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Humboldt Park is an 207-acre (84 ha) urban park located at 1400 North Sacramento Avenue in West Town, [2] on the West Side of Chicago, Illinois. To its west is the neighborhood named after it, also called Humboldt Park. It opened in 1877, and is one of the largest parks on the West Side.
Humboldt Park Boathouse (1907) Schmidt, Garden & Martin (detail from community car show) Chicago annexed most of the neighborhood in 1869, the year the park was laid out. [7] Because the area lay just beyond the city's fire code jurisdiction, as set out after the 1871 fire, this made low cost construction possible.
The center now competes with the Jackson Park 63rd Street Beach House and Promontory Point as South Side beachfront special use facilities in the Park District. The building's exteriors were used as the "Palace Hotel Ballroom" in The Blues Brothers. The Cultural Center was the site of Barack and Michelle Obama's wedding reception on October 3 ...
Humboldt Park Boathouse Pavilion: November 13, 1996 1906–1907 1301 N. Humboldt Drive: West Town: February 20, 1992 Humboldt Park Receptory Building and Stable: February 6, 2008 1895–1896 3015 W. Division Street
When passing through Humboldt Park, it’s hard to miss the reddish-brown, castlelike building on West Division Street. Built in 1895 to hold horses and wagons, the two-story Receptory Building ...
NYPD divers Sunday continued to search the Central Park Boathouse pond for potential clues including the gun used in the slaying of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson as cops were still hunting ...
The museum complex and the Park (named for Alexander von Humboldt) [10] were added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1991. [11] The building was designated a Chicago Landmark in 2008. [12] The stables and receptory were built by architects Fromman & Jebsen in 1895 as part of the development of the park. [13]
Jensen transplanted the wildflowers into a corner of Union Park, creating what became the American Garden in 1888. Working his way through the park system, Jensen was appointed superintendent of the 200 acre (800,000 m²) Humboldt Park in 1895. By the late 1890s, the West Park Commission was entrenched in corruption. After refusing to ...