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In 2002, The John G. Shedd Institute for the Arts, a community-based performing arts center and music school in Eugene, Oregon, was co-founded by one of his great-grandchildren. With his wife, Mary Roanna (née Porter), [1] they had daughters Helen Shedd Reed Keith and Laura Abbie Shedd Schweppe (? – 1937). Laura married Charles Hodgdon ...
Shedd Aquarium. Shedd Aquarium (formally the John G. Shedd Aquarium) is an indoor public aquarium in Chicago. Opened on May 30, 1930, the 5 million US gal (19,000,000 L; 4,200,000 imp gal) aquarium holds about 32,000 animals and is the third largest aquarium in the Western Hemisphere, after the Georgia Aquarium and Monterey Bay Aquarium.
The board of Marshall Field and Company appointed John G. Shedd, (1850–1926), whom Field had once called "the greatest merchant in the United States", to serve as the company's new president. [5] Shedd became head of a company that employed 12,000 people in Chicago (two-thirds of them in retail) and was doing about $25 million in yearly ...
December 30, 1974. The Shedd Park Fieldhouse is the historic fieldhouse in Shedd Park, a public park in the South Lawndale community area of Chicago, Illinois. John G. Shedd, for whom the park and fieldhouse are named, gave the city the land for the park. The Prairie School building was designed by William Drummond and built in 1917.
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John G. Shedd, Chairman of Marshall Field & Company, philanthropist, founder of the Shedd Aquarium; Milton Sills, actor "The Heart Bandit", "The Hawk's Nest", "The Sea Wolf" Edwin Silverman, co-founder of Essaness Theatres [11] Roslyn Simon, Wife of Justice Seymour Simon, Chicago Philanthropist and Miss Philadelphia (1932)
Added to NRHP. September 5, 1975. The Field Museum of Natural History (FMNH), also known as The Field Museum, is a natural history museum in Chicago, Illinois, and is one of the largest such museums in the world. [ 4 ] The museum is popular for the size and quality of its educational and scientific programs, [ 5 ][ 6 ] and its extensive ...
1929 John G. Shedd Aquarium, Graham, Anderson, Probst & White; 1930 Chicago Board of Trade Building, Holabird & Root; 1930 All Saints Cathedral, J. G. Steinbach; 1930 Gateway Theatre Mason Rapp of Rapp & Rapp; extensive renovation 1979 to 1984, "Solidarity Tower" addition in 1985; 1930 Adler Planetarium & Astronomy Museum, Ernest A. Grunsfeld Jr.