Stretching south from 47th Street to the Midway Plaisance and east
from Washington Park to the lake’s shore, 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 one
hundred and fifty 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, Mies Van Der
Rohe—this area hosts some of the city’s most spectacular
architecture amid lush green space. 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 into
the preservationist movement of the last thirty-five years. Coupled
with 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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ISBN
9780226925196
Publisert
2018
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University of Chicago Press
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Engelsk
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Digital bok
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