Swedish Viking Monument - Chicago, IL
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N 41° 53.429 W 087° 37.466
16T E 448197 N 4637805
This monument is located outside the entrance to Chicago's Tribune Tower.
Waymark Code: WME6T3
Location: Illinois, United States
Date Posted: 04/10/2012
Views: 5
The Tribune Tower in Chicago is located at 435 N. Michigan Ave and won an architectural design contest in 1922 out of 260 submissions.
Colonel McCormick, the Chicago Tribune publisher requested that the building have bricks and stones from other important sites around the world built into it's exterior walls. There are now 136 fragments...including this Viking Monument...which, unlike the others, has it's own pedestal.
The plaque accompanying this monument reads:
"SWEDISH VIKING MONUMENT
THIS ANCIENT STONE, SHAPED MORE THAN
1500 YEARS AGO, IS A FINE EXAMPLE OF
THE CRUDELY WORKED MONUMENTS WHICH
SWDEN'S EARLY STONE AGE MEN PLACED
ON THE GRAVES OF THEIR HEROES. IT
WAS DISCOVERED IN THE MALAR LAKE
VALLEY, THE HEART OF SWEDEN'S
EARLIEST CIVILIZATION.
PRESENTED TO
COLONEL ROBERT R. McCORMICK
BY THE SWEDISH NATIONAL MUSEUM OF HISTORY
1953"
Group that erected the marker: SWEDISH NATIONAL MUSEUM OF HISTORY
Address of where the marker is located. Approximate if necessary:
435 N. Michigan Ave
Chicago, IL USA
URL of a web site with more information about the history mentioned on the sign: Not listed
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