Photo Record
Images
Metadata
Title |
Oak Lawn Garden Club Planting Project |
Accession Number |
2020.136.014 |
Object Name |
Print, Photographic |
Description |
This is a photograph of members of Girl Scout Troop 60330 from Sward School helping Oak Lawn Garden Club members plant flowers in one of the beds along the east side of the Oak Lawn Public Library at Cook Avenue and 95th Street. The flower beds are planted with annuals and perennials each year by members of the Oak Lawn Garden Club. Garden Club president Marilyn McDonald, in a white shirt, is seen kneeling on the side of the bed surrounded by Girl Scout helpers. In the background, past the intersection of 95th Street and Cook Avenue, gray lumber storage buildings belonging to the I.N.R. Beatty Lumber Company can be seen on the south side of the railroad tracks. The I.N.R. Beatty Lumber Company was located at 9437 South 52nd Avenue and it had storage sheds on both the east and west sides of 52nd Avenue. Opened around 1928, the lumber company closed its Oak Lawn location in 2010 and the buildings were demolished in June of 2016. An Advocate Medical Group building now sits on the site of the lumber company east of 52nd Avenue, while the medical center's parking lot sits on the site of the storage sheds west of 52nd Avenue. Also partially visible in this photograph, in the right background, is the six story Prairie Town Center condominium complex which was built on the former Cook School site at 9526 South Cook Avenue. An AT&T store, located at 5251 West 95th Street, is on the southwest corner of the intersection. |
Date |
05/26/2012 |
Classification |
People Clubs and Organizations Libraries Landscape Gardens & Yards Nature Streets Schools Children Business & Commerce Railroads Transportation |
Search Terms |
Photos Photographs Pictures OLPL Girl Scouts of America Businesses Redevelopment Intersections Railroads |