Swan Pond LbNA #26462
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Add Location| Owner: | FungusWoman  |
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| Plant date: | Oct 16, 2006 |
| Location: | |
| City: | Riverside |
| County: | Cook |
| State: | Illinois |
| Boxes: | 1 |
| Found by: | Tiptoe & Tonto |
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| Last found: | Jul 2, 2011 |
| Status: | FFFFFFFFFFFFFF |
| Last edited: | Oct 16, 2006 |
No stamp pad; suggested colors: black or any.
NOTE: I would not consider this a winter-friendly box. Because of the nature of the terrain, it could be rather dangerous if there was snow on the ground or even if the area was muddy or slippery, especially when there are leaves on the ground. Please use caution.
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"In 1868, an eastern businessman named Emery E. Childs brought together a group of associates to form the Riverside Improvement Company with the intent of purchasing and investing in land in the form of residential development. They turned to the economically booming Chicago area where they purchased a 1600-acre tract of property along the Des Plaines River and the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad line. The site was highly desirable due to its natural oak-hickory forest and its mere 11 mile distance from the Chicago Loop. Further, its position along the winding Des Plaines River cooled the area, and due to good drainage, the land was mosquito free.
The Riverside Improvement Company commissioned well-known landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted and his partner, Calvert Vaux to design a "rural" bedroom community. Olmsted and Vaux had already received widespread acclaim and fame for their design of New York City's Central Park. The Improvement Company wanted Riverside to combine the pleasures of suburban living with urban conveniences such as community-provided gas, water services, and maintained streets. Olmsted and Vaux went one step further in that regard. Instead of planning the community's streets in a grid fashion as Chicago and most of its suburbs at the time were, they planned the streets to follow the area's natural contours. Streets follow the Des Plaines River, and continue from there to wind all through the Village. The town's plan, which was completed in 1869, also accorded for a Grand Park system that uses several large parks as a foundation, with 41 smaller triangular parks and plazas located at intersections throughout town to provide for additional green spaces."
[From: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riverside,_Illinois]
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One of the main park areas designed by Olmstead and Vaux is known as Swan Park, or originally Swan Pond. Their original plan for this park, which follows a bend in the Des Plaines River near the center of town, was to include a pond with a Picnic Island. Today, the park contains no pond or island, though heavy rains have been known to cause the river to overflow its banks and flood the area. Evident in the area are a number of stone and concrete paths, stairways, and levees, many from the Works Progress Administration (WPA) era of the 1930’s.
Please contact me for the rest of the clues to find this box.
NOTE: I would not consider this a winter-friendly box. Because of the nature of the terrain, it could be rather dangerous if there was snow on the ground or even if the area was muddy or slippery, especially when there are leaves on the ground. Please use caution.
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"In 1868, an eastern businessman named Emery E. Childs brought together a group of associates to form the Riverside Improvement Company with the intent of purchasing and investing in land in the form of residential development. They turned to the economically booming Chicago area where they purchased a 1600-acre tract of property along the Des Plaines River and the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad line. The site was highly desirable due to its natural oak-hickory forest and its mere 11 mile distance from the Chicago Loop. Further, its position along the winding Des Plaines River cooled the area, and due to good drainage, the land was mosquito free.
The Riverside Improvement Company commissioned well-known landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted and his partner, Calvert Vaux to design a "rural" bedroom community. Olmsted and Vaux had already received widespread acclaim and fame for their design of New York City's Central Park. The Improvement Company wanted Riverside to combine the pleasures of suburban living with urban conveniences such as community-provided gas, water services, and maintained streets. Olmsted and Vaux went one step further in that regard. Instead of planning the community's streets in a grid fashion as Chicago and most of its suburbs at the time were, they planned the streets to follow the area's natural contours. Streets follow the Des Plaines River, and continue from there to wind all through the Village. The town's plan, which was completed in 1869, also accorded for a Grand Park system that uses several large parks as a foundation, with 41 smaller triangular parks and plazas located at intersections throughout town to provide for additional green spaces."
[From: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riverside,_Illinois]
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One of the main park areas designed by Olmstead and Vaux is known as Swan Park, or originally Swan Pond. Their original plan for this park, which follows a bend in the Des Plaines River near the center of town, was to include a pond with a Picnic Island. Today, the park contains no pond or island, though heavy rains have been known to cause the river to overflow its banks and flood the area. Evident in the area are a number of stone and concrete paths, stairways, and levees, many from the Works Progress Administration (WPA) era of the 1930’s.
Please contact me for the rest of the clues to find this box.