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|  Laramie State Bank Building - Chicago, IL
in Art Deco - Art Nouveau At a time when banks usually looked like forbidding fortresses, this Art Deco-style building was given a colorful exterior covered in coins, beehives, harvests, squirrels, and other symbols of savings and prosperity. posted by: adgorn location: Illinois date listed: 7/30/2009 last visited: never |
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|  Columbus Park - Chicago, IL
in U.S. National Register of Historic Places Located 7 miles from downtown Chicago is beautiful Columbus Park, a landscape of wildflowers, waterfalls, stepping-stone paths, and a prairie river - all the masterpiece of landscape architect Jens Jensen. posted by: adgorn location: Illinois date listed: 9/8/2009 last visited: 9/23/2009 |
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|  Jens Jensen - Chicago, IL
in Smithsonian Art Inventory Sculptures Located 7 miles from downtown Chicago is beautiful Columbus Park, a landscape of wildflowers, waterfalls, stepping-stone paths, and a prairie river - all the masterpiece of landscape architect Jens Jensen. posted by: adgorn location: Illinois date listed: 10/28/2009 last visited: never |
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|  Rollin Furbeck House
in Frank Lloyd Wright Designed Buildings The more impressive of the Wright designs commissioned by Warren Furbeck as a wedding gift to one of his two sons... posted by: BootyBuddies location: Illinois date listed: 11/13/2007 last visited: 10/11/2009 |
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|  Fricke House
in Frank Lloyd Wright Designed Buildings A Tall Prairie house designed for the secretary of the C.F. Weber Company. posted by: BootyBuddies location: Illinois date listed: 11/13/2007 last visited: 10/11/2009 |
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|  Cheney house
in Frank Lloyd Wright Designed Buildings This was the Commission that led to the beginning of the end of the Prairie phase of Wright's career and life in Oak Park. posted by: BootyBuddies location: Illinois date listed: 7/18/2007 last visited: 10/11/2009 |
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|  Continental Divide Historical Boundary - Oak Park, IL
in Illinois Historical Markers You are standing on a Continental Divide! Water falling on this line separates and runs to the West and to the East. posted by: adgorn location: Illinois date listed: 8/3/2009 last visited: 11/28/2009 |
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|  Medical Arts Building - Oak Park, IL
in Art Deco - Art Nouveau Designed in 1929 by Roy Hotchkiss, this building represents the incursion into the suburbs of the skyscraper building types commonly associated with the dense downtown cores of metropolitan areas. posted by: adgorn location: Illinois date listed: 11/25/2008 last visited: never |
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|  George Furbeck House
in Frank Lloyd Wright Designed Buildings Intriguing, but lesser of two Wright designs commissioned by Warren Furbeck as wedding presents for his two sons... posted by: BootyBuddies location: Illinois date listed: 10/30/2007 last visited: 10/11/2009 |
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|  Euclid Avenue United Methodist Church Peace Pole - Oak Park, IL
in Peace Poles Off Euclid Avenue near the side entrance. posted by: adgorn location: Illinois date listed: 12/1/2008 last visited: never |
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|  St. Edmund Parish School Peace Pole
in Peace Poles Pole at parish school in Oak Park, IL posted by: pairomedicchick location: Illinois date listed: 12/16/2007 last visited: 10/11/2009 |
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|  Oak Park - River Forest War Memorial - Oak Park, IL
in Smithsonian Art Inventory Sculptures This monument in Scoville Park, was dedicated on Armistice (now Veteran's) Day, November 11, 1925, with Vice President C.G. Dawes and General Pershing in attendance. This bronze and granite memorial was designed by Gilbert P. Riswold. posted by: adgorn location: Illinois date listed: 10/23/2009 last visited: never |
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|  Oak Park - River Forest War Memorial - Oak Park, IL
in World War I Memorials and Monuments This monument in Scoville Park, was dedicated on Armistice (now Veteran's) Day, November 11, 1925, with Vice President C.G. Dawes and General Pershing in attendance. This bronze and granite memorial was designed by Gilbert P. Riswold. posted by: adgorn location: Illinois date listed: 10/19/2009 last visited: never |
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|  Bust of Percy L. Julian, PH.D. - Oak Park, IL
in Statues of Historic Figures Bust in Scoville Park was commissioned by the Institute for Science Education and Technology commemorating Dr. Percy L. Julian (1899-1975), chemist, researcher and civil rights activist. posted by: adgorn location: Illinois date listed: 10/19/2009 last visited: never |
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|  Oak Park Library
in Art*o*mats Found in the Oak Park Public Library. posted by: Special Ed & FallenFaery location: Illinois date listed: 2/12/2006 last visited: 7/15/2007 |
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|  Oak Park, IL red telephone box
in Red Telephone Boxes Red english phone booth near apartment building at 855 Lake Street. posted by: adgorn location: Illinois date listed: 10/12/2009 last visited: never |
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|  Unity Temple by Frank Lloyd Wright - Oak Park, IL
in Great Buildings of the World Unity Temple was one of Wright's favorite commissions, and was innovative both in its revolutionary style of design and use of materials. posted by: Hikenutty location: Illinois date listed: 6/2/2008 last visited: 10/11/2009 |
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|  Unity Temple - Oak Park, IL
in Stained Glass Windows Unity Temple was one of Frank Lloyd Wright's favorite commissions. The building has multiple examples of his stained glass designs. posted by: Hikenutty location: Illinois date listed: 8/3/2007 last visited: 10/11/2009 |
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|  Unity Temple - Oak Park, Illinois
in Official Local Tourism Attractions Unity Temple was one of Frank Lloyd Wright's favorite commissions, and was innovative both in its revolutionary style of design and use of materials.
posted by: Hikenutty location: Illinois date listed: 8/14/2007 last visited: 10/11/2009 |
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|  Oak Park, Illinois
in American Guide Series Oak Park is a suburb of Chicago, best known for its former resident, the famous architect Frank Lloyd Wright, and the many buildings that he designed within the village. posted by: Hikenutty location: Illinois date listed: 7/26/2007 last visited: 10/15/2008 |
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|  Unity Temple - Oak Park, Illinois
in American Guide Series Unity Temple was one of Wright's favorite commissions, and was innovative both in its revolutionary style of design and use of materials. posted by: Hikenutty location: Illinois date listed: 7/26/2007 last visited: 10/11/2009 |
view gallery W2.7 km
|  Unity Temple - Oak Park, Illinois
in Frank Lloyd Wright Designed Buildings Unity Temple was one of Wright's favorite commissions, and was innovative both in its revolutionary style of design and use of materials. posted by: Hikenutty location: Illinois date listed: 7/2/2007 last visited: 10/11/2009 |
view gallery W2.7 km
|  Unity Temple - Oak Park, Illinois
in U.S. National Register of Historic Places Unity Temple was one of Wright's favorite commissions, and was innovative both in its revolutionary style of design and use of materials. posted by: Hikenutty location: Illinois date listed: 7/15/2007 last visited: 10/11/2009 |
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|  Ferrara Pan Factory Outlet Store - Forest Park, IL
in Candy Stores Ferrara Pan makes several classic American hard candies, including Lemonheads, Jawbuster Jawbreakers, and Atomic Fireballs and Boston Baked Beans. posted by: Hikenutty location: Illinois date listed: 8/1/2007 last visited: 8/2/2007 |
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|  Ferrara Pan - Illinois
in Iconic Factories Ferrara Pan makes several classic American hard candies, including Lemonheads, Jawbuster Jawbreakers, Atomic Fireballs and Boston Baked Beans. posted by: Hikenutty location: Illinois date listed: 11/9/2007 last visited: 1/8/2009 |
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