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Well-known Chicago brewer Peter Schoenhofen (born in Dörbach, then Prussia, in 1827; died in 1893) his Schoenhofen Brewing Company was among the largest in Chicago in 1880. [1] Schoenhofen's family mausoleum was designed by Richard E. Schmidt , a Chicago School architect, in 1893, with construction beginning on July 1 of that year.
The Ryerson Tomb is unique among Egyptian Revival tombs owing to its lack of overt, exterior Egyptian decoration. [2] [6] In a category all its own, the Ryerson Tomb is among the most important Egyptian Revival works in the United States. [1] The Ryerson Tomb is a contributing member of the Graceland Cemetery National Register of Historic ...
This is a list of pyramid mausoleums in North America. This Egyptian Revival funerary architecture was generally an extravagance of American tycoons who wanted themselves remembered as long and as well as the ancient pharaohs. Many of these date from the 1890s to the 1920s, when older, more modest expressions of "Egyptomania" gave way to ...
The Egyptian Theatre in DeKalb, Illinois, United States, is an Egyptian Revival theatre that is listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places.The theatre was built in 1928 and 1929 as part of a much larger wave of national fascination with Ancient Egypt throughout the United States, due, in large part, to the discovery of Tutankhamun's tomb in 1922.
Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest, four mummies – the priestess Hortesnakht of Akhmim, [33] the lady Rer of Saqqara, [33] an unidentified man from the 4th or 3rd century BCE (known as "the mummy from Szombathely" after the location of the previous collection he was part of) [34] and a man from the 2nd century BCE (known as "the unwrapped mummy" as he was already unwrapped when the museum ...
In 1994, Magdy Wilson from Alexandria, Egypt was commissioned to create new and update current icons within the church. This was Wilson's first trip to the United States and the $200,000 project completed the interior of the church, a task that had been left incomplete in 1982 due to lack of funding.
Fully 55 are located in the downtown Loop area, including the Loop Retail Historic District itself. Chicago is a historic and continuing world port city due to its location on the Great Lakes, which has an outlet to the Atlantic Ocean via the St. Lawrence Seaway.
Chicago (Chicago Housing Authority) ABLA (Demolition completed 2007) Altgeld Gardens (Renovated 2014) Bridgeport Homes (Renovated 2008) Cabrini–Green (William Green Homes Demolition completed May 2011; Frances Cabrini rowhouses remain) Dearborn Homes (Renovated 2009) Harold Ickes Homes (Demolition completed 2011) Harrison Courts (Renovated 2009)