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Entrance to Forest Home
Chicago, the Garden city. Its magnificent parks, boulevards and cemeteries. Together with other descriptive views and sketches

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Title
Entrance to Forest Home
Description
  • From text: "This cemetery is situated between West Madison and West Twelfth Sts., about four and one half miles west of the present City Limits, and embraces the most beautiful part of the once celebrated Haase's Park, comprising nearly one hundred acres of land. These grounds have gained a wide reputation for the beauty of their natural scenery
  • in fact their equal in that respect can not be found around Chicago. No spot could be more advantageously situated than the location of Forest Home, it being fifty-six feet above the level of Lake Michigan and the crown of the water-shed between the Atlantic and the Gulf. The water running from the roof of a house on the grounds on one side finds the St. Lawrence, while the drops that fall on the opposite side go to the Mississippi."
Date
1893  
Type
Photographs  
File Name
chicagogardencit00simo_raw_0166.jp2
Source Page
http://www.archive.org/stream/chicagogardencit00simo#page/162/mode/2up
Link to the Full-Text
http://hdl.handle.net/10111/UIUCOCA:chicagogardencit00simo
Repository
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Subject
Cemeteries  
Coverage-Spatial
Forest Park (Ill.)  
Coverage-Temporal
1890-1899  
Publisher
  • University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign  
  • University of Illinois at Chicago  
Rights
Images in this collection were digitized through the University of Illinois Library's participation in the Open Content Alliance and may be used freely. Attribution to the University of Illinois is appreciated. High-resolution images can be downloaded from the Internet Archive at www.archive.org. For further information, contact dcc@library.uiuc.edu.
Book Title
Chicago, the Garden city. Its magnificent parks, boulevards and cemeteries. Together with other descriptive views and sketches  
Author of the Book
Simon, Andreas  
Collection Title
Picture Chicago
Collection
Picture Chicago
TitleEntrance to Forest Home
Description
  • From text: "This cemetery is situated between West Madison and West Twelfth Sts., about four and one half miles west of the present City Limits, and embraces the most beautiful part of the once celebrated Haase's Park, comprising nearly one hundred acres of land. These grounds have gained a wide reputation for the beauty of their natural scenery
  • in fact their equal in that respect can not be found around Chicago. No spot could be more advantageously situated than the location of Forest Home, it being fifty-six feet above the level of Lake Michigan and the crown of the water-shed between the Atlantic and the Gulf. The water running from the roof of a house on the grounds on one side finds the St. Lawrence, while the drops that fall on the opposite side go to the Mississippi."
Date1893  
TypePhotographs  
File Namechicagogardencit00simo_raw_0166.jp2
Source Pagehttp://www.archive.org/stream/chicagogardencit00simo#page/162/mode/2up
Link to the Full-Texthttp://hdl.handle.net/10111/UIUCOCA:chicagogardencit00simo
RepositoryUniversity of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
SubjectCemeteries  
Coverage-SpatialForest Park (Ill.)  
Coverage-Temporal1890-1899  
Publisher
  • University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign  
  • University of Illinois at Chicago  
RightsImages in this collection were digitized through the University of Illinois Library's participation in the Open Content Alliance and may be used freely. Attribution to the University of Illinois is appreciated. High-resolution images can be downloaded from the Internet Archive at www.archive.org. For further information, contact dcc@library.uiuc.edu.
Book TitleChicago, the Garden city. Its magnificent parks, boulevards and cemeteries. Together with other descriptive views and sketches  
Author of the BookSimon, Andreas  
Collection TitlePicture Chicago
CollectionPicture Chicago

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