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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMW7S_abraham-lincoln-monument_Chicago-IL.html
Chicago Landmark
One of the oldest and most important public sculptures in Chicago, this monument to America's sixteenth president influenced a generation of sculptors due to its innovative combination of a natural-looking Lincoln—depicte…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMW7R_couch-tomb_Chicago-IL.html
In 1857, the Couch Brothers, owner's of Chicago's Tremont Hotel, built this mausoleum in what was then a public cemetery on the edge of Lake Michigan. Designed by John Van Osdel, Chicago's first professional architect, the classically-inspired str…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMW7Q_henry-gerber-house_Chicago-IL.html
This house is nationally significant as the earliest known site associated with the gay and lesbian civil rights movement in the United States. It was the home of pioneering activist Henry Gerber from 1924 to 1925, during which time he organized t…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMW6V_aaron-montgomery-ward-gardens_Chicago-IL.html
Aaron Montgomery Ward had a vision for Chicago's lakefront that set him apart from most of his contemporaries. For two decades (1890-1910),he fought tirelessly to preserve Chicago's lake shore as an open space and assure the city's "front yard" wo…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMW6U_ludington-building_Chicago-IL.html
Chicago Landmark
The city's earliest surviving steal-frame building, a type of construction that changed commercial architecture. As one of the first structures clad in terra cotta, it marked an important step in the development of the architec…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMW6T_rowe-building_Chicago-IL.html
Attributed to famed architect William Le Baron Jenney, the Rowe Building, a printing arts factory built in 1892, typifies the late nineteenth century Romanesque Revival style.
Renovated in 1980, the Rowe Building is a distinguished member of th…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMW6S_the-donohue-building_Chicago-IL.html
Built in 1883, the Donohue Building was the first large printing factory in historic Printing House Row. The Annex was added in 1913. The Donohue Buildings served until 1971 as the headquarters of the M.A. Donohue Publishing Company, a well known …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMW69_the-chicago-board-of-trades-statues_Chicago-IL.html
These two statues, one symbolizing agriculture and the other industry, once stood over the main entrance of the Board of Trade Building built in 1885. The statues greeted commodity traders and the public for 45 years. Thought lost forever when the…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMW68_the-standard-time-system-in-the-united-states_Chicago-IL.html
Chicago's famous Grand Pacific Hotel, then on the site of the present Continental Bank building, was the location of the General Time Convention of 1883 which, on October 11 of that year, adopted the current Standard Time System in the United Stat…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMW67_rookery-building_Chicago-IL.html
Chicago Landmark
Its powerful exterior softened by John Root's lively ornament, the Rookery typifies the 1880s' lingering picturesque attitude toward commercial architecture. A transitional structure in the evolution of modern architecture, it …