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| Essential
Architecture- Chicago
Northeast Getty Tomb |
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architect |
Louis Sullivan |
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location |
Graceland Cemetery, Clark Street and
Irving Park Road |
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date |
1890 |
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style |
Sullivanesque |
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construction |
Stone |
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type |
Tomb |
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The quiet elegance of this tomb celebrates life amidst the cemetery's
somber environment of death. An architectural writer once described it
as being "as near perfection as mortals are allowed to approach." Its
beauty is achieved through a combination of simple geometric shapes and
rich delicately proportioned ornamentation. The tomb is located in an
area of Graceland Cemetery that contains the graves or monuments of such
prominent Chicago families as the Potter Palmers, George Pullmans, and
Marshall Fields. The Getty Tomb was built by businessman Henry Harrison
Getty for his wife, Carrie Eliza Getty. |
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links |
With special thanks to the City of
Chicago website,
www.egov.cityofchicago.org , for much of the info on this page.
Photos copyright City of Chicago. |
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