South Shore Country Club records, 1905-1975.

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South Shore Country Club records, 1905-1975.

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Membership files, certificates and indexes, audits, committee minutes, some correspondence, and scrapbook of the South Shore Country Club, one of Chicago's oldest and most exclusive social clubs up to its closing in 1974. Membership applications include the applicant's name, address, occupation, financial position, marital status, age, nationality, and ethnic background, comments by references, disposition of the application, membership fees, and annual dues. A scrapbook, 1906, concerns construction of the first central building, at 7059 South Shore Drive, designed by Charles Fox of Marshall & Fox, and of the club grounds on the shore of Lake Michigan between 67th and 71st streets. Marshall & Fox also designed the 1916 building that became the South Shore Cultural Center after it was acquired by the Chicago Park District.

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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...

7059 South South Shore Drive (Chicago, Ill.)

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Fox, Charles Eli, 1870-1926

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South Shore Country Club (Chicago, Ill.)

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