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Annual Society Dinner Casts a Broad Net HP Hyde Park Historical Society Non-Profit Org. 5529 S. Lake Park Avenue U.S. Postage HS Chicago, IL 60637 PAID Chicago, IL Permit No. 85 H VOL. 39y dN0. 2 e PublishedPa by ther Hydek Park H istoricalH Society istoSPRINGr 2017y SPRING 2017 Annual Society Dinner Casts a Broad Net ocal theater, architectural design and preservation, a very special book store, and good friends and memories all produced a wonderful meld of originality and satisfaction Lat the annual dinner of the Hyde Park Historical Society on February 25, 2017, at the Quadrangle Club. The Society’s Paul Cornell Award went to Nicholas Rudall, Founding Artistic Director of Court Theater and Professor Emeritus in Classics at the University of Chicago. Mr. Rudall entertained the audience by describing his background growing up in Wales and studying classical Greek at Cornell University. This Newsletter is published by His descriptions of how he met the challenges of the Hyde Park Historical Society, a / MARC MONAGHAN PHOTOS establishing a first-rate theater in Chicago held the Master of Ceremonies Jay Mulberry impersonates Donald Trump. audience in rapt attention. The award was presented Hyde Park Historical Society not-for-profit organization founded COLLECTING AND PRESERVING HYDE PARK’S HISTORY in 1975 to record, preserve, and by Cornell Award Committee chairman, Frances Vandervoort. Time for you to join up or renew? promote public interest in the history of Hyde Park. Its headquarters, The Marian and Leon Despres Preservation Award Fill out the form below and return it to: located in an 1893 restored cable car was bestowed upon the Pioneer Cooperative, Inc. a station at 5529 S. Lake Park Avenue, highly creative and practical apartment complex at 5427–5257 South Dorchester Avenue. This complex, The Hyde Park Historical Society houses local exhibits. It is open to 5529 S. Lake Park Avenue • Chicago, IL 60637 the public on Saturdays and Sundays for which ground was broken in 1952, was designed by Chicago architects George Fred Keck and William ✁ from 2 until 4pm. Keck. The award was presented by the Society’s Enclosed is my new renewal membership Web site: hydeparkhistory.org Preservation Committee’s chairman, Jack Spicer, and in the Hyde Park Historical Society. Telephone: HY3-1893 was received by Nina Helstein, Donna Pilot, and Patty McNamara. Student $15 Individual $30 Family $40 President: Michal Safar The 2017 President’s Award went to Megan E. Vice-President: Janice A. Knox Name Doherty and Jasmine Kwong, whose attractively Secretary: Gary Ossewaarde illustrated and beautifully written book, If You Weren’t Treasurer: Jay Wilcoxen Address Looking For It: The Seminary Co-op Bookstore, is a Editor: Frances S. Vandervoort timely history of one of Hyde Park’s most venerable Zip Email Membership Coordinator: institutions. This award was presented by Society Claude Weil Nicholas Rudall, Founding Artistic Director of the Court Theater and president, Michal Safar. Phone Cell Designer: Nickie Sage Professor Emeritus in the Department of Classics at the University of Chicago, receives the Paul Cornell Award from Frances Vandervoort, Newcomers to this happy event were Judy Zitske, Cornell Award Committee Chairman. rsister of long-time Board member, Devereux Bowly, ➤ 2 r2 r7 ➤ ➤ 1 who passed away in 2014, and Judy’s husband Hyde Park Book Club Wayne and son Matt. All drove down from their UPCOMING EVENTS family home in Madison, Wisconsin. Membership Continues Good food was enjoyed, stories were told, greetings Details have not been established for the were exchanged amongst young and old, friends and to Grow following events but they are certain to be new acquaintances. In other words, it was all that a exciting and thought-provoking. year end, or perhaps NEW year, celebration should The Hyde Park Book Club, sponsored by the The annual Metro History Fair will take be. Hyde Park Historical Society and now beginning place on Saturday, June 17, 2017. The event broke up at 9:00 PM, and guests its second year, has continued to increase its HPHS In late June, Society members will be departed into the Hyde Park night. membership. Recommended books focus on topics invited to a special tour of the upcoming related to Hyde Park and are often written by local exhibit at the Museum of Science and authors. Fiction and non-fiction books are both Industry commemorating the 75th included in discussion at monthly meetings, held the anniversary of the Manhattan (nuclear third Monday of each month in the meeting room of energy) Project. The University of Chicago Treasure Island Foods. Society President Michal Safar bestows the 2017 President’s Award played a key role in this historic event. upon Megan Doherty and Jasmine Kwong for their book, If You Past topics have included fact and fiction related Weren’t Looking For It: The Seminary Co-op Bookstore. to the 1893 World Columbian Exposition, the unsolved murder in 1991 of University of Chicago historian and political essayist, Ioan Culianu, historical perspectives of the Manhattan Project, and mystery fiction by local author Barry Kritzberg. The next meeting of the Book Club will be April 17, at Bert’s Words (Part 13) 7:30 PM. The April meeting will focus on the crime novels of Sara Paretsky. “I hope I deserve all the friends I have had!” All interested individuals are invited to attend. “All I can do is turn a phrase until it catches the light..” — Clive James April Rain Song “I never did it until before! Let the rain kiss you Despres Award Committee chairman, Jack Spicer, presents the New Members PHOTOS / MARC MONAGHAN PHOTOS Marian and Leon Despres Preservation Award to Nina Helstein, Let the rain beat upon your head with silver liquid Featured Speaker Ward Miller, Executive Director, Preservation Donna Pilot, and Polly McNamara, residents of the Pioneer drops The Hyde Park Historical Society welcomes new Chicago. Cooperative, Inc. members Alex Wolking, Kathleen Gould Hayes, and Let the rain sing you a lullaby Dianne Hermann and Andy Carter. The rain makes still pools on the sidewalk The rain makes running pools in the gutter Mystery The rain plays a little sleep song on our roof at night Answer to Mystery Quiz: Quiz: And I love the rain. Bootleg Houses. In the 1890s while employed by the architectural firm of Adler and Sullivan in Chicago, Wright designed eight or nine houses What nickname Langston Hughes was given to Hyde in the Chicago area, two in Hyde Park: The Park houses designed Blossom House and MacArthur house, both by Frank Lloyd in the 4800 block of South Kenwood Avenue. Wright in the early Louis Sullivan strictly forbade independent 1890s? design by his architects, so these homes became known as “bootleg” houses. Hyde Park Historical Society Board Members, 2017. Springr 2017 Springr 2017 r6 r3 Does anyone recognize construct a station at 53rd Street and other locations, and watched as the brand new Village of Hyde these mementos? Park took off. This burgeoning village was officially annexed by the City of Chicago in 1889, and The bottom two mementos were donated by Society immediately began to benefit from the power, water member Judy Allen and were given to her by her and street management that only a big city can offer. late husband, Pat Allen, former assistant principal at It would have very interesting to be a spy as the Kenwood Academy. The source of the top item, a wrecking crew went to work. What might they have token from the Hyde Park Bank, is unknown. found in the sand and clay mixture topping the 400-million-year-old Silurian bedrock that underlies all of Chicago? Fragments of crockery, rusty nails, horseshoes, and colorful glass bottles are good possibilities. Bones from bison that traversed the ancient trail from southern regions to the Chicago River, arrowheads, and shells from ancestral Lake Michigan are others. One of the first buildings Cornell built was Hyde Park House, a five-story hotel at 53rd Street and Lake City Hyde Park— Michigan on the site now occupied by Hampton House. In 1865, this attractive building served as a PHOTO / CAROL VIETH PHOTO Frances Vandervoort discusses old maps of Hyde Park with her New on Hyde Park’s short-term residence for Mary Todd Lincoln and her former Kenwood Academy student, Louis Bernstein, and fellow son, Robert, after her husband was assassinated. The HPHS member, Estrella Alamar, at the January 21 Society open house. Skyline building was totally destroyed by flames in the 1870s. Since this 21st Century building was first conceived, By Frances Vandervoort another structural complex by this same architectural firm, Studio/Gang/Architects, has been built. The There’s a new high rise apartment building in Hyde North Campus Residence Halls of the University of Park. The design, construction and the history behind Chicago on the south side of 55th Street between this unusual, practical, and visually appealing building Greenwood and University Avenues was completed in is represented in the handsome new book, City Hyde September, 2016. Solstice-on-the-Park Apartments, Park, authored by Eric Levin of the development team now under construction at the northwest corner of of Peter Cassel, David Gwinn, on behalf of Antheus 56th Street and Cornell Avenue, will be opening soon. Capital, Mac Properties, and Silliman Group of Chicago. City Hyde Park is more than an apartment building. Hyde Parkers watched with fascination as City The first floor hosts a Whole Foods Market and a Hyde Park arose on the important corner of Hyde Marshalls Department Store. A large, below ground Park Boulevard and Lake Park Avenue. I watched parking garage provides space for residents and much of the growth of this building from the dentist’s shoppers.
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