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2. List of Gilded Age mansions - Wikipedia

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   Baronial and Prairie: Joseph N. French William Van Tine Marion Mahony Griffin Frank Lloyd Wright Jens Jensen. Dearborn: Built for Henry Ford, founder of Ford Motor Company. Today, a historical landscape and house museum [7] R.E Olds Residence: 1903 Queen Anne: Darius B. Moon: Lansing: Was built for Ransom Eli Olds, founder of Oldsmobile Motor ...

3. Humboldt Park (Chicago park) - Wikipedia

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   William Le Baron Jenney began developing the park in the 1870s, molding a flat prairie landscape into a "pleasure ground" with horse trails and a pair of lagoons. Originally named "North Park", [3] it opened to the public in 1877, but landscape architects such as Jens Jensen made significant additions to the park over the next few decades ...

4. List of Olmsted works - Wikipedia

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   The landscape architecture firm of Frederick Law Olmsted, and later of his sons John Charles Olmsted and Frederick Law Olmsted Jr. (known as the Olmsted Brothers), produced designs and plans for hundreds of parks, campuses and other projects throughout the United States and Canada. Together, these works totaled 355.

5. Edgar Alwin Payne - Wikipedia

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   Payne was born near Cassville, Barry County, Missouri, in the heart of the Ozarks. [2] Cassville is in southwest Missouri, near the Arkansas border. According to the U.S. Census of 1900, he resided with his parents, two sisters and five brothers in Prairie Grove, Washington County, Arkansas; his Alabama-born father was employed as a carpenter. [3]

6. Columbus Park (Chicago) - Wikipedia

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   The 135-acre (55 ha) park reflected Jensen's Prairie School approach to landscape design. This method emphasized the area's natural beauty and was inspired by the prairie landscape's horizontality. Jensen preferred to use native plants in his designs, a technique that was rare at the time.

7. Marquette Park (Chicago) - Wikipedia

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   Marquette Park's three and a half acre Ashburn prairie remnant has a very special history. The story begins during the pre-settlement era at 87th Street and Kedzie Avenue on a 2-acre (8,100 m 2) lot near the Evergreen Cemetery. It was at this location that the original Ashburn prairie thrived, untouched by farming, housing and commercial ...