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This A-MA-ZING raffle goes LIVE AT 10a SUNDAY! Check it out! Buy tix only for items you wish to win. Tix range from $10 - $100, depending upon the prize. All proceeds benefit Acts Of Kindness Cabaret. PedegoWinnetka, Ravinia Festival, Marriott Theatre, Lou Malnati's, Kampus Kustoms, Lyric Opera of Chicago, Girl & the Goat, Cutco Kitchen - Wilmette, Chicago Botanic Garden, Chicago Shakespeare Theater, Brookfield Zoo, Eiserman and Associates, LLC, Northlight Theatre, Lettuce Entertain You Restaurants, The Morton Arboretum, Music Box Theatre, Donna Bliss, Glessner House
A GREAT Downtown/South Loop/Prairie Avenue District event is coming back this year!! Mark your calendars and get tix!! Glessner House was one of our awardees in recent years for maintaining an important historic spot for a long time
You're invited to in Chicago on June 17-18! Join NAOP for an unforgettable gala at the Glessner House and tours of nearby Olmsted landscapes. Tickets are on sale now, and don't wait— our NYC tickets are already sold out.
Register here:
http://ow.ly/rp9o50IvIEz
Glessner House was designed by renowned architect, H.H. Richardson and was built on Chicago’s Prairie Avenue in 1886. Redefining domestic architecture, the structure was a radical departure from Victorian architecture and served as an inspiration to architects like and .
HPZS provided historic preservation & design and construction services for this timeless treasure, including an extensive kitchen restoration which received a Distinguished Interior Architecture Award, Citation of Merit from AIA Chicago.
📸: Brick of Chicago
Try out this virtual jigsaw puzzle on this lazy Sunday! Courtesy of our friends at the Glessner House in the South Loop! This is the school building that once stood in the heart of today's Downtown--in 1840, at the SW corner of State and Madison in the heart of the Loop! Have fun!
It's Photo Friday!!!
This Valentine is pasted inside a scrapbook assembled by F***y Glessner as a child in the 1880s. It was printed by L. Prang & Co. of Boston, headed by Louis Prang who is widely credited with using the new technology of color lithography to popularize the sending of greeting cards in the last quarter of the 19th century.
The message reads:
To my Valentine
She loves me more than all the world,
Yet sadly I foresee,
As time rolls on, some other swain
May be preferred to me.
, , ,
PDNA Throwback Thursday 1901
Booker T Washington speaks at Second Presbyterian Church December 1901
Speaking to a full house of 1,500 people Second Presbyterian Church of Chicago, and more turned away, Booker T Washington made one of several visits to Chicago. On this trip he would also meet with Civic and philanthropic leaders for support in the Tuskegee Institute, including pleas to many of the Chicago Prairie Avenue elite, as well as friend and supporter, Julius Rosenwald part-owner and leader of Sears, Roebuck and Company.
Glessner House Museum detailed the 1901 event here.
https://www.glessnerhouse.org/story-of-a-house/2016/2/8/booker-t-washington
📍200 GREAT PLACES: Prairie Avenue Historic District (Chicago, IL)
Often called the original Gold Coast, Prairie Avenue was the most prestigious neighborhood in Chicago from the late 1870s to the early 1890s. Home to over 70 millionaires during its heyday, Palace Avenue, as it was once dubbed, stretched from 16th Street to 22nd Street. Among its residents were George Pullman, manufacturer of luxury railroad cars; Marshall Field, the department store prince; Philip D. Armour, the meatpacker; and John B. Sherman, vice president and general manager of the Union Stock Yard. Two notable houses within Prairie Avenue Historic District are the 1836 Greek Revival Widow Clarke House, and the 1886 Glessner House. Despite Prairie Avenue’s prestige, its popularity, began a rapid declined in the late 1890s due to commercial and industrial development that was pushing southward from the Loop. Wealthy families vacated the district for more up-and-coming neighborhoods on the North Shore, and many of the mansions were demolished to make way for commercial developments. Today, only 11 residences remain that date from the 1870s to 1890s, nine of them comprising the Prairie Ave Historic District, which is in the National Register of Historic Places and was named a Chicago Landmark in 1979.
📍 illinoisgreatplaces.com
📷 Wesley Urschel
📐 1887 | Henry Hobson Richardson
Glessner House
On January 20, our friends at Pleasant Home Foundation and Glessner House will host a virtual program on geothermal for historic buildings. Attendees will learn how a geothermal system operates, their basic components, and the unique challenges of installation at Pleasant Home and Glessner House. Click through to learn more and buy tickets.
Happy 151st anniversary to John and Frances Glessner! This power couple married December 7, 1870, and they defied Victorian-era stereotypes.
Pictured is an example of this: they shared space in the library with desks that faced each other!
Read more about Glessner House, a Living Landmark of Chicago:
https://yourchicagoguide.com/glessner-house/