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# Ravenswood- Lake View Historical Association

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- [Spring 2026 Programs](https://www.ravenswoodhistorical.com/posts/spring-2026-programs/)
- [Fall 2025 Programs](https://www.ravenswoodhistorical.com/posts/fall-2025-programs/)
- [Summer 2025 Programs](https://www.ravenswoodhistorical.com/posts/summer-2025-programs/)
- [Spring 2025 Programs](https://www.ravenswoodhistorical.com/posts/spring-2025-programs/)
- [Fall 2024 Programs](https://www.ravenswoodhistorical.com/posts/pastprograms/fall-2024-programs/)
- [Fall Programs 2019](https://www.ravenswoodhistorical.com/posts/fall-programs-2019/) - History of Baseball in Chicago with Dr. Kevin Kaufmann, September 18 at 7 p.m.The Talking Statues of Chicago with Beth Sair, October 17 at 7 p.m. and October 23 at 1 p.m.Lost Restaurants of Chicago with Greg Borzo, November 6 at 7 p.m, All programs are held in the Lerner Auditorium of Conrad Sulzer Regional
- [Fall 2023 Programs](https://www.ravenswoodhistorical.com/posts/pastprograms/fall-2023-programs/) - The following programs are held in the Lerner Auditorium, Conrad Sulzer Regional Library at 4455 N. Lincoln Ave: Historic Chicago Bakeries with Jennifer Billock, Thursday, September 28 at 7 P.M. Made in Chicago with Authors Monica Eng & David Hammond, Wednesday, November 8 at 7 P.M. The following tour is held at Rosehill Cemetary at
- [Spring 2024 Programs](https://www.ravenswoodhistorical.com/posts/pastprograms/spring-2024-programs/)
- [Spring 2020 Programs](https://www.ravenswoodhistorical.com/posts/pastprograms/spring-2020-programs/) - The Haunting of the White City with Ursula Bielski, March 25th at 7 p.m. This event has been cancelled due to the COVID-19 global pandemic. We are working to reschedule this event. The Hidden History of Lincoln Park with Patrick Butler, April 29th at 7 p.m. The History of the Chicago Mafia with Frank Calabrese
- [Fall 2022 Newsletter](https://www.ravenswoodhistorical.com/publications/newsletter/fall-2022-newsletter/) - Download RLVHA Newsletter Fall 2022
- [Fall 2021 Newsletter](https://www.ravenswoodhistorical.com/publications/newsletter/fall-2021-newsletter/) - Download RLVHA Newsletter Fall 2021
- [Summer 2019 Newsletter](https://www.ravenswoodhistorical.com/publications/newsletter/summer-2019-newsletter/) - RLVHA-Newsletter-Summer-2019Download
- [Dedication of the Sheridan Triangle Garden / Lake View Hotel Circa 1854](https://www.ravenswoodhistorical.com/posts/dedication-of-the-sheridan-triangle-garden-lake-view-hotel-circa-1854/) - triangle-garden-invitation-to-dedicationDownload
- [Spring Programs 2019](https://www.ravenswoodhistorical.com/posts/spring-programs-2019/) - Ravenswood-Lake View Historical Association Lecture Series, Spring 2019 Women in the Parks, with Julia Bachrach: Thursday, March 7 at 7 p.m.The Swedes in Chicago, with Karin Abercrombie: Wednesday, April 24 at 7 p.m.The Hidden History of Uptown & Edgewater, with Patrick Butler: Thursday, May 16 at 7 p.m. All programs are held in the Lerner
- [Winter 2019 Newsletter](https://www.ravenswoodhistorical.com/publications/newsletter/rlvha-newsletter-winter-2019/) - RLVHA Newsletter Winter 2019Download
- [Historical Collection Open House](https://www.ravenswoodhistorical.com/posts/pastprograms/historical-collection-open-house-2/)
- [Fall Programs 2018](https://www.ravenswoodhistorical.com/posts/pastprograms/fall-programs/)
- [Spring 2018 Newsletter](https://www.ravenswoodhistorical.com/publications/newsletter/spring-2018-newsletter/) - RLVHA Newsletter Spring 2018 (8)
- [Shaping Chicago: James Dunham and the Chicago River with Tom Lutz](https://www.ravenswoodhistorical.com/posts/pastprograms/shaping-chicago-james-dunham-and-the-chicago-river-with-tom-lutz/)
- [Hidden in Plain Sight: Chicago's Lakefront Masterpieces](https://www.ravenswoodhistorical.com/posts/pastprograms/hidden-in-plain-sight-chicagos-lakefront-masterpieces/)
- [A Chicago Firehouse](https://www.ravenswoodhistorical.com/posts/pastprograms/a-chicago-firehouse/)
- [Vintage Lake View History Panel](https://www.ravenswoodhistorical.com/posts/pastprograms/vintage-lake-view-history-panel/)
- [History of Ravenswood](https://www.ravenswoodhistorical.com/posts/pastprograms/history-of-ravenswood/)
- [150th Anniversary History of Ravenswood Slideshow](https://www.ravenswoodhistorical.com/publications/150th-anniversary-history-of-ravenswood-slideshow/)
- [The Good Fight: Life Lessons from a Chicago Progressive](https://www.ravenswoodhistorical.com/posts/pastprograms/the-good-fight-life-lessons-from-a-chicago-progressive/)
- [1920s Prohibition Wars and the St. Valentine's Day Massacre](https://www.ravenswoodhistorical.com/posts/pastprograms/1920s-prohibition-wars-and-the-st-valentines-day-massacre/)
- [Giants in the Park Part II: Unveiling the Histories Behind Lincoln Park's Monumental Art](https://www.ravenswoodhistorical.com/posts/pastprograms/giants-in-the-park-part-ii-unveiling-the-histories-behind-lincoln-parks-monumental-art/)
- [Flickering Empire: How Chicago Invented The U.S. Film Industry](https://www.ravenswoodhistorical.com/posts/pastprograms/flickering-empire-how-chicago-invented-the-u-s-film-industry/)
- [Now Arriving: Traveling to and from Chicago by Air, 90 Years of Flight](https://www.ravenswoodhistorical.com/posts/pastprograms/now-arriving-traveling-to-and-from-chicago-by-air-90-years-of-flight/)
- [The Chicago "L": Chicago's Biggest "Mover & Shaker"](https://www.ravenswoodhistorical.com/posts/pastprograms/the-chicago-l-chicagos-biggest-mover-shaker/)
- [Historical Collection Open House](https://www.ravenswoodhistorical.com/posts/pastprograms/historical-collection-open-house/)
- [Winter 2018 Newsletter](https://www.ravenswoodhistorical.com/publications/newsletter/winter-2018-newsletter/) - RLVHA newsletter 2018 FINAL
- [Truc Lam Temple (Ravenswood Club)](https://www.ravenswoodhistorical.com/tours/a-walking-tour-of-old-ravenswood/truc-lam-temple-paul-revere-temple/) - 1521 West Wilson Avenue Just down Wilson from the Masonic Lodge on Paulina, on the southeast corner of Ashland, is another Masonic hall, the Paul Revere Lodge, now the Truc Loc Temple. The building started out as the "Ravenswood Club," a private membership organization similar to a country club. It received a state charter
- [Ravenswood Lake View Historical Association Raffle](https://www.ravenswoodhistorical.com/publications/ravenswood-lake-view-historical-association-raffle/)
- [Draining Chicago: The Early City and the North Area](https://www.ravenswoodhistorical.com/posts/pastprograms/draining-chicago-the-early-city-and-the-north-area/)
- [Chicago Transformed: World War One and the Windy City](https://www.ravenswoodhistorical.com/posts/pastprograms/chicago-transformed-world-war-one-and-the-windy-city/)
- [Chicago's Fabulous Fountains](https://www.ravenswoodhistorical.com/posts/pastprograms/chicagos-fabulous-fountains/)
- [Germans in Chicago](https://www.ravenswoodhistorical.com/posts/pastprograms/germans-in-chicago/)
- [The History of Lake View's Boystown](https://www.ravenswoodhistorical.com/posts/pastprograms/the-history-of-lake-views-boystown/)
- [Japanese Americans in the Era of WWII](https://www.ravenswoodhistorical.com/posts/pastprograms/japanese-americans-in-the-era-of-wwii/)
- [Giants in the Park](https://www.ravenswoodhistorical.com/posts/pastprograms/giants-in-the-park/)
- [The Railroad Tycoon Who Built Chicago](https://www.ravenswoodhistorical.com/posts/pastprograms/the-railroad-tycoon-who-built-chicago/)
- [WWI in Chicago meant some meatless days](https://www.ravenswoodhistorical.com/publications/wwi-in-chicago-meant-some-meatless-days/)
- [Cubs fans: It's OK to talk about 1945 World Series choke, we're free of all curses](https://www.ravenswoodhistorical.com/publications/cubs-fans-its-ok-to-talk-about-1945-world-series-choke-were-free-of-all-curses/)
- [O'leary cow cleared of setting fire to Chicago](https://www.ravenswoodhistorical.com/publications/oleary-cow-cleared-of-setting-fire-to-chicago/)
- [Graceland Cemetery Tour](https://www.ravenswoodhistorical.com/tours/graceland-cemetery-tour/) - Graceland Cemetery Tour. Saturday, October 8, 1 PM. 4001 N Clark St., Chicago, IL $10 cash or check. Meet at cemetery office near Clark and Irving Park Rd entrance.
- [Valley of the Kings Graceland Cemetery](https://www.ravenswoodhistorical.com/tours/valley-of-the-kings-graceland-cemetery/) - Download the RLVHA Kings Gracleland Tour brochure
- [The Wartime Chicago Cubs and The Pennant of 1945](https://www.ravenswoodhistorical.com/posts/pastprograms/the-wartime-chicago-cubs-and-the-pennant-of-1945/)
- [History of the Irish in Chicago](https://www.ravenswoodhistorical.com/posts/pastprograms/history-of-the-irish-in-chicago/)
- [Winter 2017 Newsletter](https://www.ravenswoodhistorical.com/publications/newsletter/winter-2017-newsletter/) - RLVHA Newsletter Winter 2017 http://www.ravenswoodhistorical.com/?attachment_id=862
- [History Fair Award](https://www.ravenswoodhistorical.com/publications/history-fair-award/) - For more information about the Chicago Metro History Fair, go to: https://www.chicagohistory.org/education/history-fair/ For more information about Ravenswood Lake View community history, go to: https://www.chipublib.org/northside-neighborhood-history-collection/
- [Winter 2014 Newsletter](https://www.ravenswoodhistorical.com/publications/newsletter/winter-2014-newsletter/) - The sometimes quarterly newsletter of the Ravenswood Lake View Historical Association in PDF.
- [Annual Meeting of Members](https://www.ravenswoodhistorical.com/posts/pastprograms/annual-meeting-of-members/) - The annual meeting of members will be held Thursday, October 6, 2016 in the auditorium of the Conrad Sulzer Regional Library, 4455 N Lincoln Ave., Chicago IL at 6:30 P.M. Following the meeting co-authors alderman Dick Simpson and Betty O'Shaughnessy will have a book talk on their new opus, Winning Elections in the 21t Century.
- [Author Talk: Chicago River Bridges with Patrick McBriarty](https://www.ravenswoodhistorical.com/posts/pastprograms/author-talk-chicago-river-bridges-with-patrick-mcbriarty/) - Award-winning author Patrick McBriarty discusses the history and importance of the city's system of bridges. Conrad Sulzer Public Library, 4455 N Lincoln Ave., Chicago, IL Tuesday, September 27, 7 PM.
- [Fall 2014 Newsletter](https://www.ravenswoodhistorical.com/publications/newsletter/fall-2014-newsletter/) - RLVHA Newsletter FALL 2014 copy
- [Spring 2012 Newsletter](https://www.ravenswoodhistorical.com/publications/newsletter/spring-2012-newsletter/) - RLVHA Spring 2013
- [Fall 2012 Newsletter](https://www.ravenswoodhistorical.com/publications/newsletter/fall-2012-newsletter/) - RLVHA Newsletter FALL 201s copy
- [Linthicum House](https://www.ravenswoodhistorical.com/tours/a-walking-tour-of-old-ravenswood/linthicum-house/) - 4223 North Hermitage Avenue Very unusual cigar-like porch columns. Also note screening with pod motif. Complex massing of house, With larger gable on north-south axis, smaller gable on east-west axis and corner turret pulling it all together. HISTORICAL FEATURES Charles and Eva Linthicum moved to Ravenswood in the spring of 1884 and built a "modest
- [Emanuel House](https://www.ravenswoodhistorical.com/tours/a-walking-tour-of-old-ravenswood/emanuel-house/) - 4228 North Hermitage Avenue This is the home of Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel and his wife Amy Rule. They purchased the home in 1998. At the time Emanuel was an investment banker and a member of the board of directors of Freddie Mac. In 2002 Emanuel became the Congressman for the 5th Illinois Congressional District,
- [Helen Zatterberg Playlot Park](https://www.ravenswoodhistorical.com/tours/a-walking-tour-of-old-ravenswood/helen-zatterberg-playlot-park/) - 4246 North Hermitage In 1938, the City of Chicago acquired this property in the North Center neighborhood through a settlement with the Policemens' and Firemens' Death Benefit Fund. By 1950, the city had transferred the site to the its Bureau of Parks and Recreation, which improved it with a spray pool, a sand box, and
- [Ravenswood Presbyterian Church](https://www.ravenswoodhistorical.com/tours/a-walking-tour-of-old-ravenswood/ravenswood-presbyterian-church/) - 4300 North Hermitage Avenue This church was designed by the renowned Chicago firm of Pond & Pond at a cost of $43.000. Pond & Pond also designed a number of the Hull House buildings erected between 1895 and 1913, the Stevens Building downtown, and the Hyde Park Presbyterian Church built in 1915, the same year
- [Cole House](https://www.ravenswoodhistorical.com/tours/a-walking-tour-of-old-ravenswood/cole-houses/) - 4307 North Hermitage Look at the intact wooden ornament, including eccentric mixture of Italianate brackets and fleur-de-lis cutouts under the gable's cornice. The bay on west facade, window surrounds, recessed double front doors with coffered jamb and window transom, and possibly original porch. Note the elongated windows. Possible addition adjacent to front porch, as well
- [1st Congregational Church of Ravenswood/ Library Hall](https://www.ravenswoodhistorical.com/tours/a-walking-tour-of-old-ravenswood/1st-congregational-church-of-ravenswood-library-hall/) - At the corner of North Hermitage Avenue and West Montrose Avenue In 1869, as the Ravenswood Land Company was building streets and laying out the subdivision, it offered land to any congregation that would build a church. Other church groups tried to raise funds, or a building, but the Congregationalists were the first to succeed.
- [Sinclair House (The Hudson House)](https://www.ravenswoodhistorical.com/tours/a-walking-tour-of-old-ravenswood/sinclair-house/) - 4447 North Hermitage Avenue Excellent shingle style house, employing a variety of different shingle and clapboard materials. Also note the stained glass and the delicate, restrained front porch. The elegance and sophistication of this building's design suggests that it was designed by an architect, but we have not been able to identify him. HISTORICAL FEATURES
- [19th Century Rentals](https://www.ravenswoodhistorical.com/tours/a-walking-tour-of-old-ravenswood/19th-century-rentals/) - 4533 & 4529 North Hermitage Avenue 4533 and 4529 Hermitage are sister houses. In April 1885 James and Frances Stewart entered into an agreement with John Williams to purchase three consecutive lots. 4529, 4533, and 4537 for $750, and to build houses at 4529 and 4533 within 90 days. Construction costs on each house
- [Wilson Avenue](https://www.ravenswoodhistorical.com/tours/a-walking-tour-of-old-ravenswood/wilson-avenue-our-town-center/) - Wilson & Commercial Avenues Before it was called Hermitage, this street was named Commercial Avenue. With the Abbott Mansion on your left shoulder, gaze first across Wilson Avenue. New buildings can be seen for some distance down Hermitage. The Ravenswood YMCA once stood here. It was built in 1905. By the late 1970's the building
- [The Illiniwek](https://www.ravenswoodhistorical.com/tours/a-walking-tour-of-old-ravenswood/the-illiniwek/) - 4800 North Ravenswood Avenue Early Human Settlement The State of Illinois is an outgrowth of the history of many peoples. Many of their influences have vanished, sealed beneath the foundation of homes and the construction of roads. Here, in Ravenswood, Native Americans lived for thousands of years prior to the first European explorers. Pause a
- [The Sulzer Family](https://www.ravenswoodhistorical.com/tours/a-walking-tour-of-old-ravenswood/the-sulzer-family/) - Sulzer Road You've reached Montrose Ave. Did you know that Montrose Avenue is named for James G Montrose, the Marquis of Hamilton, a Scottish noble and Royalist leader in the reign of Charles I? We have a better candidate for the name of this street: Sulzer Street. Conrad Sulzer was a Swiss immigrant to the
- [Ravenswood Elementary School](https://www.ravenswoodhistorical.com/tours/a-walking-tour-of-old-ravenswood/ravenswood-elementary-school/) - 4332 North Paulina Street Architect John J. Flanders designed the center section of the school in 1893. The north and south sections were added presumably in 1912, by the architect Arthur Hussander, who also build Senn High School in Edgewater Glen and the southern block of Lake View High School along Irving Park Road. Note
- [Home of Carl Sandburg](https://www.ravenswoodhistorical.com/tours/a-walking-tour-of-old-ravenswood/city-of-the-big-shoulders/) - 4646 North Hermitage Avenue The modest house you are looking at was an early home of the poet Carl Sandburg. Sandburg moved to Chicago in 1912, living in a second floor apartment in this building. He was a reporter for the Chicago Daily News and a member of All Saints Episcopal Church. Here he composed
- [Abbott Labs](https://www.ravenswoodhistorical.com/tours/a-walking-tour-of-old-ravenswood/abbott-labs/) - 4753 North Ravenswood Avenue You're looking at 4753 N Ravenswood. A building here was once owned by Abbott Labs. The company, which is reported to have about 90,000 employees and $35 billion in revenues, was once located on this strip of light industrial buildings. The company was founded in 1888 by a drug store owner
- [Bethany United Church of Christ](https://www.ravenswoodhistorical.com/tours/a-walking-tour-of-old-ravenswood/bethany-united-church-of-christ/) - 4250 North Paulina Street While architect Benjamin Franklin Olson can be said to have done more aesthetic harm than good refurbishing the Ravenswood Presbyterian Church, this building has a number of appealing features, particularly in the east facade of the sanctuary. Note the cut stone which accentuates the vertical elements, elegantly laid brickwork which gives
- [Progress Building, AKA The Deagan Building](https://www.ravenswoodhistorical.com/tours/a-walking-tour-of-old-ravenswood/progress-building-aka-the-deagan-building/) - 1770 West Berteau Avenue Architect F. E. Davidson designed this building at an estimated cost of $150,000 in 1919. Is a beautifully designed commercial building. Window bays articulated in a variety of ways, including stepped brickwork, cut stone and terra cotta. Note carved limestone detail, especially over the entrance, and copper detail of string course,
- [A Walk Through Old Ravenswood](https://www.ravenswoodhistorical.com/tours/a-walking-tour-of-old-ravenswood/a-walk-through-old-ravenswood/) - This is a self-guided tour of the Ravenswood neighborhood. The tour starts at the Metra Stop for Ravenswood and proceeds south along Commercial Avenue (now Hermitage). The people who lived along the route, the architecture and the history of the area will be discussed. The tour is under two miles and is flat. Do not
- [Chief Raven](https://www.ravenswoodhistorical.com/tours/a-walking-tour-of-old-ravenswood/chief-raven/) - Native Village Early maps indicate a Native American encampment in Uptown along what is now Wilson Avenue. The encampment was located somewhere east of Clark Street, which is still about two blocks further east. We know it was east of Clark Street because Clark Street is an old trail leading to Green Bay. Clark Street
- [New Website](https://www.ravenswoodhistorical.com/posts/new-website/) - The Ravenswood Lake View Historical Association announces the establishment of its new website at ravenswoodlakeview.com. Principally the work of talented web designer Dan O’Neil, the website is our attempt to further our mission through the internet. Initially, the website is intended to establish our presence on the web and provide quickly accessible information about the
- [Chase Park (Gunther Park)](https://www.ravenswoodhistorical.com/tours/a-walking-tour-of-old-ravenswood/chase-park-gunther-park/) - 4701 North Ashland Avenue This park was originally a semi-professional baseball park named Gunther Park. Built in 1905, it had a seating capacity of 5,000. It was home to the Gunther Nine of the Chicago City League, The Chicago Green Sox of the United States Baseball League. The Gunther Nine played their first game against
- [Our Lady of Lourdes Church](https://www.ravenswoodhistorical.com/tours/a-walking-tour-of-old-ravenswood/our-lady-of-lourdes/) - 1601 West Leland Street Many stone details and tile and copper trim enliven a yellow brick structure. Also note cast iron lamps outside doors; metal fretwork over front door; and dome with copper lantern at crossing. The church's cruciform floor plan, large windows, high ceilings and grand size make for an inspiring worship experience. Henry
- [American Indian Center (Masonic Temple)](https://www.ravenswoodhistorical.com/tours/a-walking-tour-of-old-ravenswood/american-indian-center-masonic-temple/) - 4601 North Paulina Street Masonic lodges were very active in Ravenswood in the late 19th and eary 20th centuries, as they were in other comunities. In 1885 Edgar Galloway, who had the house we saw on Hermitage, and other local residents began the process of establishing a lodge. They received a charter the following year
- [Bennett Apartment Block](https://www.ravenswoodhistorical.com/tours/a-walking-tour-of-old-ravenswood/bennett-apartment-block/) - 4500 North Paulina Street Decorative diamond-pattern brickwork in frieze and pronounced corner turret. Rusticated limestone on first floor, with small stone porches with Ionic columns. Its architect, Morrison H. Vail, boasted that the building had fronts of pressed brick with Bedford stone trimmings, hardwood [interior] finish with mantels, sideboards, and consoles, gas and electric fixtures,
- [Philadelphia Romanian Church (Ravenswood Church of Christ Scientist)](https://www.ravenswoodhistorical.com/tours/a-walking-tour-of-old-ravenswood/philadelphia-romanian-church-christ-scientist-church/) - 1713 West Sunnyside Avenue An interesting design contrast with the other churches in the neighborhood. This church, designed by N. Max Dunning and Clarence A. Jensen, takes inspiration from Greek temple forms found in the Pantheon and elsewhere. Classical architecture was quite typical in Christian Science churches in Chicago and many cities. What is not
- [Thisslew Apartments](https://www.ravenswoodhistorical.com/tours/a-walking-tour-of-old-ravenswood/thisslew-apartment-block/) - 4431 North Paulina Street Charles Thisslew designed this building at an estimated cost of $18,000 in 1908. He included a large number of highly unusual details: Third-floor sills, extending into second--floor keystones. Art Nouveau cast concrete or stone inserts. Chambered pillars on the bays. Stained glass. Highly European in its subtle details. HISTORICAL FEATURES Thisslew
- [Washburn House](https://www.ravenswoodhistorical.com/tours/a-walking-tour-of-old-ravenswood/washburn-house/) - 4420 North Paulina Street This house was designed by John Morrell for T. F. Washburn at an estimated cost of $6,000 in 1900. Note the gracefully proportioned facade and unusual porch; unusual shingling and cornices; note quoins. HISTORICAL FEATURES Washburn was a varnish manufacturer who commissioned this house. SOURCES Permit N2 on 1/2/1900. CCL Survey.
- [Paul-Mont Apartments](https://www.ravenswoodhistorical.com/tours/a-walking-tour-of-old-ravenswood/paul-mont-apartments/) - 4400 North Paulina Street Note the Montrose Avenue facade, which is far superior to Paulina facade. Covered stucco cornice with brick prairie school patterns, elegant window transom patterns, coved bulkheads, and an arched door. Interior has mosaic tile entrance hall. Like many of the buildings of architect Samuel N. Crowen (l872~1935), this apartment block has
- [Pettit House](https://www.ravenswoodhistorical.com/tours/a-walking-tour-of-old-ravenswood/pettit-house/) - 4323 North Paulina Street A gingerbread cottage, with wood cut-out filigree work in west gable and brackets, wood slat work in gable. North facade has gable which follows the west facade. Note stained glass in first--floor bay window transom. Porch was added in 1926. HISTORICAL FEATURES Levi Pitner, a local developer, built a simple cottage
- [Ackley House](https://www.ravenswoodhistorical.com/tours/a-walking-tour-of-old-ravenswood/ackley-house/) - 4251 North Paulina Street Superb example of an early frame house with an intact porch. The brackets are consistent with a stick style aesthetic and facilitate a sense of muscular composure, order wrought out of complex elements. Window surrounds remain and this house is fainted much as it might have been at the time it
- [Captain Knight House](https://www.ravenswoodhistorical.com/tours/a-walking-tour-of-old-ravenswood/captain-knight-house/) - 4232 North Paulina Street Balustrades and stair railings are probably new; other detailing may also be added. Note the intact window surrounds, sharply pitched roof. HISTORICAL FEATURES Captain Hale Knight was originally a sea captain who had a significant professional disability: according to one neighbor, he "never crossed the ocean without being somewhat seasick." He
- [Friends of Rod Blagojevich](https://www.ravenswoodhistorical.com/tours/a-walking-tour-of-old-ravenswood/friends-of-rod-blagojevich/) - 4147 North Ravenswood Avenue This building contained the political offices of former Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich, offices the federal government say he used for wire fraud, attempted extortion and a conspiracy to solicit bribes. As part of its investigation into Blagojevich the federal government taped the offices located here. The first serious allegation against Blagojevich
- [Hamlin House](https://www.ravenswoodhistorical.com/tours/a-walking-tour-of-old-ravenswood/hamlin-house/) - 4224 North Hermitage Avenue Imaginative massing make this modest house seem quite elegant. Note also idiosyncratic Palladian-like window on second floor. Screen door and art nouveau decorations of front porch are recent additions. FEATURES Many residents of early Ravenswood were connected to one another. Irving Hamlin, for example, married the daughter of Reverend W. A.
- [Kirkham House](https://www.ravenswoodhistorical.com/tours/a-walking-tour-of-old-ravenswood/kirkham-house/) - 4424 North Hermitage The house is one of three brick buildings on these blocks of Hermitage Avenue with similar, if not identical, floor-plans. Note the mintons on the windows, as well as the fluted columns with very simple Ionic capitals on the porch and third-floor dormer window. Clear beveled-glass front window transom. Medallions, dentiled cornice.
- [Ravenswood United Methodist Church](https://www.ravenswoodhistorical.com/tours/a-walking-tour-of-old-ravenswood/ravenswood-united-methodist-church/) - 4501 North Hermitage Avenue The church was built in 1890. The parish house was added in 1912. John S Woollacott designed this church with its restrained rustication of stone-work. Note, too, the colorful floral and geometric stained--glass windows, which were brought from another church and installed here. The belfry appears to be covered in an
- [Andrews House](https://www.ravenswoodhistorical.com/tours/a-walking-tour-of-old-ravenswood/andrews-house/) - 4517 North Hermitage Avenue Several features of this house are typical of houses of the 1870's: note the deeply recessed, coffered front door and curved first-floor windows. First floor openings are all elongated. Roofline slopes gently. Many of its original features remain despite several siding efforts, including asphalt meant to simulate brick. Few such old
- [Ravenswood YMCA](https://www.ravenswoodhistorical.com/tours/a-walking-tour-of-old-ravenswood/site-of-the-ravenswood-ymca/) - Townhouses at 4541-4555 North Hermitage Avenue and contiguous lots on Paulina Street 1985-1988 These townhouses, designed by the firm of Environ, Inc., were built on the site of the Ravenswood YMCA, a large 1905 building which by the late 1970's had failed to meet increasingly stringent standards for access for the disabled. As a result,
- [Galloway House](https://www.ravenswoodhistorical.com/tours/a-walking-tour-of-old-ravenswood/galloway-house/) - 4542 North Hermitage Avenue The house was built for Edgar Galloway and his wife, Helen. They bought the land in 1874 from Thomas A Cosgrove, a member of the Ravenswood Land Company. Edgar's brother Albert bought the lot just north of this one in the same year. The Galloways, like other early residents, then began
- [All Saints Episcopal Church](https://www.ravenswoodhistorical.com/tours/a-walking-tour-of-old-ravenswood/all-saints-episcopal-church-2/) - 4550 N Hermitage Ave This 1883 church is an outstanding example of stick style architecture in which the vertical and horizontal protrude from the clapboard voids between them, and are painted differently from the clapboards to accentuate the structure of the building. It was stuccoed in the 1920's, covering highly decorative clapboard and shingle work.
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