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A lecture presented by One Book One Chicago and Landmarks Illinois by architectural historian Terry Tatum on January 21, 2015. This is the visual portion of the presentation.
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Heroism and
Chicago Architecture
Reversal and straightening of the Chicago River
Elevation of buildings and streets
Reclamation of land from Lake Michigan
A city of skyscrapers
Ben Hecht, 1919
Charles Baudelaire 1821-1867 French art critic On the heroism of modern life, Salon of 1846
Jean-Leon Gerome, The Death of Caesar, 1867
Gustave Courbet, The Stone Breakers, 1849
Early pioneers Waves of immigrants African-American
achievement Public safety
Social reform / charity Medicine and science Education Art and culture Politics and rights
Themes
Early Pioneers
Henry B. Clarke House 1855 S. Indiana Ave. Circa 1836
Noble-Seymour-Crippen House 5624 N. Newark Ave. Probably 1833; addition, 1869
Hazelton-Mikota House 5453 N. Forest Glen Ave. 1881
Capt. William Cross Hazelton
Hazelton House, photo circa 1890
Waves of immigrants
Vorwaerts Turner Hall 2431-2433 W. Roosevelt Rd. 1896-1897; George L. Pfeiffer
Friedrich Jahn
The Forwards fencing team (1907)
Turnverein Forwards basketball team
(1907)
Polish National Alliance Building 1514-1520 W. Division St. 1937-1938; Joseph A. Slupkowski
Building ornament President Franklin D. Roosevelt and PNA officials
Grand opening of the new PNA building in May 1938
African-American Achievement
Overton Hygienic Building 3619 S. State St. 1922-23, Z. Erol Smith
Anthony Overton (1865-1947)
Chicago Bee Building 3647 S. State St. 1929-31, Z. Erol Smith
Eighth Regiment Armory Building 3533 S. Giles Ave. 1914-15, J. B. Dibelka
Wabash Avenue YMCA Building 3763 S. Wabash Ave. 1911-13, Robert C. Berlin
Ida B. Wells-Barnett House 3624 S. King Dr. 1889, Joseph A. Thain
Ida B. Wells (1862-1931)
Oscar De Priest Home 4536-38 S. King Dr.
Oscar Stanton De Priest (1871-1951)
Chicago Defender Building 3435 S. Indiana Ave. 1899, Henry L. Newhouse; altered circa 1915
Robert Abbott (1870-1940)
Robert S. Abbott House 4742 S. King Dr.
Public Safety
7th District Police Station 943-49 W. Maxwell St. 1888, Edbrooke & Burnham
Police stations and fire houses
Engine Company 84, Truck 51
6204 S. Green St. 1929, Paul Gerhardt, Jr.
Old Chicago Coast Guard Station Lake Michigan near the mouth of the Chicago River 1936; Civil Engineers Office, United States Coast Guard
Postcard view, circa 1950s
Social reform / public charity
Charles Hull House and Butler Art Gallery, circa 1891
Jane Addams (1860-1935)
Hull House Settlement 800-block S. Halsted St. Original house, 1856; subsequent buildings, 1890 1910s; most demolished, early 1960s
Northwestern University Settlement House 1400 W. Augusta Blvd. 1901; Pond & Pond
Chicago Orphan Asylum Building 5120 S. King Dr. 1898, Shepley, Rutan & Coolidge
Postcard view
Asylum nursery
Asylum kindergarten
Cholera cover on 19th-century French publication
Horace R. Cayton, Jr., flanked by writer Langston Hughes and librarian Arna Bontemps
Cover of Black Metropolis, co-written by Cayton (with St. Clair Drake)
Photos of Parkway Community Center activities
Medicine and science
Cook County Hospital Building 1835 W. Harrison St. 1912-14; Paul Gerhardt, Sr.
St. Lukes Hospital Building 1435 S. Michigan Ave. 1906-08, Frost & Granger
Historic photo of lobby
Operating room
North Chicago Hospital Building 2551 N. Clark St. 1928-29; Meyer J. Sturm (with M. Louis Kroman, associated
Carl, Emil, and Joseph Beck Previous hospital buildings on site
Drawing of new hospital building and adjacent commercial building
Dr. Daniel Hale Williams House 445 E. 42nd St.
Dr. Daniel Hale Williams (1856-1931)
Dr. Wallace C. Abbott House 4605 N. Hermitage Ave. 1891; Dahlgren & Lievendahl
Dr. Wallace C. Abbott (1857-1921)
Frances Crane Lillie (1869-1958)
Frank R. Lillie House 5801 S. Kenwood Ave. 1901; Pond and Pond
Frank Rattray Lillie (1870-1947)
Education
Lindblom Technical High School Building 6130 S. Wolcott Ave. 1917-19, Arthur F. Hussander
Automobile Repair Shop
Botany lab Weaving
Swimming pool
Du Sable High School 4934 S. Wabash Ave. 1931-35; Paul Gerhardt, Sr.
Workshops and swimming pool
Artist and Du Sable teacher Dr. Margaret T. Burroughs
Study hall, circa 1940
Captain Walter H. Dyett Nat King Cole Dorothy Donegan
Mayor Harold Washington
Dempsey Travis
Police Superintendent Fred Rice
John H. Johnson Du Sable High School Alumni
Art and Culture
Carl Sandburg House 4646 N. Hermitage Ave. Circa 1886 (Carl Sandburg lived here from 1912-15)
Carl Sandburg (1878-1967)
Sandburg as a young man
House circa 1940
Chicago Poems
PBS American Masters ad
Hog Butcher for the World, Tool Maker, Stacker of Wheat, Player with Railroads and the Nations Freight Handler; Stormy, husky, brawling, City of the Big Shoulders.
Gwendolyn Brooks (1917-2000)
Gwendolyn Brooks House 7428 S. Evans Ave. Circa 1890
Lorraine Hansberry House 6140 S. Rhodes Ave. 1909; Albert G. Ferree
Lorraine Hansberry (1930-1965)
George Cleveland Hall Branch, Chicago Public Library 4801 S. Michigan Ave. 1931, Charles Hodgdon
George Cleveland Hall
Opening Day, January 18, 1932 Vivian G. Harsh
Poet Gwendolyn Brooks lecturing at the Hall Branch Library
South Side Community Art Center 3831 S. Michigan Ave. 1892-1893, L. Gustav Hallberg; Remodeling, 1940, Hin Bredendleck and Nathan Lerner
Eleanor Roosevelt speaking at art center dedication, 1941
Poetry reading, 1942
Griffiths-Burroughs House 3806 S. Michigan Ave. 1892, S. S. Beman
Contractor John Griffiths
Quincy Club of Railroad Men
Dr. Margaret Burroughs
Students touring museum
House as Du Sable Museum
Charles & Margaret Burroughs
Richard Nickel Studio 1810 W. Cortland St. 1889
Photographer and preservationist Richard Nickel (1928-1972)
Garrick Theatre protest, 1960
Nickel with salvaged Sullivan ornament
Chicago Stock Exchange Building
Stock Exchange arch
Roger Brown Home and Studio 1926 N. Halsted St.
Artist Roger Brown (1941-1997)
Brown at work
Part of studio collection Rising Above It All
The Entry of Christ into Chicago in 1976
Hull House, Cook County, Howard Brown: A Tradition of Helping, Italian glass mosaic at Howard Brown Health Center, 4025 N. Sheridan Rd., Chicago
Politics and Rights
Henry Gerber House 1710 N. Crilly Ct. 1885 (Henry Gerber lived here from 1924 to 1925)
Henry Gerber (1892-1972)
Illinois state charter for Society for Human Rights, 1924
Gerbers publication, Friendship and Freedom, amidst European gay-rights publications
Wood-Maxey-Boyd House 2801 S. Prairie Ave. 1885, John C. Cochrane
View of Lower Prairie Avenue
Terra-cotta ornament
Entrance hall and staircase
Charles Boyd and Dr. Alma Maxey Boyd
Roberts Temple Church of God in Christ Building 4021 S. State St. Original 1-story building, 1922; addition, 1927; remodeled, 1992-93
Emmett and Mamie Till
Emmett Till
Bryant store, Money, Mississippi
Carolyn Bryant
J. W. Milam & Roy Bryant
House of Mose Wright, Emmetts great-uncle
Mamie Till weeping as she sees Emmetts casket for the first time
Emmett Tills body
Photo of Emmett Tills body published in Jet
Views of the visitation of Emmett Till at the Roberts Temple Church of God in Christ
Views of crowds outside the Roberts Temple Church of God in Christ during the funeral and visitation
Let us realize the arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., address to the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, August 16, 1967
Commission on Chicago Landmarks and Historic Preservation Division, Department of Planning and Development,
City of Chicago http://www.cityofchicago.org/city/en/depts/dcd/provdrs/hist.html
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