Fuller Park (Chicago park)
Fuller Park | |
NRHP reference No. | 02001347[1] |
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Added to NRHP | November 20, 2002 |
Fuller Park is a public park at 331 W. 45th Street in the
D. H. Burnham and Company designed its buildings, as they had for the earlier parks. The park originally included a Beaux-Arts fieldhouse, a gymnasium, a bathhouse, a grandstand, and a running track and walking paths.[2]
Fuller Park was first settled by Irish immigrants in the later 1860s after the Union Stock Yards opened on Christmas Day 1865. This area became a part of the Lake Township area and after the Great Chicago Fire of 1871 and the opening of the Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Railroad the area flourished into a community.
The park was added to the National Register of Historic Places on November 20, 2002.[1]
References
- ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. November 2, 2013.
- ^ Bachrach, Julia Sniderman (June 5, 2002). "National Register of Historic Places Registration Form: Fuller Park" (PDF). Illinois Historic Preservation Division. Retrieved October 13, 2019.[dead link]