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The River Forest Public Library is located at 735 Lathrop Avenue in River Forest, Illinois, a suburban community west of Chicago. It serves a core population of approximately 11,000 residents, and drawing reciprocal patrons from the surrounding area. The library is part of the SWAN (System Wide Automated Network) consortium, which connects ...
Added to NRHP. August 26, 1977. The River Forest Historic District is a national historic district encompassing much of the village of River Forest, Illinois. The district includes 830 buildings, most of which are houses as the village is almost entirely residential. The oldest structure in the district is the 1831 Bickerdike and Noble sawmill ...
River Forest is a suburban village adjacent to Chicago in Cook County, Illinois, United States. Per the 2020 census, the population was 11,717. [2] Two universities make their home in River Forest, Dominican University and Concordia University Chicago. The village is closely tied to the larger neighboring community of Oak Park.
The Walter Gerts House in River Forest, Illinois, the United States, was originally designed in 1905 by Charles E. White, who studied with Frank Lloyd Wright at his Oak Park studio. [1][2] White went on to pursue a successful career as both an architect and writer about related matters, and designed several important buildings in Oak Park ...
Oak Park and River Forest High School (OPRF) is a public four-year high school located in Oak Park, a suburb of Chicago, Illinois. It is the only school in Oak Park and River Forest District 200. Founded in 1871, the current school building opened in 1907.
Architect (s) Frank Lloyd Wright. Isabel Roberts House is a 1908 Prairie Style house by architect Frank Lloyd Wright, located at 603 Edgewood Place in River Forest, Illinois It was built for Isabel Roberts and her widowed mother, Mary Roberts. Scholars suggest that the house was originally designed for Joshua Melson, the co-developer of Rock ...
American. Residence (s) Chicago, Illinois, US. Alma mater. University of Chicago. Occupation. Librarian. Peggy Sullivan (August 12, 1929 – April 13, 2020) [1] was an American librarian and educator. She was elected president of the American Library Association and was a scholar of the history of librarianship.
April 17, 1970. The Winslow House is a Frank Lloyd Wright -designed house located at 515 Auvergne Place in River Forest, Illinois. A landmark building in Wright's career, the Winslow House, built in 1894–95, was his first major commission as an independent architect. While the design owes a debt to the earlier James Charnley House, Wright ...