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FLOS Lecture: Blair Kamin & Barbara Mahany Present "City in a Garden, New England Roots"
New England has had a profound but little-noticed impact on the architecture and, especially, the landscape architecture of Chicago. That impact is evident in the names of downtown skyscrapers like the Monadnock and Pittsfield Buildings; in the influence of Henry Hobson Richardson on architects Adler & Sullivan and the first Chicago School of Architecture; and in the transplantation of the idea of the New England town common to Chicago's lakefront, a notion to which Frederick Law Olmsted gave full expression in his plans for Jackson and Washington Parks as well as Riverside. Not only did design ideas come from New England to the Chicago area, but also investments, as from the "Eastern businessmen" who formed the 1869 Riverside Improvement Company.
In this illustrated talk, Chicago Tribune architecture critic Blair Kamin and former Tribune writer Barbara Mahany explore the New England-Chicago connections and their meaning for today.
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LocationRiverside Presbyterian Church
116 Barrypoint Rd.
Riverside, IL 60546
United States
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