Paula Angle, "City in a Garden: Homes in the Lincoln Park Community"
Lincoln Park Conservation Association | 1963 | ASIN: B000GSLS5C | djvu | 74 pages | 5 MB

THIS VOLUME PRESENTS A PICTORIAL STORY of neighbor- hood conservation. Home owners and tenants in the Lincoln Park Conservation area voluntarily supplied over a thousand photographs and slides from which were chosen those that appear here. It was their cooperation that made this publication possible. This is typical of good neighborhood planning. It is not some- thing done entirely by the city, nor by local associations, nor by individuals. It is something everybody does — together. To show characteristic variations in approaching neighborhood improvements, the photographs from each of the seven areas which form the Lincoln Park Conservation Association were grouped to- gether. The reader will notice that communities differ in their solutions of the many conservation problems. Some excel in creating beautiful gardens and patios, others in restoring old and quaint architectural features. In each instance people improved their neighborhood. And in so doing they have indicated the validity of an established principle that "the welfare of any neighborhood is dependent upon the welfare of all other neighborhoods and the city as a whole." This book documents only a very small portion of the vast pro- gram of improvements carried out during the last fifteen years in the Lincoln Park Conservation area. The Chicago Department of Build- ings reports that the rnoney spent for improvements, repairs, new additions and dwellings by private and institutional owners in the Lincoln Park Community reached a total of over $6,695,000 in 1962 alone. This sum does not include the thousands of dollars spent on tree planting and other non-permit activities for neighborhood beautifi- cation. While much remains to be done, this volume attempts to show that the rebirth of the Lincoln Park area is no longer idle theory, and that the beauty and charm of old Chicago are experiencing an exciting rebirth through the civic interest and pride of its citizens. WILLIAM A. HUTCHISON. M. D. President Lincoln Park Conservation Association