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Engraving of the Hyde Park Water Works, 1882. In 1853, Paul Cornell, a real estate speculator and cousin of Cornell University founder Ezra Cornell, purchased 300 acres (1.2 km 2) of land [9] between 51st and 55th streets along the shore of Lake Michigan, [10] with the idea of attracting other Chicago businessmen and their families to the area. [9]
English: View of Chicago from an airplane. South Shore and Hyde Park in foreground, looking north towards downtown. Date: 30 October 2015, 14:18:53: Source: Own work:
United States historic place Hyde Park–Kenwood Historic District U.S. National Register of Historic Places U.S. Historic district Rough boundaries of the district Location Roughly bounded by 47th and 59th Sts., Cottage Groves and Lake Park Aves., Chicago, Illinois Coordinates 41°47′56″N 87°35′51″W / 41.79889°N 87.59750°W / 41.79889; -87.59750 Area 745 acres (301.5 ha ...
The Promontory Apartments is a 22-story skyscraper in Hyde Park, Chicago, Illinois, United States designed by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe. It was the first skyscraper Mies designed and was the first of his buildings to feature concepts such as an exposed skeleton. The cooperative building overlooking Burnham Park has 122 units.
The Hyde Park House was a four-story wood frame upscale hotel in Chicago, built and run by Paul Cornell, that served as the centerpiece for Hyde Park social life from 1857 until 1879. It was located on 53rd Street adjacent to Lake Michigan on land currently occupied by the Hampton House .
Paul Cornell, the founder of Hyde Park. The township was founded by Paul Cornell, who paid for a topographical survey of the lakefront south of the city in 1852. [3] In 1853, following the advice of Senator Stephen Douglas, he bought 300 acres (120 ha) of speculative property between 51st Street and 55th Street and set about developing the first Chicago railroad suburb.
St. Thomas the Apostle Church is a historic site at 5472 S. Kimbark Avenue in Hyde Park, Chicago, Illinois, at 55th Street.. A Roman Catholic church of the Archdiocese of Chicago, it was built in 1922 and opened in 1925 and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.
The Isidore H. Heller House is a house at 5132 South Woodlawn Avenue in the Hyde Park neighborhood of Chicago in Illinois, United States.Constructed in 1896 for the family of the merchant Isidore H. Heller, the house was designed by American architect Frank Lloyd Wright. [1]