Henry B. Clarke House, Indiana Avenue, Near South Side, Chicago, IL : 無料・フリー素材/写真
Henry B. Clarke House, Indiana Avenue, Near South Side, Chicago, IL / w_lemay
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| 説明 | Built in 1836, this Greek Revival-style house was likely built by local builder John Rye for Henry B. Clarke, a native of New York state, and is the oldest remaining house in Chicago, having been moved twice in its long history. The house was built for Clarke and his wife, Caroline Palmer Clarke, whom settled in Chicago in 1833. Clarke was a merchant in the Hardware business, and was a partner in the hardware company known as King, Jones and Company, alongside William Jones and Byram King. The house was originally located on South Michigan Avenue near 17th Street on 20-acre lot, with Clarke being the first affluent resident of Chicago to build a house on the south side of the Chicago River, with Henry B. Clark living in the house until he died of Cholera in 1849. After Henry’s death, his widow, Caroline Palmer Clarke, continued to live in the house, but subdivided the land upon which it stood, selling off all but three acres of the lot, creating the Clarke's Addition subdivision, which today makes up much of the Near South Side. The proceeds from the land sale supported Caroline for the rest of her life, and she utilized some of the funds to renovate the house, adding the rear doric portico, cupola, and finally finishing the dining room and parlor, which had been left incomplete for decades due to the family’s financial hardship after the Panic of 1837. After Caroline’s death in 1860, the house was sold to a series of owners, and rapidly became surrounded by the massive and explosive growth of the city of Chicago. In 1871, the house was sold to John Chrimes, a prominent tailor. The house survived the 1871 Great Chicago Fire by having the fortune of being moved outside the then-city limits to Hyde Park Township only a few months before the fire, which ensured its survival. From 1871 until 1977, the house stood at the corner of 45th Street and South Wabash Avneue in Chicago’s Bronzeville-Grand Boulevard neighborhood. During this time, the house witnessed it’s new neighborhood’s early development as a suburb and later part of Chicago’s urban expansion, the period in the early 20th Century during which the neighborhood was known as the “Black Metropolis”, with a growing population of people of color migrating from the southern United States to Chicago for economic opportunity and less restrictive race-based policies, which created a vibrant cultural district and great success for many residents despite the racial barriers they still faced, and the subsequent urban decay of the neighborhood due to systemic racism, redlining, and disinvestment in the mid-20th Century. The house became the parsonage and community hall for the St. Paul Church of God in Christ in the early 20th Century, and between 1941 and 1970, was the home of the church’s leader, Bishop Louis Henry Ford, and his wife, Margaret Ford, who recognized the house’s historical significance and worked hard to preserve and maintain the structure under their stewardship.The house features a modern red brick base with a wood-frame one-and-a-half-story structure above. The house features a side gable roof with one-story doric porticos with pediments, fluted doric columns, and architraves on the east and west facades, decorative paneled wooden railings along the slope of the roof, and a central Italianate-style cupola with a low-pitch pyramidal hipped roof, decorative rooftop railing, paired brackets, decorative pilasters, a finial, and arched window bays. The house features six-over-six-over-six triple-hung windows on the east and west facades, arched eight-over-six double-hung windows on the gable ends of the second floor of the north and south facades, nine-over-six double-hung windows on the first floor of the north and south facades, with decorative window surrounds including cornices and pilasters framing the windows. The house features doorways in the central bays of the east and west facades, which feature decorative trim surrounds with pilasters, transoms, and sidelights. Inside, the house has been restored to its circa 1860 state, with antique furnishings, wallpaper, fireplace surrounds, rugs and carpets, wooden floors, woodwork, and light fixtures.The house was designated a Chicago Landmark in 1970, and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1971. The house sat in Bronzeville-Grand Boulevard until 1977, when it was purchased by the City of Chicago and moved back to the Near South Side, close to its original location, which involved raising the house to pass above the Chicago Transit Authority’s elevated rapid transit green line. The house was placed as the centerpiece of a new urban park in the historic Prairie District, adjacent to the historic Glessner House and Elbridge G. Keith House, surrounded by grassy lawns and landscaped gardens. Fully restored to its circa 1860 appearance, the house serves as a historic house museum, today known as the Henry B. and Caroline Clarke/Bishop Louis Henry and Margaret Ford House, honoring the role of Caroline Clark, Bishop Louis Henry, and Margaret Ford in preserving the house, allowing it to survive to the present day. |
| 撮影日 | 2022-11-07 14:41:48 |
| 撮影者 | w_lemay , Chicago, IL, United States |
| 撮影地 | Chicago, Illinois, United States 地図 |