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impulsereaderAlmost all pictures were taken by my Kurt Russell. All quoted text comes from A Walk Through Graceland Cemetery: A Chicago Architecture Foundation Walking Tour by Barbara Lanctot. Any errors or typos are mine alone.
21. Joseph Medill 1823-99
“Joseph Medill was first a lawyer and then a newspaper publisher in Ohio before he came to Chicago. He became part owner and editor of the Chicago Tribune in 1855.”
“After the Chicago Fire, he was elected mayor on the “fireproof’ ticket. He enforced stringent fire regulations during the rebuilding of the city, and he helped to establish the Chicago Public Library. He also made the vastly unpopular move of closing the saloons on Sunday. In the great swell of protest that followed, the law was repealed. Mayor Medill resigned before his term was up and went off to Europe to rest.”
Seriously. She wrote that. I’m guessing that she subsequently wrote a Crack!Fic taking place during his ‘rest’. Probably just me.
22. Lambert Tree 1832-1910
“Tree was a lawyer, judge and diplomat. When he became a circuit court judge in 1870, he initiated a grand-jury investigation of corruption in the Chicago City Council, leading to the trial and conviction of many council members. In 1885, President Cleveland appointed Tree U.S. minister to Belgium. In 1888, he was named minister to Russia.”
And then we took some pictures of actual trees.
23. Philip Armour 1832-1901
“Is there anyone who doesn’t recognize the name on this tombstone? It’s a name commonly seen on cans and packages of meat products all over the world.”
“Armour and Plankinton [his partner] made a name for themselves - and a fortune of $1.5 million - when they sold short in the last months of the Civil War. Gambling that the war would end soon and pork prices would fall, Armour went to New York and contracted to sell pork for future delivery at $40 a barrel. When, indeed, prices did drop, Armour was able to buy for only $18 a barrel all the pork needed to meet the firm’s commitments.”
Very sneaky, Mr. Armour...
24. Lucius Fisher 1843-1916
“The bronze hooded angel holding an urn was sculpted by Richard Bock. His name is at the bottom right. Bock specialized in architectural decoration and military memorials.”
25. John Glessner 1843-1936
“The grave markers for Glessner, his wife and one of their children, who died in infancy, are less imposing than many others here. What is special about the Glessners is not the place where they lie buried, but the place where they lived.
Their remarkable house still stands on the corner of Prairie Avenue and 18th Street, as it has since the 1880’s. It was designed by the most famous architect of the time, Henry Hobson Richardson, and built for $75,000. Richardson created for the Glessners an innovative house, a house to suit a city corner. The mansion is L-shaped around an inner courtyard. From the street, it looks like a fortress, but inside, the rooms turn their windows to a quiet, sunlit court.”
26. Ludwig Mies van der Rohe 1886-1969
“Mies’ grave marker reflects the same precision and simplicity that characterizes his architecture. The granite stone is black, like his buildings. It, too, should remain unchanged despite the effects of time, weather and pollution. The granite is not polished, but finely honed because that was the way Mies liked to finish stone. It was designed by Dirk Lohan, Mies’ grandson and a member of his firm.”
and a tree of which he would have approved
27. Cyrus Hall McCormick, Jr. 1859-1936
This guy was completely uninteresting, as is his headstone. I think she’s placemarking again.
However; nearby we found this
Doesn’t it sort of look like if you can get it open you’d find a tiny Superman baby?
28. Marshall Field 1835-1906
“Sculptor Daniel Chester French and architect Henry Bacon created this dignified memorial for Chicago’s giant of commerce, Marshall Field.”
“French entitled the statue, Memory. Despite its air of melancholy, there is a strength and durability in the seated figure. Life on this earth must end, but as long as it has been a life of integrity, one may meet death with a calm courage, exemplified in the oak leaves the woman holds. How different from the chilling despair of Taft’s Eternal Silence.
The symbol on the base - the staff with two serpents twined around it - is the caduceus, the staff of the Roman god Mercury. It’s generally used as a symbol of the medical profession, but here it stands for commerce. Mercury was the god of commerce (not to mention manual skill, eloquence, cleverness, travel and thievery).”
29. Cyrus McCormick 1809-84
“A simple headstone marks the grave of a man whose name you probably learned in school: Cyrus McCormick, the inventor of the reaper.”
Yeah, again, she wrote that. I really don’t mean to heckle, but - seriously? I’m pretty sure I didn’t actually learn that in school. Who needs to know that?
And as I discover I don’t have a picture of this simple headstone - she goes on to say:
“Although there is a memorial to McCormick in Chicago...there is none here in Graceland. Only land. But that in itself seems a fitting monument for the man who revolutionized farming.”
So I’m thoroughly confused...and...moving on.
30. Richard Nickel 1928-72
“Architectural photographer Richard Nickel met his untimely death in the ruins of Adler & Sullivan’s Stock Exchange on LaSalle Street. When this noteworthy building was being demolished, despite public protest, to make way for a high-rise office building, Nickel got permission from the wrecking company to salvage as much of the ornament as he could. When he was missing for several days, his family and friends became worried. His car was found parked near the Loop, and it was feared that he had been hurt in the Stock Exchange rubble. The wrecking company stopped work and a search was made for Nickel among the ruins. His body was found May 9; he had been missing since April 13.”
After reading this we pieced together that we’d encountered a book published posthumously about this with photographs by Nickel. I urge anyone remotely interested in architecture or Chicago to seek this out.
31. John Kranz 1841-1919
“Kranz was a candy-maker. The Kranz Confectionery Store on State Street was a favorite stop for shoppers from the time Kranz established it in 1873 until it passed from the scene in the late 1940’s.”
32. Melville Fuller 1833-1910
“After receiving a law degree from Harvard, Fuller practiced law in Chicago for many years and also served a term in the state legislature. In 1888, President Cleveland appointed him Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, a post he held for 22 years, until his death.”
33. William Hulbert 1832-82
“This charming monument - a big baseball - marks the grave of the man who founded the National League of Professional Baseball Clubs. An ardent admirer of the game, Hulbert became involved in baseball in 1870 with the formation of the Chicago White Stockings.”
Hee! White Stockings!
Also nearby
34. William M. Hoyt 1837-1925
“The towering monument gracing the plot of the Hoyt family is typical of Victorian cemetery art. In its display of emotion and its use of symbol, the statue is a good example of the lavish memorials the Victorians erected to express their grief. One of the three female figures of this statue bears a cross, representing faith and salvation; another holds an anchor, a symbol of hope; the third, nursing a child, embodies love and regeneration.”
35. Allan Pinkerton 1819-84
“A miniature obelisk marks the grave of the founder of the legendary Pinkerton Detective Agency.”
“Next to the Pinkerton family plot is a plot for Pinkerton employees. Here you’ll find the graves of Kate Warn, the first woman detective, and Timothy Webster. These two helped Pinkerton conduct Lincoln safely to his inauguration. Webster also served with Pinkerton’s secret service during the Civil War. He was hanged by the Rebels when they discovered he was a Union spy. In the second row of headstones is a faded one for Joseph Whicher, who also died in the line of duty. He was killed while in pursuit of the Jesse James gang.”
36. Howard van doren Shaw 1868-1926
“Shaw was a contemporary of Frank Lloyd Wright and others of the Prairie School of Architecture, but he was not a part of the group. Wright and the Prairie School were bringing to residential architecture the same spirit of innovation that their forebears, the Chicago School, brought to commercial buildings. Shaw’s designs remained traditional, drawing upon various styles of the past.”
“These same qualities are apparent here. The Shaw family plot is bordered by plantings on three sides. The elegant polished granite pillar is surmounted by a bronze ball bearing the words of the 23rd Psalm. The twin red stones on either side of the plot at the front belong to two of Shaw’s daughters and their husbands.
Another classic - a draped pillar I think, but can’t be absolutely sure that this is:
37. John McCutcheon 1870-1949
A newspaper cartoonist.
And more of these creepy mosaic stones
38. John Jones 1816-79
Guys - we couldn’t find this one. There is absolutely no direction at all and the map in this book is pretty sketchy. As an apology to this guy I’m going to give you his whole story even though I’m pretty tired of typing.
“Jones was a black man. That meant that in order to move to Illinois in the 1840’s, he had to prove that he was a free man and not a slave. He had been born in North Carolina of a free mulatto woman and a German [one needs must assume man] named Bromfield. His mother apprenticed him to a tailor so that he would have a trade.”
*waves to Garak over on DS9*
“Jones established a tailor shop in Chicago with only a few dollars to his name and built it into a successful enterprise. Since blacks were excluded from the schools, he taught himself to read and write. He aided fugitive slaves and fought to change the state’s restrictive laws against blacks.
He became the first black man to hold elective office in Cook County. He was elected a county commissioner after the Fire and re-elected for a second term.”
So aside from the DS9 reference - left outside the quotes, notice! - that is his entire entry - no clues at all on where we might find this paragon’s headstone.
39. Henry Brown Clarke 1801-1849
Who loses out due to the above extra typing and the fact that there isn't anything related to his actual monument on offer.
40. Outdoor mausoleum - still kicking
I don’t really count this as a legitimate point - and then we found spiders!
Thanks for touring with us!
21. Joseph Medill 1823-99
“Joseph Medill was first a lawyer and then a newspaper publisher in Ohio before he came to Chicago. He became part owner and editor of the Chicago Tribune in 1855.”
“After the Chicago Fire, he was elected mayor on the “fireproof’ ticket. He enforced stringent fire regulations during the rebuilding of the city, and he helped to establish the Chicago Public Library. He also made the vastly unpopular move of closing the saloons on Sunday. In the great swell of protest that followed, the law was repealed. Mayor Medill resigned before his term was up and went off to Europe to rest.”
Seriously. She wrote that. I’m guessing that she subsequently wrote a Crack!Fic taking place during his ‘rest’. Probably just me.
22. Lambert Tree 1832-1910
“Tree was a lawyer, judge and diplomat. When he became a circuit court judge in 1870, he initiated a grand-jury investigation of corruption in the Chicago City Council, leading to the trial and conviction of many council members. In 1885, President Cleveland appointed Tree U.S. minister to Belgium. In 1888, he was named minister to Russia.”
And then we took some pictures of actual trees.
23. Philip Armour 1832-1901
“Is there anyone who doesn’t recognize the name on this tombstone? It’s a name commonly seen on cans and packages of meat products all over the world.”
“Armour and Plankinton [his partner] made a name for themselves - and a fortune of $1.5 million - when they sold short in the last months of the Civil War. Gambling that the war would end soon and pork prices would fall, Armour went to New York and contracted to sell pork for future delivery at $40 a barrel. When, indeed, prices did drop, Armour was able to buy for only $18 a barrel all the pork needed to meet the firm’s commitments.”
Very sneaky, Mr. Armour...
24. Lucius Fisher 1843-1916
“The bronze hooded angel holding an urn was sculpted by Richard Bock. His name is at the bottom right. Bock specialized in architectural decoration and military memorials.”
25. John Glessner 1843-1936
“The grave markers for Glessner, his wife and one of their children, who died in infancy, are less imposing than many others here. What is special about the Glessners is not the place where they lie buried, but the place where they lived.
Their remarkable house still stands on the corner of Prairie Avenue and 18th Street, as it has since the 1880’s. It was designed by the most famous architect of the time, Henry Hobson Richardson, and built for $75,000. Richardson created for the Glessners an innovative house, a house to suit a city corner. The mansion is L-shaped around an inner courtyard. From the street, it looks like a fortress, but inside, the rooms turn their windows to a quiet, sunlit court.”
26. Ludwig Mies van der Rohe 1886-1969
“Mies’ grave marker reflects the same precision and simplicity that characterizes his architecture. The granite stone is black, like his buildings. It, too, should remain unchanged despite the effects of time, weather and pollution. The granite is not polished, but finely honed because that was the way Mies liked to finish stone. It was designed by Dirk Lohan, Mies’ grandson and a member of his firm.”
and a tree of which he would have approved
27. Cyrus Hall McCormick, Jr. 1859-1936
This guy was completely uninteresting, as is his headstone. I think she’s placemarking again.
However; nearby we found this
Doesn’t it sort of look like if you can get it open you’d find a tiny Superman baby?
28. Marshall Field 1835-1906
“Sculptor Daniel Chester French and architect Henry Bacon created this dignified memorial for Chicago’s giant of commerce, Marshall Field.”
“French entitled the statue, Memory. Despite its air of melancholy, there is a strength and durability in the seated figure. Life on this earth must end, but as long as it has been a life of integrity, one may meet death with a calm courage, exemplified in the oak leaves the woman holds. How different from the chilling despair of Taft’s Eternal Silence.
The symbol on the base - the staff with two serpents twined around it - is the caduceus, the staff of the Roman god Mercury. It’s generally used as a symbol of the medical profession, but here it stands for commerce. Mercury was the god of commerce (not to mention manual skill, eloquence, cleverness, travel and thievery).”
29. Cyrus McCormick 1809-84
“A simple headstone marks the grave of a man whose name you probably learned in school: Cyrus McCormick, the inventor of the reaper.”
Yeah, again, she wrote that. I really don’t mean to heckle, but - seriously? I’m pretty sure I didn’t actually learn that in school. Who needs to know that?
And as I discover I don’t have a picture of this simple headstone - she goes on to say:
“Although there is a memorial to McCormick in Chicago...there is none here in Graceland. Only land. But that in itself seems a fitting monument for the man who revolutionized farming.”
So I’m thoroughly confused...and...moving on.
30. Richard Nickel 1928-72
“Architectural photographer Richard Nickel met his untimely death in the ruins of Adler & Sullivan’s Stock Exchange on LaSalle Street. When this noteworthy building was being demolished, despite public protest, to make way for a high-rise office building, Nickel got permission from the wrecking company to salvage as much of the ornament as he could. When he was missing for several days, his family and friends became worried. His car was found parked near the Loop, and it was feared that he had been hurt in the Stock Exchange rubble. The wrecking company stopped work and a search was made for Nickel among the ruins. His body was found May 9; he had been missing since April 13.”
After reading this we pieced together that we’d encountered a book published posthumously about this with photographs by Nickel. I urge anyone remotely interested in architecture or Chicago to seek this out.
31. John Kranz 1841-1919
“Kranz was a candy-maker. The Kranz Confectionery Store on State Street was a favorite stop for shoppers from the time Kranz established it in 1873 until it passed from the scene in the late 1940’s.”
32. Melville Fuller 1833-1910
“After receiving a law degree from Harvard, Fuller practiced law in Chicago for many years and also served a term in the state legislature. In 1888, President Cleveland appointed him Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, a post he held for 22 years, until his death.”
33. William Hulbert 1832-82
“This charming monument - a big baseball - marks the grave of the man who founded the National League of Professional Baseball Clubs. An ardent admirer of the game, Hulbert became involved in baseball in 1870 with the formation of the Chicago White Stockings.”
Hee! White Stockings!
Also nearby
34. William M. Hoyt 1837-1925
“The towering monument gracing the plot of the Hoyt family is typical of Victorian cemetery art. In its display of emotion and its use of symbol, the statue is a good example of the lavish memorials the Victorians erected to express their grief. One of the three female figures of this statue bears a cross, representing faith and salvation; another holds an anchor, a symbol of hope; the third, nursing a child, embodies love and regeneration.”
35. Allan Pinkerton 1819-84
“A miniature obelisk marks the grave of the founder of the legendary Pinkerton Detective Agency.”
“Next to the Pinkerton family plot is a plot for Pinkerton employees. Here you’ll find the graves of Kate Warn, the first woman detective, and Timothy Webster. These two helped Pinkerton conduct Lincoln safely to his inauguration. Webster also served with Pinkerton’s secret service during the Civil War. He was hanged by the Rebels when they discovered he was a Union spy. In the second row of headstones is a faded one for Joseph Whicher, who also died in the line of duty. He was killed while in pursuit of the Jesse James gang.”
36. Howard van doren Shaw 1868-1926
“Shaw was a contemporary of Frank Lloyd Wright and others of the Prairie School of Architecture, but he was not a part of the group. Wright and the Prairie School were bringing to residential architecture the same spirit of innovation that their forebears, the Chicago School, brought to commercial buildings. Shaw’s designs remained traditional, drawing upon various styles of the past.”
“These same qualities are apparent here. The Shaw family plot is bordered by plantings on three sides. The elegant polished granite pillar is surmounted by a bronze ball bearing the words of the 23rd Psalm. The twin red stones on either side of the plot at the front belong to two of Shaw’s daughters and their husbands.
Another classic - a draped pillar I think, but can’t be absolutely sure that this is:
37. John McCutcheon 1870-1949
A newspaper cartoonist.
And more of these creepy mosaic stones
38. John Jones 1816-79
Guys - we couldn’t find this one. There is absolutely no direction at all and the map in this book is pretty sketchy. As an apology to this guy I’m going to give you his whole story even though I’m pretty tired of typing.
“Jones was a black man. That meant that in order to move to Illinois in the 1840’s, he had to prove that he was a free man and not a slave. He had been born in North Carolina of a free mulatto woman and a German [one needs must assume man] named Bromfield. His mother apprenticed him to a tailor so that he would have a trade.”
*waves to Garak over on DS9*
“Jones established a tailor shop in Chicago with only a few dollars to his name and built it into a successful enterprise. Since blacks were excluded from the schools, he taught himself to read and write. He aided fugitive slaves and fought to change the state’s restrictive laws against blacks.
He became the first black man to hold elective office in Cook County. He was elected a county commissioner after the Fire and re-elected for a second term.”
So aside from the DS9 reference - left outside the quotes, notice! - that is his entire entry - no clues at all on where we might find this paragon’s headstone.
39. Henry Brown Clarke 1801-1849
Who loses out due to the above extra typing and the fact that there isn't anything related to his actual monument on offer.
40. Outdoor mausoleum - still kicking
I don’t really count this as a legitimate point - and then we found spiders!
Thanks for touring with us!