Tree Studio Complex

The Tree Studio Complex is a group of three buildings comprising the original Tree Studio, built in 1894, and the Ontario and Ohio Street Annexes, two additions built in 1912-1913. They were erected by Lambert Tree to provide low cost ...

National Historic Landmark - Montgomery Ward & Company Building

Since 1909, the Montgomery Ward and Company Complex, situated along the North Branch of the Chicago River, has served as national headquarters for the country's oldest mail order firm.

The two earliest buildings, the old Administration Building and the Mail Order ...

James Charnley House

Built in 1892, the James Charnley House has been widely recognized internationally for over half a century as an important work of modern architecture. It is one of the few major residential commissions realized by Louis Sullivan.

The house is ...

Albert F. Madlener House

One of the most prominent residential buildings represented by the second generation of the Chicago School architects is the Albert F. Madlener House.

Designed by Hugh Garden, the house faces Burton St. with an off center front door. Three stories ...

Presidio Santa Maria de Galve

Spain established Presidio Santa Maria de Galve on a high bluff overlooking Pensacola Bay in 1698 to ward off French encroachment into Florida from Mobile to the west.

The Presidio consisted of a fort called Fort San Carlos de Austria, a ...

The Kennison Boulder

The 1852 funeral for David Kennison was the most elaborate Chicago had ever seen. The City paid all expenses, and donated 2 cemetery lots, intending to erect a monument on his grave. That never happened.

The legend of his exploits ...

Chicago History Museum

The Chicago History Museum (CHM) is the city's oldest cultural institution. Founded in 1856 and incorporated in 1857 by an act of the state legislature, the Chicago Historical Society and its collection grew and opened its first building at the ...

Potter's Field

From 1843 to 1871, this area was the City Cemetery potter's field, a graveyard for the poor and disenfranchised.

More that 15,000 people, including 4,000 Civil War Rebels, were buried here on marshy land near the water's edge. Within six ...

Lincoln Park Transitions

Lincoln Park, named in 1865 for the assassinated President, gradually replaced the 22 year old City Cemetery.

This urban cemetery land, already desired for park grounds, was first deemed a health hazard in 1859. That same year officials began transferring ...

City Cemetery

This was the site of the City Cemetery, Chicago's only public graveyard from 1843-1859. Extending from North Av. to Wisconsin St., there were more than 20,000 burials here.

For nearly twenty years beginning in 1866, as the grounds were converted ...