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- Chicago, IL
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Inside Out: April 17, 2009Created about 7 months ago
Museum Clean-up 11/22/08Created about 11 months ago
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Events
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- Breakfast Conversation with Ru...
Roosevelt University, Sulivan Room-...
Tuesday, November 10 at 8:00am - Tonight: "Ida - In Her Own Wor...
Chicago Public Library, Roosevelt B...
Thursday, July 16 at 5:30pm - Inside Out - Audio & Visual In...
The future home of the National Pub...
Friday, June 12 at 6:00pm - Panel Discussion
Chicago Architecture Foundation
Sunday, November 2 at 1:30pm - Volunteer Landscaping: Plantin...
Future site of the Museum in the ol...
Tuesday, July 15 at 9:30am
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- National Public Housing Museum in the Chicago Sun Times 12:22pm Aug 18
- Museum on the Radio! 5:31pm Jul 30
- Museum in the Chicago Tribune 5:13pm Jul 30
National Public Housing Museum
Join us for a breakfast conversation with Ruth Abram, Founding President, Lower East Side Tenement Museum. Event is free and open to the public. Tuesday 11/10, 8am, Roosevelt University.
Please RSVP: rsvp@publichousingmuseum.org
Click here for full details: http://www.publichousingmuseum.org/
Ruth is an advisory board ...member of the National Public Housing Museum. She founded the Lower East Side Tenement Museum in NYC in 1988. Using the building and its Lower East Side neighborhood, the Museum has poineered the interpretation of the home and community life of urban, immigrant, working class and poor peoples, and it has set precedent in using history as a tool for addressing contemporary social issues.Read More
Please RSVP: rsvp@publichousingmuseum.org
Click here for full details: http://www.publichousingmuseum.org/
Ruth is an advisory board ...member of the National Public Housing Museum. She founded the Lower East Side Tenement Museum in NYC in 1988. Using the building and its Lower East Side neighborhood, the Museum has poineered the interpretation of the home and community life of urban, immigrant, working class and poor peoples, and it has set precedent in using history as a tool for addressing contemporary social issues.Read More
Time:8:00AM Tuesday, November 10th
Location:Roosevelt University, Sulivan Room- 430 S. Michigan Ave, Chicago IL
National Public Housing Museum
Don Terry wrote a great article about the Museum and Executive Director Keith L. Magee in today's Sun Times! You can Check it out here: http://www.suntimes.com/news/terry/17629
Source: www.suntimes.com
Walls will talk at public housing museum - CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
National Public Housing Museum
Join us tonight to hear Michelle Duster, great-granddaughter of Ida B. Wells, read from her book: "Ida - In Her Own Words", a compliation of Wells' writings around the time of the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago. A discussion and book signing will follow.
More info:
http://www.chitowndailynews.org/Chicago_
Time:5:30PM Thursday, July 16th
Location:Chicago Public Library, Roosevelt Branch: 1101 W. Taylor St, Chicago IL
National Public Housing Museum A great article about the Museum's exhibit, Inside Out, written by Adrian G. Uribarri at the Chi-Town Daily News:
Chicago museum to meld public housing's past and present | Chicago News, Events and Culture | Chi-To
Source: www.chitowndailynews.org
The walls of 1322 W. Taylor St. are crumbling. Chips of plaster peel from brick. Rusty metal sheets shutter the windows. The third floor is off limits.More than 70 years ago, this building was a vision, part of a grand plan to build the Jane Addams Homes. ...
National Public Housing Museum
With the overwhelming response of over 300 visitors in one night and the request from hundreds more...it returns!
A premier series of audio and visual installations in the former Jane Addams Homes. Experience the future of the National Public Housing Museum through the eyes and voices of the many generations who have made their homes in public housing.
Exhibition is free and open to everyone
Back by popular demand!
Time:6:00PM Friday, June 12th
Location:The future home of the National Public Housing Museum
National Public Housing Museum You're Invited - Inside Out: An exhibit in the future home of the National Public Housing Museum Friday, April 17, 2009 6pm - 10pm 1322-24 W. Taylor Street, Chicago, IL - The future home of the National Public Housing Museum. A series of audio and visual
National Public Housing Museum While clean-up at the Museum is very dusty, it is also kind of fun!
Kate Grossman wrote a great editorial about the Museum in today's Sun Times. Check it out here: http://www.publichousingmuseum.org/site/files/663/55017/215452/352728/SunTimes_8-18-08.pdf
National Public Housing Museum The garden that Hollis made is thriving!
American Radio Works produced a piece about the Museum which aired on the Nationally syndicated public radio show "Weekend America" last weekend (7-26-08) You can listen to the segment or read a transcription of the interview here:...
Hi All, Blair Kamin just wrote about the National Public Housing Museum in the Chicago Tribune, 7-20-2008...
National Public Housing Museum
Hollis Turner and Roxanna Pereira donated their expertise and service towards the effort to beautify the site. During the month of July 2008, a garden was created at the former CHA site, which has been vacant since 2000.
{Photographs by Jennifer Mau}
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The last remaining building in the Jane Addams Homes complex built in 1938. The building was left open to the weather with the steam heat on for several years which has caused the paint to peel; however the original structure remains sound, even after years of neglect.
{All photos by Susanne Schnell}
National Public Housing Museum
Yesterday we had our first Volunteer Landscaping Session at the future home of the Museum!
Come out and help us next week if you're free. Meet @the site on Taylor St. @Ada, at 9:30AM - Tuesday, July 15th 2008,
See you there!
Deirdre
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