Blomquist Memorial Recreation Center

Blomquist Memorial Recreation Center is a building in Evanston, Cook, Illinois. Blomquist Memorial Recreation Center is situated nearby to Deering Library, as well as near Shakespeare Garden.

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Deering Library and Northwestern University Library.

Deering Library

Library

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Charles Deering Library is an academic library of Northwestern University, a private research university in Evanston, Illinois. Deering served as the university's main library on the Evanston campus from 1933, when it was established, until the construction of the Northwestern University Main Library in 1970. Deering Library is situated 990 feet east of Blomquist Memorial Recreation Center.

Northwestern University Library

Library

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Northwestern University Libraries is the main academic library system of Northwestern University. Northwestern Libraries host a total of 8,198,268 printed or electronic volumes. Northwestern University Library is situated 1,300 feet east of Blomquist Memorial Recreation Center.

Shakespeare Garden

Garden

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The Shakespeare Garden in Evanston, Illinois, United States, is a Shakespeare garden on the campus of Northwestern University. Planned in 1915 and built from 1916 to 1929, the garden was the first Shakespeare Garden in the United States.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Evanston Lakeshore Historic District and Central Street.

Evanston Lakeshore Historic District

Neighborhood

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The Evanston Lakeshore Historic District is a residential historic district in Evanston, Illinois. The district encompasses a section of southeast Evanston that was developed in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

Central Street

Neighborhood

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Central Street is the principal east-west artery in the far north of Evanston, Illinois and is a major thoroughfare in other northern and northwest suburbs of Chicago. Central Street is situated 2 miles west of Blomquist Memorial Recreation Center.

Wilmette

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Wilmette is 16 miles north of Chicago. It is part of the affluent corridor of lakefront Chicago suburbs known as the North Shore. It is the location of the world's oldest still-standing Bahá'í House of Worship.

Blomquist Memorial Recreation Center

Type: Building
Location: Evanston, Cook, Illinois, Midwest, United States, North America
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Latitude

42.0542° or 42° 3′ 15″ north

Longitude

-87.67867° or 87° 40′ 43″ west

Elevation

600 feet (183 metres)

Open location code

86JJ383C+MG

GeoNames ID

4885141

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