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Photographer: Philander Barclay Collection, Oak Park Public Library
Taken: 1897
Caption: Phil Sheridan Post 615
Additional Description: The members of Post 615 line up for this 1897 photo. Former post president Wilbur Crummer, who is buried under this memorial, is believed to be just above and to the left of the front-most man in the photo. The photograph was taken in front of the Scoville Institute, the predecessor to the Oak Park Public Library. The building, along Lake Street to the east of Oak Park Avenue, was torn down in the 1950s and replaced by a modern building, which itself was torn down and replaced in the early 2000s by the current main library building. The Scoville Institute was named after James Scoville, a businessman and one of Oak Park's earliest landowners; Scoville's mansion can be seen in the background of this photo, to the right of the institute. Scoville's estate was sold in 1912 to the Park District of Oak Park, and the mansion was demolished soon thereafter to make way for Scoville Park, designed by famed Prairie-style landscape architect Jens Jensen.
Submitted: February 22, 2024, by Sean Flynn of Oak Park, Illinois.
Database Locator Identification Number: p775483
File Size: 1.015 Megabytes

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