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Essential Architecture- Chicago
South and West Ida B. Wells - Barnett House |
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architect |
Joseph A. Thain |
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location |
3624 S. Martin Luther King Jr., Dr. |
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date |
1889 |
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style |
mix of Romanesque Revival and Queen Anne |
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construction |
Stone |
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House |
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| From 1919 to 1930, this was the home of journalist-civil rights activist Ida Bell Wells and her lawyer-journalist husband, Ferdinand Lee Barnett. Wells' outspoken criticism--in her weekly newspaper columns--of lynching and mob violence stirred the nation, and brought international attention to racially motivated brutality. This residence, the only direct physical link to Wells' life in Chicago, incorporates elements of the Romanesque Revival and Queen Anne styles of architecture. | |
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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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