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The Oak Park-River Forest War Memorial, known as Peace Triumphant, is a memorial to the veterans of World War I located at the top of the hill on the park's north end. The monument was erected in 1925 by citizens of Oak Park and neighboring River Forest , who donated the $52,573.63 needed to build the granite and bronze monument to community ...
The Frank Lloyd Wright Home and Studio complex is located in Oak Park, Illinois, United States. [3] The house and studio occupy a plot measuring 88.3 by 165 feet (26.9 by 50.3 m), bounded by Chicago Avenue to the north and Forest Avenue to the west. [4]
The Edward R. Hills House, also known as the Hills–DeCaro House, is a residence located at 313 Forest Avenue in the Chicago suburb of Oak Park, Illinois. It is most notable for a 1906 remodel by architect Frank Lloyd Wright in his signature Prairie style. The Hills–DeCaro House represents the melding of two distinct phases in Wright's ...
Oak Park and River Forest High School is a public school with its district including both Oak Park and neighboring River Forest, and Fenwick High School is a Catholic college preparatory school run by the Dominicans, affiliated with the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Chicago. Both high schools have a long history of high academic standards.
The Frank W. Thomas House is a historic house located at 210 Forest Avenue in Oak Park, a suburb of Chicago in Illinois, United States. The building was designed by architect Frank Lloyd Wright in 1901 and cast in the Wright-developed Prairie School of Architecture. By Wright's own definition, this was the first of the Prairie houses - the ...
The Nathan G. Moore House, also known as the Moore-Dugal Residence, is a home at 333 Forest Avenue in Oak Park, a suburb of Chicago, Illinois, United States.It was designed by Frank Lloyd Wright and is one block south of Wright's home and studio.
In 1946, approval was given for River Forest to form its own high school district. [53] [54] By 1949, River Forest was still a separate district, but had not begun to build a high school, forcing the district to pay tuition for each student still attending Oak Park High School. [55]
The Masonic Temple Building (also known as the Scoville Block, Gilmore's Store, and Scoville Square Building) is a historic Prairie-style building in Oak Park, Illinois, at the corner of Oak Park Avenue and Lake Street. It is in the Ridgeland-Oak Park Historic District and was individually listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.