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Chicago Gardens: The Early History (Center for American Places - Center Books on American Places)
Chicago Gardens The Early History - Center for American Places - Center Books on American Places
Author: Cathy Jean Maloney
Once maligned as a swampy outpost, the fledgling city of Chicago brazenly adopted the motto Urbs in Horto or City in a Garden, in 1837. Chicago Gardens shows how this upstart town earned its sobriquet over the next century, from the first vegetable plots at Fort Dearborn to innovative garden designs at the 1933 World?s Fair. —      ...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780226502342
ISBN-10: 0226502341
Publication Date: 7/15/2008
Pages: 464
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Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Book Type: Hardcover
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