Marywood Academy
The Marywood Academy is a historic building located at 2100 Ridge Avenue in Evanston, Illinois. The building was built in 1900 as Visitation Academy to serve as a girls' Catholic school led by the Visitation Sisters.Photo: Zol87, CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Type: Town hall
- Also known as: “Evanston Civic Center” and “Lorraine H. Morton Civic Center”
- Address: 2100 Ridge Avenue, Evanston, IL 60201
- Wheelchair access: yes
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Noyes station and Thomas Eddy Tallmadge Park.
Noyes station
Metro station
Photo: JeremyA, CC BY-SA 2.5.
Noyes is a station on the Chicago Transit Authority's 'L' system, on the Purple Line in Evanston, Illinois. It is located at 909 Noyes Street, just a few blocks west of the north end of Northwestern University's Evanston campus. Noyes station is situated 1,200 feet northeast of Marywood Academy.
Foster station
Metro station
Photo: JeremyA, CC BY-SA 2.5.
Foster is a station on the Chicago Transit Authority's 'L' system, on the Purple Line in Evanston, Illinois. It is located at 900 Foster Street, just a few blocks west of Northwestern University's Evanston campus. Foster station is situated 1,300 feet southeast of Marywood Academy.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Evanston Lakeshore Historic District and Central Street.
Evanston Lakeshore Historic District
Neighborhood
Photo: Thshriver, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Evanston Lakeshore Historic District is a residential historic district in Evanston, Illinois. The district encompasses a section of southeast Evanston that was developed in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Central Street
Neighborhood
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Central Street is the principal east-west artery in the far north of Evanston, Illinois and is a major thoroughfare in other northern and northwest suburbs of Chicago. Central Street is situated 1½ miles west of Marywood Academy.
Wilmette
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Wilmette is 16 miles north of Chicago. It is part of the affluent corridor of lakefront Chicago suburbs known as the North Shore. It is the location of the world's oldest still-standing Bahá'í House of Worship.
Marywood Academy
- Categories: school building, building, public building, and government building
- Location: Evanston, Cook, Illinois, Midwest, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
42.05675° or 42° 3′ 24″ northLongitude
-87.68735° or 87° 41′ 15″ westElevation
610 feet (186 metres)Operator
City of EvanstonNamed after
Lorraine H. MortonOpen location code
86JJ3847+M3OpenStreetMap ID
way 260833645OpenStreetMap feature
amenity=townhallOpenStreetMap feature
building=publicOpenStreetMap attribute
wheelchair=yesWikidata ID
Q24040239
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