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Children sit on the lawn in front of the field house at MayfairPark. Chicago architect Clarence Hatzfeld designed this and

many other field houses in the city. Inset: This Hatzfeld-designed field house and attached pergolas

was constructed in Independence Park.(Photos courtesy Chicago Park District Special Collections)

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Step over the threshold of any of thethree buildings owned by Frank

and Sophia Schlosser and betransported to the early 1900s, whenthe couple ran two businesses adjacentto their home in the WashingtonCounty community of Okawville.Today known as the SchlosserComplex, the house, harness shop,and laundry building portray the domestic and working life of atypical midwestern family.

While Sophia and her daughters ran a commercial laundryservice that catered to the nearby mineral springs hotels, Frank washard at work in his adjacent harness shop fashioning horse collarsand bridles. At the end of the day, the family walked the few stepsto their frame house.

The equipment that still stands in the laundry building tells thestory of a hardworking industrious mother and daughters, whoworked in sometimes unpleasant conditions and with rudimentaryequipment that made laundry a much more difficult task than it istoday. The harness shop next door looks much as it did the dayFrank Schlosser died in 1941.

The family possessed some of the finer things in life, from apiano to a Victrola, to fine china and crystal. Perhaps every bit asillustrative as their “newest” acquisitions are the obsolete appliancesthey refused to discard, including an old cookstove (replaced by amodern range) and a horse-drawn surrey (replaced by a 1917Maxwell automobile) that had been placed in storage in the loft ofthe harness shop. While the Schlossers may have thought thattheir lives were unremarkable, the intact virtual museum they leftbehind is nothing short of extraordinary.—CAF

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Chicago is known throughout the world forits architecture. For decades, popular and

scholarly attention has focused on the work ofthe city’s best known historic architects—mostnotably Louis Sullivan, Frank Lloyd Wright, andDaniel H. Burnham. Often forgotten, though,are the noteworthy buildings throughoutChicago that were designed by talentedarchitects who have received little attention.Clarence Hatzfeld (1873–1943) is among thosewho have been largely ignored, even though hiswork merits considerable attention. Heproduced hundreds of handsome Craftsman,Prairie, and Revival style houses, park fieldhouses, Masonic temples, and commercialbuildings in Chicago and other nearbycommunities.

Born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Hatzfeld wasthe son of a German immigrant father and an

Hatzfeld displayed versatility in his work, which ranged from simplefour-square residences to high-styled field houses and apartment buildings, oneof which is pictured here. Hatzfeld referred to these buildings as having“powder puff ” apartments, a term that is described in the sidebar on page 7.(Photo courtesy Chicago Park District Special Collections)

An Overlooked Talent

Chicago ArchitectClarence HatzfeldChicago ArchitectClarence Hatzfeld

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American-born mother. WhenClarence was a child, the familymoved to Chicago, and hispharmacist father, Richard Hatzfeld,soon owned a drug store in theNorth Side Lakeview neighborhood.Although a family scrapbooksuggests that Clarence studiedarchitecture at a university inChicago, his early architecturaltraining was under the tutelage ofJulius Huber, a graduate of thePolytechnic Institute in Munich,Germany. After working in thearchitectural office of his father,John Paul Huber, Julius went on toestablish his own practice in 1880.Hatzfeld joined Julius Huber andwas promoted to partner around1899, and the firm became knownas Julius Huber & Co. At that time,Huber specialized in the design ofhandsome Queen Anne and Shinglestyle residences on the North Side ofChicago.

In the mid-1890s, Hatzfeld joinedthe Chicago Architectural SketchClub, a group of apprentice architectsdevoted to improving their drawingskills. A decade later the clubdropped sketch from its name and

opened its membership to allpracticing architects, designers, anddraftsmen. Hatzfeld’s rendering of asmall library—entitled CrawfordLibrary—was published in the club’sannual exhibition catalog of 1897.The following year, the clubappointed Hatzfeld to its executiveand exhibition committees. At thethreshold of a new century, the cluboffered an exciting forum to many ofthe city’s most talented young designprofessionals who were exploring newarchitectural forms and expressions.Hatzfeld served on committees with anumber of aspiring designers whowould make important contributionsto the burgeoning Prairie style ofarchitecture, including HenryWebster Tomlinson, Hermann vonHolst, Birch Burdette Long, RobertSpencer Jr., Irving K. Pond, andDwight Heald Perkins. Severalmembers exchanged ideas whileworking in a shared studio space inSteinway Hall, a downtown officebuilding that Perkins (1867–1941)had designed in 1894. Frank LloydWright, who worked in the buildingduring a brief partnership withTomlinson, clearly influenced othermembers of that group.

At the turn of the twentiethcentury, Clarence Hatzfeld was anewlywed living with his in-lawswhile designing a new house forthem. (He had married Laurette[Laura] Haentze, a music teacher anddaughter of a prominent Germanfamily in 1896.) Laura’s parents hademigrated from Germany forty yearsearlier. Her father, Robert Haentze,was the principal of theGerman-American Academy, aprivate school for boys in Chicago.He and his son Albert were bothsuccessful real-estate investors whodeveloped properties on Chicago’sNorthwest Side. Clarence and Laurahad a daughter, Beatrice, born in1902. The couple divorced in 1918,and Laura moved to California withtheir daughter and her parents.

In 1901 Hatzfeld left Huber’s

firm for the Chicago Board ofEducation, where he was one oftwenty draftsmen working underhead architect William B. Mundie.Operating out of the TribuneBuilding at 143 Dearborn St., thearchitectural division was open dailyfrom 3 P.M. to 5 P.M. and onSaturdays from 9 A.M. to 11 A.M.During off hours, the head architectwas allowed to maintain a privatepractice, and Mundie ran asuccessful firm with his partner,renowned architect William LeBaron Jenney. Apparently, thedraftsmen were afforded the sameopportunity, because Hatzfeld, whoearned $25 per week from the Boardof Education, opened his ownarchitectural office in Room 546 ofthe Tribune Building in 1902.

Four years later the Board ofEducation appointed Dwight H.Perkins as head architect. Perkins hadstudied at the Massachusetts Instituteof Technology and worked for DanielH. Burnham before establishing hisown firm. He and Hatzfeld werealready acquainted with each otherthrough their mutual involvement inthe Chicago Architectural Club. TheBoard of Education’s architecturaldivision soon became an exciting,although somewhat volatile place towork, as Perkins set out to humanizeand modernize school design andattempted to change a politicallyentrenched bureaucracy. Perkins’sdesigns improved upon earliermethods of heating and ventilation,increased reliance of interior naturallight, and sited the school buildingsin green park-like settings.According to an article in the June1910 Architectural Record, the newPrairie- and Arts and Crafts-styleschools reflected a “progressive spiritand independent thought,” greatlydeviating from the traditionalbuildings that preceded them.Participating in the development ofsuch innovative design certainlyprovided a source of inspiration toHatzfeld and other aspiring architects

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An early Hatzfeld design, this AmericanFoursquare was built in 1908. Known as theTheodore Rozek House, today it is the homeof the author of this article. (Photo courtesyJulia S. Bachrach)

who worked as draftsmen for theBoard of Education.

Simultaneously, Hatzfeld’s ownprivate practice was thriving, and in1910 he and colleague ArthurHowell Knox resigned their schoolboard positions and announced theformation of Hatzfeld & Knox. Thetwo maintained a busy practicetogether for about five years. Afterthe partnership dissolved, Hatzfeldcontinued with his own firm formore than twenty-five years.

Among Hatzfeld’s early privateprojects were approximately a dozenAmerican Foursquare houses builtbetween 1904 and 1908 in Chicago’sEdgewater community (in an areaknown as the Highlands). Hatzfeld’swork load was soon accelerated bycommissions from his father-in-lawand brother-in-law, who enjoyedsuccess in real estate development.

Albert Haentze and partnerCharles M. Wheeler developedmany Northwest Side properties,but in 1907, they embarked uponone of the firm’s largest projects, theVilla, a thirty-five-acre residentialneighborhood with tree-linedboulevards on spacious lots.Haentze & Wheeler boasted that notwo houses in the neighborhoodwould be alike and that every homewould be “a little gem of beauty andcomfort.” They hiredarchitects—including Hatzfeld—tocreate custom plans for each home,and Haentze & Wheeler built thehouses, providing highly crafted

millwork and cabinetry out of theirown shops. Hatzfeld’s earliest Villahouses, designed in 1909, werehandsome two- and two-and-a-half-story frame buildings sheathed instucco with wood trim, withmassing and details reflecting theCraftsman style.

Throughout his career, Hatzfeldproduced a sizeable collection ofresidential designs, includingapproximately twenty houses in theVilla neighborhood. Many housesare fine examples of the Craftsmanstyle, with facades of brick andstucco, or stucco and wood, and richinterior details such as built-incabinetry, art-glass windows, andfaience tiles. Some of the houses havehipped roofs and broad horizontallines, and can be classified as Prairiestyle buildings. Although most ofhis Villa residences representvariations of Prairie or Craftsmanstyles, Hatzfeld often incorporatedother stylistic elements, especiallyTudor Revival, using extensivehalf-timbering on exterior walls,large porte-cocheres, and fancifulinterior details with crests or shields.

The blending of stylistic elementsbecame a hallmark of Hatzfeld’s park

field house designs. In 1913Hatzfeld & Knox designed theIndependence Park field house forthe Irving Park District, a smallindependent Northwest Side parkdistrict that served a largelyupper-middle class neighborhood.Aware that the world’s first fieldhouses had been built about eightyears earlier to provide programs andservices to South Side tenementneighborhoods, Irving Park Districtadministrators expanded thatprototype to include features oftenfound in private athletic clubs. TheIndependence Park building includeda library, board room, parlors,ballroom (now considered theauditorium), indoor gymnasium,locker rooms and changing rooms,bathrooms, and an indoor swimmingpool. (While there were some inprivate clubs, there were no otherindoor swimming pools in publicpark field houses at that time.)Hatzfeld & Knox’s elegantIndependence Park field houseconveys a strong feeling of classicismthrough its monumentality,symmetrical layout, and broad archedopenings. A sense of the Prairie styleis also expressed through its long

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In the 1920s Hatzfeld designed the Charles Lange and Brothers Buick dealership building whichhad a lively exterior façade and a lavish interior showroom. (Photos courtesy Sandy Altman)

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horizontal outer wings, broad tiledroofs with bracketed overhangingeaves, rich brick pattern-work, andlarge shallow concrete urns that wereoriginally located at both entrances tothe building.

Hatzfeld was often asked todesign landscape features as part ofhis park work. He explained in along letter to his daughter in 1927that his plans for Kilbourn Parkincluded a Colonial Revival-stylefield house and a small greenhouse,as well as “pergolas, wading pools forthe little kids, boys and girls playgrounds, nine tennis courts, horseshoe court, baseball fields, football,ice skating, running track, jumpingand tumbling pits, putting greens forthe golfers. . . [and]an elaborateformal garden in front of thebuilding with water pool andfountain, walks, drives, nooks, loverslanes, and a large area of informalgarden effects, hundreds of trees,shrubs and flowers.” The originalball field in Independence Park wasso small and close to the field housethat windows were often beingbroken, so park districtadministrators hired Hatzfeld tomodify his original plan in the late1920s. He replaced the small fieldwith “a spacious sunken garden withgold fish pool, fountain, puttinggreens, horse shoe courts, croquetfield, pergolas, trees, shrubs, andcolorful formal effects all emphasizedby the use of privet hedges,groupings of Carolina poplars.”Hatzfeld’s garden included the nameof Independence Park spelled out inpavers. Although the garden wasrazed in the late 1940s to make wayfor larger playfields, the pavers stillremain in the landscape today.

Altogether, Clarence Hatzfelddesigned more than two dozenbuildings for Chicago’s parks,including field houses in AthleticField, Gladstone, Kilbourn, ThomasJefferson, Green Briar, Eugene Field,Paul Revere, Avondale, and Riverparks. One very lovely and

Hatzfield’s original design for Independence Park included this field house with an adjacent ballfield. Ball players often broke windows in the field house, so park officials asked Hatzfeld to modifythe landscape design. He replaced the field with a garden, fish pond, pergolas, trees, and shrubs.(Photo courtesy Sandy Altman)

Clarence Hatzfeld is Haunting MeClarence Hatzfeld has been relatively unknown even though Chicago retainsmany handsome Prairie- and Revival-style park field houses, commercialbuildings, and residences that he designed. As the Chicago Park Districthistorian, I had been researching Hatzfeld for years, but had only found limiteddocumentation related to his work. That began to change when my husbandand I went house hunting in the summer of 2008 and fell in love with aCraftsman-style Foursquare in the Edgewater neighborhood. The originalblueprints, framed and hanging on a wall in the home, revealed that the 1908house was an early work by Hatzfeld. Despite the mortgage crisis and crazyhousing market, we managed to sell our old house, buy the Hatzfeld-designedhouse, and move in the day before Halloween of 2008. Shortly thereafter,strange things began to happen, making me think that maybe Clarence Hatzfeldis haunting me so that I would tell his story. These odd things included:

• Hatzfeld’s great-granddaughter, Sandy Altman, sent a blind email to theChicago Park District thanking us for including information about hergreat-grandfather’s field houses on our website. (This information hadbeen posted for years!) I followed up with a phone call and Sandy then sentme a large box with photos and documents related to Hatzfeld’s work.

• I noticed that some of our neighbors had different variations of the doorthat separates our kitchen from the dining room. I began researching theirhomes, and discovered that Hatzfeld designed more than a dozen houses inour neighborhood.

• A Chicago Park District architect received a call from a homeowner askinghow we restored a building with half timbering. As it turns out, he wasrestoring a house designed by Hatzfeld. The homeowner then gave us anextensive tour of his house.

• As I was compiling my list, I found that Hatzfeld designed the EasterlyTheater which is now a hair salon. I looked at the address more closely,and realized that it is the hair salon that I’ve been using for years!

• Architectural Historian Tim Samuelson saved an architectural fragmentfrom a Hatzfeld-designed auto service station that was being demolished,and decided that since Hatzfeld is haunting me, I should have thefragment, which now graces my garden.

Now that I have paid homage to Clarence Hatzfeld, perhaps his ghost willleave me alone. Our house’s front addition was designed by Andrew E.Norman, another little-known architect who designed the front addition toour home. I hope that Andrew E. Norman will not begin “visiting me” untilI unearth his architectural contributions to the Windy City.

Julia S. Bachrach

somewhat unusual building is thefield house in Indian Boundary Park,which Hatzfeld designed for theRidge Avenue Park District in theWest Rogers Park neighborhood.Completed in 1929, the building wasintended to be the headquarters ofthe small Northwest Side parkdistrict as well as a community centerfor the surrounding middle-classneighborhood. It did not include anindoor gymnasium, but it had aboardroom, auditorium, club rooms,solarium, secretary’s office, policesergeant’s room, banquet room,kitchen, and bathrooms. Hatzfeldrendered the field house in the TudorRevival style with intersecting gabledroofs, half timbering, patternedbrickwork, crenelated parapets, andcasement windows. But he also wovein Craftsman style features, such asrough-hewn interior exposed beams,as well as several examples of Native-American themed ornamentationinspired by the park’s name. Theseinclude a sculptural bas-relief of anIndian chief in a limestone keystoneabove the building’s arched frontdoor. Inside, there are tom-tom-likelighting fixtures, depictions of chiefs’faces on wall sconces and a bracket inthe wall of the hallway, as well as a

colorful marble bas-relief of atribesman with braids and a featherabove the stone mantel piece of thefireplace.

In addition to park field houses,Masonic halls became one ofHatzfeld’s specialties. These tendedto be large brick structures withheavy rectangular massing andwell-detailed facades. Some of thesebuildings express a Prairie style-likesimplicity, such as the 1911 IrvingPark Masonic Temple (now KoreanBethel Presbyterian Church).Others—such as the South SideMasonic Temple and the LoganSquare Masonic Temple (nowArmitage Baptist Church), both ofwhich date to 1921—were designedin a Classical Revival style thatemphasized monumentality andincorporated Beaux Arts limestonedetails. Hatzfeld created highlydetailed fanciful interiors for theseMasonic buildings, often creatingthemes for each room. LoganSquare’s building had a PompeianBall Room, American Hall, IonianLounge, Norman Hall, and theEgyptian Ball Room, which featuredengaged pilasters with a stylizedpapyrus motif and stenciling thatincluded the outstretched wings of

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POWDER PUFFEXPLAINED

Hatzfeld designed a six-storybuilding at 1157 W. DiverseyParkway with stores on the lowerlevel and forty apartments above.He called the building the PowderPuff type and explained:

Hundreds and hundreds of thistype of building have sprung upin all parts of Chicago and allseem to rent almost before theyare completed. They are K.O. forthe flapper type who can put theirsix 2 ounce gowns in a pill box.No room is needed for a cradleand the pup sleeps on the foot ofthe bed. No maid is needed as thenearby KOZY cafeteria is sohelpful to desire when she hasbeen terribly overstrained thenight before at the Rainbow orsomething. The family washing iseasily done in the fish bowl evenif it kills the fish. The bed doesnot have to be made because youfold it up and put it in the closet.. . The dining rooms are so smallyou have to cover up the livingroom furniture when you eat“grape fruit” because the“SQUIRTS” would ruin saidliving room fineries. With all ofthe above advantages, it is ofcourse not possible to have the“in laws” come with their trunksfor a short stay (of 4 weeks or so)and any special celebrations mustbe held outside where a swell timeis had by all.

Hatzfeld designed the field house at Indian Boundary Park in the late 1920s. TheTudor-Revival cottage included such Craftsman-style features as exposed rough-hewnbeams on the interior. (Drawing courtesy Sandy Altman) Inspired by the park’s name,Hatzfeld incorporated Native-American ornamentation throughout. Pictured here is abracket and wall sconce. (Photos courtesy Chicago Park District Special Collections)

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the phoenix, topped by lotus-likefoliage. Five or six of Hatzfeld’sMasonic halls still stand.

Hatzfeld produced various typesof commercial buildings thatrepresent a spectrum of architecturalstyles, from the simple EasterlyTheater in Lincoln Park to severalhighly ornamental auto showroomshe designed in the early 1920s. Healso designed a number of Chicagobanks, from the Beaux Arts-styleMayfair State Bank to the JeffersonPark State Bank (now the HoyneSavings Bank). Other commercialwork ranged from small funeralhomes to large apartment buildings.Constructed of reinforced concretefaced with brick, granite and terracotta, the six-story Diversey ViewApartment building included astorefront on the first level andapartments above. In a humorousletter that Hatzfeld wrote to hisdaughter in 1927, he described thisbuilding, which housed fortykitchenette apartments, as the“Powder Puff type” (see sidebar onpage 7).

Hatzfeld created a significant bodyof work throughout the 1920s, butby the mid-1930s, the GreatDepression forced him to close hisarchitectural office. Around 1935 hewas hired by the newly formedChicago Park District as theRecreation Plants and Equipment

Technician. Hatzfeld was responsiblefor managing dozens of field houses,quite a few of which he had designed.He remained in that position until hewas forced into mandatory retirementin 1939. The following year, heaccepted the position of RecreationTechnician for the Federal WorksAdministration in Washington D.C.,where he died in 1943.

Today, dozens of Hatzfeld’sbuildings are listed on the NationalRegister of Historic Places,particularly park field houses andresidences in the Villa neighborhood.Despite this impressive collection ofdocumented and preserved properties,many other existing significantHatzfeld buildings are in poorcondition, remain unrecognized, or

are in danger of demolition.Hopefully, preservationists willcontinue to focus on Hatzfeld’scontributions so that additionalexamples of his work can beidentified, protected, and preserved.

Julia S.BachrachChicago Park District Historian

Julia S. Bachrach has been theChicago Park District’s historian andpreservationist for more than twentyyears. She also serves as a member ofthe Board of Trustees of the IllinoisHistoric Preservation Agency. HerHatzfeld-designed home, known as theTheodore Rozek House, was recentlyapproved for nomination to theNational Register of Historic Places.

A Note about the ResearchThis article is based on several years of research and many sources including:From Hatzfeld’s Great Grand-daughter Sandy Altman: A lengthy diary-likeletter written by Clarence Hatzfeld to his daughter Beatrice HatzfeldCampbell in December of 1927; “Heritage Notes” written by Campbell in1981; photos, drawings, and other materials from family scrapbooks; twophoto albums that belonged to Clarence Hatzfeld documenting some of hiswork; a folio describing the Lawndale Masonic Temple; sketch of grounds forSouth Illinois University.Building Permit Research: Chicago Building permits between the years of1898 and 1912 do not list architects’ names, but this information isdocumented through the American Contractor and available on the ChicagoHistory Museum website:http://www.chsmedia.org/househistory/1898-1912permits/owner_response.aspChicago Daily Tribune: The Chicago Tribune is searchable on-line andincludes several articles about Hatzfeld’s work as well as an obituary.Chicago Board of Education: Information about Hatzfeld and Knox’semployment with the Board of Education was found by searching theProceedings of the Board of Education online through google books. There isalso a “Schedule of the Salaries and Proposed Revisions Affecting Employeesin the Architect’s Department to Take Effect January 1st, 1908 and January1st 1909” on file at the Chicago History Museum.The Villa Improvement League: The Villa Historic Committee produced aVilla 90th Anniversary Book in December of 1997. The Improvement Leaguealso has a website that provides access to digital versions of primary sourcematerial at: http://www.thevillachicago.com/aboutthevilla/marketingthevilla.htmlChicago Park District Special CollectionsSource materials from this collection that have been useful in this researchinclude minutes of the independent park districts, Chicago Park Districtannual reports and employee newsletters, original plans, and photographs.

The Beaux Arts-styled Masonic Hall inLogan Square originally had fanciful interiordesign themes that differed from room toroom. The building included the PompeianBallroom, American Hall, Ionian Lounge,Norman Hall, and Egyptian Ballroom.(Photo courtesy Sandy Altman)

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At its quarterly meeting on September 19, 2011, the Illinois Historic Sites Advisory Council approved twelve sites for nomination to the National Register of Historic Places. Two applications were deferred.

The Advisory Council meets quarterly to review sites proposed for National Register listing. If a site isapproved by the review board, the nomination is forwarded to the state historic preservation officer (SHPO).If the SHPO concurs with the council, he then nominates the site to the U.S. Department of the Interior forlisting in the National Register.

The council next meets in Springfield on December 8 and 9, 2011.

ADVISORY COUNCIL APPROVES TWELVE NOMINATIONSAT QUARTERLY MEETING

APPLICATIONS APPROVEDParkway Garden Homes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .ChicagoCreamery Package Manufacturing Company Building . . . .ChicagoWholesale Florists Exchange . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .ChicagoGarrison-Coronado-Haskell Historic District . . . . . . . . . . .Rockford2440 North Lakeview Avenue . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .ChicagoTheodore Rozek House . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .ChicagoHenry Ahrens House . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .ChampaignFrederick Squires House . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .ChampaignWee Haven . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .ChampaignOttawa Historic District . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .OttawaPeacock Brewery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .RockfordChicago Park Boulevard System Historic District . . . . . . . . .Chicago

APPLICATIONS DEFERREDSheldon Peck House . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .LombardPlum Tree Farm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Barrington Hills

NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES

Creamery PackageManufacturing Company

Building, Chicago

Theodore Rozek House, Chicago

personally and professionally toPrinceton for the rest of his life.

Architecture and building seemedto come naturally to Berry, and heknew at a young age that he wantedto be an architect. Both his father,John Wesley Berry, known as J.W.,and his grandfather, Israel Berry,were contractors. Parker designedhis first building when he wassixteen years old; the two-storyresidence completed in the fall of1905 that still stands on East ElmStreet in Princeton exhibited hisemerging talent. His father was thecontractor for the project, the firstof several collaborations they wouldhave over the years.

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T he Prairie style of architecturefound its way to Bureau County

in the early 1900s by way of ParkerNoble Berry, a talented architect whogrew up in the county seat ofPrinceton. Berry’s characteristic use ofhorizontal lines and ornamentationrecall the distinctive style of famedChicago architect LouisSullivan—not surprising, consideringBerry was Sullivan’s chief draftsmanfor eight years.

Born in Hastings, Nebraska, onSeptember 2, 1888, the eldest of eightchildren, Parker Berry moved with hisfamily to Princeton when he was threeyears old. As an adult he lived inChicago, but he remained connected

In his short career, architect Parker Noble Berry designed buildings in his native Princeton, including this storefront for thePrinceton Dry Goods store. Inset: Parker Noble Berry contracted influenza in 1918 and died at the age of thirty.

Bringing Prairie Style Architecture to Bureau County

Parker Noble BerryParker Noble Berry

Berry graduated from PrincetonHigh School in 1906, havingcompleted the Classics Course ofstudy. After graduation, Berryworked with his father for a yearbefore heading off to the Universityof Illinois in Urbana-Champaign tostudy architecture. He completedonly two years and left in late 1909.Berry’s wife later explained: “Hebecame convinced that he was notgaining instruction in the Americantype of designing, which was hisobjective.”

To further his education, Berrymoved to Chicago where he metKristian Schneider, longtime modelerin the studio of well-known architect

Louis Sullivan. Schneider introducedBerry to Sullivan, and in late 1909,shortly before chief draftsman GeorgeElmslie left Sullivan’s firm, Berry washired as a draftsman. When Elmsliedeparted, the twenty-one-year-oldBerry was promoted to Sullivan’schief draftsman and designer.

After working for Sullivan for lessthan two years, Berry contemplateda career move; correspondence from1911 reveals that he consideredworking for the architectural firm ofElmslie, Feick, and Purcell inMinneapolis. In the end, Berryremained with Sullivan.

In 1912 Berry took the IllinoisState Board examinations to receivehis architect’s license. Clearly he hadaccomplished his goal of masteringhis craft, because he earned a perfectscore of 200, the first ever given to anapplicant. Chronic health issues beganto plague Berry, and to supplementhis income he spent evenings andweekends working on commissions athome, apparently with Sullivan’spermission. Several of hisindependent projects included designsfor buildings in Bureau County.

Although located 120 miles fromChicago, the rural countrysidecommunity welcomed the modernarchitectural design. The Prairiestyle, which gained popularity in theearly 1900s, was welcomed by manyas relief to the years of fussyVictorian excess. Prairie homes andbuildings were designed to blend inwith the flat, open landscape.Bureau County, situated on therolling prairie of north centralIllinois, seemed the ideal location forthis new style of architecture.

Berry, the hometown wunderkindwho delivered the new style, putinto practice what he learned fromLouis Sullivan. Towards the end ofhis career, Sullivan designed eightsmall bank and commercialbuildings that were built in theMidwest between 1908 and 1920.Today they are collectively known asthe “jewel boxes.”

Berry was Sullivan’s chiefdraftsman when the third jewel boxbuilding, the Land and Loan Officein Algona, Iowa, was commissionedin 1913. Berry prepared the workingdrawings for this building, but somehistorians believe that Berry actuallydesigned much of the structure.

Berry knew a little somethingabout bank design when he washired a year later to design a newbank in Manlius, a Bureau Countycommunity located about fifteenmiles from Princeton. A handsomebuilding, the First State Bank ofManlius featured the characteristicstraight lines and organicornamentation of the Prairie style. Alocal newspaper described the newfacility as “one of the mostup-to-date bank buildings in thecounty.” An intricate alarm system,mens’ and ladies’ restrooms, and amassive vault area impressed thepublic. The original presentationdrawings can be seen at the ArtInstitute of Chicago.

The First State Bank frontage ismodestly sized—only thirty feetacross the main facade. And thoughBerry’s design is much morerestrained than Sullivan’s work, thebank displays an appealing blend ofarchitectural detail. The entranceresembles the Algona, Iowa, project,with two brick piers that are topped

by self-watering terra-cotta urns. Tothe far side of each pier is a narrowpanel of leaded stained glass.

Above the plate-glass window thatannounces the bank’s name are sixhorizontal sections of Luxfer prisms,a combination that allows anabundance of natural light inside.In a nod to Sullivan and Elmslie, thesecond-story office windows featurelarge terra-cotta plaques, whileseveral small terra-cotta insetsfurther enhance the front. Todaythe First State Bank of Manlius isthe only unaltered Berry-designedcommercial building still standing.The bank was listed in the NationalRegister of Historic Places in 1975.

After completing the Manliusbank, Berry was commissioned toturn Princeton retailer Sam Seelig’sold general merchandise building intoa modern department store. Takingtheir cue from area farmers’ grainelevator co-operatives, more than onehundred investors formed a new stockcompany to open the newly namedPrinceton Dry Goods Store.

The new co-op wanted a buildingthat reflected its progressive thinking,so Berry was hired to design a newfront and to update the interior. Heused terra-cotta ornamentation onthe second-floor windows that canstill be seen today. On either side ofthe center entrance were large

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Berry designed this residence on East Elm Street in 1905 when he was only sixteen yearsold. His father, a contractor, built the house, the first of several projects he worked on withhis son.

plate-glass “frost-proof” displaywindows, and above the windowsand entrance was a horizontal panelof prism glass set in copper framing.The local newspaper declared it “avery attractive building in its newdress. . . the style of architecture usedon the exterior of the building isunusual and pleasing.” More thanfive thousand people visited the newPrinceton Dry Goods Store duringthe opening weekend of March 17 &18, 1916. Marshall Field & Co.sent compliments and flowers.

Down the street, at 809 NorthMain, business owner Seth Bradleywitnessed the transformation of theSeelig building. Bradley was a manwho understood progress and waswilling to change with the times.Over the years his business, which

later grew to include his sons, wentfrom selling harnesses and farmimplements in 1866, to automobilesat the turn of the century, andfinally to radios, stereos, andappliances before closing in 1977.

Bradley hired Berry in 1917 todesign a new storefront for thebuilding his business had occupiedsince 1891. Like the Princeton DryGoods store, the design called forplate-glass show windows, prism glasspanels, and terra-cotta ornamentation.For unknown reasons, Berry’s plansfor the Bradley building were nevercarried out. America’s entry intoWorld War I and the rising cost andlack of availability of materials mayhave been factors. The BureauCounty Historical Society now holdsthe Bradley Building blueprints in itsarchives.

Parker Berry was involved withother projects in his hometown. Hewas hired by the Adaline E. ProutyOld Ladies’ Home in Princeton in1917 to design an addition.Unfortunately, that commission ledto the end of Berry’s employmentwith Louis Sullivan. As Sullivan’scommissions dwindled, he objectedto the growing number ofindependent projects that Berry

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The First State Bank of Manlius, designed in1914, featured the modern look of the Prairiestyle, which Berry learned from his boss,famed Chicago architect Louis Sullivan.Berry, who was chief draftsman on Sullivan’sLand and Loan Office building in Algona,Iowa, borrowed from that plan to design theManlius bank building. The First StateBank of Manlius was listed in the NationalRegister of Historic Places in 1975.

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door to the Prouty Home (GreenfieldRetirement Home) on Park AvenueEast. When Julia Rackley Perry ofthe nearby town of Malden died in1913, she bequeathed $25,000 fromher estate for the construction of apublic hospital.

After the United States enteredWorld War I in 1917, the hospitalproject took on a sense of urgency inthe community. Townspeople believedwounded soldiers returning to BureauCounty were entitled to care in amodern facility, and plans for thepublic hospital moved forward. Berry,one of six architects competing for thedesign contract, was awarded the

commission and began submittingplans. After several revisions, the finaldrawings were approved.

With Berry’s career seeminglycemented at a very early age, thefuture looked bright. But in earlyDecember, 1918, Berry traveled fromChicago to Buda, a small communitya few miles southwest of Princeton,to attend his father-in-law’s funeral.Shortly afterwards he contractedinfluenza and died on December 16,1918. He was only thirty years old.He left behind a young widow, GraceRobertson Berry, whom he hadmarried in 1913.

Parker Noble Berry had a briefcareer, with most of it spent underthe guiding hand of Louis Sullivan.Sullivan provided inspiration forBerry, who continued to embracethe Prairie school of architectureeven after he left Sullivan’s firm.Although Berry’s career wastragically cut short, several examplesof his work can still be seen andappreciated in and around hishometown of Princeton.

Pamela J. LangeExecutive Director

Bureau County Historical Society

Pamela J. Lange has served asExecutive Director of the BureauCounty Historical Society since 2001.She is also on the Board of Trustees forthe Lovejoy Homestead in Princeton.

received. Years earlier, Sullivan hadfired his chief draftsman, Frank LloydWright under similar circumstances.Berry set out on his own, opening anoffice at 5601 Blackstone Avenue onChicago’s South Side.

The Prouty Home addition wascompleted in the summer of 1918.Berry’s original plan called for awing on either side of a mainbuilding, but due to financialconstraints, they were not built.Instead, the addition was a singlewing from Berry’s designconstructed of brick and concrete(considered to be fireproof ).Nonetheless, the Prouty Home wasconsidered upscale living, and withits spacious grounds and statelytrees, it had, according to theLaSalle News Tribune “all theearmarks of a country estate.” Thefacility was renamed GreenfieldRetirement Home in 1977, whenthe city’s residence for aged men wascombined with the Prouty Home.When a major expansion project wasplanned in 2006, Greenfield trusteesreturned to Berry’s 1917 design forinspiration and added the secondwing that Berry originally planned.

Berry’s final hometown project wasPerry Memorial Hospital, located next

Berry designed Princeton’s Perry Memorial Hospital in 1917, in anticipation of a need tocare for wounded soldiers returning from World-War-I battlefields.

When Berry was hired in 1918 to design an addition to the Adaline E. Prouty Old Ladies’Home, he planned for a wing to be constructed on both sides of the main building. Due tofinancial constraints, only one wing was built. Renamed Greenfield Retirement Home in1977, the facility was expanded in 2006, using Berry’s 1917 plan for the second wing.

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The National Register of HistoricPlaces lists sites with historical,architectural, or archaeologicalsignificance. In Illinois, the IllinoisHistoric Preservation Agency’sPreservation Services Division, in itsrole as a state historic preservationoffice, administers the NationalRegister program. Sites proposed forlisting are reviewed quarterly by theIllinois Historic Sites AdvisoryCouncil, whose recommendationsare forwarded to the state historicpreservation officer. To date, 1,858sites in Illinois have been placed onthe Register by the Keeper of theNational Register in Washington,D.C. The latest additions are:

Adams County. Quincy vicinity.Quincy National Cemetery. In1936 the half-acre Civil War-erasoldier’s lot at Graceland Cemeterywas officially redesignated as theQuincy National Cemetery. TheU.S. government purchased theland in 1899 andrelocated anadditional

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300 interments from nearbyWoodland Cemetery. Correctionsto the boundaries of the cemeterywere made in 1949. Minoralterations to the cemetery in thepast half-century include newroadways and residentialdevelopments that surround thegrounds. Kathleen Schlamel,Federal Preservation Officer of theDepartment of U.S. VeteransAffairs, authored the nomination.Date listed: May 5, 2011.

Cook County. Chicago.Sutherland Hotel. Afterconstruction of the seven-storyClassical Revival-style building in1917, the former Cooper-MonatahHotel was commandeered for use asa general military hospital for theUnited States Public Health Servicefollowing World War I. In 1925 thebuilding reopened as The SutherlandHotel. By the mid-twentiethcentury, demographics changed on

the south side of Chicago, and in1952 the hotel opened its

lounge to black patrons. Inthe 1950s and 1960s the

well-known lounge wasthe home of Chicago’s

experimental jazzscene, hostinglegendary

entertainers such as Miles Davis,Dizzy Gillespie, John Coltrane, BillieHolliday, and Thelonious Monk.Emily Ramsey of Macrostie HistoricAdvisors authored the nomination.Date listed: May 4, 2011.

Cook County. Winnetka. Dr. PaulW. and Eunice Greeley House. In1937 architect Frank Polito designedan uncommon example of the GreekRevival style in Winnetka, the Pauland Eunice Greeley house. The frontfaçade of the two-story high-stylehome illustrates the Greek Revivalstyle, with its low-pitched gable roofand a front-facing triangularpediment. The striking interior ofthe home features a library withshelves of books that appear to framethe window, and an elegantlyappointed living room. Additionally,the dining room features decorative

finishes designed byrenowned architectSidney FiskeKimball, whoestablished agraduate programat the Institute ofFine Arts at NewYork University in1923. CourtneyGray and SusanBenjamin of

Dr. Paul W. and Eunice Greeley House,Winnetka

Sutherland Hotel, Chicago

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Winnebago County. Rockford.Ziock Building. In December1913 Rockford’s prominent Ziockfamily built a ten-story reinforcedconcrete industrial structure southof Rockford’s central businessdistrict. The centerpiece ofRockford’s industrial area, theZiock building housed knitting andhardware enterprises until theRockford Textile Mills weredissolved in 1956. Owner WilliamZiock Jr. was locally recognized as a“benevolent” employer, and Ziockdesigned a state-of-the-art factorythat improved working conditions,incorporating improved lighting,better ventilation, and openfloor-space. The thirteen-storyaddition in 1919 and six-storyaddition in 1950 qualified thefactory as Rockford’s tallestbuilding. With panoramic views ofdowntown, the Ziock buildingcontinues to be an important partof Rockford’s skyline. Thepreservation advocacy group theFriends of the Ziock Buildingauthored the nomination. Datelisted: May 4, 2011.

Kelby Dolan Kelby Dolan, an intern with theIllinois Historic Preservation Agency, isa senior studying history at MillikinUniversity in Decatur, Illinois.

Benjamin Historical Certificationscoauthored the nomination. Datelisted: February 25, 2011.

Kane County. St. Charles. Joel H.Hubbard House. Built in 1854,the Greek Revival Hubbard Houseis located in the St. Charles CentralHistoric District. First illustrated ona plat drawing of St. Charles datedApril 1855, the wood-frame housewas constructed by Joel Hubbard, acarpenter from Malden, Illinois.The home features the GreekRevival style (a popular NewEnglander’s choice exploited byspeculation builders), including thepilasters, cornice returns, and wideentablatures. In 1857 the housewas sold to theFerson-Butler-Satterlee family andwas under their ownership for thenext century. Lillian and VivianSatterlee were the last of the familyto occupy the home. ArchitectMichael A. Dixon of Dixon and

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Associates authored the nomination.Date listed: May 4, 2011.

Madison County. Alton vicinity.Alton National Cemetery. In 1940the Alton Cemetery Associationdonated a half-acre of land on thewest side of Pearl Street for use as anational cemetery. The commerciallot was previously known as theAlton Soldier’s Lot. In 1941 theWorks Progress Administration builtthe entrance gate and a two-storyfront. In 1948 the cemetery receivedofficial designation as the AltonNational Cemetery. In August of1961, the cemetery, short on space,was closed to additional burials.Alton National Cemetery containsthe remains of 531 Americanveterans and their dependents from1870 to 1961. Kathleen Schlamel,Federal Preservation Officer of theU.S. Department of Veterans Affairs,authored the nomination. Datelisted: May 6, 2011.

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Bishop Hill—On November 25, 26,and 27 and December 3 and 4 visitorscan browse Bishop Hill's decoratedshops for Christmas gifts, Swedishfoods, and baked goods duringJulmarknad (Christmas Market).Each day from 10 A.M. to 5 P.M. tourthe museums and see the traditionalSwedish folk characters who roam thevillage. For additional information,write Martha Jane Downey, SiteManager, Bishop Hill State HistoricSite, P.O. Box D, Bishop Hill, IL61419, or phone 309-927-3345.

Bishop Hill—Enjoy a SwedishFestival of Lights during Lucia Nightsat Bishop Hill State Historic Site.From 6 P.M. to 9 P.M. on December 9and 10 “Lucias” will serve coffee andsweets in museums and shops, andmusical groups will entertain atvarious locations in the village. Foradditional information, write MarthaJane Downey, Site Manager, BishopHill State Historic Site, P.O. Box D,Bishop Hill, IL 61419, or phone309-927-3345.

Bloomington—ExperienceChristmas at Clover Lawn fromNovember 25 through December 31.The David Davis Mansion StateHistoric Site will be lavishly decoratedin the style of a traditional,late-Victorian Christmas. Visitors cantour the gracious mansion ofnineteenth-century Supreme Court

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Lerna vicinity—Observe a PrairieChristmas at Lincoln Log Cabin StateHistoric Site from 5 P.M. to 8 P.M. onDecember 2. Experience Christmasas it may have been marked on theLincoln and Sargent farms in the 1840s,as interpreters portray the humbleactivities of a mid-nineteenth-centuryholiday celebration. Visitors can walkthe candlelit pathways, listen to music,and sip hot apple cider, all whileenjoying the peace and serenity of theseason. For additional information,write Matthew Mittelstaedt, SiteManager, Lincoln Log Cabin StateHistoric Site, 402 S. Lincoln Hwy.Rd., Lerna, IL 62440, or phone217-345-6489.

Prairie du Rocher—For a glimpse ofcamp life during the French Colonialperiod in Illinois attend WinterRendezvous at Fort de Chartres StateHistoric Site. From 9 A.M. to 5 P.M.on November 5 and 6 reenactors willset up camp, and many traders willsell their wares. Participants mayregister in advance for the woods-walkshooting competition. For additionalinformation, write Darrell Duensing,Site Manager, Fort de Chartres StateHistoric Site, 1350 State Rte. 155,Prairie du Rocher, IL 62277, orphone 618-284-7230.

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Justice David Davis from 9 A.M. to4 P.M. Wednesdays through Sundaysduring the holiday season. Foradditional information, write MarciaYoung, Site Manager, David DavisMansion State Historic Site, 1000East Monroe Street, Bloomington, IL61701, or phone 309-828-1084.

Collinsville—Shop for uniqueholiday gifts at the Indian MarketDays November 25, 26, and 27 atCahokia Mounds State Historic Site.Artists and vendors will display theirnative-made crafts, jewelry, beadwork,textiles, baskets, and more from noonto 5 P.M. on Friday, from 9 A.M. to5 P.M. on Saturday, and from 9 A.M.to 4 P.M. on Sunday. For additionalinformation, write Mark Esarey, SiteManager, Cahokia Mounds StateHistoric Site, 30 Ramey Street,Collinsville, IL 62234, or phone618-346-5160.

Elizabeth—Attend Christmas atthe Fort from noon to 3 P.M. onDecember 3 at Apple River Fort StateHistoric Site. Costumed interpreterswill re-create an 1830s-era Christmascelebration as the settlers at the fortwould have observed the holiday,complete with carols and poetryreadings. For additional information,write Site Manager, Apple River FortState Historic Site, 311 E. MyrtleStreet, Elizabeth, IL 61208, or phone815-777-2028.