A World Apart: Chicago’s Imperial Towers Mature honey locusts and other trees in the front landscape have been pruned in a Japanese manner. Photo by Eric Allix Rogers. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1548956948006-NKQ3MGAHKPL0G1DHX1K1/Imperial-Towers-display-ad.gif Blog - A World Apart: Chicago’s Imperial Towers “Display Ad-159,” Chicago Tribune, July 28, 1963, p. C 9. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1548954891922-972WKWM5IJK35S0F7CIN/Imperial-Towers-cars.jpg Blog - A World Apart: Chicago’s Imperial Towers Left: Accommodations for car owners represented a major priority in the Imperial Towers’ design. Imperial Towers: A World Apart, marketing pamphlet. Art Institute of Chicago, Ryerson & Burnham Archives. Right: Contemporary view of Imperial Towers’ front canopy and drop off area. Photo by Eric Allix Rogers. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1548955407173-J3WYXXETVU7049GFS1EG/Imperial-Towers-ext-detail-2.jpg Blog - A World Apart: Chicago’s Imperial Towers Left: North Tower. Photo by Eric Allix Rogers. Right: Close-up of the abstract mosaic panels that are evocative of Japanese garden elements. Photo by Eric Allix Rogers. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1548956529323-0X0ND0UTVS8U2FJQ897H/Imperial-Towers-ext-6.jpg Blog - A World Apart: Chicago’s Imperial Towers Torii Gate and Japanese garden on sundeck. Photo by Eric Allix Rogers. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1548956458815-YXTALD6P5QBHKTK7VYHL/Imperial-Towers-ext-5.jpg Blog - A World Apart: Chicago’s Imperial Towers The Japanese dry-garden is tucked behind the glassy lobby. Photo by Eric Allix Rogers. https://www.jbachrach.com/blog/2019/1/7/landscape-art-under-glass monthly 0.5 2020-01-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1546624526386-9WDTRBLCKARFJSU33N0G/Garfield-Park-Glass-House.jpg Blog - Landscape Art Under Glass View of Garfield Park’s Victorian domed conservatory ca. 1890. Courtesy of Chicago History Museum iChi-51149. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1546620035557-GRN1P4VD8BOAZ8KVTDKB/waterfall-contemporary.jpg Blog - Landscape Art Under Glass Contemporary view of waterfall and its lushly planted stonework, 2014. Hedrich Blessing Photographers. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1546618710068-4GPEQOWM5HQ03MA84B18/Garfield+Park+Fern+Room.jpg Blog - Landscape Art Under Glass Garfield Park Conservatory Fern Room, 2014. Hedrich Blessing Photographers. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1546619614855-W4UUZRPJWXVQXXYKTYVC/Garfield-Park-Entrance.jpg Blog - Landscape Art Under Glass The Garfield Park Conservatory’s original entry vestibule was designed by architects Schmidt, Garden & Martin, ca. 1935. Chicago Public Library Special Collections, Chicago Park District Archives, Photos. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1546619778175-UK6SAUS14HJON2N4UYXV/fern-room.jpg Blog - Landscape Art Under Glass View of Fern Room looking towards Palm House, 1909. Chicago Public Library Special Collections, Chicago Park District Archives, Photos. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1546618998942-DEUPJANGAK61H9QSWMG0/two-views.jpg Blog - Landscape Art Under Glass These two photos show that the Garfield Park Conservatory’s Fern Room is remarkably intact today. L- ca. 1910; R- 2014. Hedrich Blessing Photographers. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1546620305039-A1XDRSNNMFGRMKV8G92H/gardeners.jpg Blog - Landscape Art Under Glass Garfield Park Conservatory Gardeners, 1913. Chicago Public Library Special Collections, Chicago Park District Archives, Photos. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1546619467277-YJWM8LCXHH7BHDR91GQD/Garfield-Park-Palm-House.jpg Blog - Landscape Art Under Glass View towards the front of the conservatory complex—the large “haystack-shaped” Palm House made the facility look entirely different than other public greenhouses in Chicago and elsewhere, ca. 1930. Chicago Public Library Special Collections, Chicago Park District Archives, Photos. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1546619925212-73GCA9B6YOZRKF18XPTD/waterfall.jpg Blog - Landscape Art Under Glass This view shows the Fern Room waterfall before plants were installed between the crevices of the stonework, ca. 1907. Chicago Public Library Special Collections, Chicago Park District Archives, Photos. https://www.jbachrach.com/blog/2018/11/30/reaching-for-the-stars monthly 0.5 2020-02-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1543698439376-TCDKAEVJ7J9SHIV8FN4C/Adler-building.jpg Blog - Reaching for the Stars Adler Planetarium, Chicago. Photo courtesy of Wikicommons. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1543613993124-86C3KHRL68SF09R43W63/aries.jpg Blog - Reaching for the Stars Alfonso Iannelli’s sculptural relief panel portraying Aries, 2008. Photo by Julia Bachrach. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1543698300222-XNG29E7C6KKUVRXIS40W/Adler-with-divy.jpg Blog - Reaching for the Stars Adler Planetarium. Photo by Julia Bachrach, 2012. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1543612650267-4N320GXU9U4IOON9DK6W/MSI-contemporary.jpg Blog - Reaching for the Stars Museum of Science and Industry, 2007. Photo by Julia Bachrach. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1543612724018-ZBA25T66AJ35WSOQ04TT/rosenwald-web-ericallixrogers-6.jpg Blog - Reaching for the Stars Michigan Boulevard Garden Apartments, also known as Rosenwald Courts, was designed by Ernest A. Grunsfeld, Jr., at the same time as he was producing plans for the Adler Planetarium. Photo by Eric Allix Rogers. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1543614208692-3XS1IXON5K0KKW2ZI9Z0/planetarium-worldsfair.jpg Blog - Reaching for the Stars The Adler Planetarium was open to the public while construction was underway for the second World’s Fair, A Century of Progress, ca. 1932. Chicago Public Library Special Collections, Chicago Park District Archives, Photos. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1543612527735-IPP7VDTMU721RZG1ZDQE/cgp_spe_p00001_046_029_002.jpg Blog - Reaching for the Stars View of the Fine Arts Palace in Jackson Park prior to its transformation into the Museum of Science and Industry, ca. 1925. Chicago Public Library Special Collections, Chicago Park District Archives, Photos: 00001_046_029_002. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1543613761887-KTTKWRCPO5C4TW9SBH58/aerial.jpg Blog - Reaching for the Stars Aerial view of Northerly Island and Burnham Park, August, 1931. Chicago Public Library Special Collections, Chicago Park District Archives, Photos. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1543698836389-B6W6GGJUFYV07KPI5YGF/Bond-Driv-looking-east-1967-rev.jpg Blog - Reaching for the Stars View of Bond Drive (now Solidarity Drive) looking east towards the Planetarium, 1967. Chicago Public Library Special Collections, Chicago Park District Archives, Photos. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1543612924917-8LXENSAZSPNN3HJJNCQW/Adler-Grunsfeld.jpg Blog - Reaching for the Stars Max Adler (center) and architect Ernest A. Grunsfeld, Jr. (right) visited the Deutsches Museum with its founder, Oskar von Miller, ca. 1928. Courtesy of Adler Planetarium. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1543614371268-XHHTS5C107I03Y5ZXCN7/planetarium-fountains.jpg Blog - Reaching for the Stars View of Terrazzo Esplanade and Adler Planetarium at Night, ca. 1935. Chicago Public Library Special Collections, Chicago Park District Archives, Photos. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1543613240435-XIWHDNHBQR2F9KKJCH5G/planetarium-projection-equipment.jpg Blog - Reaching for the Stars Adler Planetarium’s original Zeiss Company projection equipment. From Adler Planetarium and Astronomical Museum, An Account of the Optical Planetarium and A Brief Guide to the Museum, by Philip Fox, 1933. https://www.jbachrach.com/blog/2018/10/31/nature-of-park-landscapes monthly 0.5 2020-02-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1541016782351-Z9AXG1DP8KDCHLHOT03K/bicycles.jpg Blog - The Nature of Park Landscapes This 1880s photograph of cyclists in Lincoln Park was published in an Annual Report of the Chicago Park District, 1976. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1541015222947-PPKCQG4Z8XCZH5KMMZAW/WashingtonPark.jpg Blog - The Nature of Park Landscapes Children playing in and along Washington Park’s meadow, ca. 1900. Barnum & Barnum Photographers. Courtesy of Chicago History Museum, ICHi-15585. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1541017063916-6NP520LB9JYKSVRM06HY/image-asset.jpeg Blog - The Nature of Park Landscapes By the mid-1890s, bicycles often shared park roads with horses and carriages, as shown in this photo of Garfield Park, ca. 1895. Courtesy of Chicago History Museum iCHi-51168. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1541018269956-F3KGJQDCE8AIR5T5UBQ4/athletes2.jpg Blog - The Nature of Park Landscapes Numerous athletes used the Douglas Park Natatorium and its oval track including the Earls, an African-American track team of late 1930s. Chicago Public Library Special Collections, Chicago Park District Archives, Photos. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1541017730624-LIYF5K7AQYO8DPVODSRU/DouglasPark-gym-nat.gif Blog - The Nature of Park Landscapes “New Gymnasium and Natatorium at Douglas Park,” Chicago Daily Tribune, August 20, 1896. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1541026090087-2MK8HW5BSI4XIYFRIZHA/cricket-park2.jpg Blog - The Nature of Park Landscapes Chicagoans have played cricket, baseball, and football on Washington Park’s pastoral meadow, known as the South Open Green, for well over 100 years. Photo by Lucas Blair, 2009. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1541018015765-FEJ232HC288XIT7JQNTM/DouglasPark-pool.jpg Blog - The Nature of Park Landscapes With separate pools for men and women, the 1896 Douglas Park natatorium was the first swimming facility in Chicago’s parks. This photo of the women’s pool dates to 1914. Chicago Public Library Special Collections, Chicago Park District Archives, Photos. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1541016574575-JC7IPD8RMQ9D3MHAVEU3/SouthParkmap.jpg Blog - The Nature of Park Landscapes As shown by this plan, the great meadow called the South Open Green was the earliest parts of Washington Park’s landscape to be completed. The Western Division of South Park, 1880. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1541017425007-0RGHL5IVJVBNW6JNK8EC/image-asset.jpeg Blog - The Nature of Park Landscapes This stretch of Sheridan Road (now Lake Shore Drive), north of Belmont Avenue, included one of Chicago’s earliest lakefront bicycle paths, ca. 1900. Courtesy of Chicago History Museum iCHi- 17819. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1541015937029-DITBES47LJEYOGP0J4G4/sheep.jpg Blog - The Nature of Park Landscapes Sheep in Washington Park’s meadow, ca. 1910. Chicago Public Library Special Collections, Chicago Park District Archives, Photos. https://www.jbachrach.com/blog/2018/9/28/if-the-walls-could-talk monthly 0.5 2020-02-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1538168332642-BI1BDAZWKLMPHLQZ5TIB/5300-N-Marine-Drive-6.jpg Blog - If the Walls Could Talk Close up looking southwest. Photo by Eric Allix Rogers. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1538169726355-DX02TLMEKJFQFUN755E6/5300-N-Marine-Drive-9.jpg Blog - If the Walls Could Talk Left: View of interior doorway with fanlight window and sidelights. Right: Foyer. Photos by Eric Allix Rogers. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1538168817016-KL9JAZS5MUFMGT9ZZQW4/5300-N-Marine-Drive-7.jpg Blog - If the Walls Could Talk The building’s spacious apartments have spectacular views of Lincoln Park and the lakefront. Photo by Eric Allix Rogers. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1538168623887-UJGXQZTAB8OYRNZWWLT1/L.jpg Blog - If the Walls Could Talk Music Box Theater. Photo courtesy of Wikicommons. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1538169013668-G38MJ4W9I7K0JIQXIR5R/gus-alex.gif Blog - If the Walls Could Talk Excerpt of FBI report on Gus Alex, March 16, 1960. Available at: https://www.archives.gov/files/research/jfk/releases/docid-32306964.pdf https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1538168066455-0TR4KU0HXOO629CJYKSA/5300-N-Marine-Drive-3.jpg Blog - If the Walls Could Talk View of building’s east facade. Photo by Eric Allix Rogers. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1538167648524-XVJMFAMV89SBE2SJG90F/image-asset.jpeg Blog - If the Walls Could Talk Aerial view of Lincoln Park Extension with 4300 N. Marine Drive at lower left, ca. 1940. Chicago Public Library Special Collections, Chicago Park District Archives, Photos. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1538168549917-IG7GK5GHO70NLLMP16U1/5300-Marine-Drive-classified.gif Blog - If the Walls Could Talk Classified Ad 7, Chicago Daily Tribune, Feb. 8, 1931, p. E6. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1538172227176-29N1QTCTMA0MUN4LH2GZ/Marine-Drive-aerial-2.jpg Blog - If the Walls Could Talk Aerial view showing 4300 N. Marine Drive at lower left, ca. 1940. Chicago Public Library Special Collections, Chicago Park District Archives, Photos, 076-012-003 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1538167432210-WH49OWASBLW9ZRXJ2PF6/Clarendon-Beach-bathing-pavilion.jpg Blog - If the Walls Could Talk Clarendon Beach Bathing Pavilion, ca. 1925. Courtesy of Chicago History Museum iChi29522. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1538166871520-FOLBAIR9R5W0QOK7JS0K/5300-N-Marine-Drive-2.jpg Blog - If the Walls Could Talk Close-up of east façade. Photo by Eric Allix Rogers. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1538169987729-0QHDT50LWV9WD1PXB7B7/5300-N-Marine-Drive-8.jpg Blog - If the Walls Could Talk View of hallway. Photo by Eric Allix Rogers. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1538166781856-OW6Z27IXH6Z33IWLI3BA/5300-N-Marine-Drive-1.jpg Blog - If the Walls Could Talk The 4300 North Marine Drive Condominium Building was built in 1931 as a luxury apartment tower. Photo by Eric Allix Rogers. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1538167769007-9YBDA41DJ0DL8ESSBNZV/Donmoor-Apartment-Hotel.jpg Blog - If the Walls Could Talk Johnck & Ehmann designed the 1928 Donmoor Apartment Hotel at 917 W. Eastwood Avenue. Photo by Julia Bachrach. https://www.jbachrach.com/blog/2018/8/30/her-story-chicago-women-in-history monthly 0.5 2020-02-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1535896608289-BR39XGUL5R6NWBHJEPBA/ChicagoWomensParkGardens.jpg Blog - Her Story: Chicago Women in History Chicago Women’s Park and Gardens new signage. Photo courtesy of Jell Creative, Inc. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1535660603312-WFN8I3Z8OCSD0AEBVAIX/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Her Story: Chicago Women in History Jessie ‘Ma’ Houston Park. Photo by Julia Bachrach. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1535662280454-0OUVBIJHDJ7XS70N2HUO/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Her Story: Chicago Women in History Leslie Recht at Exhibit Dedication in Chicago Women’s Park and Gardens, September 14, 2017. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1535660881962-G10ADDDU3M5JN3BIV476/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Her Story: Chicago Women in History Lucy Parsons, 1920. Courtesy of Chicago History Museum, i12071. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1535660730257-T8NPWVBDUCY8B251T3GE/aviator-coleman.jpg Blog - Her Story: Chicago Women in History Bessie Coleman worked as a manicurist on Chicago’s South Side before she became the nation’s first female African American pilot. Wikicommons photo, 1922. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1535660234868-6RFB6BGVYANM9VNDOF99/wells.jpg Blog - Her Story: Chicago Women in History Ida B. Wells Barnett. Courtesy of Chicago History Museum, i12868. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1535661186737-4C25G4PFY2V4HH6Q0AHX/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Her Story: Chicago Women in History Lucy Parsons Park. Photo by Julia Bachrach. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1535660426233-DKRK6WPQA22L90FFAJNB/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Her Story: Chicago Women in History Chicago Park District Board of Commissioners, 2003. Photo by Julia Bachrach. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1535661654390-MHCYRZ3QDSDBZ62Y9N7D/mahaliajackson.jpg Blog - Her Story: Chicago Women in History Mahalia Jackson. Courtesy of Chicago History Museum, i34969. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1535662431509-B08M40H7DM0VYKQUARD7/brooks.jpg Blog - Her Story: Chicago Women in History Gwendolyn Brooks Monument in her eponymous park. Photo by Julia Bachrach. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1535661999749-1F0VBHRUBXPLY90E24HQ/park-marionmahonygriffin.jpg Blog - Her Story: Chicago Women in History Left: Marion Mahony Griffin Park was dedicated in 2015 after several earlier failed attempts to name a park for her. Right: Boulder in Marion Mahony Griffin Park. Photo by Julia Bachrach. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1535659486252-0519K623ZNJUBL2FE01R/rededication-Addams-monument.jpg Blog - Her Story: Chicago Women in History Rededication of Jane Addams Monument near Widow Clarke House in Chicago Women’s Park and Gardens, 2011. https://www.jbachrach.com/blog/2018/7/31/life-is-but-a-dream monthly 0.5 2020-02-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1533068480805-A3BIQE5WH6351AWE4RKF/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Life is But a Dream Plan of South Park (now Jackson and Washington Parks and Midway Plaisance), Olmsted & Vaux, 1871. Courtesy of Newberry Library. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1533069071267-94WQA6XM8UVASGRAWIUA/electric-launch-wooded-island-2.jpg Blog - Life is But a Dream Electric launch boat near Wooded Island at World’s Columbian Exposition, 1893. C.D. Arnold, photographer. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1533069183150-7XMK9L947JAFQIY1BXDQ/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Life is But a Dream View of Jackson Park’s West Lagoon with the arched electric launch boathouse in the background, ca. 1910. Courtesy of Chicago History Museum, LSW-i29467 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1533077559608-B48212MZOTLSXCIMAW9B/swan-boats-rev.jpg Blog - Life is But a Dream Left: Swan boat in Lincoln Park, ca. 1890. Chicago Park District Records: Photographs, Special Collections, Chicago Public Library. Right: Swan shaped paddle boats are now available in Humboldt Park. Photo by Eric Allix Rogers. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1533069491760-2QWSAAIVVPCII85H98ZU/Jackson-yacht-club2.jpg Blog - Life is But a Dream View of Outer Harbor looking towards Jackson Park Yacht Club. Photo by Eric Allix Rogers. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1533068401523-I553AQV3XMVJIDH6AXPV/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Life is But a Dream “Miss Mermaid” Contestants at Chicago’s Air and Water Show, 1965. Chicago Park District Records: Photographs, Special Collections, Chicago Public Library. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1533069106157-CWQEEJC2E0N8J1TEJWAE/gondolas.jpg Blog - Life is But a Dream Gondola in lagoon near Manufacturers and Liberal Arts Building, 1893. C.D. Arnold, photographer. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1533069613518-FVHWH1AV9H3T6ZLJWU4N/carnival-of-the-lakes.jpg Blog - Life is But a Dream Carnival of the Lakes in Burnham Harbor, 1936. Chicago Park District Records: Photographs, Special Collections, Chicago Public Library https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1533068362252-MFKRQXS7D8PWL5K1HBL0/paddleboats.jpg Blog - Life is But a Dream Paddle boats in Humboldt Park’s Lagoon. Photo by Eric Allix Rogers. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1533069689441-FIDYWQJG0HXVJWUL5NH3/kayaks-Chicago-River.jpg Blog - Life is But a Dream Kayaks on the Chicago River. Photo by Eric Allix Rogers. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1533068566726-BQHRZIJBGZPL6ZMQIH41/boaters-Garfield-Central-Park.jpg Blog - Life is But a Dream Boaters near suspension bridge in Central (Garfield) Park, 1875. From Sixth Annual Report of West Chicago Park Commissioners. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1533069552350-K9BG56JB860YCYQWR4UF/taj-mahal-water-float.jpg Blog - Life is But a Dream “Taj Mahal” Water Float in Garfield Park, ca. 1938. Chicago Park District Records: Photographs, Special Collections, Chicago Public Library. https://www.jbachrach.com/blog/2018/6/29/inside-out-the-art-institute-and-chicagos-grant-park monthly 0.5 2020-02-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1530474327341-RIQP3M80K4HM0A8Y1YF9/nymph-fountain.jpg Blog - Inside Out: The Art Institute and Chicago’s Grant Park Nymph Fountain, 1899. Courtesy of University of Illinois Archives. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1530290064994-0SS69Z6WF9G1GCPKJ1B8/artic-front.jpg Blog - Inside Out: The Art Institute and Chicago’s Grant Park The Art Institute of Chicago in Grant Park. Photo by Eric Allix Rogers. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1530474531483-SGATTY38NU88XX7XKADA/Ferguson.jpg Blog - Inside Out: The Art Institute and Chicago’s Grant Park Benjamin F. Ferguson, from Dedication of the Ferguson Fountain of the Great Lakes, September 9, 1913. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1530474712033-EVPSE8C5DR8DELONDNB6/fountain-of-the-great-lakes.jpg Blog - Inside Out: The Art Institute and Chicago’s Grant Park Fountain of the Great Lakes, ca. 1940. Chicago Park District Records: Photographs, Special Collections, Chicago Public Library. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1530290409773-2HOMMTU9NGMRI246JOMD/artic-original.jpg Blog - Inside Out: The Art Institute and Chicago’s Grant Park View of the Art Institute and Michigan Avenue, ca. 1912. Courtesy of Chicago History Museum, IChi-61047. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1530473302647-1Y2EM6OMRTS1NDF4IREV/artic-lakefront.jpg Blog - Inside Out: The Art Institute and Chicago’s Grant Park View of the Art Institute in Grant Park, 1902. Annual Report of the South Park Commission. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1530291423678-JJMWB62R262Q55LN5BVM/art-institute-early.gif Blog - Inside Out: The Art Institute and Chicago’s Grant Park “Pictures…Collections for the Exhibition,” Chicago Daily Tribune, November 19, 1887, p. 9. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1530290668420-KSPD2QB8L8QOAVJP0YXF/spirit-of-music.jpg Blog - Inside Out: The Art Institute and Chicago’s Grant Park The Spirit of Music, originally installed near the Art Institute of Chicago’s South Garden in 1923, was moved for the first time in the early 1940s. Chicago Park District Records: Photographs, Special Collections, Chicago Public Library. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1530291819785-EJIY0W7CN8RKBDISUDUZ/state-industrial-exhibition-bldg.jpg Blog - Inside Out: The Art Institute and Chicago’s Grant Park Inter-State Industrial Exposition Building, ca. 1885. Courtesy of Chicago History Museum, IChi-02173. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1530474120787-8SHTFIL3GFFFB8F1HB3Q/lion-bachrach.jpg Blog - Inside Out: The Art Institute and Chicago’s Grant Park Edward Kemeys’ bronze lions, 2007. 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Photo by Julia Bachrach. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1530559504056-C52TXLIEAAZOCKBD0O9Z/display-ad.gif Blog - Inside Out: The Art Institute and Chicago’s Grant Park “Display Ad,” Chicago Daily Tribune, December 24, 1868, p. 0_1. https://www.jbachrach.com/blog/2018/5/31/please-join-me-on-a-july-7th-walking-tour-of-grant-park-glimpses-of-paris-in-chicago monthly 0.5 2020-02-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1527795005612-9UBLLI7RA3Z9212G57U9/grant-park-gardens.jpg Blog - Paris in Chicago: French Influences on the Development of Grant Park Grant Park Formal Gardens South of E. Balbo Drive. Photo by Julia Bachrach. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1527796776121-PMCHIR19J8PC5PHULN8A/canal-map.jpg Blog - Paris in Chicago: French Influences on the Development of Grant Park Canal Commissioners’ Map, 1836. Chicago History Museum, IChi-37310. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1527878912254-H9F8WHVZIYXTJF11GG59/made-land.jpg Blog - Paris in Chicago: French Influences on the Development of Grant Park Birds Eye View of South Shore ‘Made Land’ Following Mr. Burnham’s Plan,” Chicago Daily Tribune, April 5, 1895, p. 5. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1527795809283-O30C2MTQOWO0IMCXE13Z/Columbian-exposition-court.jpg Blog - Paris in Chicago: French Influences on the Development of Grant Park World’s Columbian Exposition Court of Honor Looking West, 1893. Chicago Public Library, Special Collections, WCE CDA 2_5. Photograph by C.D. Arnold. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1527795474213-TZUV5MPKTU1MVP8NW9O2/exposition+poster.jpg Blog - Paris in Chicago: French Influences on the Development of Grant Park Poster for Exposition Univesalle de Paris, 1889. Courtesy of Wikimedia. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1527797245459-Q64MN7HDHQJ5RQFHA0RJ/construction-of-columns.jpg Blog - Paris in Chicago: French Influences on the Development of Grant Park Construction of balustrades and rostral columns, 1918. Chicago Park District Records: Photographs, Special Collections, Chicago Public Library. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1527798313976-RM4MB6F5SI5W2RK8DLCJ/congress-plaza.jpg Blog - Paris in Chicago: French Influences on the Development of Grant Park Equestrian Indians Flanking Congress Plaza, ca. 1940. Chicago Park District Records: Photographs, Special Collections, Chicago Public Library. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1527796739249-A5EAK37VDQ9BTP1O7S34/grantppark-plan.jpg Blog - Paris in Chicago: French Influences on the Development of Grant Park Revised Preliminary Plan for Grant Park, Olmsted Brothers, 1903. 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Chicago Park District Records: Photographs, Special Collections, Chicago Public Library. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1527797879739-F740WRWMCTQEB6WS4BU8/fountains.jpg Blog - Paris in Chicago: French Influences on the Development of Grant Park Left: Latona Basin, Gardens of Versailles, Courtesy of Wikimedia. Right: Clarence Buckingham Memorial Fountain, Photo by Julia Bachrach. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1527797069599-QDPYQZ5LFTSB4R87RPJW/bennett.jpg Blog - Paris in Chicago: French Influences on the Development of Grant Park Edward H. Bennett. Courtesy of Ryerson & Burnham Libraries, Art Institute of Chicago https://www.jbachrach.com/blog/2018/4/30/the-bright-city-chicagos-second-worlds-fair monthly 0.5 2020-02-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1525108031754-HO7812UEXWL8OYV6RA3X/A.jpg Blog - The Bright City: Chicago’s Second World’s Fair Official World’s Fair Pictures Souvenir Book, 1933. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1525116747443-82JWVI7OQ67C83MPUZKJ/urban.jpg Blog - The Bright City: Chicago’s Second World’s Fair Joseph Urban, ca. 1915, Wikimedia Commons. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1525116988519-3LAJP5OX3Q1ERZ31QSWJ/image-asset.jpeg Blog - The Bright City: Chicago’s Second World’s Fair In this family photograph from my wedding, my grandmother, Piri Neumann, is seated in the front, 1996. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1525116708666-ZY08Q1YBELYAWUAQI3C7/image-asset.jpeg Blog - The Bright City: Chicago’s Second World’s Fair Travel and Transport Building, left, and Hall of Science, right. American Asphalt Paint company, ca. 1932. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1525116580960-ERT8O74Y0P7K9ZHBERA2/1996.jpg Blog - The Bright City: Chicago’s Second World’s Fair Aunt Sharika, left, and Grandma Piri, right, 1996. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1525116770807-MYW8RCTX790BWRH02DNR/image-asset.jpeg Blog - The Bright City: Chicago’s Second World’s Fair Joseph Urban’s original 1933 Color Charts. Courtesy of the Museum of Science and Industry. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1525116848071-6GIVB29OK1T31MJWYUO2/morning-glory-fountain.jpg Blog - The Bright City: Chicago’s Second World’s Fair Morning glory fountain in the Electrical Court. Chicago Park District Records: Photographs, Special Collections, Chicago Public Library. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1525116516037-IOMA3KRDR9MJ2S669543/crowd-fair.jpg Blog - The Bright City: Chicago’s Second World’s Fair This view shows crowds at the Enchanted Island area of A Century of Progress, looking south towards the Horticulture Building. Chicago Park District Records: Photographs, Special Collections, Chicago Public Library. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1525116555951-AHSO4B1ZKCY5VJA422L2/image-asset.jpeg Blog - The Bright City: Chicago’s Second World’s Fair My grandmother, Piri Klein Neumann, left, and her aunt Sharika Farkas, right, had their photograph taken in a photo booth at A Century of Progress, 1934. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1525116666738-MD0AJZ843MGHCRVLT2AA/image-asset.jpeg Blog - The Bright City: Chicago’s Second World’s Fair Travel and Transport Building at night with lighting effects. Chicago Park District Records: Photographs, Special Collections, Chicago Public Library. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1525116911532-ICERK5FZ89W9AZUI778B/image-asset.jpeg Blog - The Bright City: Chicago’s Second World’s Fair Avenue of Flags. 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Photo by Brooke Collins. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1522426392254-J30G0GV5PZCWSJGJ5NSX/mural-a.jpg Blog - Pot Roast Among the Trees Rendering of a Jessie Arms mural in the Chicago Architectural Club Exhibition Catalog, 1907. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1522426883462-HAFNZX7S8V2OLVQTPN0H/cafe-brauer-advert.gif Blog - Pot Roast Among the Trees Chicago Tribune Display Ad, June 23, 1940. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1522427272928-SBH0GL1XP7IOV0N36ZQG/cafe-brauer-contemporary.jpg Blog - Pot Roast Among the Trees South Pond façade. Photo by Julia Bachrach. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1522426583956-1DWT7YJZ7D3MMSP1J6BD/cafe-brauer-corner.jpg Blog - Pot Roast Among the Trees Corner Details Café Brauer’s Great Hall Photo by Brooke Collins. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1522424047959-JGHXL30Q3BDSVEUSN7WX/Lincoln-Park-postcard.jpg Blog - Pot Roast Among the Trees Postcard view Café Brauer (Lincoln Park Refectory), ca. 1940. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1522424941727-BUD4KLT9KKMRYFK7WS17/lincoln-park-refrectory.jpg Blog - Pot Roast Among the Trees Postcard view of William Le Baron Jenney’s 1882 Lincoln Park Refectory. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1522425204051-N9HB4ZVLX2U2RLP68V3X/cafe-brauer-south-pond.jpg Blog - Pot Roast Among the Trees Café Brauer with boating concession along the edge of South Pond, ca. 1940. Chicago Park District Records: Photographs, Special Collections, Chicago Public Library. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1522427062940-EDOWD3WTADGFTESKPSH5/cafe-brauer-entrance.jpg Blog - Pot Roast Among the Trees Exterior view of Café Brauer. Photo by Julia Bachrach. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1522507584141-JMQIM78QTH5E3NAG7TUT/Cafe-Brauer-interior.jpg Blog - Pot Roast Among the Trees View of the Café Brauer restaurant in Great Hall with waiters and waitresses, ca. 1925. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1522425386909-Q6AUCSDOVRIZVPKND9BS/cafe-brauer-detail.jpg Blog - Pot Roast Among the Trees Café Brauer brick and terra cotta details. Photo by Julia Bachrach. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1522425803251-UI5EMBH5SUPWK7DPO0P6/cafe-brauer-great-hall-interior.jpg Blog - Pot Roast Among the Trees Interior View of Café Brauer’s Great Hall. Photo by Brooke Collins. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1522424802864-UQQP9XBH37TY8VEUMSTO/theater-on-the-lake.jpg Blog - Pot Roast Among the Trees Theater on the Lake. Photo by Julia Bachrach. https://www.jbachrach.com/blog/2018/2/28/art-in-the-parks monthly 0.5 2020-02-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1519862067973-0X3YBZXFXIPUL2ZYIRF5/Humboldt-Park.jpg Blog - Art in the Parks Left: Jens Jensen’s Humboldt Park Prairie River, 1941. Chicago Park District Records: Photographs, Special Collections, Chicago Public Library. Right: Humboldt Park Prairie River, 2013. Photo by James Iska. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1519849475411-NZX8XPDGY6WRBFG30W55/Rosenberg-fountain.jpg Blog - Art in the Parks Grant Park’s 1893 Rosenberg Fountain with 2006 Agora in the background. Photo by Julia Bachrach. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1519849932760-PB3UXNBIYCFCK9EK4E1S/alarm.jpg Blog - Art in the Parks The Alarm in Lincoln Park. Photo by Julia Bachrach. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1519849256128-ZYNJH4DM0TNLD1FQCLTR/shakespeare-monument.jpg Blog - Art in the Parks Tour of Lincoln Park features Shakespeare Monument. Photo by Martha Frish https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1519849605693-MBAO6W9MTJG08ZXNFJKW/Fountain-of-Time.jpg Blog - Art in the Parks Bus tour visit to Fountain of Time in Washington Park. Photo by Elizabeth Cummings. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1519849818031-UK9HDVDWB3JESFK16VGQ/Lincoln.jpg Blog - Art in the Parks Abraham Lincoln: The Man. Photo courtesy of Chicago Park District. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1519850921206-ER4F6T2LEC42V4DKP6AH/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Art in the Parks Unconditional Love near DuSable Museum in Washington Park. Photo by Julia Bachrach. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1519862085897-SY83QTPJ1BUYXFMHAEY6/Altgeld-rev.jpg Blog - Art in the Parks Left: Altgeld Monument in Lincoln Park. Photo by Julia Bachrach. Right: Eagle Columns, monument to John Peter Altgeld in Jonquil Park. Photo by Julia Bachrach. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1519851128973-DGOEXBEITIAPHMQDJQHV/Republic.jpg Blog - Art in the Parks Statue of the Republic in Jackson Park, 1956. Chicago Park District Records: Photographs, Special Collections, Chicago Public Library. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1519852125769-I2QRJXJXUZ8497LCOMIZ/murals.jpg Blog - Art in the Parks Historical Series murals in Hamilton Park Field House. Photo by James Iska. https://www.jbachrach.com/blog/2018/1/30/chicagos-jewish-architects-a-legacy-of-modernism monthly 0.5 2020-02-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1517342156867-WQY4A5LJ1G7X4FDPHBV4/c.jpg Blog - Chicago’s Jewish Architects: A Legacy of Modernism Dankmar Adler, Courtesy of Public Memories, Ancestry.com. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1517342593940-3SW9XDNT49HV0G8HTDBR/q.jpg Blog - Chicago’s Jewish Architects: A Legacy of Modernism Weiss Memorial Hospital, Photographic Images of Change, University of Illinois at Chicago. Library. Special Collections Department, CPC_01_C_0267_003. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1517342930316-8O3DVYI8R5KCMMQBAYXK/g.jpg Blog - Chicago’s Jewish Architects: A Legacy of Modernism Ottenheimer’s Wilson Theater, 1050 W. Wilson. Photo by Eric Allix Rogers. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1517342512835-Z33F5U3C4AVTUODPI8S1/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Chicago’s Jewish Architects: A Legacy of Modernism Loewenberg & Loewenberg’s 3550 N. Lake Shore Drive, completed 1962. Photo by Eric Allix Rogers. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1517342181429-7ZQ5SH8WI62LXQABR5MG/e.jpg Blog - Chicago’s Jewish Architects: A Legacy of Modernism Auditorium Theatre Interior. Photo by Eric Allix Rogers. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1517346033819-40F1BVYQRQJDRLK1RR64/l.jpg Blog - Chicago’s Jewish Architects: A Legacy of Modernism Medinah Athletic Club Interior, 505 N. Michigan Avenue. Photo by Eric Allix Rogers. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1517342305914-33UJT4YY6BY6QIN8IQ4F/m-1.jpg Blog - Chicago’s Jewish Architects: A Legacy of Modernism Walter W. Ahlschlager’s Medinah Athletic Club, 505 N. Michigan Avenue. Photo by Eric Allix Rogers. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1517342341187-1TS4TQBN0DSN2MBYP8H3/m-2.jpg Blog - Chicago’s Jewish Architects: A Legacy of Modernism Exterior detail, of Medinah Athletic Club. Photo by Eric Allix Rogers. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1517342545274-J29TGOG2FB9KYEFZBPL5/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Chicago’s Jewish Architects: A Legacy of Modernism Temple Sholom, 3480 N. Lake Shore Drive. Photo by Eric Allix Rogers. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1517342479113-G9UHKKSZHV2AI3BV9K6G/n.jpg Blog - Chicago’s Jewish Architects: A Legacy of Modernism Oman & Lilienthal’s Marine Drive Apartments, 5040-5060 N. Marine Drive. Photo by Eric Allix Rogers. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1517342631697-NWK3NR0XS4IJI0M56JGX/r.jpg Blog - Chicago’s Jewish Architects: A Legacy of Modernism Loebl, Schlossman & Bennett’s The Darien, 3100 N. Lake Shore Drive, Photo by Eric Allix Rogers. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1517342788616-KHKVHCO52B7UWKO46CH5/j.jpg Blog - Chicago’s Jewish Architects: A Legacy of Modernism K.A.M. Isaiah Synagogue, 1100 E. Hyde Park Boulevard. Photo by Eric Allix Rogers. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1517343019737-754OWLLS9WGJZ821ZZQZ/f.jpg Blog - Chicago’s Jewish Architects: A Legacy of Modernism K.A.M. Israel. Courtesy of Public Memories, Ancestry.com. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1517342888659-GGEEGYP1TYPM21HUBKP2/h.jpg Blog - Chicago’s Jewish Architects: A Legacy of Modernism Swedish American State Bank, 5400 N. Clark Street. Photo by Eric Allix Rogers. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1517342731983-ODDNS73CKQI5YIOOAV2R/k.jpg Blog - Chicago’s Jewish Architects: A Legacy of Modernism London Guarantee and Accident Building, 85 E. Wacker Drive. Photo by Eric Allix Rogers. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1517336558849-X3SSJZ320XHBR6TCJISX/a.jpg Blog - Chicago’s Jewish Architects: A Legacy of Modernism Alder & Sullivan’s Auditorium Building, 50 E. Congress. Photo by Eric Allix Rogers https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1517342843889-RTGC5C39IYYSVJRVI2SC/i.jpg Blog - Chicago’s Jewish Architects: A Legacy of Modernism Alschuler’s 1912 Thompson Building, 350 N. Clark Street. Photo by Eric Allix Rogers. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1517342144384-V2C5B57OVGV46FW10LDQ/b.jpg Blog - Chicago’s Jewish Architects: A Legacy of Modernism Architectural details of Loebl, Schlossman & Demuth’s 1930 Temple Sholom. Photo by Eric Allix Rogers. https://www.jbachrach.com/blog/2018/1/5/chicago-neighborhoods-then-and-now monthly 0.5 2020-02-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1515190195146-A1QJ7VNK84V8JRGGFB43/landscape-workers.jpg Blog - Chicago Neighborhoods Then and Now Landscape employees, construction stage, October 1891. Photograph by C.D. Arnold, Courtesy of Chicago Public Library, Special Collections, WCE CDA 11.53 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1515357422070-XAHQ9479KX3M7LKCVCGZ/plaque.jpg Blog - Chicago Neighborhoods Then and Now In 2009, Mike Torney and his students from York High School in Elmhurst, IL, underwrote and dedicated a plaque at Chicago’s 31st Street Beach commemorating the lives of the victims of Chicago’s Race Riot. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1515189215486-1WOYT3628YOG6LT8WETN/speakers.jpg Blog - Chicago Neighborhoods Then and Now Kathy Dickhut, and I will be team teaching a seminar at the Newberry Library this February. Photo by Robert Knapp https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1515359927440-S7PPG4HX6UF6LUJOTP8U/atrium.jpg Blog - Chicago Neighborhoods Then and Now Yale Apartment Hotel. Photo courtesy of Eric Alixx Rogers. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1515190646476-WK1WIRFEJ0BYOJHD8U4B/row-houses.jpg Blog - Chicago Neighborhoods Then and Now Stretch of 1890s row houses in Woodlawn, 2017. Photo by Adam Rubin. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1515357184514-3YN31YFIOQXQZ21HHQJJ/newspaper-ad.gif Blog - Chicago Neighborhoods Then and Now “Display Ad 1,” Chicago Defender, November 29, 1919. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1515189368694-WVYUV80R3VTKBJY395WN/S-Ashland.jpg Blog - Chicago Neighborhoods Then and Now View of S. Ashland Avenue near W. Adams Street, ca. 1900. Photo courtesy of Chicago History Museum, iChi 27335. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1515190391060-KM5EX3I8XRJJ9JIJCBB0/fair.jpg Blog - Chicago Neighborhoods Then and Now World’s Columbian Exposition, view south from Illinois Building, 1893. Photograph by C.D. Arnold, courtesy of Chicago Public Library, Special Collections, WCE CDA 9.10. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1515189839586-D9RXSK5RNOTQX7I648X1/beforeandafter.jpg Blog - Chicago Neighborhoods Then and Now Before and after photos of a vacant lot in Englewood that benefited from the City of Chicago’s Large Lots Program, 2017. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1515357619653-HHNC73VY74W49K5QD9KW/J-2.jpg Blog - Chicago Neighborhoods Then and Now Brick three-flat purchased by Carl Hansberry in 1937. Photo courtesy of WTTW. https://www.jbachrach.com/blog/2017/11/30/family-connections monthly 0.5 2020-02-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1512075913130-H3PSPK3PYSM6MHC0DHTX/funeralhome.jpg Blog - Family Connections Rendering (ca. 1926) and contemporary photograph of Hatzfeld’s funeral home at 3421 W. Fullerton Avenue. Photo by Julia Bachrach, 2010. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1512076331618-1HB0QWPLBOIFT3R0MZ0U/addition.jpg Blog - Family Connections Andrew E. Norman designed a front addition for the Rozek House in the late 1920s. Courtesy of Julia Bachrach. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1512074074531-UMA7XG4Y2UX95X0998SG/dinner.jpg Blog - Family Connections In this Tarrson family photo, Sam and Janet Oman are depicted at the far right, in 1931. Photo courtesy of Ronald Tarrson. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1512075146335-LL2QEWCKC2Y0YFEIP2B3/rainbo.gif Blog - Family Connections Advertisement for Rainbo Room at Clark Street and Lawrence Avenue, Chicago Daily Tribune, Dec. 13, 1925. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1512074373206-8NCYU0U90NBLP7B3Z4NV/rendering.jpg Blog - Family Connections This rendering of Indian Boundary Park Field House is part of the Clarence Hatzfeld Collection, ca. 1930. Courtesy of Chicago Public Library Special Collections. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1512074238330-3XCBUUT9K7ZHR71QVYCX/donation.jpg Blog - Family Connections Clarence Hatzfeld’s great-granddaughter sent me a box of materials she inherited from her grandmother. Recently, she donated the collection to the Chicago Public Library, 2016. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1512077577392-X5NLWVNCUXWLHQ0QV3TA/portrait.jpg Blog - Family Connections Clarence Hatzfeld, ca. 1927. Courtesy of Chicago Public Library Special Collections. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1512073806076-XE1OZ649WNHM8HBXJWEI/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Family Connections After last month’s post about the Marine Drive Apartments, I learned more about the building from relatives of Sam Oman and Albert Tarrson. Photo by Eric Allix Rogers, 2017 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1512074902531-HCPLIAZ9IUZYZOYE4IWZ/dual.jpg Blog - Family Connections Rendering (L, ca. 1926) and contemporary photograph (R) of the building at 1157 W. Diversey Parkway, which Hatzfeld called the Powder Puff type. Photo by Julia Bachrach, 2010. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1512078086144-XNAC2IFGYNC6IBY7PCVC/diary.jpg Blog - Family Connections Clarence Hatzfeld made a little cartoon for his daughter, Beatrice, in this leather-bound 1926 calendar book he sent her as a Christmas greeting. Courtesy of Sandy Altman. https://www.jbachrach.com/blog/2017/10/30/november monthly 0.5 2020-02-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1509397151742-DGLRPJ7449NU15808YNL/fountain.jpg Blog - Hiding in Plain Sight Although the original fountain was designed in a more restrained Art Moderne style than its 1990s “reinterpreted Art Deco” fountain, the feature continues to provide a delightful attraction in the center courtyard. Photo by Bonnie McDonald, 2017. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1509396465740-XVOSYXGT0O7BVA43PEFU/aerial.jpg Blog - Hiding in Plain Sight This aerial view shows the newly extended Marine Drive from Montrose to Foster avenues. The Marine Drive Apartments can be seen at the very top of this photo (just left of the 1923 Aquitania Building), ca. 1940. Chicago Park District Records: Photographs, Special Collections, Chicago Public Library. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1509397117844-SNH0JSO8R112FFBVO8U7/MDA-logo-duo.jpg Blog - Hiding in Plain Sight Interior decorative elements include the initials of the original Marine Drive Apartments name. Photos by Eric Allix Rogers, 2017. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1509396613579-XPOC00WPG5P5KX6T9KCV/HotelStClair.jpg Blog - Hiding in Plain Sight The Hotel St. Clair is now the Inn of Chicago, 2016. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1509396558740-O33JC2WVERZXHDPB2N8E/BelmontAve.jpg Blog - Hiding in Plain Sight Oman & Lilienthal became well known for designing luxury rental and cooperative apartments in the 1920s, including 444 W. Belmont Avenue, Chicago, IL. Oman & Lilienthal, architect. McNally & Quinn Records, Ryerson and Burnham Archives, The Art Institute of Chicago. Digital File #198002_150806-015. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1509396436103-QXZ8R3BLPC8X5V115Y37/MarineDrive-portico.jpg Blog - Hiding in Plain Sight Built in 1939, the Marine Drive Apartments, now called 5040-5060 North Marine Drive Condominiums, is an impressive example of Depression Era Modernism. Photo by Eric Allix Rogers, 2017. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1509396672745-ZJUI532XS85D8AW9ANO4/MarineDrive.jpg Blog - Hiding in Plain Sight Touted as “ultra-modern,” units in the Marine Drive Apartments had lots of natural light and ventilation and great views of Lincoln Park. 5040 N. Marine Dr., Chicago, IL, 1939. Oman & Lilienthal, architect. Earl H. Reed, photographer. Historic Architecture and Landscape Image Collection, Ryerson and Burnham Archives, The Art Institute of Chicago. Digital File #U527952. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1509396524691-1TN15PO4HZ1U6VOI6MW7/pathway.jpg Blog - Hiding in Plain Sight The pathway shown here leads to an exterior entranceway to one of the building’s six elevators, 2017. Photo by Julia Bachrach. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1509396727614-N45S06NU60FYP3B3D1Y5/brickwork.jpg Blog - Hiding in Plain Sight The artful use of brickwork creates a visually pleasing contrast between horizontality and verticality. Photo by Eric Allix Rogers, 2017. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1509397273557-IQA4ZTUU7H4RMEH2I6YG/courtyard.jpg Blog - Hiding in Plain Sight This view shows the two Lindens Ed McDaniel planted over 30 years ago. Photo by Julia Bachrach, 2017. https://www.jbachrach.com/blog/2017/10/2/jens-jensen-and-humboldt-park monthly 0.5 2020-02-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1506699112716-ZLVLCH1MUOGEPS7BLHJ3/PR-museum.jpg Blog - Jens Jensen and Humboldt Park National Museum of Puerto Rican Arts and Culture in Humboldt Park, 2017, photo by Julia Bachrach. In the late 1890s, Jensen worked from an office in the turret shown here. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1506700741971-7GCNOEB2AAN7KXT8BGTW/Jensen-Humboldt-postcard.jpg Blog - Jens Jensen and Humboldt Park This photograph depicts Jensen’s daughter Katherine Jensen sitting on a royal lily in the lily pond. 1899, Thirty-First Annual Report of West Chicago Park Commissioners https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1506698785970-A4Y8RVGOQYBCF3LJBVW8/Jensen-lawn.jpg Blog - Jens Jensen and Humboldt Park This portrait of Jensen edging the lawn shows the great pride he took in every aspect of his work. Ca. 1895, courtesy of the Johnson, Jensen, and Wheeler families. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1506700853163-EY7RBT5HTNP415CAZN0U/river-Japanese-tearoom.jpg Blog - Jens Jensen and Humboldt Park Looking northwest from the fork in Prairie River, this view shows the Japanese tea house which remained for at least 50 years. 1908, Chicago Park District Records: Photographs, Special Collections, Chicago Public Library. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1506701061267-26Z7TOTLTYD8Q1TU8PO8/flower-rings.jpg Blog - Jens Jensen and Humboldt Park Historically, Humboldt Park’s Formal Garden featured five continuous rings of roses and other perennials, but now has only two rings of annual beds. 2017, photo by Julia Bachrach. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1506700787652-0ZIA4D10PUB9IG2RB93M/Humboldt-plan.jpg Blog - Jens Jensen and Humboldt Park Jensen’s Plan of Proposed Improvements to Humboldt Park included Prairie River, a music court and boat house, and the circular Formal Garden. 1907, Chicago Park District Records: Drawings, Special Collections, Chicago Public Library. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1506700898246-KGCRD7SSR8G9IGVA8HNB/pergola.jpg Blog - Jens Jensen and Humboldt Park In this photograph, you can see park visitors relaxing under the garden’s west pergola, ca. 1915. Chicago Park District Records: Photographs, Special Collections, Chicago Public Library. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1506701497074-8YF2XJJOZIGZV5ZNZUOS/bicycle.jpg Blog - Jens Jensen and Humboldt Park Jens and Anna Marie Jensen are depicted on a tandem bicycle in front of their apartment at 574 (now 1113) N. Sacramento Avenue. Over a 20-year period, they lived in four different apartment buildings near Humboldt Park. Ca. 1900, courtesy of Morton Arboretum Special Collections. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1506701563242-C8KM9F0JHGIUMZP252SZ/Jensen-Greystone.jpg Blog - Jens Jensen and Humboldt Park The Greystone where the Jensen family lived in the late 1890s still exists today. 2017, photo by Julia Bachrach. https://www.jbachrach.com/blog/2017/8/30/chicago-parkitecture monthly 0.5 2020-02-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1504125035297-D6L6M57PMR1MCBJJ9R5Q/Carlson_Cottage.jpg Blog - Chicago Parkitecture Architect Joseph Lyman Silsbee designed this elegant 1888 Lincoln Park building, nicknamed the Carlson Cottage, as a ladies comfort station. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1504125876063-FPXP7TGWPE8IIIKLI785/Shedd-FH-1920.jpg Blog - Chicago Parkitecture William Drummond, who worked for several years under architect Frank Lloyd Wright, designed Shedd Park’s field house, ca. 1920. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1504125278256-I2WNAQ52BR9A46VXYJTI/Humb-refectory-summer.jpg Blog - Chicago Parkitecture Jenney’s Humboldt Park Refectory was a handsome stone and shingle Queen Anne style structure, ca. 1910. Chicago Park District Records: Photographs, Special Collections, Chicago Public Library. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1504125505057-7GUMXW4DOH45N4BEKFRV/GP-Bandstand.jpg Blog - Chicago Parkitecture Garfield Park’s Bandstand, designed by Joseph L. Silsbee remains intact today, 2007 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1504125550602-CY5Z49C4ULUEEDJNXZFO/Mark-White-Square.jpg Blog - Chicago Parkitecture D.H. Burnham & Company’s original field houses included this one in Mark White Square. Although this structure was later demolished, a number of the other original Burnham-designed field houses remain today, ca. 1906, Chicago Park District Records: Photographs, Special Collections, Chicago Public Library. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1504125598966-AFSLZZ5QVSL2O0YOODN2/Hamilton_Historical_1.jpg Blog - Chicago Parkitecture Hamilton Park, one of the original ten D.H. Burnham & Co. field houses, retains its original lobby with paired Ionic columns, 2012, photo by James Iska. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1504125081905-BKHS91RHW7EAD7N530SB/Washington-Stables.jpg Blog - Chicago Parkitecture Built in 1880, Burnham & Root’s Washington Park Stables, known as the Round House, is being rehabilitated as an annex for the Du Sable Museum. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1504125439860-JVCKNUI61AD5H9WMPTFX/Iowa-Bldg.jpg Blog - Chicago Parkitecture Burnham & Root’s Jackson Park Refectory Building, ca. 1910. Chicago Park District Records: Photographs, Special Collections, Chicago Public Library. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1504125184958-J9AIAZ5MQUCT2X4XWU2X/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Chicago Parkitecture Jenney’s Garfield Park Stables, erected in 1890, served as a maintenance building until it was destroyed by fire in the early 2000s. Chicago Park District Records: Photographs, Special Collections, Chicago Public Library. https://www.jbachrach.com/blog/2017/7/28/cycling-in-the-city monthly 0.5 2020-02-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1501271232102-CXVWIKJ5JVGGP7VOF13W/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Cycling in the City Garfield Park bicycle and race track, from Annual Report of the West Chicago Park Commissioners, 1896. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1501270310124-WTI2UHMJIRP3G7M9QVTD/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Cycling in the City Bicyclists from Oakland Playground (a non-extant municipal park at 40th and Langley Streets) ca. 1925, Chicago Park District Records: Photographs, Special Collections, Chicago Public Library. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1501270490571-A4WZIWGI6Q9AES72JBSL/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Cycling in the City High-wheeler, Agnieszka Kwiecień (Nova) (Own work) [GFDL or CC BY-SA 3.0] https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1501271107463-KWPVMM9I59HSUPFFRBXZ/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Cycling in the City View of old Lake Shore Drive with bicycles and carriages, ca. 1895, Chicago Park District Records: Photographs, Special Collections, Chicago Public Library. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1501271403809-H41X5ITU0MLTFNI60J66/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Cycling in the City Bicycle race in Humboldt Park, 1921, Chicago Park District Records: Photographs, Special Collections, Chicago Public Library. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1501270940809-ZQBGM6TL8DGL3TA1LI4G/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Cycling in the City Ladies and their bicycles near the Rustic Shelter in Lincoln Park, from the Report of the Commissioners and A History of Lincoln Park, 1899, by I.J. Bryan. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1501270750741-QYQ3D2K9QT9ZL21BGL4M/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Cycling in the City This 1880s photograph of cyclists in Lincoln Park was published in an Annual Report of the Chicago Park District, 1976. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1501271509657-M6VPL4WG2FIOT7J6R0QB/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Cycling in the City Bicycle velodrome in Humboldt Park, ca. 1935, Chicago Park District Records: Photographs, Special Collections, Chicago Public Library. https://www.jbachrach.com/blog/2017/6/29/can-you-believe-its-already-july monthly 0.5 2020-02-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1498765665396-I1O6T7SZODMT19QECZGG/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Can You Believe It’s Already July? Independence Park Garden, designed by architect Clarence Hatzfeld, ca. 1940, Chicago Park District Records: Photographs, Special Collections, Chicago Public Library. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1498766288467-X91LW7L1P9OIIS6Q38SU/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Can You Believe It’s Already July? Hatzfeld’s sunken garden, ca. 1940, Chicago Park District Records: Photographs, Special Collections, Chicago Public Library. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1498766078145-Z4UZUGM6X2QHT38FVK3U/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Can You Believe It’s Already July? Independence Park Field House, ca. 1928, Chicago Park District Records: Photographs, Special Collections, Chicago Public Library. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1498765917095-5A0QYBWU7U4UQGMZT4I6/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Can You Believe It’s Already July? Fourth Annual Celebration by the Citizens of Irving Park, July 4th, 1906, courtesy of Northwest Chicago Historical Society. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1498766546494-SK2TRR6WLO34XHTCQYKZ/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Can You Believe It’s Already July? Independence Park’s historic pavers and flagpole, 2008. Photograph by Julia Bachrach. https://www.jbachrach.com/blog/2017/5/30/thank-you-friends-of-the-parks-for-a-great-honor-and-a-call-to-action monthly 0.5 2020-02-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1496179467849-V5TFGLX7C2M2HZVUR6AD/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Thank You, Friends of the Parks, for a Great Honor – and a Call to Action Jackson Park German Building, Series II, University of Chicago, Special Collections Research Center, apf2-04510, 1904. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1496179340136-OKJF5LB3GSWUGE06GUWQ/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Thank You, Friends of the Parks, for a Great Honor – and a Call to Action Portrait of Leon Despres. Vories Fisher, photographer. CULR_04_0120_1373_001, Chicago Urban League records, University of Illinois at Chicago Library. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1496179947298-FTI0AUNOOLZCIK7FHC9P/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Thank You, Friends of the Parks, for a Great Honor – and a Call to Action Kay Clement (on left) with unidentified demonstrator protesting the tree removal in Jackson Park, Jack Dykinga photographer, courtesy Sun-Times Media, 1965. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1496179076873-AHTN376I9DBJ3Q4NI1XZ/image-asset.gif Blog - Thank You, Friends of the Parks, for a Great Honor – and a Call to Action Friends of the Parks Annual Conference Awardees Announcement, May 4, 2017 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1496179577236-9402GTZH67ZR5YOH0NJQ/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Thank You, Friends of the Parks, for a Great Honor – and a Call to Action Jackson Park, Ho-o-den (Phoenix Hall), Series II, University of Chicago, Special Collections Research Center, apf2-04518, undated. https://www.jbachrach.com/blog/2017/4/27/flashlight-tour-and-how-jackson-park-got-its-wooded-island monthly 0.5 2020-02-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1493318806504-7QM7GDGGUZV4S0BDINA5/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Flashlight Tour and How Jackson Park Got Its Wooded Island Plan of South Park (now Jackson and Washington Parks and Midway Plaisance) Olmsted & Vaux, 1871. Chicago Park District Records, Special Collections, Chicago Public Library. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1493318865700-B29RJD62R0OVSW97VZHN/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Flashlight Tour and How Jackson Park Got Its Wooded Island Jackson Park Lagoon Looking East, July, 1891. Chicago Public Library, Special Collections, WCE CDA 1.1. Photograph by C.D. Arnold. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1493318768945-SNZHCH0HIIZ2Z6RXQO2S/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Flashlight Tour and How Jackson Park Got Its Wooded Island Jane’s Walk Tour of Humboldt Park, 2013. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1493318895684-EPP7CQT53MUKK4PZBNHM/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Flashlight Tour and How Jackson Park Got Its Wooded Island World’s Columbian Exposition Court of Honor Looking West, 1893. Chicago Public Library, Special Collections, WCE CDA 2_5. Photograph by C.D. Arnold. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1493318740971-0DVVZ1ZORNY3XBIEQ47Z/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Flashlight Tour and How Jackson Park Got Its Wooded Island Aerial view of Jackson Park’s Wooded Island and Surrounding Landscape, ca. 1935. Chicago Park District Records: Photographs, Special Collections, Chicago Public Library. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1493318940786-KZVTYOMWEHCYXHN00B7Q/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Flashlight Tour and How Jackson Park Got Its Wooded Island Ho-o-den Pavilion and Japanese Garden in Jackson Park, ca. 1935. Chicago Park District Records: Photographs, Special Collections, Chicago Public Library. https://www.jbachrach.com/blog/2017/4/7/happy-150th-birthday-dwight-heald-perkins monthly 0.5 2020-02-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1491579481168-I43SMRXWJZVPQCUS4JHS/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Happy 150th Birthday Dwight Heald Perkins! (a little late…) “Thatcher Woods,” from The 1904 Report of the Special Park Commission to the City Council of Chicago on the Subject of A Metropolitan Park System, by Dwight H. Perkins and Jens Jensen. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1491580310804-FVPRIW80FFDMUJLU39K3/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Happy 150th Birthday Dwight Heald Perkins! (a little late…) Corkery School, ca. 1940, courtesy of Bill Latoza https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1491579073148-YEXCCK0KQ299OWWSUQ9W/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Happy 150th Birthday Dwight Heald Perkins! (a little late…) Carl Schurz High School, ca. 1970, courtesy of Bill Latoza. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1491579057321-HF8OM82PHGFINWKK86AC/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Happy 150th Birthday Dwight Heald Perkins! 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(a little late…) Café Brauer, ca. 1930, Chicago Park District Records: Photographs, Special Collections, Chicago Public Library. https://www.jbachrach.com/blog/2017/3/3/farwell-to-the-chicago-park-district-and-tale-of-the-archives monthly 0.5 2020-02-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1488573847269-XLE8NGRGTPDBA4D1B1FK/image-asset.png Blog - Farewell to the Chicago Park District and Tale of the Archives Storage shelving for historic plans and drawings at Harold Washington Library, 2014. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1488573902332-OFZJ58CLUUUK4LBGLWBU/image-asset.png Blog - Farewell to the Chicago Park District and Tale of the Archives Researcher working in Chicago Park District Archives Room, 2016. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1488839604380-JI3RR8N958J5DBZAM9Q7/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Farewell to the Chicago Park District and Tale of the Archives Aerial view of Chicago Park District Administration Building and Soldier Field looking south, ca. 1975. 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Photo: Brooke Collins. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1488572314061-N1XBTH9G46U6NTT0F2YF/Newberry-Class-2.jpg Students, Teachers, and Lifelong Learners - Newberry Library Seminar https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1488572313934-7YB0S5MEB55XTGEPSYOJ/Newberry-Class-1.jpg Students, Teachers, and Lifelong Learners - Newberry Library Seminar https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1488573112034-QF3B6QF3CY7E772NE4E2/Garden-Club.jpg Students, Teachers, and Lifelong Learners - Garden Club https://www.jbachrach.com/contact daily 0.75 2022-04-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1487891005611-LT4H3AX0IEKOPMVJHFUJ/image-asset.jpeg Contact https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1488308456792-TIOC7WJU1XMBX3RUJWXG/JB-banner-image-v1.jpg Contact https://www.jbachrach.com/home daily 1.0 2021-03-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1498768073675-I0SZPTLSQSKQ6TQ8MDRS/image-asset.jpeg Home Photo: Robert Knapp, 2016 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1488307986424-ZIQ78ALXJ40NEZ3T1196/JB-banner-image-v1.jpg Home https://www.jbachrach.com/exhibits-interpretation daily 0.75 2017-02-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1488303731789-5B7SEFMS9BWT1ATJOETS/image-asset.jpeg Exhibits and Interpretation This Grant Park plaque commemorates the Central Station railroad terminal and its significance to African Americans who arrived in Chicago during the Great Migration. (Julia Bachrach managed this project, wrote the commemorative text, and coordinated with Langston Hughes Foundation for permission to publish the poem One Way Ticket.) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1487887505102-LD3DSBJF4UHBYNQXUVIJ/image-asset.jpeg Exhibits and Interpretation Julia Bachrach curated a permanent exhibit honoring 5-time Olympian Willye B. White. She worked in collaboration with designers Jell Creative, 2009. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1488303677707-K571XURXRSSC6FW4FG1Q/image-asset.jpeg Exhibits and Interpretation Julia Bachrach created a series of interpretive and way-finding signs for Jackson Park Chicago including this 2-sided Garden of the Phoenix Sign. (The other side has Japanese text.) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1488303856667-68PCXT85W4FDAA6VY5KU/image-asset.jpeg Exhibits and Interpretation Statue Stories Chicago public launch party with featured guests who helped make some of the statues speak. From left to right: Collette Hiller, Bill Kurtis, Blue Balliett, Geoffrey Baer and Julia Bachrach. (Julia wrote the monolugue for the Alexander von Humboldt statue and served as Chicago Park District liaison this Driehaus Foundation-funded project), 2016. https://www.jbachrach.com/biography daily 0.75 2017-06-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1498768012558-MAM6D9F7G1UL8HI3DBQ5/image-asset.jpeg Biography https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1488308348618-5Q64MKCIB806D79IUPSV/JB-banner-image-v1.jpg Biography https://www.jbachrach.com/books daily 0.75 2017-02-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1487890166561-EVY9DM1S261P9AT8B4L6/image-asset.jpeg Books https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1487874882657-HQJI0COZWPYK69DAMW53/image-asset.jpeg Books Julia Bachrach and Jo Ann Nathan. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1488308418015-19WTDEIOWEY97NJZNTIO/JB-banner-image-v1.jpg Books https://www.jbachrach.com/awards daily 0.75 2025-02-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/8aba1889-c117-467a-af64-cff7186694b1/2024-ASLA-Award-2025-02-12b.jpg Awards - Make it stand out Julia Bachrach was the recipient of a 2024 Public Recognition Award, from the Illinois Chapter of the American Society of Landscape Architects https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ab5d7bebbd1ab59c820b77/1526331175383-8CHOFFHVYYL1Q52BWQHC/award.jpg Awards Julia Bachrach received the Friends of the Parks’ Leon Despres Lifetime Commitment to Parks Award, 2017. 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