Chicago North / Lincoln Park Zoo / Designated "Chicago Landmarks" at Lincoln Park Zoo

Lincoln Park Zoo

Lincoln Park Zoo 

The Lincoln Park Zoo has many attractions, 

I would have never guessed that it has three "Chicago Landmark" buildings:

Cafe Brauer / South Pond Refactor

Carson Cottage / Men's and Ladies' Comfort Station

Kovler Lion House  

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Cafe Brauer

Cafe Brauer / South Pond Refactory ...

Completed: 1908

Architect: Dwight H. Perkins

Location: 2021 N. Stockton Dr.

The building is an outstanding example of the Prairie style architecture ..
On its second-floor is the "Great Hall", which is a fine example of Arts-and-Crafts design. Its designer, Dwight Perkins, was an important progressive architect in Chicago in the early 20th century.

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Carson Cottage

Carson Cottage 

Completed: 1888

Renovated: 2007 ...

Architect: Joseph Lyman Silsbee

It's a Victorian-style architecture 

The Carson Cottage started as a men's and ladies' comfort station [public restroom facility]. Over the years it withered. However it was restored by the Lincoln Park Zoo supporrted in part by Save Ameria's Treasures grant. Now the cottage no longer serves as a restroom, but is the hub for more than 100 volunteers who tend to the zoo’s landscaping and botanical gardens..

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Kovler Lion House

Kovler Lion House

Completed: 1912

Architects: Perkins, Fellows & Hamilton

The building has excellent brickwork and terracotta ornament, unique lion mosaics and a grand interior with vaulted Guastavino -tile ceiling, an innovative construction technology of the time.

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