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architecture.” It was built
between 1906 and 1908 using
what was then an unusual
technique of poured reinforced
concrete, in part because of a
budget of only $45,000. Unity
Temple is a masterpiece of
powerful simplicity wedded
with functional ornamentation.
Ernest Hemingway lived
in Oak Park until the age of
20. The Ernest Hemingway
Birthplace (339 North Oak Park
Ave.) is a grand Victorian
home with turn-of-the-century
Unity Temple, Frank Lloyd Wright’s “little jewel” furnishings, and has displays on
the life of this Nobel Prize
known for its literary association: (1895: 333 Forest Ave.) is a winner. The Ernest Hemingway
famed American writer Ernest hybrid of styles, with Tudor Museum (200 North Oak Park
Hemingway (see p33) was born Revival and Gothic elements. Ave.) features artifacts from
here in 1899. At the southern end of Oak Hemingway’s early life,
The best place to feast on Park is the masterful Pleasant including a childhood diary.
Wright’s achievement is the Home (217 Home Ave.), a
Frank Lloyd Wright Home and 30-room Prairie-style mansion
Studio. Designed by Wright in designed in 1897 by George
1889, the superbly restored W. Maher. The house contains
residence and workspace is extraordinary art glass
where the architect developed (designed panels of leaded
his influential Prairie style. glass), intricate woodwork, and
Nearby are two private homes decorative motifs, as well as a
that reveal Wright’s versatility. display on the area’s history.
The Arthur Heurtley House Wright was particularly proud
(1902: 318 Forest Ave.) is of Unity Temple (875 Lake St.),
typically Prairie style, with its his design for the Unitarian
row of windows spanning the Universalist Congregation. He
low roofline and its simple called this church, one of his
but elegant entrance arch. most important designs, his first The Victorian house in which Ernest
The Moore-Dugal House expression of an “entirely new Hemingway was born

Oak Park
CHICAGO
1 Frank Lloyd Wright Home Frank Lloyd Wright C H I C A G O A V E N U E
and Studio Home & Studio
2 Arthur Heurtley House Ernest Hemingway
SUPERIOR STREET Birthplace
3 Moore-Dugal House Moore-Dugal Arthur Heurtley SUPERIOR STREET
4 Pleasant Home House House
5 Unity Temple ERIE STREET
6 Ernest Hemingway KEN I LWO R T H AVEN U E GROVE AVENUE ERIE STREET
Birthplace MA RI ON ST R EET ONTARIO STREET F O R E S T A V E N U E ERIE STREET O A K PA R K A V E N U E Ernest Hemingway
7 Ernest Hemingway Museum Austin Museum
Gardens Grace ONTARIO STREET
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 Unity Temple
Memorial Church
N O R T H B O U L E V A R D
Oak Park/
Lake
Harlem/ Oak Park S O U T H B O U L E V A R D
Lake Metra
MARION STREET CLINTON AVENUE GROVE AVENUE
Home
0 meters 300 Pleasant
0 yards 300 Mills HOME AVENUE
Park
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