Eugene Field Park Field House Mural – Chicago IL

City:
Chicago, IL

Site Type:
Art Works, Murals

New Deal Agencies:
Work Relief Programs, Works Progress Administration (WPA)

Description

“In 1928, Clarence Hatzfeld, a member of the park board and architect of many northwest side recreational, commercial, and residential buildings, designed a Tudor Revival-style fieldhouse for the park. A stone grotto and fountain originally graced the front of the fieldhouse. Inside, a Federal Works Progress Administration artist created a mural entitled “The Participation of Youth in the Realm of the Arts.””

Source notes

https://www.wpamurals.org/chiparks.htm

Site originally submitted by Erin TerBeek on October 4, 2012.

Location Info


5100 N. Ridgeway Ave.
Chicago, IL 60625

Coordinates: 41.97459551486433, -87.72224

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