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Plaisance. Landscape architects ordinary and extraordinary alike.
Frederick Law Olmsted and Founded in 1961, the museum
Calvert Vaux, designers of is the oldest such institution
New York’s Central Park, in the US.
developed the South Park The museum’s permanent
plan in 1871. The park exhibit “Songs of My People”
commission balked at creating brings together diverse images
a canal and so the original by black photojournalists of
plan was never rea lized in African-American lives.
its entirety. In 1872, Horace Memorabilia from the life and
W.S. Cleveland was hired to political career of Chicago’s first
oversee the com pletion of black mayor, Harold Washington,
Washington Park. make up the “Harold Washington
Combining expanses of in Office” exhibit.
meadows with borders of trees The wooden “Freedom Now”
University students playing soccer on the and shrubs, Washington Park’s bas-relief mural illustrates
Midway Plaisance pastoral landscape also has a centuries of black history.
pond and lagoon. At the Significant leaders are depicted,
6 Midway Plaisance northeast end of the park is along with revolutionary events.
Bounded by 59th & 60th sts., Cottage Drexel Fountain, one of the “Africa Speaks” presents art
Grove & Stony Island aves. oldest fountains in Chicago. from Africa, much of which
Map 7 B5–8 E5. £ 59th. It was designed in 1881–2 has a functional purpose.
by Henry Manger. Handcrafted door panels, for
Midway Plaisance, a 1-mile- The park’s most magnificent example, are given to a
(1.6-km-) long greenway feature is the sculpture Nigerian bride on her wedding
at the south end of the Fountain of Time at the day so she may close her
University of Chicago south end, where boudoir while decorating it.
campus and the city’s Washington Park The ritual masks from closed
broadest boulevard, meets Midway West African societies are
serves as the uni versity’s Plaisance. Designed in particularly striking.
recreation grounds. 1922 by the Chicago
The Midway is also artist Lorado Taft
an excellent vantage (1860–1936), this 9 Hyde Park
point from which to haunting monument Bounded by Hyde Park Blvd., 61st St.,
view the university’s depicts the cloaked Washington Park, & Lake Michigan.
Gothic buildings. figure of Time Map 8 D3. £ 53rd; 55th-56th-57th;
Designed by Frederick watching the 59th. 8 call (312) 922-3432. 0 =
Law Olmsted and endless march of
Calvert Vaux as the humanity. It was Hyde Park is one of Chicago’s
link between erected to most pleasant neighborhoods.
Washington and celebrate 100 The Univer sity of Chicago’s
Jackson parks, the Detail of Taft’s Fountain of Time, years of US- presence contributes a
Midway was the Washington Park British peace. collegiate atmosphere, while
site of the 1893 the many shops, restaurants,
Exposition’s Bazaar of Nations. 8 DuSable Museum theaters, and galleries provide
It was here that the Ferris a broad array of attractions.
wheel – 250 ft (76 m) high – of African American The area was open country-
made its debut. History side in 1853 when Chicago
lawyer Paul Cornell established
740 E 56th Pl. Map 7 B4. Tel (773) 947- the community on a swath of
7 Washington Park 0600. q Garfield (Red or Green Line) lakeside property.
then bus 55. @ 4. Open 10am– 5pm
Bounded by 51st & 60th sts., Martin Tue–Sat; noon–5pm Sun. Closed
Luther King Jr. Dr. & Cottage Grove major public hols. & (children under
Ave. Map 7 A2–A5. q 51st; Garfield 6 free; free Sun). 7 8 book in
(Green Line). advance. = h Lectures, films.
∑ dusablemuseum.org
Named after the first US
president, Washington Park As part of its mission to
was originally intended to celebrate the rich and diverse
be part of a grand South history and culture of African
Park, comprising both Americans and their
Washington Park and Jackson contributions to the nation, the
Park, connected by a canal DuSable Museum highlights Carefully untended gardens characteristic of
running through Midway accomplishments of the the Rosalie Villas, in Hyde Park

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