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Hildreth Mansion - 357 South Hope Street
The mansions of Bunker Hill were sometimes inhabited by colorful characters who provided the neighborhood with mayhem, madness or just plain entertainment. Others, like the Hildreth Mansion at the...
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The Hotel Elmar — 235 South Hope St.
There was a place, once, a place people called home—the Hotel Elmar. Not much of a place, 230 rooms, built in 1926, facing a retaining wall, small matter of a 1953 shotgun holdup you’ll read about,...
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The Zahn Family - 427 South Hope Street
From the time Bunker Hill started becoming a fashionable residential neighborhood in the 1880s until it fell out of fashion and started being razed in the 1950s, countless residents filtered in and...
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The Touraine Apartments - 447 South Hope Street
In an era of spacious Victorian mansions, one could argue that the Touraine Apartments on Hope Street were 100 or so years ahead of their time. Erected in 1903 and opened in 1904, the units of this...
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The Second Battle of Bunker Hill
The Battle of Bunker Hill, 1775, was fought with the smoothbore flintlock musket, the odd Jäger rifle, and muzzleloading cannon of ship and field. They also fought in formation, in the open, using the...
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More of the Rossmere
When last week you read about the Second Battle of Bunker Hill, did you really think that that was all that'd happened at the noble Rossmere? The Corinthian columns! Those dentils! Don’t they just...
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You Know, For Kids! - The Bunker Hill Playground and Recreation Center
On May 27, 1947, Proposition B, a $12 million bond issue passed, allowing the city to sink some serious dough into its woefully inadequate parks, playgrounds, and municipal pools. One of the first...
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The Larronde Residence - 237 N. Hope Street
As Bunker Hill developed from a fashionable Victorian neighborhood to an area of somewhat slummy dwellings, the grand mansions of the earlier era adapted with the times. In most cases, the large...
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Sons of the Revolution—437 South Hope
This episode, we’ll be less concerned with the reprobate, the raconteur, the religious zealot, or good folk who fell into bad judgment; instead let’s meditate on those went above and beyond the call of...
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