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After the city of Osaka became one of Chicago's sister cities, one the goals of the Sister Cities program became to revive the Japanese Garden in Jackson Park. With the collective efforts of the City of Osaka and the Chicago Park District, the gardens were restored and named "Osaka Garden" in 1993 in honor of that city's help and friendship. [3]
Rollin Furbeck House is a Frank Lloyd Wright designed house in the Hyde Park neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois that was built in 1897. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] It is part of the Frank Lloyd Wright-Prairie School of Architecture Historic District .
The South Park Manor Historic District is a residential historic district in the Greater Grand Crossing neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois. The district includes 263 Chicago bungalows built between 1915 and 1927. At the time, single-family homeownership was becoming broadly accessible to Chicagoans, and the bungalow was a popular choice for ...
Washington Square, also known as Washington Square Park, is a park in Chicago, Illinois.A registered historic landmark that is better known by its nickname Bughouse Square (derived from the slang of bughouse referring to mental health facilities), it was the most celebrated open air free-speech center in the country as well as a popular Chicago tourist attraction.
The Four Houses by Architect Frederick Schock is a historic district in Chicago's west-side Austin neighborhood, honoring four homes built by architect Frederick R. Schock between 1886 and 1892. The Queen Anne and Shingle styles houses are located at 5749 and 5804 West Race Avenue, and 5804 and 5810 West Midway Park.
The house is described as the oldest surviving house in Chicago, [4] although part of the Noble-Seymour-Crippen House in the Norwood Park neighborhood was built in 1833. (However, Norwood Park was not annexed to Chicago until 1893.) [ 5 ] The Clarke-Ford House was designated a Chicago Landmark on October 14, 1970. [ 6 ]
General Daniel Adams Butterfield, author of the bugle call, Taps, which is a standard component for concluding for US military funerals, stands on a rock pedestal as a larger-than-life-sized bronze statue by Gutzon Borglum—who is said to have been so annoyed by commissioning committees numerous demands for changes to the sculpture, that he marked his signature on the top of the general's ...
The 63rd Street Bathing Pavilion is a historic building in Chicago, Illinois, United States. Constructed in 1919, the pavilion is located at 63rd Street Beach in Jackson Park [1] in the Woodlawn community area. The building is Chicago's oldest beach house [2] and was designated as a Chicago Landmark on December 8, 2004. [3]