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Tour InformationGlessner 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. We
are open year-round, except for major holidays. at
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Upcoming EventsSee Events page for more details and dates Children's
Reading Class October through May, at 10:00am New Docent Training Saturday February
6, 2010 at 10:00am Lecture
by David Swan Lecture
by Richard Cahan and Lecture by Robert Furhoff "White House Interiors 1865-1902" Tuesday May 11, 2010 at 7:00pm |
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Collections CameoExplore our Collections page for more information about our decorative arts collection.
The Table-Talk of John Selden In 1895, the Chicago Tribune published an article entitled “Books in Expansion - Art of Extra-Illustration Has Followers in Chicago.” The article describes the process that its followers, including John Glessner, would follow: “(1) To buy from book marts everywhere standard publications, elegant in type, paper and illustration; (2) to take them apart and insert additional illustrations suggested by the text; (3) to rebind with all the elegance known to modern times.” John Glessner’s interest in the art was detailed and a listing of the books he had completed was included: Baskerville’s Milton’s Paradise Lost, Walton’s The Compleat Angler, Cavendish’s The Life of Cardinal Wolsey, and Selden’s The Table-Talk of John Selden.
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Through the Years with the GlessnersExplore our Glessner family page for more information on the daily lives of the family, as chronicled in Mrs. Glessner's journal. courtesy of the Chicago History Museum 1883 August
24 - (John Glessner arrives in New Hampshire to join his family and
spend his first night in their newly completed summer home. Frances Glessner
had moved in on August 4.) “The house at The Rocks was lighted from
top to bottom. A “Welcome Home” in fern leaves had been tacked
on the base of the dining room bay window, and the lamb had been decorated
with a wreath of ferns and goldenrod in honor of my arrival, but owing
to the train’s delay, the lamb had eaten her own decorations and
part of my welcome, and the remainder of this I was invited to inspect
by lantern light. All were well and so could bear a few hours disappointment
and my welcome was warm enough to satisfy anyone. Everyone had helped
to arrange and decorate the house and in consequence of Frances’
good taste and management and hard work it was all very handsome, in good
order and homelike.” October
27 - An article in the Chicago Tribune praises the newly
completed headquarters of Warder, Bushnell & Glessner for its elegant
architectural proportions, proclaiming it at once an ornament and landmark.
(The building still stands at 130 S. Jefferson Street). 1908 October 11 - The Chicago Tribune announces that the first national flower show will be held at the Coliseum from November 6 to 14. “The Horticultural Society of Chicago has practical charge of the local management of the show, and valuable assistance is being given by its directors, who include Clarence Buckingham, John J. Glessner, Harlow N. Higinbotham, Charles L. Hutchinson, James Keeley, Victor F. Lawson, John J. Mitchell, Martin A. Ryerson, Edward G. Uihlein, Charles H. Wacker, and W. E. Kelley.” A committee of female members of the Society including Mrs. Potter Palmer, Mrs. John J. Glessner, and Mrs. Cyrus McCormick will serve as judges of table decorations.
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