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The National Hellenic Museum is the second oldest American institution dedicated to displaying and celebrating the cultural contributions of Greeks and Greek-Americans. . Formerly known as the Hellenic Museum and Cultural Center, the National Hellenic Museum is located in Chicago’s Greektown, at the corner of Halsted and Van Buren St
The Cornell University Greek system dates to the first months of university operation during the autumn of 1868. Cornell's co-founder and first president, Andrew Dickson White was a strong promoter of fraternities as a means of teaching self-governance to young students. Among its leaders, other strong supporters of the Greek system were ...
Chicago area: Art: Museum of local history: Homepage: Lamon House: Danville: Vermilion: Central: Historic house: Operated by the Vermilion County Museum Society: Homepage: LaSalle County Museum: Utica: LaSalle: Northern Illinois: Open air: Includes local history museum with Native American and period displays, barn with agriculture equipment ...
Chicago Cultural Center. The city of Chicago, Illinois, has many cultural institutions and museums, large and small.Major cultural institutions include: the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Chicago Architecture Foundation, Lyric Opera of Chicago, Goodman Theater, Joffrey Ballet, Central Public Harold Washington Library, and the Chicago Cultural Center, all in the Loop;
The Field Museum was one of six institutions in the United States chosen to host an incredible traveling exhibition in 1977. Its 55 objects once belonged to the young King Tutankhamun whose tomb ...
Bailey Hall is the largest auditorium at Cornell University, seating 1324 people. Interior renovated 2006 by Mitchell|Giurgola Architects [5] [6] Baker Laboratory Arthur N. Gibb (B.Arch 1890) 1921 259 Feeney Way Donated by and named for banker George Fisher Baker (1840-1931), who was not a Cornell alum. [7] Bard Hall Shreve, Lamb & Harmon: 1963
[220] [221] [222] Cornell's Greek Life has an extensive history on the campus with the first fraternity, Zeta Psi, being chartered by the end of the university's first year. [223] Alpha Phi Alpha , the first intercollegiate Greek organization established for African Americans, was founded at Cornell in 1906.
The house is described as the oldest surviving house in Chicago, [4] although part of the Noble-Seymour-Crippen House in the Norwood Park neighborhood was built in 1833. (However, Norwood Park was not annexed to Chicago until 1893.) [5] The Clarke-Ford House was designated a Chicago Landmark on October 14, 1970. [6]