Arthur H. Compton House
The Arthur H. Compton House is a historic house at 5637 South Woodlawn Avenue in Chicago, Illinois. Built in 1905 and designed by architects Holabird & Roche, it was the residence of physicist Arthur Compton from 1928 until 1945.Photo: TonyTheTiger, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: House
- Description: historic house in Illinois, United States
- Address: 5637 South Woodlawn Avenue, Chicago, IL 60637
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Robie House and First Unitarian Church.
Robie House
The Frederick C. Robie House is a historic house museum on the University of Chicago campus in the Hyde Park neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois, United States. Robie House is situated 860 feet south of Arthur H. Compton House.
First Unitarian Church
Place of worship
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
The First Unitarian Church of Chicago is a Unitarian Universalist church in Chicago, Illinois. Unitarians do not have a common creed and include people with a wide variety of personal beliefs, and include atheists, agnostics, deists, monotheists, pantheists, polytheists, pagans, as well as other belief systems.
Smart Museum of Art
Museum
Photo: Michael Barera, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The David and Alfred Smart Museum of Art is an art museum located on the campus of the University of Chicago in Chicago, Illinois. The permanent collection has over 17,000 objects. Smart Museum of Art is situated 1,200 feet northwest of Arthur H. Compton House.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Hyde Park and Woodlawn.
Hyde Park
Photo: Urbanrules, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Hyde Park is one of Chicago's most famous neighborhoods, most certainly so on the South Side, located along the south lakefront. Having played host to the White City, the University of Chicago, President Obama, the setting for Richard Wright's Native Son, and…
Woodlawn
Suburb
Woodlawn is one of the 77 community areas of Chicago in Illinois, United States. It is near the shore of Lake Michigan 8.5 miles south of the Loop. The community area is bounded by the lake to the east, 60th Street to the north, King Drive to the west and 67th Street to the south, and a small area that lies south of 67th Street between Cottage Grove Avenue and South Chicago Avenue.
Indian Village
Neighborhood
Photo: Monika Bonckute, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Indian Village is the small southeast corner of Kenwood, a community area on the South Side of Chicago, Illinois, United States. It is bounded by Lake Shore Drive to the east, Burnham Park to the north, 51st Street to the south, Harold Washington Park to the southeast, and the Illinois Central Railroad tracks used by the South Shore and Metra Electric Lines to the west.
Arthur H. Compton House
- Categories: heritage site, building, historic site, and residential building
- Location: Chicago, Cook, Chicagoland, Illinois, Midwest, United States, North America
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Latitude
41.79217° or 41° 47′ 32″ northLongitude
-87.59615° or 87° 35′ 46″ westInception
1916Levels
2Open location code
86HJQCR3+VGOpenStreetMap ID
way 147606530OpenStreetMap feature
building=houseOpenStreetMap feature
historic=heritageWikidata ID
Q4798930
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In Other Languages
“Arthur H. Compton House” goes by many names.
- French: “Arthur H. Compton House”
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include 57th Street Meeting of Friends and Pennington Center & Hyde Park School of Dance.
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