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New Ossian Sweet House
The home of black physician Ossian Sweet became the site o...
Edsel and Eleanor Ford House
The 87-acre estate of Edsel and Eleanor Ford displays the ...
National Historic Landmark - Cranbrook Educational Community
The idea for Cranbrook Educational Community, a unique 319...
Charles Hitchcock Hall
The Charles Hitchcock Hall was designed by Dwight H. Perki...
Hotel Del Prado
Built in 1918, the Hotel Del Prado is one of the earliest ...
East Park Towers
As one of a series of hotel apartment buildings erected in...
Wabash Avenue YMCA
The Wabash Avenue YMCA was a major social and educational ...
Chicago Bee Building
Confident in the vitality of the Black Metropolis of Chica...
Eighth Regiment Armory
In 1915, the Eighth Regiment Armory was the first armory b...
Auditorium Building
The need for an arts center was spearheaded in 1886 by a g...
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New Ossian Sweet House
The home of black physician Ossian Sweet became the site of a racial incident that resulted in a nationally publicized murder trial. Dr. Sweet, a graduate of Howard University Medical School, bought this two-story brick house in an all-white Detroit ...
Edsel and Eleanor Ford House
The 87-acre estate of Edsel and Eleanor Ford displays the couple's lifelong interest in art and architecture. The only son of automobile pioneer Henry Ford, Edsel began his career at the Ford Motor Company in 1912. He was promoted to ...
National Historic Landmark - Cranbrook Educational Community
The idea for Cranbrook Educational Community, a unique 319-acre campus founded in 1904, originated with Detroit philanthropists George and Ellen Booth. George Booth, publisher of the Evening News Association, was also interested in architecture, worked in wrought iron design, and ...
Charles Hitchcock Hall
The Charles Hitchcock Hall was designed by Dwight H. Perkins in 1901-1902 as a four-story dormitory for the University of Chicago. Significant in its contribution to the Prairie School movement, the medieval style building exhibits ornamentation detailing local flowers and ...
Hotel Del Prado
Built in 1918, the Hotel Del Prado is one of the earliest and largest of the Hyde Park Apartment Hotels. The H-shaped red brick and terra cotta building rises 10 stories. Built in the Neoclassical style, the hotel features an ...
East Park Towers
As one of a series of hotel apartment buildings erected in the Hyde Park area between 1918 and 1929, the East Park Towers rises 10 stories and is an irregular U-shaped red-brick building with terra cotta trim. The pie-shaped lot ...
Wabash Avenue YMCA
The Wabash Avenue YMCA was a major social and educational center in the Black Metropolis, the center of Chicago's African American culture in the early 1900s. Funds for its construction came from Julius Rosenwald, chairman of Sears, Roebuck and Company, ...
Chicago Bee Building
Confident in the vitality of the Black Metropolis of Chicago, entrepreneur Anthony Overton commissioned his second building in this commercial district for the offices of the Chicago Bee, an African American newspaper he founded in 1926. Ironically enough, soon after ...
Eighth Regiment Armory
In 1915, the Eighth Regiment Armory was the first armory building to be erected for a regiment commanded entirely by African Americans. The three-story brick building, designed by Illinois state architect James B. Dibelka, included a clear-span drill hall, meeting ...
Auditorium Building
The need for an arts center was spearheaded in 1886 by a group of prominent and wealthy Chicagoans. These types of centers, though, were often not profitable. So when the firm of Adler and Sullivan accepted the commission to construct ...
