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Swift House

The Swift House is a historic house at 4500 S. in the community area of , . The house was built in 1892 for Edward Morris and his wife Helen Swift Morris.
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  • Type: House
  • Description: house in Chicago, Illinois
  • Also known as: “Swift Mansion”
  • Address: 4500 South Michigan Avenue, Chicago, IL 60653

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Al Sadiq Mosque and Eighth Church of Christ, Scientist.

Mosque
Photo: Nawabmalhi, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The was commissioned in 1922 in the Bronzeville neighborhood in city of . The is one of 's earliest built and the oldest standing mosque in the country today. is situated 420 feet west of Swift House.

Church
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The buildings and architecture of Chicago reflect the city's history and multicultural heritage, featuring prominent buildings in a variety of styles. Most structures downtown were destroyed by the Great Chicago Fire in 1871. is situated 800 feet north of Swift House.

Railway station
Photo: Zol87, CC BY-SA 4.0.
43rd is a station on the 's 'L' system in the community area in Chicago, Illinois, on the Green Line at 314 E 43rd Street, three blocks east of State Street. is situated 1,800 feet northeast of Swift House.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Grand Boulevard and Fuller Park.

Suburb
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on the of , , is one of the city's Community Areas. The boulevard from which it takes its name is now Martin Luther King Jr.

Suburb
Photo: David Wilson, CC BY 2.0.
is the 37th of 's 77 community areas. Located on the city's South Side, it is 5 miles from the . It is named for a small park also known as within the neighborhood, which is in turn named for Melville Weston Fuller, a Chicago attorney who was the Chief Justice of the United States between 1888 and 1910.

Photo: JeremyA, CC BY-SA 2.5.
, the Black Metropolis, is a mecca of on Chicago's South Side, just miles south of downtown. Gwendolyn Brooks published poetry in the Chicago Defender, Andrew Rube Foster created Negro League Baseball, and Louis Armstrong kept his trumpet singing at the Sunset Cafe to keep Al Capone off his back.

Swift House

Latitude
41.81291° or 41° 48′ 47″ north
Longitude
-87.62345° or 87° 37′ 24″ west
Inception
1892
Levels
3
Open location code
86HJR97G+5J
Open­Street­Map ID
way 210527566
Open­Street­Map feature
building=­house
Open­Street­Map feature
historic=­heritage
Wiki­data ID
Q85804485
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Swift House”. Photo: Thshriver, CC BY-SA 3.0.