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Fort Sheridan is a monument to the Army’s ambitious build-out of new, comprehensively planned forts across the United States at the end of the nineteenth and beginning of the twentieth century. With 66 buildings by Holabird and Roche of Chicago and a landscape by Ossian Cole Simonds, the Fort stands as a cohesive lakefront ensemble despite the disruption of late-twentieth-century infill housing.
Early Fort History. By 1870, Chicago was a growing commercial center of about 300,000 in population. Because of its central location, it was viewed as a gateway to the west. The subsequent development of Fort Sheridan in the late 1880’s became intertwined with the social and cultural history of Chicago. Fort Sheridan was established to ...
The site plan for Fort Sheridan grew out of its unique location high on the bluffs of Lake Michigan in an area cut by deep ravines. Its history is intimately tied to Chicago’s, for without the labor unrest of the 1870s and 1880s, the Fort would not have been built.
Fort Sheridan has contributed significantly to our national history through the training and preparation of American soldiers during three wars. It has however, the distinctive buff-cream brick buildings constructed during the first twenty years of the Post's existence along with associated landscape features which provide its major significance.
Rothblatt-Amrany Fine Arts Studio, 912 Lyster Rd., Highwood, IL. Designed by one of Chicago's most influential architects, Holabird and Roche, Fort Sheridan's buildings served military purposes from 1892—1993. See the concept of adaptive reuse implemented to transform former stables, barracks and arsenal depots to attractive and luxurious homes.
Aerial: Fort Sheridan, 1937. Designed by the Chicago architecture firm of Holabird & Roche, Fort Sheridan occupied over 600 acres along Lake Michigan in Highwood, Illinois, from 1887 to 1993. The land had been purchased in 1887 by the Commercial Club of Chicago and donated to the federal government with the hope that the army would use the gift ...
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Fort Sheridan was purchased in 1887 by the Commercial Club of Chicago (a group of elite businessmen promoting economic development) and donated to the federal government in hopes to create a military base near the city. Construction of the Fort began in 1888. By 1889, Congress delegated $300,000 for construction of permanent structures to ...
