Jean Baptiste Point Du Sable Homesite

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Coordinates: 41°53′22.78″N 87°37′24.28″W / 41.8896611°N 87.6234111°W / 41.8896611; -87.6234111
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Jean Baptiste Point Du Sable Homesite
Chicago, IL
Coordinates41°53′22.78″N 87°37′24.28″W / 41.8896611°N 87.6234111°W / 41.8896611; -87.6234111
Areaabout 1 acre (0.40 ha)
Built1779
NRHP reference No.76000690 [1]
Significant dates
Added to NRHPMay 11, 1976
Designated NHLMay 11, 1976[2]

The Jean Baptiste Point Du Sable Homesite is the location where, around the 1780s,

Chicago, Illinois.[4]

History

Point du Sable likely settled near the mouth of the

smokehouse. Their house was a 22-by-40-foot (6.7 m × 12.2 m) log cabin filled with fine furniture and paintings.[5]

Following Point du Sable's departure from Chicago, the home became the property of John Kinzie. In 1834 the land owned by Kinzie was platted and sold.[6] The "Kinzie addition" to Chicago, which is assumed to be coterminous with Point du Sable's estate extended from the banks of the Chicago River north to Chicago Avenue, and from State Street east to Lake Michigan.[4]

Monument

A commemorative plaque, struck in 1937, was installed on a marble block at Pioneer Court after its 1965 dedication. It reads, "KINZIE MANSION / Near this site stood Kinzie Mansion, / 1784-1832, home of Pointe Du Saible, / Le Mai, and John Kinzie, Chicago's / "first civilian," here was born in 1805, / the city's first white child Ellen Marion Kinzie".[4] While the plaque is correct that Ellen Marion Kinzie was the first white child born in the city, Du Sable's granddaughter, Eulalie Pelletier, was the first non-native to be born in the city, in 1796.[4]

Pioneer Court was listed on the

Michigan Avenue Bridge
was renamed DuSable Bridge in honor of Point du Sable.

See also

Notes

  1. ^ "Du Sable, Jean Baptiste Point, Homesite". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. August 25, 2010.
  2. ^ a b c "Du Sable, Jean Baptiste Point, Homesite". National Historic Landmark summary listing. National Park Service. Archived from the original on November 23, 2007. Retrieved July 20, 2008.
  3. ^ Swenson, John W (1999). "Jean Baptiste Point de Sable—The Founder of Modern Chicago". Early Chicago. Early Chicago, Inc. Archived from the original on January 16, 2005. Retrieved September 6, 2010.
  4. ^ a b c d "Jean Baptiste Point Du Sable Homesite". National Register of Historic Places Inventory. National Park Service. Retrieved September 6, 2010.
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  6. ^ "Kinzie Addition". Early Chicago. Early Chicago Inc. Retrieved September 6, 2010.
  7. ^ "DuSable bust dedicated in Chicago". ABC7 news. October 17, 2009. Archived from the original on June 29, 2011. Retrieved November 25, 2010.
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