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MARKTOWN UPDATE A publication of the Marktown Preservation Society February 2007 Marktown Participates In Wolf Lake Conference Left: Betty Balanoff spoke on the influx of African American Workers to the Calumet Region. Above: Mike Boos discussed the Wolf Lake Initiative Right: Rod Sellers addressed the history of the Illinois side of Wolf Lake No man is an island and nei- the Environmental Education Cen- While there hasn’t been ice on ther is a neighborhood, not even ter on Calumet Avenue in Ham- Wolf Lake during the past three tiny little Marktown. There are two mond and the afternoon session conferences, Rich Ogrentz, the major regional plans that people at the Southeast Sportsmen’s Commodore of the Illiana Yacht are working toward. The first is the Club in Hegewisch, Illinois. Club discussed the history of ice Marquette Plan and the second is A number of organizations, boats on the lake. the Calumet Heritage Project. including the Marktown Historic At the end of the afternoon Both can be considered quality of District provided tabletop displays session a group discussion was life based initiatives and both in- including historic photographs, held lead by Mike Boos, Execu- clude the Marktown Historic Dis- articles and handouts for the par- tive Director of the Wolf Lake Ini- trict. ticipants at the conference. tiative. During the discussion, pre- Another area that is mutual to The list of speakers was quite senters and the public exchanged both plans is the Wolf Lake Initia- extraordinary and most diverse in histories and ideas brought for- tive and for the 6th year they cel- topics. Leading off the presenta- ward during this most remarkable ebrated their natural environment tions was Paul Myers who spoke one day event. and our shared social history at in reference to the Marquette The day came to an end with their bi-state Winter Wonderland Plan, the Calumet Heritage Corri- a bonfire coordinated by Mike and at Wolf Lake. The one day event dor and the need for both environ- Dennis Brennan of Chicago’s East was held on Saturday, January mental remediation and historic Side and Calumet City, Illinois, 13th with the morning session at preservation throughout the Calu- respectively. met Region. Betty Balanoff spoke in refer- ence to the history of steelwork- ers in the various Wolf Lake Com- munities. Her knowledge and ex- pertise in the field is truly amaz- ing. Robert T. Kay of USGS dis- cussed the introduction of slag to Wolf Lake. visit us on line at www.marktown.org Planning That Marktown Garden This past summer a relatively cide to do this, then the best thing back year after year, but the initial new resident of Marktown noted to do is work with the neighbor purchase price will probably be a that they were going to put in a next door so that the garden con- bit higher than the annuals. garden this year so they could tinues from one front gate to an- You may want to consider have a photo of their house in other. planting perennials closer to the Marktown Update. Outstanding! For ideas on the street side house or fence and then adding With that in mind we decided it is gardens drive or walk past 402- the annuals in front of them. This never to early to plan that garden, 406 Prospect Street and you can combination works well in most especially considering the size of see two outstanding examples of gardens and provides both stabil- most Marktown yards. gardening and neighborhood co- ity in the garden and a greater Let’s start with the fact that operation. variety of color throughout the most Marktown yards are rela- The same type of street side spring, summer and fall. tively small. Since the average lot gardens are scheduled to be in- One of the things that you is 40’X40’ (i.e. 1600 square feet) stalled on much of Spruce Avenue need to remember is that some and the average home has a foot- in mid to late spring of this year. flowers do better in shade than print of approximately 600 square As for your in the yard garden sun, while others prefer the sun feet, by the time you take out the the best you can do during the over the shade. Pay close atten- square footage for the residential winter months is think about it, do tion to how much sun your yard sidewalk and the basement win- a little research and monitor the gets and then decide what you dow pit you are probably down to sun. want to plant and where. about 600-700 square feet. There are two basic types of If this is your first garden in That doesn’t leave a great flowers that will be relatively avail- Marktown START SMALL. Noth- deal of space for a lawn, let alone able this spring. They are annu- ing looks worse that a garden full a garden. But gardens don’t have als and perennials. Annuals re- of weeds, and yes, starting with a to be huge, nor do they have to quire that you replace them each large garden can take a consid- take up the entire yard. year. This gives you the opportu- erable amount of time, effort and You may also have the option nity to totally change your garden money to install and maintain. For of installing a street side garden each year. The second type are further gardening ideas visit the adjacent to your yard. If you de- know as perennials. They come East Chicago Public Library. Gardens don’t happen by themselves. They take planning and work all summer long. They do show that people in the neighborhood take pride in their homes. THE TOWN OF MARK, INDIANA A MANUFACTURER’S HOUSING ENTERPRISE By Ralph F. Warner In considering the ing of the town plan, a progress that has been work requiring a broad made, since the out- appreciation of the in- break of the war in terrelation of a large 1914, in meeting the number of factors not extraordinary press- all directly related to ing demand for indus- architectural design, trial housing, certain that he has, generally interesting and sig- speaking, shown the nificant develop- same grasp of essen- ments are to be found tials and the same thor- by glancing over a list ough understanding of of the names of archi- the fundamentals of tects or architectural good design, that have firms who are, or characterized his ef- have been engaged in forts in the regular the actual planning of practice of his profes- homes for industrial sion. workers. It will In the town plan- be seen that a sur- ning work of Mr. Howard Van Doren Shaw, we prisingly large have a peculiarly fitting illustration of these points. portion of them Mr. Shaw entered the field of community devel- are architects opment about three years ago, with the drafting of whose names the general layout and the designing of the build- have hereto ing for the Market Square forming the entrance to been associ- the town of ated only Lake Forest, with the de- Ill. In many sign of larger ways, the Lake and more pretentious Forest Market Square structures. It is, how- development, which ever, to the was com- credit of the pleted and profession as a published whole, that in last year, is most cases the the most at- architects are tractive and measuring up to complete the trust placed scheme of in them, aided, its kind that it is true, by a has yet been better under- realized in standing of the meaning and importance of indus- this country. trial housing, thanks to the lessons which the war In the development of the town of Mark, a has taught. community for wage earners built by the Mark manu- It is also peculiarly gratifying to find that, facturing Company (now the Steel and Tube Com- where the architect has been entrusted with the draft- pany of America), located at East Chicago, Indiana, The Architectural Review - November 1918 97 THE ARCHITECTURAL REVIEW Mr. Shaw has to be filled to a brought the height from same careful four to seven and conscien- feet throughout. tious study to The work of bear on the so- filling is still lution of his going on, as the problem. In photographs fact, it is appar- taken before the ent from a com- development parison of the was completed Market Square show. Due to at Lake Forest, this condition, it with that for the Diagonal view between buildings, showing spacing apart of houses is necessary for new town, that the reader to ex- the former has ercise his strongly influenced imagination in order the design in the lat- to fully visualize ter development -- what the conditions both of which, it will be when the may be said, show streets and lot de- the effect of English velopment and examples combined plantings are com- with a certain twang pleted. When that of continental ori- time arrives, we feel gin, noticeable par- sure that the devel- ticularly in the opment will com- buildings about the pare most favorably square. with any similar en- Not the Typical Arrangement of Block Plans terprise in America least of the difficul- which is governed ties which had to be met and solved in the develop- by the same conditions. ment of this scheme, was the fact that the entire site The task of devising a town plan on a filled of 190 acres was, for the most part a swamp, and had and leveled site, which in outline is rigidly geometri- The Architectural Review - November 1918 98 THE ARCHITECTURAL REVIEW View of Boarding House Howard Van Doren Shaw, Architect cal in form, has been solved by creating families.

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