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Tour InformationIMPORTANT: The museums will be closed on Saturday May 19 and Sunday May 20, 2012 due to their proximity to the site of the NATO Summit. Glessner House Museum offers guided tours of Glessner House (1886), a National Historic Landmark and Clarke House (1836), the City's oldest surviving building located in the adjacent Chicago Women's Park and Gardens. Tours are led by trained docents and last approximately one hour in each house. All tours begin at our Visitor's Center located at Glessner House Museum and are timed so that the two houses may be toured back-to-back. We are open year-round, except for major holidays New Year's Day Easter Sunday Memorial Day Independence Day Labor Day Thanksgiving Day Christmas Eve Christmas Day
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Upcoming EventsSee Events for
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programs Museums Closed Saturday May 19, 2012 (due to NATO Summit) Booksigning: The Pursuit of Lucy Banning Tuesday June 5, 2012 A Walk Through Time Sunday June 10, 2012
Treasures from the Collection V Thursday June 28, 2012
Prairie Avenue Walking Tour Sunday July 15, 2012 Lecture: Weeping Sad and Lonely - Mourning Customs in Mid-19th Century America Sunday July 22, 2012 Prairie Avenue Walking Tour Sunday August 19, 2012
Thursday August 23, 2012
Thursday September 13, 2012 Prairie Avenue Walking Tour Sunday September 16, 2012 White City Musical Friday September 28, 2012 Clarke House Museum Family Day Saturday October 13, 2012 Special Tours: Open House Chicago 2012 Saturday October 13 and Sunday October 14, 2012 Landmarks Illinois Preservation Snapshot Lecture: Glessner House at 125 - History and Preservation Thursday October 18, 2012
Lecture: The Arts and Crafts Movement, by Alice Ireland Thursday October 25, 2012 26th Annual Edgar Allan Poe Readings Saturday October 27, 2012 Shadows on the Street: Haunted Tours of Prairie Avenue Saturday October 27 and Sunday October 28, 2012 Glessner House Symposium - Glessner House at 125: Richardson's Urban Residential Masterpiece Reconsidered Saturday November 10, 2012 Clarke House Museum Veterans Brunch Sunday November 11, 2012 Virtuoso: The Life of Clara Schumann Presented by WomanLore Sunday November 18, 2012 Museums Decorated for Christmas Wednesday November 21 through Sunday December 30, 2012 Private Tour of the Newberry Library Art Collection Tuesday November 27, 2012 125th Anniversary Dedication Dinner Tuesday December 4, 2012 Christmas Candlelight Tours Saturday December 8 and Sunday December 9, 2012 Christmas at Clarke House Museum Saturday December 15, 2012
Clarke
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Collections Cameoby
John H. Waters
Pretyman's designs for spaces in several Burnham and Root buildings were
his most elaborate. They included the banking room for the Society
for Savings in Cleveland (1890), Charles Gossage & Co. a dry goods
store in the first floor and basement of the Reliance Building (1891),
and Willard Hall, the assembly room for the Women's Temple at the corner
of Monroe and State (1892). Of these interiors only the Society
for Savings remains. (See further information below). The
banking room interior William Pretyman designed for Burnham and Root's
Society for Savings Building in Cleveland is his only interior, other
than the Glessner House parlor, known to survive. The banking room
fills most of the first floor of the building and, like the Glessner parlor,
its walls are covered with stenciled decoration. Pretyman also designed
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Through the Years with the GlessnersJournals courtesy of the Chicago History Museum The Glessners Christen Their Home 125 Years Ago (1886-1887) November
7: The new house is being roofed - the outside brick work
is done - and nearly all of the stone work. The glazed brick is
being set inside the house and barn. A woman asked Mr. Cameron (construction
supervisor) in our house last Sunday if Mr. Richardson was dead.
When he said "yes" she said, "I guess this must have killed
him.
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