![]() The Alarm: One of Chicago’s Oldest Public Monuments THE GREAT CHICAGO QUIZ SHOW: Now and Then Remembering the Adventure Playland on Washington Park’s Bynum Island Spotlight on Chicago’s Patent Medicine Industry Women Who Built Chicago: Two Additional Hidden Figures Wilmette’s Gillson Park: A Gorgeous Historic Landscape that Stands the Test of Time Huehl & Schmid: An Overlooked Architectural Firm That Shouldn’t Be Spotlight on Ravenswood’s Deagan Building Mary Long Rogers: Midcentury Landscape Architect and Urban Planner MarshallĬhicago Celebrates Frederick Law Olmsted’s 200th Birthday Under the Radar Works of the Talented and Prolific Benjamin H. John Warner Norton and Chicago’s Mural Tradition The Bagley House: One of Frank Lloyd Wright’s Earliest Independent Commissions The Fascinating Story of the Japanese Garden on Jackson Park’s Wooded Island Hood Avenue. As explained in an EHS web posting, Norman’s great-granddaughter, Chris Kale Corcoran, unearthed a 1904 article in the weekly Swedish-language newspaper Svenska Nyheter confirming that her ancestor designed the Hood Avenue houses for Weber-Kranz developers. Blommaert believes Norman also produced other similar houses on nearby blocks for the same firm.Ī Study in Quadrangles: The University of Chicago Campus LeRoy Blommaert of the Edgewater Historical Society (EHS) has done extensive research on Norman’s work in the neighborhood. Blommaert had long suspected that Andrew Norman was responsible for numerous houses on the 14 blocks of W. He lived and worked in Edgewater for the rest of his life. An avid ice skater, he was also an accomplished woodcarver who often won prizes in competitions. In 1887, the Normans moved to Chicago, where he established himself first as a contractor and then as an architect. There, Norman married a fellow Swede and became the foreman in a furniture factory. Arriving in America in 1880, he spent about six months as a cabinetmaker in Brooklyn before relocating to Michigan. The son of a forester, Norman apprenticed under a patternmaker at the Finnshytlan Mechanical works at the age of 16. Norman (1860-1934) was another extremely productive Swedish-born Chicago architect. ![]()
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