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15164. Ms. No - 5/26/2005 6:30:10 PM Here's Whit's site --- they get a little New-Age for me, but it's got some good info on the history of the area and some neat pictures.
Chicken Hill Online 15165. thoughtful - 5/26/2005 6:58:08 PM like that house! 15166. Ms. No - 5/26/2005 7:24:50 PM Which one? The Red Roof or Hanger Hall? The Red Roof and the house currently under construction are both Whit projects. I'm not sure who is buying the Club House but it's a recent thing so no work will have begun on it yet. The Parsonage was restored a few years ago and is now a bed and breakfast. Their back decks face a central green area that my house also backs up to. There's been talk of having a little park there or something, but I know there's a contingent that's pushing for car parking since it's very limited in the neighborhood.
I hope they go with a real park, personally. I think as they build they can accommodate garages on ground levels or park platforms against the sides of houses to relieve some of the street parking congestion. What would be kind of nice would be to have a central parking area and then just make it a walking/biking neighborhood but I know that probably won't fly. 15167. thoughtful - 5/26/2005 7:26:39 PM the red roof...1 park ave north 15168. Ms. No - 5/26/2005 7:47:49 PM Yes, that's really come along nicely. It's been a long slow process, but that's mainly because the builder was living in the place and you've heard the old saw about how the cobbler's children go barefoot.
15169. Magoseph - 5/26/2005 7:57:21 PM I like the picture showing Daisy Jo' who is "...mad because Jim got to wear Freds cap and she didn't." Anyway, I’m now going back to the site, so much more to see.
Here is the Hanger Hall
This spectacular two-story brick house, home of Hanger Hall School for Girls, is the most lavish house that remains in the Chicken Hill community. It displays elements of the Queen Anne, Italiante and Eastlake style common to the late nineteenth century. Notable features include the elaborately detailed wraparound front porch, corner tower and richly detailed interior woodworking.
The house was built before the 1890 development of Prospect Park, as the neigborhood was called at the time, by Russian-born immigrant Peter A. Demens. Demens owned a sawmill on the French Broad River and it is likely that the woodworking for the house was produced there.
15170. PelleNilsson - 5/26/2005 7:58:12 PM Whereabouts on that map is the Hen House? 15171. Ms. No - 5/26/2005 8:09:50 PM If you are looking at the Red Roof house from the front the Hen House is behind it -- on the street that runs behind it. If you were to draw a line from your view point at 45% on the left side you'd hit my house on the block behind although I'm I little bit downhill from there. 15172. Ms. No - 5/26/2005 8:12:07 PM If you're looking at the map with the little brown interactive house links, the one at the top is the Red Roof and if you follow that lower road, the Hen House is before the switchback curve, pretty much right between those two trees whose tops kind of touch the road. 15173. judithathome - 5/26/2005 8:12:36 PM Here's a little bit of info on Charles Eastlake 15174. Ms. No - 5/26/2005 8:12:56 PM Now that you all know how to get there I expect you'll all attend the housewarming in the Spring. ;-> 15175. PelleNilsson - 5/26/2005 8:21:32 PM I don't get it. There is no house on the map called Red Roof. Is it One Park Ave.? 15176. thoughtful - 5/26/2005 8:38:54 PM It displays elements of the Queen Anne, Italiante and Eastlake style common to the late nineteenth century.
Actually the way that tower is shaped, it looks like elements of the Flying Nun! 15177. Magoseph - 5/26/2005 8:48:14 PM How about this hall--is it kind of Italiante of Eastlake you think, thoughtful?
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15179. Magoseph - 5/26/2005 8:53:10 PM 
Self portrait of Miss Ida Jolly Crawley, artist and world traveler who opened the house as a museum.
15180. Ms. No - 5/26/2005 9:08:56 PM Pelle,
Yes, it's One Park, we've always called it the Red House though or Red Roof. I never knew the address until the website went up. 15181. thoughtful - 5/26/2005 9:24:11 PM Mags, all of that ornate woodwork and dim lighting reminds me of a number of victorian mansions I've been to. I associate italianate with more stone and plaster work.
Here for example is the hallway from Mark Twain's house in Hartford...very victorian.
Pardon my messing up the margins, but I did want you to be able to read the description. 15182. thoughtful - 5/26/2005 9:29:30 PM When I think Italianate, I think the Breakers in Newport RI
Lots of stone, marble, archways and columns 15183. Magoseph - 5/26/2005 9:38:28 PM Far too much wood they used in those days, probably the only material easy to get at the time. Around here, there are houses whose owners imported wood workers from Europe and repatriated them. They are mostly on the larger lake in the area and many are still owned by the descendents of the Chicago elite. Every year you can visit them and admire the furnishings on a tour that is hugely successful. Most have much of the wood on walls taken out over the years. Some are quite beautiful and their winter gardens are showpieces of art and plants.
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