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Ida B. Wells-Barnett House

The Ida B. Wells-Barnett House was the residence of civil rights advocate Ida B. Wells and her husband Ferdinand Lee Barnett from 1919 to 1930. It is located at 3624 S.
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  • Type: House
  • Description: house
  • Address: 3624 South Doctor Martin Luther King Junior Drive, Chicago, IL 60653

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Martin Roche–John Tait House and Ida B. Wells Homes.

House
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The is a historic house located at 3614 S. Martin Luther King Drive in the community area of , . The house was the home of architect Martin Roche, half of prominent Chicago architectural firm Holabird & Roche, from 1888 until 1917.

Memorial
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The , which also included the Clarence Darrow Homes and Madden Park Homes, was a Chicago Housing Authority public housing project in the neighborhood on the of , , bordered by 35th Street to the north, Pershing Road to the south, Cottage Grove Avenue to the east, and Martin Luther King Drive to the west. is situated 510 feet southeast of Ida B. Wells-Barnett House.

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 800 feet north of Ida B. Wells-Barnett House.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Bronzeville and Douglas.

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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.

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.

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.

Ida B. Wells-Barnett House

Latitude
41.82859° or 41° 49′ 43″ north
Longitude
-87.61769° or 87° 37′ 4″ west
Levels
3
Open location code
86HJR9HJ+CW
Open­Street­Map ID
way 210962648
Open­Street­Map feature
building=­house
Open­Street­Map feature
historic=­building
Wiki­data ID
Q980654
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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 “Ida B. Wells-Barnett House”. Photo: TonyTheTiger, CC BY-SA 3.0.