Architectural Mystery LbNA #731 (ARCHIVED)
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Add Location| Owner: | Adoptable |
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| Plant date: | Apr 24, 2003 |
| Location: | |
| City: | ???? |
| County: | Cook |
| State: | Illinois |
| Boxes: | 1 |
| Planted by: | yooperann  |
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| Found by: | prairie dog |
| Last found: | Jun 18, 2005 |
| Status: | FFFFFFFFFFF |
| Last edited: | Apr 24, 2003 |
August 8, 2005 update. This box has now been reliably reported missing. I hope to replace it and will delete this message when that happens.
(Accessible by public transportation (CTA or Metra)
Easy, great for families. No poison ivy. No snakes.
Film canister microbox. You must bring your own stamp pad and pen.
Placed (for the third time) April 13, 2003, by yooperann
(wfisher47@comcast.net) (who would love a report).
In 1898 the man who would become the world's most famous architect established his first studio in his home in this leafy suburb.
Before he left town for more famous studios in Wisconsin and Arizona,he designed more than 25 buildings, leaving the town an architectural legacy that draws tens of thousands of visitors every year.
One of the architect's most beautiful buildings, only a block away from the Home and Studio, is the Frank W. Thomas House, built in 1901. Across the street from the Thomas House is this town's only statue of this famous son. Although the architect was very short
(and unappreciative owners of his buildings sometimes complained that doors and ceilings were built more to his height than to theirs) it still hardly seems fair that the bust is set in a rock only about three feet off the ground. Your search for the letterbox begins with this statue.
Just to the right of the statue a wrought iron gate leading into a park. Go into the park and take the path to your right. Follow the path past the wildflower gardens. You will come to a majestic tree,of the species obvious for the community (and no, it's not a gingko). The tree rises five or six feet from a huge trunk, and then divides into two before continuing skyward. Continue past the tree to
the northwest corner of the park. As you leave the park turn and walk with the fence on your right. Go past an intersection of two fences. Your fence will make several jogs. Look for the right angle turn to the north. Stop and tie your shoe, or look for whatever it is you dropped, right at that turn. The box is fastened to the underside of the bottom fence rail nearest your sidewalk. THIS PARK IS HEAVILY USED. PLEASE BE DISCREET AS YOU FIND AND REPLACE THE BOX!!!!!
(Accessible by public transportation (CTA or Metra)
Easy, great for families. No poison ivy. No snakes.
Film canister microbox. You must bring your own stamp pad and pen.
Placed (for the third time) April 13, 2003, by yooperann
(wfisher47@comcast.net) (who would love a report).
In 1898 the man who would become the world's most famous architect established his first studio in his home in this leafy suburb.
Before he left town for more famous studios in Wisconsin and Arizona,he designed more than 25 buildings, leaving the town an architectural legacy that draws tens of thousands of visitors every year.
One of the architect's most beautiful buildings, only a block away from the Home and Studio, is the Frank W. Thomas House, built in 1901. Across the street from the Thomas House is this town's only statue of this famous son. Although the architect was very short
(and unappreciative owners of his buildings sometimes complained that doors and ceilings were built more to his height than to theirs) it still hardly seems fair that the bust is set in a rock only about three feet off the ground. Your search for the letterbox begins with this statue.
Just to the right of the statue a wrought iron gate leading into a park. Go into the park and take the path to your right. Follow the path past the wildflower gardens. You will come to a majestic tree,of the species obvious for the community (and no, it's not a gingko). The tree rises five or six feet from a huge trunk, and then divides into two before continuing skyward. Continue past the tree to
the northwest corner of the park. As you leave the park turn and walk with the fence on your right. Go past an intersection of two fences. Your fence will make several jogs. Look for the right angle turn to the north. Stop and tie your shoe, or look for whatever it is you dropped, right at that turn. The box is fastened to the underside of the bottom fence rail nearest your sidewalk. THIS PARK IS HEAVILY USED. PLEASE BE DISCREET AS YOU FIND AND REPLACE THE BOX!!!!!