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Garfield Park is a 184-acre urban park located in the East Garfield Park neighborhood on Chicago's West Side. It was designed as a pleasure ground by William LeBaron Jenney in the 1870s and is the oldest of the three original parks developed by the West Side parks commission on the Chicago park and boulevard plan. It is home to the Garfield Park Con…
Garfield Park is a 184-acre urban park located in the East Garfield Park neighborhood on Chicago's West Side. It was designed as a pleasure ground by William LeBaron Jenney in the 1870s and is the oldest of the three original parks developed by the West Side parks commission on the Chicago park and boulevard plan. It is home to the Garfield Park Conservatory, one of the largest plant conservatories in the United States. It is also the park furthest west in the Chicago park and boulevard system.
  • Location: 300 N. Central Park Ave. · Chicago, Illinois
  • Built: 1907
  • Architect: William LeBaron Jenney, Hitchings and Company
  • Architectural style: Exotic Revival, Colonial Revival
  • Designated CL: November 18, 2009
  • NRHP reference No.: 93000837
  • Added to NRHP: August 31, 1993
Data from: en.wikipedia.org