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Beverly Hills/Morgan
Park – the Village in the City – has an extraordinary historical and
architectural heritage. Historic preservation is an important part of
maintaining an enhancing this unique community. For information about
incentive programs and responsibilities of owners of historic homes,
click here.
The following
self-guided tour of historic homes begins at the Beverly Area Planning
Association, headquartered in the Howe House at 10233 S. Wood St. The
homes listed here are by no means the only historic residences and
institutions in the community! We have four landmark districts – Ridge,
Longwood, Walter Burley Griffin Place and Rock Island Stations – and
five individual Chicago landmarks: Iglehart House, Adams House designed
by Frank Lloyd Wright, Frank Lloyd Wright’s two American System-Built
Homes, and Palliser’s Cottage Home #45. For more information about
community history and architecture, call the
Ridge
Historical Society, 773-881-1675. The RHS is located in #13 on this
tour.
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1. Walter
Burley Griffin Place West 104th Place, Wood St. to Prospect
Ave. 1910 to 1914. Various Styles Showcased along this residential
block are 7 Prairie Style homes designed by Walter Burley Griffin,
the most Griffin homes in one area. |
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2. Wm.
Hopkinson House 10820 S. Drew St. 1871. Italianate Built
by a real estate dealer, this house was landscaped by Jens Jensen.
Local legends abound about this historic residence. |
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3. Ingersoll-Blackwelder
House 10910 S. Prospect Ave. 1874 & 1877. Queen Anne (front)
Italianate (back) The original house was built for grain broker
John E. Ingersoll, and the Queen Anne style front was added
by Morgan Park Village President Isaac Blackwelder. Mrs. Blackwelder
was the first woman to cast a vote in a local election. |
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4. Dr.
Wm. German House 10924 S. Prospect Ave. 1884. Queen Anne
Frederick G. German, architect The home of Morgan Park's first
physician and most prominent doctor was recently restored for
touring, special events and private parties. |
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5. Wm.
G. Ferguson House 10934 S. Prospect Ave. 1873. Italianate
Striking villa built for manager of Lancaster Fire Insurance
Co. |
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6. Ira
M. Price House 2124 W. 112th St. 1893. Queen Anne William
J. VanKeuren, architect Residence of forward-looking professor
of theology who had the house wired for electricity 10 years
before any was available. |
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7. Thomas
W. Goodspeed House 11216 S. Oakley Ave. 1870s. Italianate
From this house Baptist historian Goodspeed conducted the correspondence
that convinced John D. Rockefellar to found the University of
Chicago and William Rainey Harper to become its first president.
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8. John
A. Edgren House 2314 W. 111th Pl. 1882. Stick Style Palliser
& Palliser, architects Plans for this rare Stick Style house
came from the Palliser brothers of Bridgeport, Conn. |
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9. Case
Del Loma Apartments 11057-59 S. Hoyne Ave. 1886. Remodeled
to Spanish Colonial Originally built as the library for the
Baptist Theological Seminary. |
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10. Paul
Harris House 10856 S. Longwood Dr. ca 1905. Tudor This hilltop
residence was home of Paul Harris, founder of Rotary International.
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11. H.H.
Waterman House 10838 S. Longwood Dr. 1892. Eclectic Harry
Hale Waterman, architect Known as the honeymoon cottage. Waterman
built this charming house for his wife. |
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12. James
H. Gately House 10655 S. Hoyne Ave. 1927. Neo-Classical
Long the residence of the owner of Gately's People Store based
in Roseland, this house recalls Classical Revival mansions of
the English Regency. |
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13. Driscoll
House 10621 S. Seeley Ave. 1922. Tudor John T. Hetherington,
architect This terraced house was designed to take advantage
of its hilltop site. Now the home of Ridge Historical Society.
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14. Burhans-Ellinwood
Co. Model House 10410 S. Hoyne 1917. Prairie Style Frank
Lloyd Wright, architect A model for a subdivision of prefabricated
American System-Built Houses designed by Wright, only two were
built (both in Beverly/Morgan Park). |
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15. Bernard
J. Coyle House 10411 S. Seeley Ave. 1926-27. French Eclectic
Ralph W. Varney, architect This high-roofed house also has connections
to Tudor and Colonial Revival styles. |
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16. McCumber
House 10350 S. Seeley Ave. 1911. Colonial Revival Robert
S. Smith, architect This off-center brick Colonial residence
was once used as a Marshall Field & Co. Showcase House. |
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17. J.B.
Chambers House 10330 S. Seeley Ave. 1874. Gothic/Italianate/French
Empire This confection has Italianate windows on the first floor,
Gothic windows above, Italianate porch and brackets, and a French
Empire tower. The last word in suburban villas of the Victorian
era. |
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18. Russell
L. Blount House II 1950 W. 102nd St. 1912. Prairie Style
Walter Burley Griffin, architect Blount, developer of the Walter
Burley Griffin homes on 104th Place, had this elegant home designed
and built for himself. |
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19. Givens
House 10244 S. Longwood Dr. 1886. Irish Castle This replica
of a castle was built by real estate developer Robert C. Givens
and cost $80,000 due to the cost of hauling limestone by oxcart
from Joliet. |
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20. Horace
E. Horton Mansion 10200 S. Longwood Dr. 1890. Colonial Revival
John T. Long, architect Built for the founder of Chicago Bridge
& Iron, this house represents the most rarefied and academic
of the recreations of Colonial America. |
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21. Wm.
H. McDonnel House 10162 S. Longwood Dr. 1929. Tudor Homer
G. Sailor, architect A classic Tudor style house in the manner
of great English country houses, built for the founder of the
Southtown Economist newspaper. |
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22. Edward
L. Roberts House 10134 S. Longwood Dr. 1892. Queen Anne
Built by a lumber milling magnate to exhibit decorative archtiectural
details from his own catalogue, this house is now the rectory
for St. Barnabas Church. |
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23. Frank
Karge House 2035 W. 99th St. 1926. Spanish Colonial Michaelson
& Rognstad, architects A distinctive stone block house with
ornate entrance detailing and medallions with sculptured Indian
heads. |
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24. Paul
D. McCurry House 9350 S. Hamilton Ave. 1937. International
Style Paul D. McCurry, architect McCurry's house, built for
himself, is one of the few International Style homes on the
Ridge. |
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25. Murray
D. Hetherington House 8918 S. Hamilton Ave. 1924. Tudor
Murray D. Hetherington, architect A Cotswold Cottage of rough-hewn
materials, this house was built by the second generation of
Hetherington architects to live and work on the Ridge. |
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26. A.J.
Doermann House 9209 S. Winchester Ave. 1929-30. Tudor Rudolph
P. Boehm, architect Boehm emigrated from Germany between World
Wars I and II. He was known for designing spacious Tudor and
early split-level dwellings with intricate detailing. |
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27. Wm.
M.R. French House 9203 S. Pleasant Ave. 1894. Colonial Revival
William Augustus Otis, architect French, the first director
of the Art Institute of Chicago, selected the museum's lecturer
in architecture to design this house. Interior features sculpture
by Daniel Chester French, the owner's brother. |
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28. Col.
Edw. C. Young House 9215 S. Pleasant Ave. 1893. Queen Anne
A robust specimen of the Queen Anne style with a tower, front
porch and portcochiere, this house was owned by Col. Young,
a West Point graduate and veteran of the Illinois National Guard
and the war with Spain. |
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29. Edwin
F. Mack House 9309 S. Pleasant Ave. 1909. Craftsman Henry
K. Holsman, architect A beautiful house graciously set on wooded,
rolling grounds with constant interplay between inside and out.
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30. John
H. Vanderpoel House 9319 S. Pleasant Ave. 1895. Queen Anne
This house was the residence of noted artist John H. Vanderpoel.
His works and works by other American Impressionists can be
seen in the Vanderpoel Gallery of the Beverly Art Center. |
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31. William
& Jessie Adams House 9326 S. Pleasant Ave. 1901. Prairie
Style Frank Lloyd Wright, architect A restrained Wright-designed
Foursquare with an inviting front porch, this house was restored
in 1993. City of Chicago Landmark. |
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32. John
A. Campbell House 9250 S. Damen Ave. 1896. Tudor Howard
Van Doren Shaw, architect This double-gabled Tudor-inspired
house displays many of the features of Shaw's earliest designs,
and has an interior that reflects the ideas of the English founders
of the Craftsman movement. Campbell assembled and founded the
John H. Vanderpoel Art Collection. |
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33. Waid-Coleman
House 9332 S. Damen Ave. 1894/1906. Queen Anne Daniel Everett
Waid, architect Enlarged by Henry K. Holsman Originally designed
by Waid for his own residence, the symmetry of this house is
due to Holsman's later remodeling. |
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34. Louis
A. Tanner House 9640 S. Longwood Dr. 1909. Prairie Style
Talmadge & Watson, architects One of the small houses of a firm
known first for Prairie Style houses and later for churches.
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35. Frederick
C. Sawyer House 9822 S. Longwood Dr. 1908. Georgian Revival
Horatio R. Wilson, architect This imposing mansion has a gambrel
roof and all the detailing of its Tidewater ancestors. |
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36. Raymond
W. Evans House 9914 S. Longwood Dr. 1908. Prairie Style
Frank Lloyd Wright, architect On its beautiful hilltop setting,
this Wright house was designed so family living areas radiate
from a central fireplace. (Stone facing is not original) |
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37. Arthur
D. Heffron House 10347 S. Longwood Dr. 1904. Prairie Style
George W. Maher, architect This is a deep house with a roof
with a segmental arch. Maher later designed the Patten Gymnasium
for Northwestern University. |
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38. Frank
Anderson House 10400 S. Longwood Dr. 1924. Renaissance Oscar
L. McMurry, architect An elegant and balanced Italian Renaissance
house with beautiful grounds, now the residence of the president
of Chicago State University. |
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39. E.G.
Howe House 10208 S. Wood St. 1881. Stick Style Daniel H.
Burnham, architect This house was designed for Howe, a member
of one of the area's oldest families, by Burnham, a family friend.
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