Humboldt Park Receptory Building and Stable

Chicago Landmark

 

Humboldt Park Receptory Building and Stable
Frommann & Jebsen, architects
1895-96

 

This picturesque building, built in the Queen Anne architectural style with Central European features, is Humboldt Park's oldest surviving structure. Its visually-eclectic style exemplifies the early 19th-century history of Chicago's grandly-scaled "pastoral" regional parks. The building is noteworthy for its fine brickwork, half-timbering, turrets and a multitude of tiled roofs and dormers: Originally built to house horses, wagons, garden equipment and other tools, it was also once the office of then-park superintendent and noted landscape architect Jens Jensen.

 

Designated on February 6, 2008
Richard M. Daley, Mayor

 

Commission on Chicago Landmarks

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