Midway gardens original site

[flwromanza]

Can anyone point me to the original thread of the midway gardens original site thread. I'm on the road using a iPad, and having trouble navigating it.

[egads]

http://savewright.org/wright_chat/viewt ... ght=midway

Of course it is in a Larkin building thread.....
By the way, I left out gardens as that pointed to way too many threads

[Unbrook]

Per Wikipedia it was located on the southwest corner of Cottage Grove Avenue and East 60th Street. Not know Chicago too well, I'm afraid I don't know how correct that address is.

[Paul Ringstrom]

Google Map:

https://goo.gl/maps/1OgBh

[Unbrook]

You could walk from there to the Robie House!

[SREcklund]

You could walk from there to the Robie House!

I've done it - it's about a 20-min stroll. The sidewalk between 59th and the Plaisance is a beautiful, tree-lined path.

Unfortunately, there's nothing on site to mark the previous use - just low income housing ...

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[SDR]

There is one illustration of the Gardens, an aerial view, which (as I recall it) shows curbside waiting stations with enormously cantilevered roofs. I haven't seen that drawing in a long while . . .

SDR

[Roderick Grant]

SDR, don't you have the Paul Kruty book? I think you are referring to the cover illustration.

[SDR]

Thanks -- that's the one. No other illustrations include those shelters, as far as I can tell. They weren't built, obviously.

Page 114 of A Testament has the full image -- a drawing labeled "First Sketch of Midway Gardens 1913." There are three shelters altogether . . .

[Tom]

Is the Kruty book really a $300 - $400 book? Can't be can it?

And do I have it right that the main elevation (as shown above) faced east toward the lake? Cottage Ave. is in the foreground and 60th on the right margin.

Interesting how no automobiles appear in this perspective. Wouldn't a provision for 'the car' have been part of this plan ... parking? Or would most people walk?

[jmcnally]

Interesting how no automobiles appear in this perspective. Wouldn't a provision for 'the car' have been part of this plan ... parking? Or would most people walk?

Streetcars and buses. A legitimate question would be when parking lots were "invented" or when they became common.

[Roderick Grant]

Cottage Grove had a major street car line from Hyde Park to the Loop. Photographer Edmund Teske, who was 3 when Midway was built, traveled the line, and was entranced by the sight of the building, his introduction to Frank Lloyd Wright, for whom he was (briefly) official Taliesin photographer.

Tom, you're right about the orientation of the building. But $300 for the book? Yikes! I paid $44.95.

[DRN]

A link to some interesting angles of the site pre-Midway Gardens and during its later years:

http://www.steinerag.com/flw/Artifact%2 ... 0added.htm

Some more on a Flickr site (click right arrow, there are 6 pics):

https://www.flickr.com/photos/photonoir ... otostream/

...and one more:

http://i.ytimg.com/vi/k0stpaqZx3c/hqdefault.jpg

[Tom]

Public transportation? Imagine that.
Thanks all. Can't recall ever hearing of Teske. Cool story.

[SDR]

The small L-shaped or T-shaped freestanding structures within the Summer Garden -- were those restrooms ? Seems like a logical location, for such a large "room" . . .

SDR