The plaque reads ...
Chicago Landamrk ...
Lion House, Lincoln Park Zoo ..
Perkins, Fellows & Hamilton, architects
1912 ..
Located in one of the country's oldest municipal zoological parks, the lion house blends both the grandly-scaled public architecture of the classical style with the innovative Prairie style developed by Chicago architects in the early 20th century. The building was designed by important architect Dwight H Perkins, an advocate of park and school reforms. The building has excellent brickwork and terra-cotta ornament, unique lion mosaics, and a grand interior with a vaulted Guastavino-tile ceiling, an innovative construction technology of the time..
Designated on Novemeber 30, 2005..
Richard M Daley, Mayor
Commission on Chicago Landmarks...
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Designated Chicago Landmarks in Lincoln Park Zoo area..
MY grandfather, Frank Fisher, was the European trained master brick mason who applied the mosaic lions and tigers to the outside of the building in 1912
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