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Official Blog of Glessner House

Monday, September 28, 2015

Fannie Bloomfield Zeisler

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Glessner parlor, photo by James Caulfield On Sunday October 4, 2015, George Radosavljevic, a member of the faculty at the DePaul Univ...
Tuesday, September 22, 2015

John J. Glessner, Builder of Roads

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In September 1915, exactly 100 years ago, a New Hampshire newspaper entitled The Spur published the following short article about the ...
Tuesday, September 15, 2015

Lettuce and peppers and bees! Oh my!

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Residents of the Prairie District were treated to a recent tour of one of the best kept secrets in the neighborhood – the rooftop garde...
Monday, September 7, 2015

Unity Hall gets a new lease on life

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Unity Hall today (courtesy Alderman Pat Dowell) The recent news that the Chicago landmarked Unity Hall at 3140 S. Indiana Avenue has ...
Monday, August 31, 2015

John M. Van Osdel, Chicago's First Architect

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John Mills Van Osdel was Chicago’s first professional architect, shaping the city from its earliest days through the Chicago Fire and b...
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Tuesday, August 25, 2015

Faded Grandeur and Mystery

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While researching the dovecotes at Glessner House recently, we stumbled across an image of a dovecote tower in the Rivington Terraced G...
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