South Side Community Art Center
The South Side Community Art Center is a community art center in Chicago that opened in 1940 with support from the Works Progress Administration's Federal Art Project in Illinois.Photo: Alanscottwalker, CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Type: Arts center
- Description: Chicago, United States
- Also known as: “South Side Community Art Center (SSCAC)”
- Address: 3831 South Michigan Avenue, Chicago, IL 60653
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Rate Field and John W. Griffiths Mansion.
Rate Field
Stadium
Photo: Enoch Lai, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Rate Field is a baseball stadium on the South Side of Chicago, Illinois. It is the home ballpark of the Chicago White Sox, one of the city's two Major League Baseball teams, and is owned by the state of Illinois through the Illinois Sports Facilities Authority. Rate Field is situated 3,500 feet northwest of South Side Community Art Center.
John W. Griffiths Mansion
House
Photo: Andrew Jameson, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The John W. Griffiths Mansion is a historic house at 3806 S. Michigan Avenue in the Douglas community area of Chicago, Illinois. John W. Griffiths Mansion is situated 340 feet northwest of South Side Community Art Center.
Chicago Bee Building
Heritage site
Photo: TonyTheTiger, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Chicago Bee Building is a historic building on Chicago's South Side. It originally housed the Chicago Bee, a newspaper serving the African Americans of Chicago. Chicago Bee Building is situated 1,600 feet northwest of South Side Community Art Center.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Bronzeville and Fuller Park.
Bronzeville
Photo: JeremyA, CC BY-SA 2.5.
Bronzeville, the Black Metropolis, is a mecca of African-American History 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.
Fuller Park
Suburb
Photo: David Wilson, CC BY 2.0.
Fuller Park is one of the 77 community areas of Chicago in Illinois, United States. Located on the city's South Side, it is 5 miles from the Loop. It is named for a small park also known as Fuller Park 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.
Douglas
Suburb
Photo: Jovianeye, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Douglas is one of the 77 community areas of Chicago in Illinois, United States, located on the South Side of Chicago. The Douglas community area stretches from 26th Street, south to Pershing Road along the Lake Shore, including parts of the Green Line, along…
South Side Community Art Center
- Categories: building, arts venue, heritage site, house, historic site, tourist attraction, and tourism
- Location: Chicago, Cook, Chicagoland, Illinois, Midwest, United States, North America
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Latitude
41.82461° or 41° 49′ 29″ northLongitude
-87.62271° or 87° 37′ 22″ westOpen location code
86HJR9FG+RWOpenStreetMap ID
way 210535149OpenStreetMap feature
amenity=arts_centreOpenStreetMap feature
building=houseOpenStreetMap feature
historic=heritageWikidata ID
Q7568471
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