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Preserving Prairie Avenue, with Passion and Paintbrush by Barbara Stodola THE TM 911 Franklin Street Weekly Newspaper Michigan City, IN 46360 Volume 26, Number 22 Thursday, June 10, 2010 Preserving Prairie Avenue, with Passion and Paintbrush by Barbara Stodola In 1965, Chicago artist Jack Simmerling wanted to buy a house on Prairie Avenue for $35,000. – “the most beautiful house in Chi- cago,” he says. His wife, however, pointed out that there wasn’t even a school in the neighbor- hood, so they didn’t buy it. A few years ago, the same house sold for $4 million. All around it, similar houses have been demolished. That is the story of Prairie Avenue. On Sun- day afternoon, June 13, tour-goers can see what is left of the fabulous Near South Side neigh- borhood that once housed Chicago’s upper- crust – nine houses (two of them transformed into museums, one a boutique hotel) and Sec- ond Presbyterian Church which, Simmerling As a teen-ager, Jack Simmerling (left) asked homeowners such as R.W. Eyster for private tours of their Prairie Avenue homes. says, “is still standing because it would have cost too much to tear it down.” double-edged sword that cut a wide swath Urban renewal and urban decay formed the through old neighborhoods during Simmer- ling’s childhood. But, for as long as he can remember, he had a passion for historic architecture; and he devoted his lifetime to preserving what- ever he could – in bits and pieces, in draw- ings and paintings. Prairie Avenue Continued on Page 2 Behind the stone facade of Second Presbyterian Church are pre-Raphaelite murals and twenty stained glass windows, nine by Louis Comfort Tiffany’s studio. Drawing to the right is an interesting side view of the building. THE Page 2 June 10, 2010 THE 911 Franklin Street • Michigan City, IN 46360 219/879-0088 • FAX 219/879-8070 In Case Of Emergency, Dial e-mail: News/Articles - [email protected] email: Classifieds - [email protected] http://www.thebeacher.com/ PRINTED WITH Published and Printed by TM Trademark of American Soybean Association THE BEACHER BUSINESS PRINTERS Delivered weekly, free of charge to Birch Tree Farms, Duneland Beach, Grand Beach, Hidden 911 Shores, Long Beach, Michiana Shores, Michiana MI and Shoreland Hills. The Beacher is also delivered to public places in Michigan City, New Buffalo, LaPorte and Sheridan Beach. Prairie Avenue Continued from Page 1 “When I was just a boy, 7 or 8 years old, my grand- father took me to visit the house of Marshall Field III, on Prairie Avenue,” recalls Simmerling, now a grandfather himself. “The house was already aban- doned, but caretakers were keeping it up. The wid- ow had moved to Washington. My grandfather, who used to be Field’s offi ce boy, became friendly with the coach driver, and when I got restless, they told me to go explore the house. Its beauty overwhelmed me.” Henry Ives Cobb designed this Romanesque-style house for Joseph G. Coleman, proprietor of a wholesale hardware company. It has an octagonal billard room. In 1958, Jack and Marjorie Simmerling were married, and they moved into his grandmother’s old house on Vincennes Avenue. “This was not trendy,” he admits. “My poor wife put up with it. But in the 1950s there was no concept of historic preservation. Modernism was stylish. Our country was being ‘re- As modernism gained popularity in Chicago, born’ after the Second World War, and whatever once-fashionable row houses were left isolated. was old was obsolete.” As a teen-ager, Simmerling took a $5./ day job with a wrecking crew so that he could photograph the doomed houses and cart off small treasures – doorknobs, clocks, fi replace mantels, “what other people considered junk.” His boss, a cordial African- American named Chester Wood, alerted him to no- table items – such as a Tiffany lamp – but advised him to salvage lead pipe, because it was worth more money. One summer he worked for an antique deal- er, and his payment was an 1817 English piano – thus starting a collection of keyboard instruments. After graduating from Notre Dame University with a degree in fi ne arts, Simmerling returned to the Morgan Park/ Beverly neighborhood where he had grown up. His parents’ house and garage were fi lled to capacity with his collection of historic ar- tifacts. From this dust-covered assemblage, Sim- Lamplight casts a nostalgic glow on the home of piano manufacturer merling launched his career as an artist and dealer William W. Kimball, designed by Solon S. Beman in the French Chateauesque style. in fi ne arts. He opened Heritage Gallery on 103rd Street, still in business today, after 52 years. PAINTINGS AND DRAWINGS BY JACK SIMMERLING THE June 10, 2010 Page 3 Simmerling continued swimming against the tide. He enrolled in a graduate art history program at the University of Chicago, with plans to concen- trate on 18th and 19th century decorative arts. He learned about famed architects: Henry Ives Cobb, the designer of university buildings and Potter Palmer’s castle on Lake Shore Drive; Solon S. Be- man, who designed mansions for Marshall Field Jr. and piano manufacturer William Kimball, but was best-known for the planned community of Pullman railroad workers; and Henry Hobson Richardson, the Bostonian who did the controversial home for Chicago industrialist John J. Glessner. Simmerling learned to distinguish among the elaborate archi- tectural styles favored by Glessner’s neighbors on Millionaires’ Row: Italianate, Romanesque, Classi- cal Revival, French Renaissance. He did paintings of them all. A detail of the front door to the William H. Reid home pictured below. With their growing family – six children – the tear-downs now found an appropriate setting: chan- Simmerlings had more reasons to buy a large Vic- deliers, fi replace mantels, wood carvings, art tiles, torian home. Many of the treasures salvaged from mirrors. And all those pianos. Their 20-room Mor- gan Park home, built in the 1880s, was scheduled for demolition when they bought it. The original owner, Isaac Blackwelder, held a prominent place in Chicago history – he was the Village of Morgan Park’s fi rst president, and he represented Niagara Fire Insurance Company after the great Chicago fi re of 1871. Banker William H. Reid built this Classical Revival home in 1890 for his second wife. It has nine fi replaces and a music room with Jack Simmerling’s angled view brings a neighborly quality to the large stained glass fortress-like mansion of John J. Glessner, vice-president dome. of International Harvester. Simmerling never did complete his graduate studies. But he received honorary doctorates from Xavier and Bradley universities, and recognition for his pioneering achievements in historic pres- ervation – a fi eld which fi nally began to catch on. In 1966, the Chicago Architecture Foundation was formed, in order to save Glessner House. In the 1970s, Landmarks Preservation Council of Illinois was founded, and Prairie Avenue Historic District was designated as a Chicago landmark. View from the 18th Street side of the Glessner home. Prairie Avenue Continued on Page 4 THE Page 4 June 10, 2010 Dr. Charles W. Purdy’s house The Harriet Rees is a Renaissance Revival home is included in design, with such details as the Prairie Avenue acanthus leaf brackets, egg- Home Tour. and-dart trim, dentil moldings, and lions’ heads. Prairie Avenue Continued from Page 3 The Simmerlings’ Morgan Park home, carefully restored, was often included on tours. They bought a 1940s summer home in Ogden Dunes, where he did dunes paintings and met more preservation- ists. His fi eld of specialty opened new vistas – “lots of work for universities, lots of work in Ireland,” a month doing watercolors in London. The Simmerlings’ children followed in their foot- steps. Daughter Vicki, manager of Heritage Gallery, lives in the second-oldest house in Blue Island, Ill. – a national landmark because Abraham Lincoln slept there. Their son Carlos has an old sea cap- tain’s house, c. 1860, in Port Jefferson, N.Y. Son- in-law Kirk Shepherd, a professional photographer, shares the studio space in Morgan Park. The Clarke House Museum, moved to its present site on Indiana As he observes the pieces of his life blending to- Avenue, is Chicago’s oldest surviving residence. gether, Simmerling has a bit of advice to offer the It is a Greek Revival style, built in 1836. next generation: “If you’re going to do something well,” he says, “you need to do it with passion.” THE PRAIRIE AVENUE HOME TOUR • Sunday, June 13, 1:00-4:00 p.m. • Tickets are $50 per person • Reservations suggested: phone 312-326- 1480. • Tour starts at Glessner House Museum, 1800 S. Prairie, Chicago and includes-- -Second Presbyterian Church -Kimball house -Coleman house -Keith house -Wheeler house -Reid house -Rees house -Purdy house -concludes at the Clarke House Museum • Jack Simmerling’s art work will be on Elbridge Keith was one of three successful brothers to live on Prairie Avenue. His 1870 home was updated in the 1880s, in Second Empire style. display THE June 10, 2010 Page 5 ²*MJLFUPSJEFUSBJOT³ Hesston Steam Museum. Bringing families together. Bringing history to life. www.hesston.org LAKE MICHIGAN ROUTE 12 Steam Train Rides! I-94 (exit 1) NEW BUFFALO 1000 N HESSTON STEAM Father’s Day Weekend, June 19-20. DAD’s ride for a dollar, MUSEUM LOOK 39 ROUTE with paid child. Antique Truck Show on Father’s Day! FOR OUR ROUTE 20 BILLBOARD! ROAD FAIL Civil War Train Raids, June 26-27. Secret plans have been uncovered by Union Army spies that the Confederate Army will raid trains. Union solders will defend.
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