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Humboldt Park is an 207-acre (84 ha) ... Pavilion in 1908 Aerial photo of the Field House and Refectory Aerial photo of Humboldt Park's Boat House.
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.
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
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]
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 ...
Schmidt was born in Ebern, Kingdom of Bavaria and brought to America by his parents at the age of one. In 1883, he enrolled in the architecture school at MIT.However, he left to begin practicing before completing the program. he worked for architects such as Adolph Cudell and Charles Sumner Frost before eventually settling in Chicago in 1887.
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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 ...