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writer Ernest Hemingway
(1899–1960), who lived
here until the age of 20.
Although Hemingway (see
p323) rejected the conser-
vative mind-set of this Chicago
suburb, saying it was full of
“wide lawns and narrow
minds,” Oak Park continues
to pride itself on its literary
association. The Ernest
Hemingway Birthplace, a
grand Victorian home
decorated with turn-of-the-
20th-century furnishings,
Unity Temple, Frank Lloyd Wright’s “little jewel,” Oak Park has displays on this Nobel
Prize-winner’s life. The Ernest
designed by Wright in 1889. This glass. It also includes intricate Hemingway Museum,
was also where he developed woodwork, and decorative features several artifacts
his influential architectural style. motifs, and a display on the from Heming way’s early life.
Nearby are two private homes area’s history.
that reveal Wright’s versatility. Wright was especially proud
The 1902 Arthur Heurtley of Unity Temple, his design
House is typically Prairie style, for the Unitarian Universalist
with its row of windows Congregation. He called this
spanning the low roofline, and a church one of his most important
simple but elegant entrance designs, his first expression
arch. The 1895 Moore-Dugal of an “entirely new architecture.”
House, across the street, is a It was built between 1906 and
hybrid of styles, rich with Tudor- 1908, using a then-unusual
Revival and Gothic elements. technique of poured reinforced
At the southern end of Oak concrete, in part because of
Park is the masterful Pleasant a budget of only $45,000.
Home, a 30-room Prairie-style Unity Temple is a masterpiece
mansion designed in 1897 by of powerful simplicity wedded
George W. Maher. The house with functional ornamentation.
holds extraordinary art glass – Oak Park is also famous as the The Victorian house in which Ernest
designed panels of leaded birthplace of the famed US Hemingway was born

Oak Park
CHICAGO
C H I C A G O A V E N U E
Frank Lloyd Wright 1 Frank Lloyd Wright Home
Home and Studio and Studio
SUPERIOR STREET Ernest Hemingway 2 Arthur Heurtley House
Moore-Dugal Arthur Heurtley Birthplace SUPERIOR STREET 3 Moore-Dugal House
House House 4 Pleasant Home
GROVE AVENUE
ERIE STREET 5 Unity Temple
MA RI ON ST R EET ONTARIO STREET F O R E S T A V E N U E K E NILW OR TH AV EN UE ERIE STREET O A K PA R K A V E N U E ERIE STREET 6 Ernest Hemingway
Birthplace
Ernest Hemingway
Museum
Austin
Gardens Grace ONTARIO STREET 7 Ernest Hemingway Museum
Episcopal Scoville
Church E U C L I D A V E N U E
Park
L A K E ST R E ET
Calvary
Memorial Church Unity Temple
N O R T H B O U L E V A R D Oak Park/
Lake 0 meters 400
Harlem/ Oak Park S O U T H B O U L E V A R D
Lake Metra 0 yards 400
Pleasant
MARION STREET Home HOME AVENUE CLINTON AVENUE GROVE AVENUE
Mills
Park For keys to symbols see back flap
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