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Old Posted Jan 15, 2015, 6:26 PM
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Originally Posted by aaron38 View Post
And does anyone have a map of Jackson park showing where "the design indicated a structure could be built"?
Apparently Olmsted's 1895 (post Exposition) plan for the South Parks anticipated a headquarters building at 62nd & Stony Island—bottom dead center on this map. Instead, in 1910 the South Parks Commission headquarters was put in Washington Park, and today is the DuSable Museum. The thin red outlines are the footprints of the Exposition buildings, gone by 1895.



Olmsted Papers, credited to National Park Service.
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