Showing posts with label Henry Ives Cobb. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Henry Ives Cobb. Show all posts
Tuesday, October 22, 2013

Cue the Gondoliers: Henry Ives Cobb's lavish Venetian Gothic Palace revisits 1893 grandeur

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click images for larger view “The Chicago Athletic Club stands on the lake front a rival in grace and symmetry to the great palace of...
Wednesday, April 04, 2012

Why Must the Cancer Survivors Garden Go Begging?

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click images for larger view The Tribune's Mary Schmich had a great article recently on the Chicago Cancer Survivor's Garden , ...
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Monday, January 16, 2012

Spectatorium (Pocket Guide to Hell), Global Cities, the Reopening of Mies' Villa Tugendhat - still more events for January

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Still more new items for  the January 2012 Calendar of Chicago Architectural Events We've got two new exhibitions opening this Friday ...
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Monday, September 05, 2011

Tigerman, Goldberg, Botta, Cobb, Simonds, Jahn, Sobek, Pecha Kucha 19, and a billion more - it's the September calendar!

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 So what's the deal about Labor Day that turns on the chill of Fall as if by switch? I don't like the end of summer, but I'm co...
Wednesday, August 18, 2010

Death in Venice: Who was Geo. H. Macomber and what's he's doing on the Chicago Athletic Club?

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Once a playground of the city's elite, the Chicago Athletic Club had fallen on hard times by the time it announced it was shopping aroun...
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Tuesday, April 20, 2010

Cobbgate Scandal: U of C Biological Laboratories reluctantly puts failed experiments on permanent display

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Some of the residents of the gate for the Hull Biological Laboratories, which Henry Ives Cobb donated to the University of Chicago shortly...
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