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Essential Architecture- Chicago
Northwest Groesbeck House |
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architect |
Otis L. Wheelock |
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location |
1304 W. Washington Blvd. |
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date |
1869 |
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style |
Italianate |
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construction |
Brick |
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type |
House |
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This elegantly simple,
Italianate-style building was the residence and office of
early Chicago physician Abraham Groesbeck. It is one of the few
structures to survive from pre-fire Chicago, when Washington Boulevard
was one of the city's most-exclusive residential streets, home to such
families as the Cranes, Glessners, and Harrisons, as well as Mary Todd
Lincoln, the widow of President Abraham Lincoln. |
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links |
With special thanks to the City of
Chicago website,
www.egov.cityofchicago.org , for much of the info on this page.
Photos copyright City of Chicago. |
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