Jefferson Park (Chicago park)

	Jefferson Park
	U.S. National Register of Historic Places
	Jefferson Park with a view of the fieldhouse designed by Clarence Hatzfeld
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Location	4822 N. Long Avenue Chicago, Illinois
Coordinates	41°58′6″N 87°45′49″W / 41.96833°N 87.76361°WCoordinates: 41°58′6″N 87°45′49″W / 41.96833°N 87.76361°W
Area	7.2 acres (2.9 ha)
Built	1921
MPS	Chicago Park District MPS
NRHP reference No.	06000679
Added to NRHP	August 8, 2006

Jefferson Park is a 7-acre (2.8 ha) park in the Jefferson Park community area of Chicago, Illinois on the National Register of Historic Places.

Park features[]

The park is equipped with two baseball fields, one combination football/soccer field, three tennis courts, one playground and a spray pool and a full outdoor swimming pool with dressing facility. Each summer, hundreds of residents stroll the park grounds for "Jeff Fest," a Jefferson Park Chamber of Commerce-sponsored outdoor community festival featuring local food, vendors and bands. The all-volunteer Citywide Orchestra practices at Jefferson Park and performs seasonal concerts for the community.

History[]

Thomas Jefferson Memorial Park is named in honor of the drafter of the Declaration of Independence and third president of the United States Thomas Jefferson. The park was long referred to as simply Jefferson Park until the park received the memorial park designation in 1999 to distinguish it from a second park of the same name. This Jefferson Park was the creation of the Jefferson Park District, one of 22 park commissions consolidated into the Chicago Park District in 1934. The Jefferson Park District was established in 1920 to provide neighborhood parks for the rapidly developing northwest side of Chicago. Located on the site of the former Esdohr farm, land acquisition for the park began in 1921 and continued through 1929 when most of the park had been landscaped.^[2]

In 1930, the park district constructed an athletic field and a fieldhouse designed by Clarence Hatzfeld whose architectural firm of Hatzfeld and Knox would later design many of the Prairie and Craftsman-style bungalows in the nearby Villa District by historic St. Wenceslaus Church. The brick fieldhouse is graced with several historic paintings, including an anonymous portrait of Thomas Jefferson, a depiction of a Viking ship replica by artist Emil Biorn, and Columbus Sighting Land by .

References[]

^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
^ "www.jeffersonparkhistory.org Jefferson Park Historical Society. Newsletter - January 2005; Number 1" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2008-04-11. Retrieved 2008-03-21.

External links[]

[nris-1] "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.

[2] "www.jeffersonparkhistory.org Jefferson Park Historical Society. Newsletter - January 2005; Number 1" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2008-04-11. Retrieved 2008-03-21.

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