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Heroism and Chicago Architecture Heroism and Chicago Architecture Reversal and straightening of the Chicago River Elevation of buildings and streets Reclamation of land from Lake Michigan A city of skyscrapers Ben Hecht, 1919 Charles Baudelaire 1821-1867 French art critic “On the heroism of modern life,” Salon of 1846 Jean-Leon Gerome, The Death of Caesar, 1867 Gustave Courbet, The Stone Breakers, 1849 Themes • Early pioneers • Social reform / charity • Waves of immigrants • Medicine and science • African -American • Education achievement • Art and culture • Public safety • Politics and rights Early Pioneers Henry B. Clarke House 1855 S. Indiana Ave. Circa 1836 Noble-Seymour-Crippen House 5624 N. Newark Ave. Probably 1833; addition, 1869 Hazelton-Mikota House 5453 N. Forest Glen Ave. 1881 Capt. William Cross Hazelton Hazelton House, photo circa 1890 Waves of immigrants Vorwaerts Turner Hall 2431-2433 W. Roosevelt Rd. 1896-1897; George L. Pfeiffer Friedrich Jahn Turnverein Forwards basketball team (1907) The Forwards fencing team (1907) Polish National Alliance Building 1514-1520 W. Division St. 1937-1938; Joseph A. Slupkowski Building ornament President Franklin D. Roosevelt and PNA officials Grand opening of the new PNA building in May 1938 African-American Achievement Anthony Overton (1865-1947) Overton Hygienic Building 3619 S. State St. 1922-23, Z. Erol Smith Chicago Bee Building 3647 S. State St. 1929-31, Z. Erol Smith Eighth Regiment Armory Building 3533 S. Giles Ave. 1914-15, J. B. Dibelka Wabash Avenue YMCA Building 3763 S. Wabash Ave. 1911-13, Robert C. Berlin Ida B. Wells-Barnett House 3624 S. King Dr. 1889, Joseph A. Thain Ida B. Wells (1862-1931) Oscar De Priest Home 4536-38 S. King Dr. Oscar Stanton De Priest (1871-1951) Robert S. Abbott House Robert Abbott 4742 S. King Dr. (1870-1940) Chicago Defender Building 3435 S. Indiana Ave. 1899, Henry L. Newhouse; altered circa 1915 Public Safety Police stations and fire houses 7th District Police Station 943-49 W. Maxwell St. 1888, Edbrooke & Burnham • Engine Company 84, Truck 51 • 6204 S. Green St. • 1929, Paul Gerhardt, Jr. Old Chicago Coast Guard Station Lake Michigan near the mouth of the Chicago River 1936; Civil Engineers Office, United States Coast Guard Postcard view, circa 1950s Social reform / public charity Jane Addams (1860-1935) Hull House Settlement 800-block S. Halsted St. Original house, 1856; subsequent buildings, 1890 – 1910s; most demolished, early 1960s Charles Hull House and Butler Art Gallery, circa 1891 Northwestern University Settlement House 1400 W. Augusta Blvd. 1901; Pond & Pond Chicago Orphan Asylum Building 5120 S. King Dr. 1898, Shepley, Rutan & Coolidge Asylum nursery “Cholera” cover on 19th-century French publication Postcard view Asylum kindergarten Horace R. Cayton, Jr., flanked by writer Langston Hughes and librarian Arna Bontemps Cover of Black Metropolis, co- written by Cayton (with St. Clair Drake) Photos of Parkway Community Center activities Medicine and science Cook County Hospital Building 1835 W. Harrison St. 1912-14; Paul Gerhardt, Sr. St. Luke’s Hospital Building 1435 S. Michigan Ave. 1906-08, Frost & Granger Historic photo of lobby Operating room North Chicago Hospital Building 2551 N. Clark St. 1928-29; Meyer J. Sturm (with M. Louis Kroman, associated Carl, Emil, and Joseph Beck Previous hospital buildings on site Drawing of new hospital building and adjacent commercial building Dr. Daniel Hale Williams (1856-1931) Dr. Daniel Hale Williams House 445 E. 42nd St. Dr. Wallace C. Abbott House 4605 N. Hermitage Ave. 1891; Dahlgren & Lievendahl Dr. Wallace C. Abbott (1857-1921) Frank R. Lillie House 5801 S. Kenwood Ave. 1901; Pond and Pond Frank Rattray Frances Crane Lillie (1870-1947) Lillie (1869-1958) Education Lindblom Technical High School Building 6130 S. Wolcott Ave. 1917-19, Arthur F. Hussander Botany lab Weaving Automobile Repair Shop Swimming pool Du Sable High School 4934 S. Wabash Ave. 1931-35; Paul Gerhardt, Sr. Workshops and swimming pool Study hall, circa 1940 Artist and Du Sable teacher Dr. Margaret T. Burroughs Nat King Cole Dorothy Donegan Captain Walter H. Dyett Du Sable High School Alumni John H. Johnson Dempsey Travis Mayor Harold Washington Police Superintendent Fred Rice Art and Culture Carl Sandburg House 4646 N. Hermitage Ave. Circa 1886 (Carl Sandburg lived here from 1912-15) Carl Sandburg (1878-1967) “Hog Butcher for the World, Tool Maker, Stacker of Wheat, Player with Railroads and the Nation’s Freight Handler; Stormy, husky, brawling, City of the Big Shoulders.” House circa 1940 Sandburg as a young man PBS American Masters ad Chicago Poems Gwendolyn Brooks Gwendolyn Brooks House (1917-2000) 7428 S. Evans Ave. Circa 1890 Lorraine Hansberry House 6140 S. Rhodes Ave. Lorraine Hansberry 1909; Albert G. Ferree (1930-1965) George Cleveland Hall George Cleveland Hall Branch, Chicago Public Library 4801 S. Michigan Ave. 1931, Charles Hodgdon Opening Day, January 18, 1932 Vivian G. Harsh Poet Gwendolyn Brooks lecturing at the Hall Branch Library South Side Community Art Center 3831 S. Michigan Ave. 1892-1893, L. Gustav Hallberg; Remodeling, 1940, Hin Bredendleck and Nathan Lerner Poetry reading, 1942 Eleanor Roosevelt speaking at art center dedication, 1941 Griffiths-Burroughs House 3806 S. Michigan Ave. 1892, S. S. Beman Contractor John Griffiths Quincy Club of Railroad Men House as Du Sable Museum Charles & Margaret Burroughs Dr. Margaret Burroughs Students touring museum Richard Nickel Studio 1810 W. Cortland St. 1889 Photographer and preservationist Richard Nickel (1928-1972) Garrick Theatre protest, 1960 Nickel with salvaged Sullivan ornament Stock Exchange arch Chicago Stock Exchange Building Roger Brown Home and Studio 1926 N. Halsted St. Artist Roger Brown (1941-1997) Brown at work The Entry of Christ into Chicago in 1976 Part of studio collection Rising Above It All Hull House, Cook County, Howard Brown: A Tradition of Helping, Italian glass mosaic at Howard Brown Health Center, 4025 N. Sheridan Rd., Chicago Politics and Rights Henry Gerber House 1710 N. Crilly Ct. 1885 (Henry Gerber lived here from 1924 to 1925) Henry Gerber (1892-1972) Illinois state charter for Society for Human Rights, 1924 Gerber’s publication, Friendship and Freedom, amidst European gay-rights publications Wood-Maxey-Boyd House 2801 S. Prairie Ave. 1885, John C. Cochrane View of “Lower Prairie Avenue” Terra-cotta ornament Entrance hall and staircase Charles Boyd and Dr. Alma Maxey Boyd Roberts Temple Church of God in Christ Building 4021 S. State St. Original 1-story building, 1922; addition, 1927; remodeled, 1992-93 Emmett and Mamie Till Bryant store, Carolyn Bryant Money, Mississippi Emmett Till House of Mose Wright, Emmett’s great-uncle J. W. Milam & Roy Bryant Emmett Till’s body Mamie Till weeping as she sees Emmett’s casket for the first time Photo of Emmett Till’s body published in Jet Views of the visitation of Emmett Till at the Roberts Temple Church of God in Christ Views of crowds outside the Roberts Temple Church of God in Christ during the funeral and visitation “Let us realize the arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice.” Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., address to the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, August 16, 1967 Commission on Chicago Landmarks and Historic Preservation Division, Department of Planning and Development, City of Chicago http://www.cityofchicago.org/city/en/depts/dcd/provdrs/hist.html .
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