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Soldiers’ Home

The Soldiers' Home is an historic Italianate style building in Chicago, , . Located at 739 E. 35th Street, the Home was built in a series of phases from 1864 to 1923, designed by William W.
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  • Type: Office building
  • Description: building in Illinois, United States
  • Also known as: “Cardinal Meyer Center” and “Soldiers‘ Home”
  • Address: 3525 South Lake Park Avenue, Chicago, IL 60653

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Stephen A. Douglas Tomb and The Light of Truth Ida B. Wells National Monument.

Monument
The and Memorial or Stephen Douglas Monument Park is a memorial that includes the tomb of United States Senator Stephen A. Douglas. is situated 390 feet northwest of Soldiers’ Home.

Monument
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is a bronze and marble public sculpture by artist Richard Hunt. Located in the Bronzeville neighborhood on the South Side of Chicago, the sculpture takes its name from a quote by civil rights activist and investigative journalist Ida B. is situated 1,700 feet southwest of Soldiers’ Home.

Memorial
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Erected in 1927, the , is a bronze and granite sculptural monument, based on a concept by John A. Nyden, and sculpted by Leonard Crunelle. is situated 2,600 feet west of Soldiers’ Home.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Oakland and Douglas.

Suburb
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, located on the South Side of Chicago, Illinois, , is one of 77 officially designated Chicago community areas. Bordered by 35th and 43rd Streets, Cottage Grove Avenue and Lake Shore Drive, the area was developed between 1872 and 1905.

Suburb
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, on the of , is one of Chicago's 77 community areas. The neighborhood is named for Stephen A. , Illinois politician and Abraham Lincoln's political foe, whose estate included a tract of land given to the federal government.

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, 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.

Soldiers’ Home

Latitude
41.83087° or 41° 49′ 51″ north
Longitude
-87.60764° or 87° 36′ 28″ west
Named after
Albert Gregory Meyer
Open location code
86HJR9JR+8W
Open­Street­Map ID
way 210962528
Open­Street­Map feature
building=­office
Wiki­data ID
Q14688089
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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 “Soldiers’ Home”. Photo: Smerdis, CC BY-SA 4.0.