Showing posts with label Chicago Loop - Grant Park. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Chicago Loop - Grant Park. Show all posts

Monday, October 5, 2009

Chicago - Grant Park / Gardens in the Grant Park ..




Interestingly, Grant park has many big and small gardens..
Grant Park Formal Garden
Congress Triangle Garden
Congress Plaza Gardens
The Spirit of Music Garden
Sir Georg Solti Garden
South President's Court
North President's Court
Buckingham Fountain flower gardens
Rose gardens
 Cancer Survivors Garden


Thursday, July 9, 2009

Chicago Loop - Grant Park / Sitting Lincoln (1926) - by Augustus Saint Gaudens




Sitting Lincoln - by Augustus Saint Gaudens
Sitting Lincoln - by Auguste Saint Gaudens




Sitting Lincoln Monument 
- by  Augustus Saint-Gaudens (sculptor) 
& 
Stanford White (architect) - designed the enormous 150-foot semi-circular exedra.

Unveiled: 1926 

Location: North President's Court, Grant Park

A gift to the city of Chicago by John Crerar, who left a $100,000 bequest in 1889 to construct a Lincoln statue. His trustees commissioned the sculptor Augustus Saint Gaudens to create this tribute.