Cuneo Museum and Gardens records, 1880-2006, (bulk 1914-2006).

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Cuneo Museum and Gardens records, 1880-2006, (bulk 1914-2006).

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The Cuneo Museum and Gardens records consist of approximately 395 linear feet spanning the years 1880 to 2006 (bulk 1914-2006). These records include correspondence, blueprints, reports, land plots, photographs, negatives, ledgers, tax files, awards, honors, and scrapbooks relating to Samuel Insull, construction of the house and gardens by Marshall & Fox, Jens Jensen and James Greenleaf, the Cuneo family, Cuneo businesses, and the operation of the house and gardens as a museum.

ca. 395 linear feet.

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Loyola University of Chicago. Archives.

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Insull, Samuel, 1859-1938

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Public utilities magnate, Chicago, IL. Born in England in 1859, Samuel Insull became the private secretary and bookkeeper for Col. George E. Gouraud, London agent of Thomas Edison, in 1879. Insull emigrated to the United States in 1881 to become the private secretary of Edison. While working for Edison he was in charge of establishing the Edison Machine Works at Schenectady, New York; the second Vice President in charge of the manufacturing and selling departments of Edison General Electric; and...

Cuneo Family

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Marshall & Fox (Firm)

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The son of a wealthy miller, Benjamin Marshall was born in Chicago in 1874 and attended a South Side prep school, the Harvard School in Kenwood. Although he received no formal education in architecture, he apprenticed with the firm of Marble and Wilson from 1893 to 1895. Upon the death of Marble, he was made a partner in the firm after only two years as an apprentice. Following an extended European trip, Marshall started his own firm in 1902. During the next three years, he establis...

Cuneo Museum and Gardens

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When John F. Cuneo Sr. died in 1977 he stated in his will that his mansion in Vernon Hils, Illinois, was to be used for "eductional purposes" after his wife no longer used the house. Following Mrs. Cuneo's death the mansion became part of the Cuneo Foundation and was turned into a historic house museum in 1990. These records were created by various directors and staff at the Cuneo Museum and Gardens. From the description of Administrative records, 1946-2006 , (bulk 1990-2003 ). (Unkn...

Cuneo Press

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Jensen, Jens, 1860-1951

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Mormon from Cottonwood Ward, Utah. From the description of History of Alexander H. Hill Richards, 1930. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 503404173 From the guide to the History of Alexander H. Hill Richards, 1930, (L. Tom Perry Special Collections) Jens Jensen was one of America's most visionary prairie school landscape architects. Born in 1860 in Denmark, Jensen emigrated to the United States in 1884, settling in Chicago, where he was hired a...