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    Glencoe, Illinois
    Glencoe, Illinois
    Glencoe, Illinois
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    Glencoe, Illinois

    By Ellen Kettler Paseltiner, Ellen Shubart and Glencoe Historical Society

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    Glencoe, Illinois, "Queen of Suburbs," has long been heralded as an idyllic place to live. Situated on Lake Michigan in the heart of Chicago's North Shore, Glencoe was first settled in 1835 by Anson Taylor, a young storekeeper. Glencoe began to thrive thanks to one of its famous early residents, Walter Gurnee, president of the Chicago and Milwaukee Railroad. Gurnee moved to Glencoe in the mid-1850s and in 1855 established a railroad stop across the street from his home. His presence accounts for the town's accessibility and nucleus, but it was the vision of Dr. Alexander Hammond, who arrived in Glencoe in 1867, that helped to shape it into the model suburban town it has become. It is the people of the past and present who are at the heart of this community. This collection of over 200 images captures the heart and spirit of this all-American suburb, from the village's founding and early history as a farming community and utopian settlement to the annual Fourth of July parades that continue to trumpet through the town's center.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArcadia Publishing
    Release dateOct 1, 2002
    ISBN9781439613597
    Glencoe, Illinois
    Author

    Ellen Kettler Paseltiner

    The Glencoe Historical Society, now located downtown at the Eklund History Center and Garden, was founded in 1937 to protect and preserve the history of the village. Authors Ellen Kettler Paseltiner and Ellen Shubart are both long-time residents of Glencoe. Ms. Paseltiner serves as Research Center Director for the Glencoe Historical Society and Ms. Shubart is the society's president.

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      Glencoe, Illinois - Ellen Kettler Paseltiner

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      INTRODUCTION

      Dr. Alexander Hammond, whose 1869 Glencoe only counted 150 persons, would not recognize Glencoe as it enters the 21st century, with nearly 9,000 residents. But his vision remains. When the Rockford physician purchased a farm in the center of what is now Glencoe, he brought his family to a physically lush and beautiful area where he planned to build a utopia, an ideal village. Although Dr. Hammond did not stay long enough to see the village grow, as we look back, we realize his dream has come true.

      Glencoe today still features spacious and lovely homes amid canopies of trees. The park overlooking the beach still is set aside for everyone’s enjoyment, and the schools are rated among the best not only in the region, but also the nation. The 2000 census tells us this is a community of families. Close to 2,400 married-couple families with children less than 18 years of age live in this community of 3,072 total households. Glencoe’s median family income and median home value rank high, both in the region and the nation.

      Glencoe residents pride themselves on their contributions to not only their own village, but to Chicago and the nation. From the beginning, when Civil War General Charles Howard moved to Greenleaf Avenue, to the time when Archibald MacLeish became the nation’s poet laureate, or to when Melville Stone established the Chicago Daily News, those who called Glencoe home were aware of their duty to serve others. They showed their civic pride by participating in good government, and their innovations served as a model for others. Glencoe’s village-manager form of government was established in 1914, the first in Illinois. The Village was first in the state to combine police and firemen into one Department of Public Safety. Its school and park boards were the originators of the parks-by-schools/schools-in-parks plan. The first Boy Scout troop west of the Alleghenies began in Glencoe, and the third women’s club in Illinois still makes its home on Tudor Court.

      Frank Lloyd Wright did some of his earliest Prairie-style homes here, leaving a legacy of the third-largest collection of Wright homes outside of Oak Park and Chicago. Other noted architects also left their marks: Howard van Doren Shaw, David Adler, George Fred and William Keck, and George W. Maher. Today the streets of Glencoe are lined with some homes that date to Dr. Hammond’s time, including the magnificent Castle, his own home, but also with others that came later. It shines with buildings from a diverse amalgam of styles and times—Victorian painted ladies, Colonial and Tudor revivals, often side-by-side with Modern homes.

      But it is the people who make a community vibrant. From its German farmer beginnings, Glencoe has opened its arms to people from all walks of life—farmers and tradesmen who worked in the vicinity of Park and Vernon Avenues, or lawyers and corporate executives who commuted to the city for their jobs. Glencoe, whose business core began with a stagecoach stop and a pier to ship lumber to the fast-growing city to the south, has evolved to become a center of boutique shopping and coffeehouses. It is a village of diversity that expanded from Dr. Hammond’s single church to encompass a variety of houses of worship, ranging from the Methodist and Episcopal to the North Shore’s first Reform Jewish congregation, the Baha’i, and Korean Presbyterian. Glencoe is home to the only African Methodist Episcopal Church between Evanston and Lake Forest, having welcomed African Americans to the community almost immediately after the Village’s 1869 incorporation.

      Throughout Glencoe’s history, family-oriented activities have been central, including lazy days at the beach, games in Kalk Park on Pumpkin Day, parades and picnics for the Fourth of July, the Village’s Centennial celebration, and the passing of the Olympic torch in 2002. Glencoe is tied up in Boy and Girl Scout neckerchiefs, rings with the voices in church choirs, prays at the Village’s ecumenical Thanksgiving service, and sparkles with the holiday lights that encircle the trees in the business district from November through January. Its history has been recorded since the turn of the past century in, among others, the Glencoe Reminder, the Glenettka Window, and today’s Glencoe News, as well as volumes from the Glencoe Historical Society and throughout the national media.

      This book came about quickly, through the request for the Glencoe Historical Society to create a picture-history of the Village. Having just arrived in its new home, the Eklund History Center and Garden, the Society’s collection was in boxes, packed away after a move from Watts Center. But in a short time—five months—the authors uncovered enough photos, did a great deal of research, and wrote the accompanying chapter introductions and captions. Each Ellen packed up and sold a house during this time. Ellen Kettler Paseltiner set up the Eklund Center Research Library. Ellen Shubart attended meetings of the Glencoe Historic Preservation and Plan Commissions. The book was completed with time snatched from families, from moving, and from jobs.

      Ellen Kettler Paseltiner, an attorney who formerly worked with the National Trust for Historic Preservation, is a 20-year resident of Glencoe. She is Research Center Director of the Glencoe Historical Society. She was instrumental in peeling back the history of the Village like an onion, getting to the center of each issue, and checking the accuracy of the text. As she opened box after box, pictures were retrieved and scrapbooks read to find data and dates. Ellen Shubart, who has lived in Glencoe since 1972, is President of the society. The two are on a hard-working board that is forwarding the mission of the Society begun in the 1930s: to collect and preserve data—books, photographs, artifacts and maps—concerning the history of the Village, and to help the public learn about Glencoe from its new home, a spacious former barn and glorious garden.

      One of Glencoe’s oldest documents, Gormley’s Map of Glencoe, dubbed the Village Queen of Suburbs. In Glencoe Lights 100 Candles, the Village’s Centennial commemoration book, Glencoe was described as an America in microcosm … (an) imperfect paradise. Those hold true today. Dr. Hammond’s vision appears to have been more than met. And the two Ellens are delighted to present this photographic history as a vision of how that was accomplished.

      A 1915 aerial view of the Glencoe Train Station, a Village landmark since it was built in 1891.

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      EARLY GLENCOE

      QUEEN OF SUBURBS

      The Native Americans were here first; they walked softly and left arrowheads to remind us of their presence. They hunted the wild game in the heavily wooded ravines and fished in Lake Michigan and the Skokie marsh, but lived on the flatter lands to the west and south.

      In 1835, when Chicago was barely two years old and had a population of less than 500, Anson Taylor, a young storekeeper, builder, and trader, came north along the lake

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