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Gazette Article by: Barbara Joyce Appeared in the Gazette: Spring 1998 What does a sculptor say when people claim that modern works are too difficult to understand? “It’s hard to explain,” responded Abbott Pattison, world-renowned sculptor and former Winnetka resident. In a recent telephone conversation with Pattison in Italy, he said, “Things are different now […]
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Gazette Article by: Cindy Fuller Appeared in the Gazette: Spring 1998 In architecture, as in popular culture, styles come and styles go. The Spanish Colonial Revival house at 767 Mt. Pleasant Road is an excellent example of how a single event can spark interest in a style. Mission architecture had long populated the southwestern United […]
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Gazette Article by: Peg Hoskin, Ed.D. Appeared in the Gazette: Spring 1998 The Carleton W. Washburne School was completed in 1969. At a ceremony on October 12th of that year, former school superintendent, Sidney P. Marland, Jr., dedicated the building to the memory of his colleague and friend, Carleton W. Washburne (1889–1968). Marland presented the […]
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Gazette Article by: Chris Fullerton Appeared in the Gazette: Spring 1998 White oaks, featured on Winnetka’s familiar brown and white village signs, are in jeopardy. These majestic trees, some centuries old, may soon fall prey to a tiny foe whose life lasts only one year: the gypsy moth. One of the most notorious enemies of […]
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Gazette Article by Jan Tubergen, Spring 1998 Updated July 2022 The Henry Demarest Lloyd house at 830 Sheridan Road was the first building in Winnetka to be designated an historic landmark when it was added to the National Register in 1966. However, it is not the architecture that makes Lloyd House notable, but the historical importance […]
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Gazette Article by: Jane Lord Appeared in the Gazette: Spring 1998 The Village of Winnetka had no bank when M. K. Meyer acquired a safe for his general store in the late 1800s. After learning about the new safe, so many of Winnetka’s 1,000 residents prevailed upon Meyer to keep their important papers that he […]
