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Exhibit Opening Reception: A Well-Lived Home

Sunday, May 4

4:00 – 6:00 PM

Kenilworth Historical Society
Free admission!
 


You’re invited to an evening of architecture, history, and community! Join us for the opening reception of our newest exhibit, A Well-Lived Home: Exploring Kenilworth’s Lost and Preserved Architecture. Enjoy complimentary appetizers, beverages including wine and cocktails, and special cookies shaped like Kenilworth houses as we celebrate the village’s architectural significance. 

This engaging exhibit traces Kenilworth’s architectural evolution from the 1880s through the 1960s, illustrating how shifting architectural trends shaped the village’s transformation from farmland to a carefully planned suburban community. Bring family, friends, and neighbors to experience this special evening and the lasting legacy of Kenilworth’s built environment. Admission is free for all, please register for the event below. 

Learn more about the upcoming exhibit, A Well-Lived Home: Exploring Kenilworth’s Lost and Preserved Architecture, here. 

Supplementary Walking Tour: Before the reception, guests are invited to take part in a special architectural walking tour showcasing key elements from the exhibit. Learn more and register for the tour here.

311 Sheridan Road

311 Sheridan Road, built 1893, demolished by 1949.

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Exhibit Opening Walking Tour: A Well-Lived Home

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Sunday, May 4

3:00 – 4:00 PM

Kenilworth Historical Society
$5/person for members; $10/person for non-members–capacity limited!

 
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Before the opening reception of our newest exhibit, A Well-Lived Home: Exploring Kenilworth’s Lost and Preserved Architecture, guests are invited to take part in a special architectural walking tour showcasing key themes from the exhibit–right outside our doors. Explore a selection of preserved and altered homes that reflect the architectural styles in A Well Lived Home. 

This one-hour walking tour will begin and end outside the Kenilworth Historical Society. Capacity is limited, so advance registration is recommended to reserve your spot. 

Learn more about the upcoming exhibit, A Well-Lived Home: Exploring Kenilworth’s Lost and Preserved Architecture, here. 


 

A Well-Lived Home: Exploring Kenilworth’s Lost and Preserved Architecture

310 Warwick Road
310 Warwick Road, built 1903, demolished 1938.

Opens: Sunday, May 4 

Since its founding by Joseph Sears in 1889, Kenilworth has upheld a tradition of high-quality home construction, with many residences designed by renowned architects. Beyond its distinguished homes, the village showcases a variety of architectural styles, making it unique among similarly sized suburbs.
 
A Well-Lived Home explores Kenilworth’s architectural evolution from the 1880s to the 1960s, illustrating how shifting architectural trends shaped the village’s transformation from farmland to a carefully planned suburban community. By examining both preserved and lost structures, this exhibit highlights Kenilworth’s rich architectural heritage and the importance of its preservation.
 

The exhibit will be on display through March 2026. 

Kenilworth Centennial Homes, 1889-1924

Kenilworth Centennial Homes, 1889-1924, explored the history of Kenilworth’s oldest homes built from the 1890s through the 1920s. 

Kenilworth is almost entirely a village of private residences. Since its founding in 1889, Kenilworth has been a desirable place to build or purchase a home and raise a family. Kenilworth’s homes are known for their high standard of construction. Now that it has been nearly 135 years since the first residence was built in the village, Kenilworth has hundreds of century-old homes. 

In celebration of the community’s architectural significance, the Kenilworth Historical Society presents Kenilworth Centennial Homes, 1889-1924. This exhibit explores the history of Kenilworth’s 100-year-old homes, highlighting notable examples, early residents, architects, architectural styles, and the evolution of residential development in the village. The exhibit includes old photographs, original documents, and fascinating stories behind Kenilworth’s oldest homes. Visitors will gain insights into the rich history and architectural legacy of Kenilworth through this engaging presentation.

The exhibit was displayed from April 2024 to March 2025. 

Umbrella Swift

Umbrella Swift

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An umbrella swift is a textile-working device utilized to hold a hank of yarn in place while it is being wound into a yarn ball. The umbrella swift is a common type of swift developed in the United States during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. This particular umbrella swift is double-caged, with struts extending outward from two hub locations on the central rod in an accordion manner. The struts move toward the lattice-patterned ribs. This umbrella swift is likely composed of whale bone and ivory. The central rod is decorated with carved ivory, and features a cup-shaped finial ornament with red pigment inlay and abalone. The engraving and carving of bone or ivory is known as scrimshaw, an art form created by whalers and typically completed on shipboard. Scrimshaw can be found in practical items, such as this umbrella swift. In fact, sailors produced scrimshaw as gifts for loved ones back at home.

This featured artifact belonged to Elizabeth Hubert Malott, who resided in Kenilworth with her husband and three kids for many years. Malott devoted much of her life to philanthropic work. Malott likely acquired this umbrella swift through her recreational needlepointing. According to her daughters, Malott was an excellent seamstress.

Presenting the Alden Finney Brooks Collection

16. Alden Brooks Portrait“Presenting the Alden Finney Brooks Collection” showcased the artwork of Alden Finney Brooks, a Chicago painter with a unique connection to Kenilworth. 

Alden Finney Brooks (1840-1932) was an American artist well-respected in the Chicago art scene of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He worked primarily in oil paint and watercolors. Brooks and his wife Ellen raised an artistically inclined family near Hyde Park, Chicago. Their eldest daughter, Elizabeth Brooks Maher, was a watercolor painter married to Prairie School architect, and local legend, George W. Maher. Alden Finney Brooks spent his remaining years on the North Shore, where two of his daughters lived. His time in Kenilworth is captured in several of his paintings, including some that were on display in the exhibit.

Alden Finney Brooks’ work is found in the collections of the Chicago History Museum, Chicago Public Library, Metropolitan Museum of Art, and National Portrait Gallery. In 2020, the Kenilworth Historical Society acquired nearly 90 paintings by Alden Finney Brooks, greatly enhancing our existing collection of his work.

The exhibit was on display from May 2023 to February 2024. 

Lecture – November 13, 2022

“Joseph L. Silsbee, His Employees, and Chicago’s Suburban Ideal

Presented by Christopher Payne

Sunday, November 13

2:00 – 3:00 p.m.

Kenilworth Assembly Hall

Free for members, $5 per person for non-members

Christopher Payne, an architect from Oak Park, will present a lecture on Joseph L. Silsbee, the influential American architect. 

In the 1880s, J. L. Silsbee’s office was busy with commissions that established some of Chicago’s first high-class suburbs. The most notable of these was Edgewater, where Silsbee made his own home. Working on those early designs were a group of remarkable young draftsmen and architects, including George Maher, Frank Lloyd Wright, and Irving Gill, but these three figures just scratch the surface of talent that made Silsbee’s practice so successful at the time.

This presentation will look at Silsbee’s work in 1880s suburban Chicago and beyond to better understand his personal design interests. It will also follow the work of his many employees years later as they established their own practices and explored a variety of individual design expressions in suburban Elmhurst, Oak Park, Beverly, LaGrange, and Kenilworth.     

Register here:  

There will be a $5 admission fee per person for non-members.

Ginny Anderson Memorial – October 9, 2022

Sunday, October 9

2:00 – 4:00 p.m.

Dedication at 2:45 p.m.

Kenilworth Historical Society and Memorial Park

415 Kenilworth Ave.

Join us for an event in honor of Virginia “Ginny” Anderson, the Kenilworth Historical Society’s first Executive Director from 2010-2021 and longtime Board member. Light refreshments will be available and the dedication of Ginny Anderson’s memorial tree in Memorial Park will take place at 2:45 p.m. A new portrait of Ginny Anderson will also be on display, kindly donated by her classmates of the Joseph Sears School Class of 1959.

RSVP: (847) 251-2565 or kenilworthhistory@sbcglobal.net

Hammond Typewriter

Hammond Typewriter

2010.12

This featured artifact belonged to Mr. James Culbertson the first village president of Kenilworth. 

The typewriter was invented by James B. Hammond and was introduced in the market  in the early 1880’s. It  featured a semi circular strip of hardened rubber called a typo shuttle and a spring driven hammer. To print the letter on the paper , the hammer struck the paper from behind and pushed it against the shuttle through a thin rubber impression band. It came with the Ideal keyboard, which was a two row keyboard which grouped vowels and commonly used letters together. The Hammond No. 2 , which was introduced in 1895, was equipped with a small metal tab to lift the type shuttle on the front of the “ turret ” in order for the user to see what had been typed. It came with the curved “ Ideal ” and the Qwerty , “ Universal ” keyboard as well. Between 1885 and early 1900’s, Hammond introduced many models which were based on Hammond No 2, each with different features such as carriage lengths and Greek letters etc. Typewriter was a mark of innovative engineering design which transformed ease and speed of written communication for the modern world. Even though typewriters are now an object of history, typing is still very relevant in this age.

Trivia Night – October 6, 2022

Thursday, October 6

5:30 – 7:30 p.m.

Kenilworth Assembly Hall

Free for members, $5 per party for non-members

Test your knowledge of local and general trivia with your family or a group of friends! Drinks and pizza by the slice will be available for purchase. 

There will be a $5 admission fee per party for non-members.

Centennial Dinner – October 27, 2022

 

50th Anniversary Dinner, 1972.
Thursday, October 27

6:00 – 9:00 p.m.

Kenilworth Assembly Hall

Tickets are $100 per person

Every two years, the Kenilworth Historical Society gathers for a dinner at the Kenilworth Assembly Hall to commemorate the first formal meeting and dinner of the KHS on October 30, 1922.

 
This year will the Society’s 58th dinner and a celebration of its centennial. John Newcombe, a writer and award-winning filmmaker, will present his new film on Dr. Rufus B. Stolp, the first President of the Kenilworth Historical Society. Enjoy cocktails and a plated dinner while learning about the Society and Kenilworth’s unique history. In addition to the keynote presentation, the Board of Directors will speak about the past four years and plans for the future. 
 
Tickets for the Centennial Dinner are $100 per person and include drinks, hors d’oeuvres, an entrée, and dessert. The Dinner will feature fall-inspired dishes with the option of a turkey or vegan entrée. The reception begins at six o’clock, followed by dinner at seven.
 
RSVP by Sunday, October 16.

 

 

Stereoscope and Stereograph

Stereoscope and Stereograph

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“The specific appeal of stereography lay in the illusion of reality created, because stereographs mimicked depth, solidity, and perspective, as if one were looking at a scene through a window.” (Babbitts, Judith 2004)

“The Perfecscope”, patented in USA, 1895, manufactured by Underwood and Underwood is a stereoscope , an optical instrument, consisting of two prismatic lenses and a wooden holder for the stereograph card. A Stereograph is comprised of two identical photographs, pasted on a backboard, which are offset from each other, one slightly to the right and another to the left. When viewed using the stereoscope, the human eye combines these two photographs which are seen from slightly different angles of the left and right eye, transmitting these to the brain, merging them into one, producing a three-dimensional image. This visual knowledge was brought into day-to-day lives by two major companies, Underwood and Underwood and Keystone company. Stereographs were used in the field of education, entertainment, sales etc. between mid 19th century to early 20th century.

This Stereoscope was gifted by Barbara Barrett to Kenilworth Historical Society in 1987. The Stereographs feature scenes of Chicago’s architecture and Memorial Day celebrations with Kenilworth’s Girl Scouts, circa 1930s/40s.

Bes-Ben Millinery

Bes-Ben Hats

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Through the 1960s, hats were worn daily by most women. The Kenilworth Historical Society’s costume collection contains over three dozen women’s hats. Most notably, KHS has four hats from the famed millinery Bes-Ben, donated by long-time Kenilworth resident, Marie Bonnell. Dubbed Chicago’s “Mad Hatter”, Benjamin Green-Field of Bes-Ben, designed eccentric and flamboyant hats popular among the region’s affluent women and numerous celebrities, including Hedda Hopper, Marlene Dietrich, and Elizabeth Taylor. Green-field was known for decorating his hats with unusual items such as kitchen utensils, and a variety of figures, including miniature animals, cigarette packs, and skyscrapers. Bes-Ben hat prices ranged from $80 to $1,000. Once a year, women lined up outside his flagship shop at 938 N. Michigan Ave. to purchase a hat for just $5.

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Permanent Exhibit Coming Fall 2021

Kenilworth Historical Society’s first ever permanent exhibit will open at the start of Fall 2021!

Keep an eye out on our website and social media to see more announcements about the upcoming exhibit. The exhibit will give an overview of Kenilworth’s history and its development to provide a context that will allow us to dive deeper into the stories and subjects of our temporary exhibits. The permanent exhibit will include interactive digital experiences that will allow you to explore photos, maps, timelines, and detailed histories of Kenilworth’s most famous buildings and more. The digital experiences will continue to grow over the years as more and more content is added.

Kenilworth’s 125th Anniversary – Heritage Tree Program

Today’s Kenilworth residents have benefited from previous generations’ vision and many contributions to our community.

It’s now our turn to “pay it forward” and do our part to ensure that our Village continues to be the beautiful place we love and would like to see our children raise their families.

The Heritage Tree Program 2021 commemorates the 125th Anniversary Year for The Village of Kenilworth! The goal of the Program is for all residents, civic organizations, garden clubs, schools and churches to partner and plant 125 Heritage Trees in 2021. This initiative works to restore the canopy of old growth trees we have lost since the Village was founded in 1896, and to preserve the beauty, integrity and stability of our verdant community for the future. Trees clean our air and water, reduce flooding, improve property values, create habitat for wildlife, and provide significant social and health benefits. Trees add immeasurable beauty and improve our quality of life.

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The Village Board has provided some seed money for success, but everyone’s participation is essential. There are many ways to get involved. First, residents or organizations can celebrate or honor special friends, family members, teachers, or an event by gifting “tribute” trees through the Heritage Tree Program for planting along parkways, playgrounds and in parkland settings. Tree selections in this Program are diverse and suitable for a variety of locations. “Tribute Trees” will be featured each month in the Village newsletter. The campaign also encourages residents to plant trees on their own property and provides links to help participants become “tree champions” in tending their heritage trees and encourages all to highlight them on our dedicated social media outlets.

We hope you’ll consider supporting the Heritage Tree Program, so that we can build momentum and bring the entire community together — residents and organizations — standing together under one great canopy that enhances the quality of life for all who enjoy our beautiful Village. Please visit the Village of Kenilworth’s dedicated web site link to learn more about this village wide 125th anniversary initiative.

– Ann Potter, Valerie Foradas, Katie Nahrwold, Lois Stanley
Kenilworth Beautification
Go Green Kenilworth

Ginny Anderson – In Memoriam

Ginny Anderson, our Executive Director, passed away on January 18, 2021. If you ever had the chance to visit the Kenilworth Historical Society (KHS) over the past 10 years you’d know that the kindness (and humor) that she brought to KHS helped foster a warm environment of learning and a strong sense of community. We at KHS, are so happy to have gotten to know her and to have called her a friend. Her legacy in Kenilworth as well as in each of our lives, will never be forgotten.

Ginny grew up on Cummings Ave in Kenilworth and graduated from Joseph Sears School in 1959. She later joined KHS as a board member in 1991 and became our first Executive Director in 2010! Over the years Ginny helped to contribute dozens of articles on Kenilworth History to the Kenilworth Life magazine and had also been elected treasurer of the Northeastern Illinois Historic Council in 2014. During her tenure as Executive Director at KHS, Ginny worked with several other North Shore history and cultural organizations to found the North Shore History Consortium. These are just a handful of her many accomplishments.

Read her obituary online.

Warmest regards,
The Kenilworth Historical Society team

The North Shore Summer Project, 1965

Sunday August 29, 1965, hundreds of north shore residents and civil rights activists marched from Kenilworth to Evanston down Greenbay Road in protest to housing discrimination in North Shore.

The march led a crowd of around 500 to a rally in Bent Park and an all-night vigil at the offices of the Evanston North Shore Board of Realtors. The three mile march saw delegations from most of the North Shore suburbs including Kenilworth, Wilmette, Winnetka, and Evanston. The march and rally was sponsored by the North Shore Summer Project (NSSP) which organized earlier that year to survey Chicago’s northern suburb communities to determine attitudes towards open housing in private transactions and a campaign to promote non-discriminatory property listings. The NSSP gained more than 10,000 residents’ signatures on their petition calling for equal housing opportunities across the northern suburbs.

That same summer, Martin Luther King Jr planned a three day trip to Chicago. Upon hearing about his visit, the NSSP invited him to the North Shore to give a speech on discrimination in housing. On July 25, 1965, Martin Luther King Jr gave a speech to a crowd of around 9,000 people at Winnetka’s Village Green. While the North Shore Summer Project disbanded shortly after that summer their efforts continued, branching into the For Real Estate Equality (FREE) and Buyer Recruitment programs. Eventually, organizations like Open Communities and The Justice Project formed in the wake of NSSP to continue the work for making the North Shore more inclusive and diverse.

Sources:

https://www.winnetkahistory.org/gazette/historic-civil-rights-milestone-in-july-2015/
Chicago Tribune. ‘March’ Story Wins Praise. Aug 31, 1965. Pg 8.
Chicago Tribune. North Shore Residents Signs Housing Petition. Aug 8, 1965. Pg. N3
https://www.lib.uchicago.edu/bmrc/view.php?eadid=BMRC.UIC.NORTHSHORE.SURVEY#idp148393128
Chicago Tribune. Clergy Picket Realty Board in Evanston. Aug 301, 1965. Pg. 10

Diverting Diary of an Errant Youth – Part 3

In last week’s post we read Part 2 of Leon Allen’s diary of a young boy growing up in Kenilworth in 1903. Here are some more stories from his tales in 1904.

Part One: Diverting Diary of an Errant Youth – Part 1
Part Two: Diverting Diary of an Errant Youth – Part 2

May 5. “Clider and I took our lunch out to the south woods today, only we didn’t take much because we caught crayfish in the pond at Mahoney’s pasture and boiled them. They taste almost like lobster. We would have had a swell time only my mother made me wear a coat, and so we had to lug that around with us all day and we almost forgot it a couple of times and that would have left me in a swell mess because my mother had a very unreasonable spell this morning. Clider and I got to talking about it and we have about decided that we will have to go out west and seek our fortune. We can make money on the way mowing people’s lawns and can wear anything we want to and eat in the woods all the time and sleep out every night. Clider said his uncle wasn’t much older than us when he went clear to Australia, and now he is awful rich, and I bet we would amount to something if we could get somewhere where they wouldn’t be bossing us all the time and maybe they would have some troubles around this town which we would not be mixed up in. So we have decided that we are going to run away tomorrow night. There is a lecture at the Union Church and my family is taking me to it but I am going to duck out and Clider is going to meet me in front of the church and we are going to run away.”

Kenilworth Union 1985.10.1_Restored by TAM

May 6. “We didn’t run away last night. My mother made me sit up in the front seat with her at the lecture. When we finally did get out I found Clider shivering and sore because he had to wait so long. We walked down towards the station and he said ‘Well, I suppose we are going to run away.’ I said yes but I bet it will be cold sleeping out in the woods. We decided we may as well sleep at home and Clider said we weren’t backing out only we could run away some other time so what was the hurry? Besides, I have a rabbit which is going to have some young rabbits and Skippy Keehn and I are going to start a rabbit factory over at his house and we will make lots of money because Kempers bird store will pay us 25 cents a piece for young rabbits.”

June 16. “Well I skipped a lot of days in this diary but I am catching up now. Clider and I are in much worse disgrace in this place than we have ever been in before and it seems the whole town were out looking for us, and I guess they tried to fish us out of the lake, and now of course they are mad at us just because we weren’t in the lake. Last Sunday Clider and I decided that it would be a good time for us to run away. So we told Bubbles and Shippy all about it and they thought it was a very good idea and we counted up and I had 10 cents and Clider had 3 cents, Bubbles had 15 cents and Shippy had 10 cents. Well we could buy a loaf of bread for supper for 5 cents, so we would have plenty to eat for a long time.

We decided that we would stop at the Wilmette post office and send our mothers a post card to say we were just going out west to seek our fortunes. But the post office was closed so we decided we would write them some other time.

So we went west for miles and miles and got way out in the country. Shippy got tired and lagged behind and it got pretty dark and soon we decided that he had gone home. Pretty soon we came to a patch of woods and sat down and ate half the loaf of bread so then we felt swell and sat around and decided how we were going to get rich and maybe go to Australia.

We started to build a fire and found that we had only one match and it went out. And after that it didn’t seem to be so much fun. We tried to sleep on the ground but it was awful cold and hard and the mosquitoes were terrible.

In the morning we got on the road again and bought some graham crackers for breakfast and we decided that there was no sense of going to Australia- we would just go out west where nobody would boss us and start a cattle ranch and be rich.

After a while we got awful tired and we lay down in a field to take a little snooze. When we woke up we saw a buggy coming down the road with a man and boy in it. The man said ‘jump on behind’ and he sounded terrible mad. I looked up. My gosh! It was my father and Shippy looking awful scared. So there we were, riding home with our feet hanging over the back of the buggy. And all the way home nobody said a word excepting everybody along the road hollered to my father, ‘Oh you found them did you?’ Clider and I could see that we had got into an awful mess again and were a disgrace to the town and would probably have a very bad time for awhile which proved to be all too true.”

Diverting Diary of an Errant Youth – Part 2

Last week’s post was Part 1 of Leon Allen’s diary of a young boy growing up in Kenilworth in 1903. Here are some more of his adventures.

Part One: Diverting Diary of an Errant Youth – Part 1

October 14, 1903. “Lawrence Horsewell and I found a lot of wild cucumbers this afternoon. They grow on vines in the woods and are not like tame cucumbers. They are round and rusky on the inside with a lot of stickers on the outside. It is lots of fun to peg them at people.”

October 15. “Old Cap. Rooney (the village policeman) wouldn’t chase us today when we pegged wild cucumbers at him so there was nothing exciting to do so we went up the spout. That’s what we call it when we climb the water tower. Going up the spout is very exciting because the ladder on the inside is wet and slippery and the wood is pretty rotten. Then when you get half way up you have to climb out through the window and go up the rest of the way on an iron ladder outside of the tank. The iron ladder is solid but it seems awful high and windy. When you get to the top there is a floor over the tank with just one square hole in it about the size of a window. All around the edge of the floor are posts holding the roof up and under the roof there is another floor. Between the top floor and the roof is a swell room that we use for a clubhouse. The water was up to the top of the tank this afternoon and we dared each other to go in swimming but it was too cold. Its funny we never thought of that last summer.”

Kenilworth's first water tower was demolished in 1926.
Kenilworth’s first water tower was demolished in 1926.

October 16. “Of all things, it snowed today. We got a big gang together, Prof. Pole (his name is Eyre Pole and sometimes we call him Air Hole but we usually call him Professor Waldo Beans or Prof. for short because he uses such big words) and a lot of other fellows. We ambushed some of the big kids and pegged snowballs at them. Only the snow had got pretty slushy and it was easier to peg mud balls so they got awful sore and chased us into Van Schacks’ barn. We defended the barn until we ran out of mud balls and then they got in and caught us. Burley Cheney has been to Exeter and he knows some swell tortures that they used on him when he was being hazed so he said lets try them. So the first one was the ‘hot belly.’ To give a kid a hot belly you tie him on his back to a board and pull up his shirt and pack snow on his stomach. Then you take a broom and sweep the snow off his stomach, going round and round, saying ‘here we go round the merry-go- round and once again for the ladies.’ It is very painful torture. So after that we all went home but I bet we will get them to chase us tomorrow and we will keep them out of that barn. I am glad there is some excitement in this town.”

October 17. “There is an awful rumpus in this town. I forgot to say that yesterday while they were giving us the ‘hot belly’ they hung the Prof out of the hay loft window by a rope tied to one of his feet and he hollered something awful and said he would get apoplexy and a lot of things like that so they got interested and watched him but he didn’t get any of these things, so pretty soon they dragged him in. Well it seems that somebody’s mother was at a bridge club or neighbors or something and saw Air Hole hanging out of the window and thought it was a funny thing for a boy to be doing so we all got asked a lot of inquisitive questions. Well we didn’t say much because we were afraid that they would nose into things like they usually do and spoil what little excitement there is in this town but some fellows said more than others did so now they are all saying it is barbarous and cruel and had aught to have a stop put to it.”

October 18. “The big kids started chasing us right after school. So after they chased us up in the barn we got awful scared thinking about that ‘hot belly’ and we ran upstairs. After a while they caught us. Burley Cheney said that in Siberia they torture people by shaving a spot on the top of their heads and let cold water drip on it and it makes them go crazy. So they shaved a bald spot on Lou Van Schack’s head and tied him to a post in the barn and fixed a can of snow and water over his head so it dripped on his bald spot and they all sat around and watched him to see if he would go crazy but Lou didn’t go crazy at all so everybody was much disappointed. The rest of us all jumped out of the window into a manure pile and over Kim Root’s back fence and got away.”

Diverting Diary of an Errant Youth – Part 1

Leon Allen was a young boy who lived in Kenilworth at the beginning of the 20th century. The Kenilworth Historical Society has in its archives a diary he wrote in 1903 and 1904 describing some of the adventures he and a group of friends had in the early days of the village. Mr. Allen was later prevailed upon to share his diary at meetings of the historical society, much to the enjoyment of the attendees.

October 1, 1903. “I have joined a fraternity. The members are me, Clider Taylor, and Stubs Taylor and then there is Vin Taylor, and Bob Lester and Ned Badger and Phil Maher and maybe we will take in some of the other fellows but we are not going to take them all in now because then there would be nobody left to initiate and what would be the use of having a fraternity if there was nobody left to initiate into it?”

October 2. “This is a very secret fraternity which we have organized. Its name is the Phi Nu. Those letters are Greek letters and the deepest secret of all is what they stand for. We have not thought up what they stand for yet but that makes it a much deeper secret.”

October 3. “Our fraternity is building a fraternity house. It is out in the North Woods, just north of the new street which some people call Winnetka Avenue. It is so far in the woods that nobody can see it from the new street or from Sheridan Road. At first we didn’t know what we could build the house with but there is a new house not far away and we thought it would be all right to take a few boards. At first we thought that this would be stealing which is a very mean thing to do but Lester said it wasn’t stealing, it was just rustling boards which is the same as taking watermelons out of the Pease’s garden or cantalope out of the Sears’ garden or anything like that. So we decided that rustling boards is not stealing because how else could we build a fraternity house anyway?”

Kids in Woods

October 5. “It being Saturday we worked all day. It is getting to be awful hard work. It is harder for Clider and me because we bent so many nails and split so many boards that the fellows won’t let us be carpenters any more and so we just carry boards from the place we rustled them last night to the house. I have decided not to ask my father about rustling boards. My father is very unreasonable sometimes and maybe he would be unreasonable about this. I am pretty sure he would be.”

October 6. “We couldn’t work on the house. We were all dressed up and if we got our clothes dirty or changed them we would get asked a lot of inquisitive questions and it would probably be best not to explain about those boards just yet and besides this is a secret fraternity. So we just went over to Insull’s poultry farm and shot ducks and pigeons with sling-shots. A fellow had ought to behave on Sunday anyway.”

October 7. “We finished the fraternity house today. It was an awful lot of work but it is a swell house and we chipped in and bought hinges for the door. We are going to sleep out in it all night tomorrow if we can get loose.”

October 8. “We didn’t sleep in our fraternity house at all. We haven’t got any fraternity house. We went after school and we couldn’t find it. At first we thought we had forgot where it was but we found the place where it was and it wasn’t there. It is a very deep mystery.”

October 9. “ We have found our fraternity house. Clider and Bubbles were down in Evanston on their bykes at a place where there is a big new building being built and there out in front of it was our fraternity house and they were using it for a tool house and it had a sign on it showing who was building the building and it was the same sign that was on the house where we rustled the boards. That man just stole our whole fraternity house. He stole our hinges and everything. I think any one who would steal should be put in jail!”

Dr. Lyon’s Tooth Powder

Dr. Lyon’s Tooth Powder

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Sample tin of Dr Lyon’s tooth powder donated by Mrs. George Drake. According to the description on the bottle, Dr. Lyon’s tooth powder is prepared by an experienced, practicing dentist. This tooth powder is intended to be used for cleaning teeth and preventing tooth troubles. It contains “no drugs, grit, pumice, acid, or other harmful ingredients.” Dr Lyon’s tooth powder was manufactured by the R.L. Watkins Company in Cleveland, Ohio. The product was established in 1866 by Dr. J.W. Lyon.

Tooth powder has been used since antiquity to clean and whiten teeth. In the United States, concern for oral hygiene practices developed in the early 20th century by government and health agencies. It was believed that a lack of dental hygiene led to other diseases in the body. Tooth powders were prepared by druggists or homemade by individuals. Commonly used ingredients included orris root, powdered cuttlebone, sodium bicarbonate (baking soda), calcium carbonate (chalk), and charcoal. However, many commercial tooth powders were unregulated, leaving consumers with little information about the safety of the products they used.

By the mid-1940s, toothpaste had overtaken tooth powder as the most popular form of dentifrice. In 1949, toothpaste claimed around 75% of the American market. Tooth powder is considered a cost-effective alternative to toothpaste in parts of the world today. Colgate currently markets a tooth powder that is popular in India and other countries.

Chicago & Milwaukee Electric Railway in Kenilworth

By 1894, an electric railway was established between Waukegan, North Chicago, and Lake Bluff by the Bluff City Electric Street Railway Company.

This railway competed with the Chicago and North Western Railroad (which still runs the Union Pacific/North Metra line today). The Bluff City Company did not last very long and eventually sold in 1897 to A. Frost and George Ball, who renamed it the Chicago & Milwaukee Railway Company. The company quickly began expanding service to other North Shore communities. The Chicago & Milwaukee faced difficulties from both its rival Chicago & North Western Railway Company and North Shore communities, including Kenilworth. In the beginning of 1899, the Chicago & Milwaukee Railway Company completed laying tracks from Waukegan to Chicago with a small gap at Kenilworth. Chicago & Milwaukee was unable to obtain a franchise for operation from Kenilworth’s Village Board due to the need for laying new tracks along what is now Richmond Road, north of Kenilworth Avenue. Not only would the construction of the tracks interfere with public property, the tracks would also have to run through private property owned by Joseph Sears.

The standoff was serious enough that police officers were posted at the rail’s terminal and railway workmen were warned off private property. Even though the tracks were not complete through Kenilworth, the North Shore Line did not stop its operations. Passengers were required to take horse-drawn taxis between Wilmette and Winnetka to connect with lines on the north and south sides of Kenilworth. This raised tensions with passengers, between villages, and even the residents of Kenilworth began to worry that they would experience troubles arising from the crowds gathering at the terminal as they waited for their taxis.

Map of Kenilworth. The yellow line follows the North Shore Line (notice that it bends around Kenilworth Station - in blue); the red line follows today's Union Pacific/North Line.
Map of Kenilworth. The yellow line follows the North Shore Line (notice that it bends around Kenilworth Station – in blue); the red line follows today’s Union Pacific/North Line.

The issue resulted in a condemnation suit against the Sears tract at Kenilworth Avenue and numerous, long talks with the Village of Kenilworth to gain consent to lay tracks across the streets. The issue began to resolve on July 17, 1899 when the Kenilworth Company, which Joseph Sears was the sole owner of at this time, sold the required land to the Chicago & Milwaukee Electric Railway Company for $22,500. The money didn’t all come at once though, the Electric Railway Company paid Joseph Sears $1500 for signing the contract, then another $5000 upon delivery of the deeds and title to the properties. Finally, they agreed to pay the remaining $16,000 upon the passage of an ordinance by the Village of Kenilworth, granting the Electric Railway Company the rights to lay the tracks through the rest of the village.

Kenilworth’s Village Board held two special meetings on July 18 and July 19 to consider an ordinance submitted by the Electric Railway Company that would grant them “the right, permission and authority to locate, construct, lay down, maintain and operate a system of Electric Railway lines upon certain streets and parts of streets in… Kenilworth.” The ordinance passed unanimously with many restrictions as to how the Electric Railways Company can construct their tracks, only giving them until October 1 to complete construction and begin operation of the North Shore Line through Kenilworth. The Electric Railway Company gave the village $12,000 to accompany the passage of what became Kenilworth’s 35th ordinance.

The money given to the village was to be spent on beautifying the railway entrance along Kenilworth Avenue. The architect George Maher was brought on to design the fountain as well as the stone benches and urns that are seen today at the intersection of Kenilworth Avenue and Richmond Road. Of the $12,000 only $3500 was spent for the fountain, benches, and urns.

The North Shore Line became known as the fastest interurban line in the country, providing high speed service from Waukegan to Hammond, Indiana. After coming under new management in the 1940s, which opted for buying buses to replace the line, ridership fell and schedules were reduced. The last train ran on July 25, 1955. Since then, the tracks have been removed and replaced by the Green Bay Trail.

Excerpt from Chicago Daily Tribune, July 21, 1899, Pg. 5.
Excerpt from Chicago Daily Tribune, July 21, 1899, Pg. 5.

Sources:
Chicago Daily Tribune. Shore Line Raises $1,500,000: Chicago and Milwaukee Trolley Road Floats a Big Mortgage – To Reach Kenilworth on Sunday. July 13, 1899. Pg. 5

Chicago Daily Tribune. Try New Trolley Line. July 17, 1899. Pg. 12

Chicago Daily Tribune. Building Road in Kenilworth. July 21, 1899. Pg. 5

Chicago Daily Tribune. Recent Sales, Leases, and Loans. Aug 6, 1899. Pg. 26

Chicago Daily Tribune. Blame Laid On Franchise War: Kenilworth’s Franchise Fight. Nov 19, 1899. Pg. 6

Chicago & Milwaukee Electric Railway Company and Kenilworth Company Agreement. 1899. Kenilworth Historical Society, AR-2002.17.5

Chicago & Milwaukee Electric Railway Company and Village of Kenilworth Agreement. 1899. Kenilworth Historical Society, GRF.IX.1.4

Kenilworth Village Board. Kenilworth Village Board Meeting Minutes (1896-1915). 1896-1915. Kenilworth Historical Society, GRF.IX.1.11

Artists in Living – Anne Higginson and Vibe Spicer

Many prominent Kenilworth residents, including Vibe and Anne Spicer were active in the late 19th century Arts and Crafts Movement.

A guild was founded in Kenilworth in 1896. Characterized by individual artistic expression and the creation of art as an escape from the increasingly dense, industrialized and mechanized city, the Arts and Crafts Guild included many enthusiastic Kenilworth residents.

The Spicers moved to Kenilworth in 1896. After a period of renting a house, they asked architect George Maher to design a home for them at 312 Essex Road. They called their house “Tilfredshaden,” a Norwegian word for contentment. Anne created an elaborate garden on the property. The appeal of the Spicer home and garden was recorded by a tribute written by early Kenilworth resident, Louise Kirkland Sanborn, “The heart of the Spicer house was a big red brick fireplace facing the front door, warm and grateful welcome as one came in out of the cold… Later they built the Mushroom Shop where they could turn their clever fingers to the things they were both so much interested, carpentry, weaving, pottery (Vibe set up a potter’s wheel and built a kiln), and before long charming bowls, tiles, vases and similar treasures began to flow into their friends’ houses.”

Vibe Spicer making pottery
Vibe Spicer making pottery

Anne was a creative writer as well. She published her poetry in two volumes and she was a contributor to a popular column in the Chicago Tribune called, “A Line ‘O Type or Two.” The published name she chose was “Anchusa,” a flowering plant. The following poem was dedicated by Anne to a Mrs. Lee who had sent Anne seeds of the Anchusa Capensis.

“I wonder if they’ll grow! Surely they must
If warmth and welcoming love can make it so.
How I shall watch till the first seedlings show,
Chrysoprase piercing through the earthy crust.
Bursting their casings, how they will upthrust
And push and reach up where the sunlit glow
Works golden alchemy to make things grow-
Sweet tiny miracles, out of dust!
Then I shall lift them from their sheltering frame
And plant them in the sunny garden beds
Where they will wink at me with flowery eyes
And smile in the friendliness and speak your name.
And I shall bend to pet their little heads-
Deepened reflections of these April skies.”

Anne Spicer in her garden
Anne Spicer in her garden

The 1934 Liquor Referendum

On December 5, 1933, the 21st Amendment was ratified, repealing the 18th Amendment that prohibited the manufacture, transportation, and sale of intoxicating liquor.

Across the nation, state legislatures enacted new liquor laws in response to the repeal of Prohibition. In Illinois, the Liquor Control Act of 1934 sought to “foster and promote” the regulation of alcoholic liquors. However, the lengthy legislation included certain provisions that drew ire and concern in Kenilworth and nearby villages. One such provision mandated the issuance of a tavern license for any city or village that failed to hold a referendum on the sale of alcohol before May 10, 1934.

News of this provision quickly spread throughout the North Shore suburbs, where the prospect of saloons and taverns greatly stirred residents wary of such establishments. Decades before Prohibition began in 1919, the North Shore suburbs were “dry,” a term used to describe a municipality that imposed regulations against the sale of alcohol. Many felt that taverns and saloons would hurt the moral fabric and character of their communities. Additionally, the temperance movement – a nineteenth and early twentieth century organized effort to limit or outlaw the consumption and production of alcohol – occupied a strong foothold on the North Shore. Indeed, the sentiment of the temperance movement was reflected in deed restrictions against the sale of intoxicating beverages found during Kenilworth’s early years.

North Shore residents believed that the most effective time to hold a referendum would be during the April elections. To bring a referendum to the ballot, a petition with sufficient signatures (25% of all registered voters) must be filed with the respective Village Clerk no later than March 1, 1934. Given that the Liquor Control Act of 1934 was passed on January 31, residents were left with a limited window of time to circulate petitions. Nonetheless, on February 28, Kenilworth organizers garnered enough signatures to file a petition for a referendum. In fact, two petitions made their way through Kenilworth, demonstrating the popularity of the referendum efforts.

Advertisement published in the Evanston Review for March 29, 1934 imploring an affirmative vote in the upcoming liquor referendum in Evanston.
Advertisement published in the Evanston Review for March 29, 1934 imploring an affirmative vote in the upcoming liquor referendum in Evanston.
Notice of liquor referendum from Nicholas P. Miller, Village Clerk of Wilmette, published in the Wilmette Life for March 1, 1934.
Notice of liquor referendum from Nicholas P. Miller, Village Clerk of Wilmette, published in the Wilmette Life for March 1, 1934.

Evanston, Glencoe, Wilmette, and Winnetka also succeeded in securing enough signatures for a referendum. Additionally, residents of unincorporated areas outside of official municipal boundaries in New Trier Township earned the ability to vote on the subject in the upcoming election. These unincorporated areas included the triangle area known today as Plaza Del Lago. Throughout the early twentieth century, “No Man’s Land,” as it was called, developed a negative reputation for its association with illicit activities. Notably, Miralago, a Spanish-styled ballroom built in the 1920s, became a popular destination for gambling and liquor-related activities. It was not out of the imagination then to assume No Man’s Land could be a site of future taverns or saloons. As a result, New Trier Township felt hard-pressed to ensure residents of No Man’s Land provided signatures to permit participation in the referendum.

On April 17, 1934, residents of Kenilworth, and adjoining villages, voted in large majorities in favor of local prohibition of alcoholic liquor licenses. Two-thirds of residents living in unincorporated segments of New Trier Township also voted affirmatively. Thirteen days later, as pursuant with the legislation, Kenilworth and New Trier Township were once again “dry.” Village of Kenilworth officials, cognizant of No Man’s Land’s tendencies, created official maps of the territory to monitor compliance. In July 1934, after reports of the sale of alcoholic liquor and beer in No Man’s Land, the Village Board called on proper enforcement officials to take “immediate steps” to enforce prohibition within No Man’s Land.

Incidents of unlawful and undesirable activities continued to transpire at No Man’s Land throughout the 1930s. In 1942, the unincorporated territory was annexed by Wilmette, after which development projects revitalized the area. In 2017, the Village of Kenilworth voted to end its prohibition of the sale of alcohol, ending its status as one of the last “dry” suburbs of Chicago.

– Will Taylor

 

Works Cited:

“Liquor Control Act of 1934,” Illinois General Assembly, accessed October 1, 2020, https://www.ilga.gov/legislation/ilcs/ilcs5.asp?ActID=1404&ChapterID=26#:~:text=This%20Act%20shall%20be%20liberally,manufacture%2C%20sale%2C%20and%20distribution%20of

Shea, Robert. From No Man’s Land to Plaza del Lago (Chicago, IL: American References Publishing Corporation, 1987), 60, 70, 76-85.

Thayer, Kate and Routliffe, Kathy. “Dry no more: Kenilworth, one of last no-liquor holdouts, lifts sales ban,” Chicago Tribune, March 27, 2017. https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/breaking/ct-kenilworth-liquor-laws-dry-suburb-met-20170326-story.html

Note: Information not directly cited above sourced from Kenilworth Historical Society’s Village of Kenilworth General Reference Collection, Prohibition Referendum, 1933-1934, Folder 3, Box 3.

KHS Statement Regarding Joseph Sears School Petition’s Misinformation

There were no racial or religious restrictive covenants in Kenilworth during Joseph Sears’ life. Recent research, summarized below, shows that Colleen Kilner’s book Joseph Sears and His Kenilworth includes many inaccuracies. Her outdated information was cited by the ongoing petition to rename Joseph Sears School.

Challenging how we view the past, how it has affected the present, and what we can stand to learn from it are perhaps the most fundamental applications of History. In order to do so effectively, we must be able to understand and distinguish the facts from what is undocumented. The Kenilworth Historical Society is committed to collecting, preserving, and sharing the history of Kenilworth as accurately as possible.

Since Colleen Kilner’s 1969 history, Joseph Sears and His Kenilworth, lacks footnotes and offers minimal, imprecise information about deed restrictions, an extensive research project was conducted by the Kenilworth Historical Society, which examined the deeds. Approximately 70 deeds, from the 1890s through the 1940s, covering every major Kenilworth subdivision, were examined to understand when, where and what restrictions applied.

Our research showed that during Joseph Sears’ lifetime (until 1912), there were only four restrictions found on land that was sold:

1. No sale of intoxicating beverages
2. Minimum building setback from the street
3. Minimum building costs
4. Location of stable

Racial or religious restrictions only appeared in Kenilworth deeds starting from the 1920s. Deed restrictions in Kenilworth were not uniform village-wide. Restrictions varied over time by subdivision and some subdivisions had no deed restrictions. Deed records are kept at the Cook County Recorder of Deeds Office.

The context of racial restrictions extends far beyond Kenilworth and the North Shore. It is multi-faceted and national. Insight is provided by an important study; Helen Corbin Monchow’s The Use of Deed Restrictions in Subdivision Development, published by the Institute for Research in Land Economics and Public Utilities in 1928. The Supreme Court held deed restrictions to be unenforceable in 1948 (Shelley v. Kraemer).

Without transparency in history there is no room for growth. Without proper documentation or references to support claims, we run the risk of fabricating history.

–The Kenilworth Historical Society team

Sterling Silver Tea-Coffee serving set

Sterling Silver Tea-Coffee serving set

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The featured artifact is an early 20th century Sterling silver tea-coffee serving set belonging to Mrs George Maher. This set was donated to Kenilworth Historical Society by Mr. and Mrs. Wyld in 1997. The Art deco style serving set includes coffee / tea pot, sugar bowl or waste bowl, and creamer with monogrammed initials “EBM” of Mrs Elizabeth Brooks Maher. This set is believed to be a gift given to her.

The taller and narrow design of the pot helps minimize heat loss, preserves flavor and keeps the beverage warm. The spout and angular handles are soldered to the pot. The handles are meant to hold hot liquids and are cut, inserted and pinned with ivory insulators. The octagonal shaped base provides a better support. The set bears a hallmark of the Gorham company.

Memorial Day Community Artist

Community Artist, Arthur R. Foss Jr.

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Happy Memorial Day from the Kenilworth Historical Society. In our collections sits a 5ft x 10ft oil painting on canvas by Arthur R Foss Jr, one of Kenilworth’s WWII veterans. The mural was painted on October 2, 1943 between his time overseas while serving in the African desert campaign.

Foss was born in 1924 in Cook County, Illinois to Arthur R. and Octavia Foss. Arthur Sr. was a partner in the law firm of Foss, Schuman & Drake and a predecessor in Chicago for more than fifty years. The family lived at 640 Park Drive in Kenilworth from 1936 until around 1979. Arthur Jr. graduated from Joseph Sears School in 1938 and New Trier High School in 1942. After high school he enlisted and was involved in the African campaign during WWII. Arthur was killed in action on November 14, 1944.

Dorothys Diaries, Influenza Pandemic of 1918

Dorothy Sears at the height of her career, KHS

Dorothy Sears was the sixth and youngest child of Kenilworth’s founder, Joseph Sears. Dorothy studied at Mrs. Babcock’s boarding and day school in Kenilworth for 11 years before continuing her education in teaching.

In 1916 she opened her own school in a Winnetka store building and later in the basement of the Winnetka Women’s Club. In 1927, she bought a dilapidated house for $100 and converted it into a permanent location for her North Shore Montessori School. Dorothy eventually became the honorary custodian for the Kenilworth Historical Society and served as its President for several years.

For most of her life, she kept extensive diaries of her day-to-day. Below are a couple excerpts from her 1918 diary during the Influenza Pandemic:

Dorothy Sears, c. 1910, KHS
Dorothy Sears, c. 1910, KHS

October 27, Sunday
Little Georgie Kruse telephoned this morning to say that his mother had the
influenza. Poor little boy he was very frightened. Helen went right over there. She
found her not very sick.

December 11, Wednesday
School. Only 10 children there [out of twenty two]… Seemed as if I called up nearly everyone I knew in the evening. Annie Mason has the “Flu” I may have to close my school.

December 12, Thursday
Dr. Schneider said we would have to close the school until Monday because Annie Mason has the “Flu”… Sewed at the Red Cross in the afternoon—A meeting of the Emergency Bureau in the eve. at Mrs. Sanborns.

Celebrating the History of Kenilworth

Celebrating the History of Kenilworth is an ongoing exhibit in the Train Station.

ISHS award for Celebrating the History of Kenilworth 2017
ISHS award for Celebrating the History of Kenilworth 2017

It’s comprised of 16 rotating panels covering different key stories, people, and events from the village’s history.

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Celebrating the History of Kenilworth was first displayed in 2014. The exhibit was updated with two more panels in 2019.

Kenilworth Traditions Exhibit

The Tradition exhibit explores many of Kenilworth’s well kept traditions such as holding the Memorial Day Parade a week early.

The story goes that in 1919, the newly formed Kenilworth Boy Scouts were asked to march in the Winnetka Memorial Day Parade (known as Decoration Day at that time). So they wouldn’t embarrass themselves, they practiced a week early throughout the streets of Kenilworth. Ever since then, the village has been hosting its official parade a week early.  The exhibit also covers other traditions such as Field Day, the Girl Scout’s Scamper Night, Pancake Breakfast, and many more.

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Kenilworth Traditions Exhibit was displayed from 2012-2013.

The Art of Kenilworth

Art of Kenilworth was an exhibit that focused on Kenilworth artists and the work of artists in our collections.

The exhibit reached beyond our collections to also feature current residents who were willing to share their artworks. The exhibition featured some up-and-coming artists as well as more renowned artists, such as Alden Finney Brooks, Barbara Barry Barret, Violet Wyld, and Wesley Bowman. Organized by artist and accompanied with a biography of each artist and their pieces, the Art of Kenilworth exhibit is unlike any the Kenilworth Historical Society has done before or since. Multiple mediums were displayed, from photographs and portraits, to sculptures and prints.

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Dancing Girl

The Art of Kenilworth was displayed from 2010-2011.

View from the Path: Jens Jensen in Kenilworth

Jens Jensen was a landscape architect that quickly earned renown throughout the midwest.

IAM award for View from the Path: Jens Jensen in Kenilworth 2005
IAM award for View from the Path: Jens Jensen in Kenilworth 2005

He was often celebrated as a leader of a more “naturalistic” approach to landscape design. Jensen was active in Kenilworth’s landscape design from 1906 starting with Kenilworth Park outside the Assembly Hall, moving through five private home projects and culminating in 1933 with a rare late commission, the beautiful Mahoney Park. Jensen was introduced to Kenilworth through his friend and associate, George Maher, a renowned architect and community planner in Kenilworth’s early years.

The garden designs by Jens Jensen in Kenilworth represent a cross-section of his developing design style and include many great examples of his work on a smaller scale. Unlike his designs for larger estates in Lake Forest and Highland Park, his designs in Kenilworth are relatively flat, modest, and include simple detailing to emphasize a sense of privacy rather than display. By this point in his career, Jensen had a growing emphasis on using native flora and wildlife habitats which is reflected in his design for Mahoney Park. 

The exhibit was released alongside a book detailing all of Jensen’s projects and other parks/landscapes throughout Kenilworth. The book, View from the Path: Jens Jensen in Kenilworth, can be purchased at the museum for $20.00.

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View from the Path: Jens Jensen in Kenilworth was displayed from 2004-2005.