When we talk about "Chicago Landmarks", we usually talk about historically, culturally and architecturally significant buildings and districts. However some sculptural monuments and historical sites have also been designated as Chicago Landmarks.. Here they are..
Chicago Landmark Monuments and Sites..
Drake Fountain..
By Richard Henry Park
Completed: 1893..
Designated a Chicago Landmark: March 10, 2004
Believed to be Chicago's first statue commemorating Columbus. The monument was originally dedicated in December 1892 to mark the 400th anniversary of his voyage.
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Abraham Lincoln Momument ..
Augustus Saint-Gaudens [sculptor], Stanford White [architect]
Completed:1887
Date Designated a Chicago Landmark: December 12, 2001 ..
This monument to America’s sixteenth president .. It is the work of two nationally-important American designers, sculptor Augustus Saint-Gaudens and architect Stanford White .. Several phases from Lincoln's speeches have been inscribed at the base of the monument, like "With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on."
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Heald Square Monument ..
Sculptors: Lorado Taft & Leonard Crunelle..
Completed: 1941
Date Designated a Chicago Landmark: September 15, 1971 ..
The location of the monument was named for Capt. Nathan Heald, commander of Fort Dearborn from 1810-1812. The sculpture shows George Washington, with two principal financers of the American Revolution Robert Morris and Haym Salomon. Noted sculptor Lorado Taft began the design and it was finished by his associate, Leonard Crunelle ..
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Victory Monument
Bronze sculptures: Leonard Crunelle and Architect: John A. Nyden..
Completed: 1927..
Date Designated a Chicago Landmark: September 9, 1998 ..
This structure was erected to honor the meritorious achievements of the Eighth Regiment of the Illinois National Guard, an African-American unit that served in France during World War I as part of the 370th U.S. Infantry, also known as Eighth Regiment Armory .. The sculptor was Leonard Crunelle ..
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Stephen A. Douglas Tomb
Architect: Leonard W. Volk
Year Built: 1881
Date Designated a Chicago Landmark: September 28, 1977..
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Statue of the Republic..
Sculptor: Daniel Chester French, Architect: Henry Bacon..
Year Built: 1918
Date Designated a Chicago Landmark: June 4, 2003..
Commissioned by the B.F.Ferguson Monument Fund, to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition held in Chicago and the Illinois statehood centennial..
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Clarence Buckingham Memorial Fountain ..
Date Designated a Chicago Landmark: August 30, 2000 ..
Kate Sturges Buckingham, a philanthropist and art patron donated the fountain in memory of her brother, Clarence Buckingham .. Fountain's designer Edward H. Bennett, along with Daniel Burnham, co-authored the "Plan of Chicago" in 1909 ... Burnham and Bennett created a working document giving substance to the City Beautiful philosophy ..
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Alfred Caldwell Lily Pool..
Architect: Alfred Caldwell
Year Built: 1936-1938
Date Designated a Chicago Landmark: November 6, 2002..
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Landmark Historical Sites..
Site of Fort Dearborn ..
Date Designated a Chicago Landmark: September 15, 1971 ..
The fort, was named for U.S. Secretary of War Henry Dearborn, who served as the country's major western military garrison until August 1812, when it was destroyed following an Indian uprising. A second fort, erected on the same site in 1816, was demolished in 1856.
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Site of the Sauganash Hotel/Wigwam
Date Designated a Chicago Landmark: November 6, 2002 ..
It was at the Sauganash Hotel in 1833 that the newly-formed Town of Chicago voted to elect its first town trustees and where many of the town meetings occurred. During a brief period in 1837 when the building was not in operation as a hotel, it served as Chicago's first theater. The Sauganash Hotel remained in almost continuous operation until it burned down in 1851.
The Wigwam, constructed on the same site nine years later, was home to the 1860 Republican National Convention. It was at this historic convention that Abraham Lincoln was nominated as the Republican candidate for president. His nomination and eventual election as the nation's 16th President triggered a series of dramatic events surrounding the abolition of slavery and the secession of several southern states, ultimately culminating in the Civil War.
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Site of origin of the Great Chicago Fire of 1871 ..
Date Designated a Chicago Landmark: September 15, 1971 ..
The Great Fire of Chicago, that lasted 2 days [8- 10 October 1871] … began at this site .. It destroyed about 4 square miles of the city; killed about 250 people, made 100,000 homeless. It leveled about a third of the city; destroying about 17,450 buildings. It destroyed about the entire core downtown of Chicago and most of the North side. Property losses are estimated at $200 million.
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Site of Haymarket Tragedy ..
Date Designated a Chicago Landmark: March 25, 1992 ..
A decade of strife between labor and industry culminated here in a confrontation that resulted in the tragic death of both workers and policemen ..
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Site of the First Self-Sustaining Controlled Nuclear Chain Reaction ..
Date Designated a Chicago Landmark: October 27, 1971 ..
The location commemorates the exact location where the Manhattan Project team devised the first nuclear reactor to produce the first self-sustaining controlled nuclear reaction. It was erected for and dedicated at the celebration of the 25th anniversary of the splitting of the atom on the grounds by Enrico Fermi in December 2, 1942. Thus, it was dedicated at precisely 3:36 p.m. on December 2, 1967 ...
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RELATED LINKS..
Landmarks Monuments /Memorials/Attractions..
# Abraham Lincoln Momument - by Augustus Saint-Gaudens..
# Alfred Caldwell Lily Pool..
# Drake Fountain - by Richard Henry Park..
# Heald Square Monument - by Lorado Taft & Leonard Crunelle..
# Victory Monument - by Leonard Crunelle..
# Clarence Buckingham Memorial Fountain
# Statue of the Republic - by Daniel Chester French..
# Stephen A. Douglas Tomb - by Leonard W. Volk..
Landmark Sites..
# Site of Fort Dearborn
# Site of the Sauganash Hotel/Wigwam
# Site of origin of the Great Chicago Fire of October 8-10, 1871
# Site of Heymarket Tragedy of May 4, 1886
# Site of the First Self-Sustaining Controlled Nuclear Chain Reaction of December 2, 1942
Chicago Landmark Monuments and Sites..
Drake Fountain..
By Richard Henry Park
Completed: 1893..
Designated a Chicago Landmark: March 10, 2004
Believed to be Chicago's first statue commemorating Columbus. The monument was originally dedicated in December 1892 to mark the 400th anniversary of his voyage.
# For more, click here ..
Abraham Lincoln Momument ..
Augustus Saint-Gaudens [sculptor], Stanford White [architect]
Completed:1887
Date Designated a Chicago Landmark: December 12, 2001 ..
This monument to America’s sixteenth president .. It is the work of two nationally-important American designers, sculptor Augustus Saint-Gaudens and architect Stanford White .. Several phases from Lincoln's speeches have been inscribed at the base of the monument, like "With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on."
# For more, click here..
Heald Square Monument ..
Sculptors: Lorado Taft & Leonard Crunelle..
Completed: 1941
Date Designated a Chicago Landmark: September 15, 1971 ..
The location of the monument was named for Capt. Nathan Heald, commander of Fort Dearborn from 1810-1812. The sculpture shows George Washington, with two principal financers of the American Revolution Robert Morris and Haym Salomon. Noted sculptor Lorado Taft began the design and it was finished by his associate, Leonard Crunelle ..
# For more, click here ..
Victory Monument
Bronze sculptures: Leonard Crunelle and Architect: John A. Nyden..
Completed: 1927..
Date Designated a Chicago Landmark: September 9, 1998 ..
This structure was erected to honor the meritorious achievements of the Eighth Regiment of the Illinois National Guard, an African-American unit that served in France during World War I as part of the 370th U.S. Infantry, also known as Eighth Regiment Armory .. The sculptor was Leonard Crunelle ..
# For more, click here..
Stephen A. Douglas Tomb
Architect: Leonard W. Volk
Year Built: 1881
Date Designated a Chicago Landmark: September 28, 1977..
# For more, click here ..
Statue of the Republic..
Sculptor: Daniel Chester French, Architect: Henry Bacon..
Year Built: 1918
Date Designated a Chicago Landmark: June 4, 2003..
Commissioned by the B.F.Ferguson Monument Fund, to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition held in Chicago and the Illinois statehood centennial..
# For more, click here..
Clarence Buckingham Memorial Fountain ..
Date Designated a Chicago Landmark: August 30, 2000 ..
Kate Sturges Buckingham, a philanthropist and art patron donated the fountain in memory of her brother, Clarence Buckingham .. Fountain's designer Edward H. Bennett, along with Daniel Burnham, co-authored the "Plan of Chicago" in 1909 ... Burnham and Bennett created a working document giving substance to the City Beautiful philosophy ..
# For more, click here..
Alfred Caldwell Lily Pool..
Architect: Alfred Caldwell
Year Built: 1936-1938
Date Designated a Chicago Landmark: November 6, 2002..
# For more, click here..
Landmark Historical Sites..
Site of Fort Dearborn ..
Date Designated a Chicago Landmark: September 15, 1971 ..
The fort, was named for U.S. Secretary of War Henry Dearborn, who served as the country's major western military garrison until August 1812, when it was destroyed following an Indian uprising. A second fort, erected on the same site in 1816, was demolished in 1856.
# For more, click here ..
Site of the Sauganash Hotel/Wigwam
Date Designated a Chicago Landmark: November 6, 2002 ..
It was at the Sauganash Hotel in 1833 that the newly-formed Town of Chicago voted to elect its first town trustees and where many of the town meetings occurred. During a brief period in 1837 when the building was not in operation as a hotel, it served as Chicago's first theater. The Sauganash Hotel remained in almost continuous operation until it burned down in 1851.
The Wigwam, constructed on the same site nine years later, was home to the 1860 Republican National Convention. It was at this historic convention that Abraham Lincoln was nominated as the Republican candidate for president. His nomination and eventual election as the nation's 16th President triggered a series of dramatic events surrounding the abolition of slavery and the secession of several southern states, ultimately culminating in the Civil War.
# For more, click here ..
Site of origin of the Great Chicago Fire of 1871 ..
Date Designated a Chicago Landmark: September 15, 1971 ..
The Great Fire of Chicago, that lasted 2 days [8- 10 October 1871] … began at this site .. It destroyed about 4 square miles of the city; killed about 250 people, made 100,000 homeless. It leveled about a third of the city; destroying about 17,450 buildings. It destroyed about the entire core downtown of Chicago and most of the North side. Property losses are estimated at $200 million.
# For more, click here..
Site of Haymarket Tragedy ..
Date Designated a Chicago Landmark: March 25, 1992 ..
A decade of strife between labor and industry culminated here in a confrontation that resulted in the tragic death of both workers and policemen ..
# For more, click here...
Site of the First Self-Sustaining Controlled Nuclear Chain Reaction ..
Date Designated a Chicago Landmark: October 27, 1971 ..
The location commemorates the exact location where the Manhattan Project team devised the first nuclear reactor to produce the first self-sustaining controlled nuclear reaction. It was erected for and dedicated at the celebration of the 25th anniversary of the splitting of the atom on the grounds by Enrico Fermi in December 2, 1942. Thus, it was dedicated at precisely 3:36 p.m. on December 2, 1967 ...
# For more, click here ...
RELATED LINKS..
Landmarks Monuments /Memorials/Attractions..
# Abraham Lincoln Momument - by Augustus Saint-Gaudens..
# Alfred Caldwell Lily Pool..
# Drake Fountain - by Richard Henry Park..
# Heald Square Monument - by Lorado Taft & Leonard Crunelle..
# Victory Monument - by Leonard Crunelle..
# Clarence Buckingham Memorial Fountain
# Statue of the Republic - by Daniel Chester French..
# Stephen A. Douglas Tomb - by Leonard W. Volk..
Landmark Sites..
# Site of Fort Dearborn
# Site of the Sauganash Hotel/Wigwam
# Site of origin of the Great Chicago Fire of October 8-10, 1871
# Site of Heymarket Tragedy of May 4, 1886
# Site of the First Self-Sustaining Controlled Nuclear Chain Reaction of December 2, 1942
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