he Society's annual house walk, this year located in the Indian Boundary Park neighborhood, provided a number of firsts and marked continued success for the popular, annual event.
Indian Boundary Park opened in 1922 as the centerpiece of the Ridge Avenue Park District. The 13-acre park was designed as a pastoral landscape with picturesque gardens, a lagoon with a small island, rolling lawns, and meandering paths.
The field house, designed by prominent architect Clarence Hatzfeld, is notable for its unusual combination of Tudor Revival design and Native American images and sculptures. The eastern and northern boundaries are graced by the Park Gables and Park Castles apartment buildings – a magnificent group of Gothic and Tudor Revival style structures built in the late 1920s by developers Gubbins, McDonnell & Blietz. Tour participants visited the buildings’ spectacular tiled Art Deco swimming pools and several apartments.
Tour participants also viewed RP/WRHS’s new exhibit titled A Park is Your Front Yard: Indian Boundary Park and the Gubbins, McDonnell & Blietz Co-ops, 1915-1929 continues on display in the park's field house until May 15. For more information about the exhibit, call (773) 764-4078.
