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Chicago's Historic Hyde Park (Hardcover, New)
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Chicago's Historic Hyde Park (Hardcover, New)
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Stretching south from 47th Street to the Midway Plaisance and east
from Washington Park to the lakeshore, the historic neighborhood of
Hyde Park - Kenwood covers nearly two square miles of Chicago's
South Side. At one time a wealthy township outside of the city,
this neighborhood has been home to Chicago's elite for more than
150 years, counting among its residents presidents and politicians,
scholars, athletes, and fiery religious leaders. Known today for
the grand mansions, stately row houses, and elegant apartments that
these notables called home, Hyde Park - Kenwood is still one of
Chicago's most prominent locales. Physically shaped by the
Columbian Exposition of 1893 and by the efforts of some of the
greatest architects of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries -
including Daniel Burnham, Frank Lloyd Wright, and Mies van der Rohe
- this area hosts some of the city's most spectacular architecture
amid lush green spaces. Tree-lined streets give way to the
impressive neogothic buildings that mark the campus of the
University of Chicago, and some of the Jazz Age's swankiest
high-rises offer spectacular views of the water and distant
downtown skyline. In "Chicago's Historic Hyde Park", Susan O'Connor
Davis offers readers a biography of this distinguished
neighborhood, from house to home, and from architect to resident.
Along the way, she weaves a fascinating tapestry, describing Hyde
Park - Kenwood's most celebrated structures from the time of
Lincoln through the racial upheaval and destructive urban renewal
of the 1940s, '50s, and '60s and on into the preservationist
movement of the last thirty-five years. Alongside hundreds of
historical photographs, drawings, and current views, Davis recounts
the life stories of these gorgeous buildings - and of the
astounding talents that built them. This is architectural history
at its best.
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