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TITLE:
Fort Sheridan, 25 miles Northeast of Chicago, on Lake Michigan, Fort Sheridan, Lake County, IL

CALL NUMBER:
HABS ILL,49-FTSH,1-

REPRODUCTION NUMBER:
[See Call Number]

MEDIUM:
Photo(s): 26   (4 x 5 in. and 8 x 10 in.)
Data Page(s): 26 plus cover page
Photo Caption Page(s): 2

DATE:
Documentation compiled after 1933.

CREATOR:
Historic American Buildings Survey, creator

RELATED NAME(S):
Holabird & Roche
Simonds, O. C.

NOTE:
Survey number HABS IL-1113

Unprocessed field note material exists for this structure (FN-139).

Building/structure dates: 184 initial construction

National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 80001379

Significance: Fort Sheridan is an important turn-of-the century military post planned and constructed during a period of transition in national policy which signaled the closing of temporary frontier posts and the establishment of permanent garrisons of troops at strategic points throughout the United States. Designed by the nationally significant architectural firm of Holabird and Roche, the Fort took form during an interlude between the establishment of a series of permanent military installations and the issuance of standardized building plans from the Office of the Quartermaster General. Fort Sheridan has contributed significantly to our national history through the training and preparation of American soldiers during three wars. It has however, the distinctive buff-cream brick buildings constructed during the first twenty years of the Post's existence along with associated landscape features which provide its major significance. The original post as constructed remains almost complete today...These buildings by design, usage, and relationship to one another are typical of the military traditions and values of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century army, exemplifying among other things the importance of the horse and the mule to the army, the separation of rank, the growing attention paid to the needs of the soldier, and the pomp and ceremony connected with military life at this time. Arranged around the parade grounds and enclosed by two large ravines, the district is a compact one. It evokes a sense of the old army and possesses strong associative values with United States military history especially that period between Fort Sheridan's inception in the late 1880's and the onset of World War I.

SUBJECTS:
ILLINOIS--Lake County--Fort Sheridan

OTHER TITLE:
Fort Sheridan Historic District

COLLECTION:
Historic American Buildings Survey (Library of Congress)

REPOSITORY:
Library of Congress, Prints and Photograph Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA

DIGID:
http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/hhh.il0005

CONTENTS:
Photograph caption(s): 
1. SOUTH SIDE OF LOGAN LOOP LOOKING EAST (Building 3, 4, 5,)
2. NORTH SIDE OF PARADE GROUND LOOKING NORTH FROM WATER TOWER (Buildings No. 32, 31, 97, 96, 30)
3. SOUTHERN EDGE OF DISTRICT (Buildings No. 77, 39)
4. NORTH SIDE OF THORPE ROAD (Buildings No. 63, 44, 43)
5. SOUTHERN BOUNDARY OF HISTORIC DISTRICT LOOKING WEST (Ravine Road and Building No. 39)
6. NORTHERN SIDE OF LOGAN LOOP LOOKING WEST (Buildings No. 9, 10, 11, 12, 13)
7. WEST SIDE OF LYSTER ROAD (Building No. 38, 36)
8. WEST SIDE OF LYSTER ROAD (Buildings No. 34, 59, 40, 91, 33)
9. NORTH SIDE OF LOGAN LOOP LOOKING EAST (Buildings No. 13, 12, 11, 10)
10. LEONARD WOOD AVENUE AND LOGAN LOOP LOOKING NORTHEAST (Buildings No. 94, 93, 92, 13, 12)
11. WATER TOWER-BARRACKS COMPLEX LOOKING SOUTH ACROSS THE PARADE GROUND (Buildings No. 50, 49, 48)
12. WATER TOWER-BARRACKS COMPLEX LOOKING SOUTHEAST ACROSS THE PARADE GROUND (Buildings No. 48, 49, 50)
13. AERIAL OF FORT SHERIDAN LOOKING NORTH TOWARD THE WATER TOWER (Copy negative made from negative by TASO, U.S. Army, Fort Sheridan, Illinois).
14. Fort Sheridan, 1904
15. Fort Sheridan Historic District (adapted from a 1978 map)
16. LOGAN LOOP LOOKING EAST, NORTH AND SOUTH SIDES (Buildings No. 13, 12, 11, 10, 3, 4, 5, 6) (Copy negative made from National Archives negative No. 92-F-61A-6)
17. SOUTH SIDE OF RONAN ROAD (Buildings No. 42, 78, 62) (Copy negative made from National Archives negative No. 92-F-61B-3)
18. SOUTH CENTRAL SECTION OF HISTORIC DISTRICT LOOKING NORTH TO WATER TOWER (Buildings No. 43, 42, 78) (Copy negative made from National Archives negative No. 92-F-61B-5)
19. CHAPMAN ROAD LOOKING NORTH (Buildings 43, 42) (Copy negative made from National Archives negative No. 92-F-61B-4)
20. WATER TOWER-BARRACKS COMPLEX LOOKING SOUTH ACROSS THE PARADE GROUNDS (Buildings No. 50, 49, 48) (Copy negative made from National Archives negative No. 92-F-61A-12)
21. WATER TOWER-BARRACKS COMPLEX LOOKING SOUTHEAST ACROSS THE PARADE GROUNDS (Buildings No. 48, 49, 50) (Copy negative made from National Archives negative No. 92-F-61A-13)
22. EASTERN END OF LOGAN LOOP, NORTH SIDE (Buildings No. 10, 9) (Copy negative made from National Archives negative No. 92-F-61A-5)
23. LYSTER ROAD LOOKING SOUTH (Buildings No. 37, 36, 38, 80) (Copy negative made from National Archives negative No. 92-F-61B-7)
24. LOGAN LOOP LOOKING EAST, NORTH SIDE (Buildings No. 13, 12, 11, 10) (Copy negative made from National Archives negative No. 92-F-61A-4)
25. RAVINE ROAD (Copy negative made from National Archives negative No. 92-F-61B-15)
26. WOODLAND SCENE (Copy negative made from National Archives negative No. 92-F-61B-19)

CONTROL #:
IL0005

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