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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