Riverside Historic District (Riverside, Illinois)
The Riverside Historic District, also known as Riverside Landscape Architecture District, encompasses what is arguably one of the first planned suburbs in the United States.
The Riverside Historic District, also known as Riverside Landscape Architecture District, encompasses what is arguably one of the first planned suburbs in the United States. The district encompasses the majority of the village of Riverside, Illinois, a suburb just west of Chicago. It was planned and designed by Calvert Vaux and Frederick Law Olmsted and features a number of architecturally distinguished buildings.
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Worth seeing in and around Riverside Historic District (Riverside, Illinois)
8 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.
- 01Chicago Portage National Historic Site
The Chicago Portage National Historic Site is a National Historic Site commemorating the importance of the Chicago Portage in Lyons, Cook County, Illinois, United States. It is located in Chicago Portage Forest Preserve and the Ottawa Trail Woods Forest Preserve, at the junction of Portage Creek with the Des Plaines River, on the west side of Harlem Avenue on the line of 48th Street.
3 km · historic site in Lyons, Illinois · Wikipedia - 02Berwyn State Bank Building
The Berwyn State Bank Building is an Art Deco office building at 6804 Windsor Avenue, Berwyn, Illinois. It was designed by Charles O. Liska and was built at a cost of $400,000 in 1929.
1.7 km · building in Berwyn, Illinois · Wikipedia - 03Stritch School of Medicine
The Stritch School of Medicine is the medical school affiliated with Loyola University Chicago. It is located at the heart of the Loyola University Medical Center in Maywood, Illinois.
3.5 km · Loyola University Chicago medical school · Wikipedia - 04Arthur J. Dunham House
The Arthur J. Dunham House is a house located at 3131 S. Wisconsin Ave. in Berwyn, Illinois, USA. The Prairie School house, built circa 1907, was designed by the Chicago architectural firm Tallmadge and Watson.
1.2 km · historic house in Berwyn, Illinois · Wikipedia - 05Mr. Robert Silhan House
The Mr. Robert Silhan House is a small-scale Streamline Moderne house in Berwyn, Illinois, United States.
2.8 km · historic house in Illinois, United States · Wikipedia - 06F. F. Tomek House
The F. F. Tomek House, also known as The Ship House or as the Ferdinand Frederick and Emily Tomek House, is a historic house in Riverside, Illinois. It is a prominent example of Prairie School design by Frank Lloyd Wright.
300 m · historic house in Illinois, United States · Wikipedia - 07Berwyn Apartments
The Berwyn Apartments is an apartment building at 3137 Oak Park Avenue, Berwyn, Illinois. Originally the Berwyn Hotel, the building was built in 1922, at a cost of $200,000.
1.8 km · building in Berwyn, Illinois · Wikipedia - 08Arcade Building
The Arcade Building is a historic building at 1 Riverside Road in Riverside, Illinois. The building was built in 1871 as Riverside's first commercial building; its first floor housed storefronts, while its upper floors were used as residential and office space.
700 m · historic building in Riverside, Illinois, United States · Wikipedia
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Getting to Riverside Historic District (Riverside, Illinois)
- Airports
- Chicago Midway (MDW), 7 km · Chicago O'Hare (ORD), 18 km · General Mitchell (MKE), 124 km
- Stations
- Congress Park, 3.9 km · Harlem Avenue, 1 km · Hollywood, 1.9 km · Riverside, 700 m · La Vergne, 2.5 km
- Milwaukee → Riverside Historic District (Riverside, Illinois)523 km · quickest by air, 6h 26m · $180–260
- Grand Rapids → Riverside Historic District (Riverside, Illinois)442 km · quickest by air, 4h 45m · $180–270
- Indianapolis → Riverside Historic District (Riverside, Illinois)161 km · quickest by road, 2h 43m · $14–20
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Riverside Historic District (Riverside, Illinois) is 14 km from Chicago, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
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