Chicago - Japanese Tea Houses - Jackson Park - 1912
by John Madison
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Chicago - Japanese Tea Houses - Jackson Park - 1912
Artist
John Madison
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Digital Art - Digital
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Japanese Teahouses
"The Tea House was originally part of the Osaka Japanese Garden in Jackson Park
Created during the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition, with a garden and a Japanese Ho-O Den [Phoenix Temple] for the government of Japan, as a pavilion for the exposition. The "phoenix" emblem, apparently, was a reference Chicago rising like the mythical firebird from the ashes of the Great Chicago Fire of 1871. It was designed by Landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted. After the Fair, even as most of the Fair was burned or torn down, the garden and the Ho-O Den Pavilion remained intact.
For the 1933 Century of Progress, the government of Japan, constructed a traditional Nippon Tea House at the Century of Progress World's Fair and also created a garden on Jack Park’s Wooded Island's northeast side and refurbished the Ho-O Den.
Shortly after the start of the Second World War, the buildings were destroyed by fire and the garden was virtually abandoned."
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