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Marquette Park, the largest park on the southwest side of Chicago, Illinois, at 323 acres (1.31 km 2), is located at in the city's Chicago Lawn neighborhood The park is named for Father Jacques Marquette (1637–1675).
The ensemble of mosaics, sculptures, and bronze of the Marquette Building entry and interior honors Jacques Marquette's 1674-5 expedition. [13] Four bas relief panels over the main entrance by sculptor Hermon Atkins MacNeil show different scenes from Marquette's trip through the Great Lakes region, [14] ending with one depicting his burial. [15]
Hering's Pere Marquette statue in Marquette Park, Gary The relief sculpture Regeneration on the side of a bridgehouse of the DuSable Bridge in Chicago. Science, Research, Record, and The Dissemination of Knowledge, Field Museum of Natural History, 1917 [6] Energy in Repose, Federal Reserve Bank, Cleveland, Ohio, 1923
The statue in Pere Marquette Park, Marquette, Michigan. Another version of the statue is the 1897 bronze casting located in Pere Marquette Park, Marquette, Michigan which was cast in Florence, Italy and includes two bas reliefs set in the sandstone base. [4]
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Statue of Father Marquette at the entrance to Marquette Park. Sculpted by Henry Hering, [18] the statue was installed in 1931. [19]When Lake Michigan first entered recorded history in the early 1600s, the land at the lake's southern end was populated by the Miami people. [20]
Marquette Park may refer to one of several places that are named in honor of Jacques Marquette, a French Jesuit missionary. Marquette Park (Chicago) in Chicago, Illinois; Marquette Park (Gary) in Gary, Indiana; Marquette Park (Mackinac Island) on Mackinac Island, Michigan; Marquette Park (St. Louis), a historic park in the Dutchtown ...
The racial demographics of Marquette Park had changed significantly throughout the 1980s. The 1980 census found that the population of Marquette Park was 82% white, 11% Hispanic and 4.6% black, with six out of the nine census tracts in the neighborhood having zero black residents. Reflecting changes in residential patterns and new immigration ...