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Neighborhood House (from 1903, Neighborhood House Association) was an American settlement house in Chicago, Illinois.It was opened in October 1896, by Samuel S. and Harriet M. Van Der Vaart, under the auspices of the Young People's Society of the Universalist Church, of Englewood, Chicago, (now known as Beverly Unitarian Church) and with the assistance of teachers of the Perkins, Bass, and D ...
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 ]
Graceland Cemetery is a large historic garden cemetery located in the north side community area of Uptown, in Chicago, Illinois, United States.Established in 1860, its main entrance is at the intersection of Clark Street and Irving Park Road.
Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni was born on 6 March 1475 [c] in Caprese, known today as Caprese Michelangelo, a small town situated in Valtiberina, [10] near Arezzo, Tuscany. [11] For several generations, his family had been small-scale bankers in Florence ; but the bank failed, and his father Ludovico briefly took a government post ...
Rosehill's Joliet-limestone entrance gate (added in 1864) was designed by William W. Boyington, the architect of the Chicago Water Tower and the Old University of Chicago, who is buried in Rosehill. The Rosehill Cemetery Administration Building and Entry Gate was listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places in 1975.
Oak Woods Cemetery is a large lawn cemetery in Chicago, Illinois.Located at 1035 E. 67th Street, in the Greater Grand Crossing area of Chicago's South Side.Established 172 years ago on February 12, 1853, it covers 183 acres (74 ha).
The cemetery is home to two memorials to Chicago-area Grand Army of the Republic posts. The memorial of Phil Sheridan Post 615, based in Oak Park, Illinois, is atop the gravesite of one of its former presidents, Wilbur Fisk Crummer. [12] Chicago-based Columbia Post 706 has its memorial in the cemetery west of the Des Plaines River. [13]
Chicago Cubs columbarium. In 2009, the cemetery added a columbarium specially dedicated to Chicago Cubs fans. [15] The structure is a replica of Wrigley Field's red brick wall, with a stained glass image of the stadium's scoreboard and a yellow 400 foot (120 m) marker. The wall contains 288 niches, and seats from Wrigley Field have been placed ...