HSLMA Summer 2011 Event for members and friends!!
White City Revisited - Walking Tour
conducted by Chicago Architecture Foundation
Saturday June 18th, 10:30 - 12:30 with private docent. (Arrive by 10:15 to purchase ticket, cash only.)
$15/person
Lunch to follow at Jackson Harbor Grill, with great lakeside views.
RSVP Molly Klowden: mklowden@trinityhs.orgby June 10
Explore the site of the World’s Columbian Exposition of 1893. This two-hour walking tour of Jackson Park includes stops where the Fair’s major buildings once stood, a visit to the Osaka Japanese Garden on Wooded Island, and the Statue of the Republic. Learn how architect Daniel H. Burnham, and landscape designer Frederick Law Olmsted, transformed marshes and sand dunes into a Fair that was so grand and influential it continues to fascinate 117 years after the Opening Day of May 1, 1893.
Meet in Jackson Park parking lot (metered parking). From downtown:
Lakeshore Drive south. Drive past 57th Street, which is the exit for the
Museum of Science and Industry. The next light is Science Drive, make
a right hand turn. Science drive dead-ends at Columbia Drive. Make a
left and proceed to the end of the parking lot. From here, the rear of the
Museum is visible. The tour begins here.
CTA bus #10 (Museum of Science & Industry) operates approximately
every 20 minutes from downtown.
HSLMA Summer 2011 Event for members and friends!!
White City Revisited - Walking Tour
conducted by Chicago Architecture Foundation
Saturday June 18th, 10:30 - 12:30 with private docent. (Arrive by 10:15 to purchase ticket, cash only.)
$15/personLunch to follow at Jackson Harbor Grill, with great lakeside views.
RSVP Molly Klowden: mklowden@trinityhs.org by June 10
Explore the site of the World’s Columbian Exposition of 1893. This two-hour walking tour of Jackson Park includes stops where the Fair’s major buildings once stood, a visit to the Osaka Japanese Garden on Wooded Island, and the Statue of the Republic. Learn how architect Daniel H. Burnham, and landscape designer Frederick Law Olmsted, transformed marshes and sand dunes into a Fair that was so grand and influential it continues to fascinate 117 years after the Opening Day of May 1, 1893.
Meet in Jackson Park parking lot (metered parking). From downtown:
Lakeshore Drive south. Drive past 57th Street, which is the exit for the
Museum of Science and Industry. The next light is Science Drive, make
a right hand turn. Science drive dead-ends at Columbia Drive. Make a
left and proceed to the end of the parking lot. From here, the rear of the
Museum is visible. The tour begins here.
CTA bus #10 (Museum of Science & Industry) operates approximately
every 20 minutes from downtown.