A Tiny Oasis on Hubbard Place
Gazette Article by: Duff Peterson
Appeared in the Gazette: Spring 2010
One of Winnetka’s least-known and most charming “pocket parks” is a small tract of native woodland on Hubbard Place just east of the Hubbard Woods train station, Dunbaugh Park. The park was dedicated to the memory of Franklin P. Dunbaugh (1930-1953), who grew up nearby at 993 Old Green Bay Road and was killed
in the Korean War.
http://www.winnetkahistory.org/index.php?id=270 · Jul 27, 13:13
House of the Season Brought Up to Date: The Weaver Family
Gazette Article by: Nan Greenough
Appeared in the Gazette: Spring 2010
The Weaver family has lived at 660 Pine Street for over 50 years. Everett P. “Tuck” Weaver remembers being attracted to the house as a perfect size for raising seven children. The family moved to Winnetka from Northbrook in 1960…..
http://www.winnetkahistory.org/index.php?id=272 · Jul 7, 08:41
The Short, Heroic Life of Philip Comfort Starr
Gazette Article by: Duff Peterson
Appeared in the Gazette: Spring 2010
In December 1919 the real estate firm of McGuire & Orr announced the opening of the Winnetka Heights subdivision bounded by Westmoor (then called Fig Street), Locust, Pine and Rosewood. The subdivision’s two new streets were named after two young Winnetka men who had recently been killed in the First World War, Dinsmore Ely and Philip Comfort Starr.
http://www.winnetkahistory.org/index.php?id=269 · Jun 2, 20:29
Contact 411: Rock Hudson
Appeared in the Gazette: Fall 2009
Question
I am writing from FLORIANFILM, a German film production company, producing a 90-minute documentary about Rock Hudson. As you certainly know, Winnetka is his place of birth and the town where he spent his childhood and youth.
http://www.winnetkahistory.org/index.php?id=261 · Nov 30, 14:51
Anita Willets-Burnham to visit her home!
Come and visit with “Anita Willets-Burnham”! Anita is making a special return visit to her home – learn more about her home, her travels and her book Round the World on a Penny. See a sampling of her artwork and imagine the Burnham family living in the log house.
Sunday, October 18th, 2009
1:00-4:00pm
http://www.winnetkahistory.org/index.php?id=250 · Oct 17, 08:38
Laird Bell: Lawyer, Statesman and Father of Skokie School
Gazette Article by: Duff Peterson
Appeared in the Gazette: Spring/Summer 2009
Bell is best remembered in Winnetka as the father of Skokie School. He was president of the Board of Education from 1919-1923, when the campaign to create a junior high school consumed the Village. His presidency coincided with the appointment as Superintendent of Schools of another innovative educator, the 29-year-old Carleton W. Washburne.
http://www.winnetkahistory.org/index.php?id=246 · Aug 20, 09:06
Ken Behles Named Winnetka Man of the Year
Gazette Article by: Nan Greenough
Appeared in the Gazette: Spring/Summer 2009
For his exceptional volunteer work over many years, Ken Behles has been named Man of the Year by the Winnetka Chamber of Commerce. The Historical Society was proud to nominate Ken for this honor based on his service to the community and his irreplaceable role helping to move and restore the Log House and to renovate 411 Linden into a museum.
http://www.winnetkahistory.org/index.php?id=245 · Jun 27, 21:55
Winnetka Way: David James (part 3)
_ Article to appear in Fall 2009 Gazette_
James recalls that the first time he saw Dr. Martin Luther King was when King spoke to a crowd of over 100,000 at Soldier Field. James went with a college friend who had become a doctor, and they both felt quite knowledgeable about civil rights issues in a northern urban setting like Chicago.
http://www.winnetkahistory.org/index.php?id=243 · May 20, 16:01
Winnetka Way: David James (part 2)
Gazette Article by: Betsy Landes
Appeared in the Gazette: Spring/Summer 2009
In the late 1920s, when David James was four years old, his family moved to Chicago from St. Louis, Missouri. James recalls that at that time there were fewer than 200,000 African Americans in Chicago. Racially restrictive covenants—provisions in real estate deeds that prohibited the sale or even rental of property to African Americans or other minorities—were commonly used to maintain segregation in Chicago and surrounding communities through the 1940s.
http://www.winnetkahistory.org/index.php?id=242 · May 20, 15:56
Georgia Lloyd Reminisces
Gazette Article by: Joan Peck
Appeared in the Gazette: Winter 1996
Recently I visited with Georgia Lloyd in the house she renovated at 455 Birch Street. The house was built in 1920 by her mother, Lola Maverick Lloyd…
http://www.winnetkahistory.org/index.php?id=61 · Mar 12, 15:40