Author: Thumb & Four Fingers

50 Trees at Graceland Cemetery

Graceland Cemetery is a Certified Arboretum

1 White Pine (Evergreen)
2 Northern Pin Oak
3 Bass Wood
4 Black Walnut
5 Black Locust
6 Freeman Maple
7 Sweet Gum
8 Thornless Honeylocust
9 Sassafrass
10 Common Persimmo
11 Red Oak
12 Kentucky Coffee Tree
13 Mulberry
14 Tulip Tree
15 Chinkapin Oak
16 Yellowwood
17 Red Bud
18 Crabapple
19 Sugar Maple
20 Japanese Tree Lilac
21 Weeping Willow
22 Norway Maple
23 Hophornbeam
24 Sycamore
25 Cornealianberry Dogwood
26 Sour Cherry
27 Horsechestnut
28 Apple
29 Downy Hawthorn
30 Amour Corktree
31 Norway Spruce (Evergreen)
32 European Beech
33 Choke Cherry
34 Ginkgo
35 Hackberry
36 Boxelder
37 Pin Oak
38 Shagbark Hickory
39 Black Gu
40 Northern Catalpa
41 Camperdown Elm
42 White Poplar
43 Tree of Heaven
44 English Oak
45 Dawn Redwood
46 Star Magnolia
47 Peking Tree Lilac
48 Silver Maple
49 Washington Hawthorn
50 Ohio Buckeye

Gravesites, Graceland Cemetery

Graceland Cemetery, Chicago

August Dickens

Eli Williams (1st 200 Chicagoans)
http://wp.me/p4q0k7-cO

Dexter Graves
http://wp.me/p4q0k7-cQ

William LaBaron Jenney
http://wp.me/p4q0k7-cV

John Kinzie (1st Permanent White Settler)
http://wp.me/p4q0k7-cd

Daniel Elston
http://wp.me/p4q0k7-d1

Jack Johnson (Heavyweight Boxing Champion)
http://wp.me/p4q0k7-d5

Victor Lawson
http://wp.me/p4q0k7-da

John Wellborn Root (Architect)
http://wp.me/p4q0k7-dj

Peter Schoenhogen (Brewer)
http://wp.me/p4q0k7-dr

George Pullman (Railroads)
Exedra
http://wp.me/p4q0k7-dU

Martin Ryerson
Mastaba and Pyramid
http://wp.me/p4q0k7-dZ

Louis Sullivan
Father of Skyscrapers
Form ever follows Function
Designed Tombs of Ryerson and Getty
Ironic that is
http://wp.me/p4q0k7-eb

William Kimball (Piano Maker)
http://wp.me/p4q0k7-eq

William Goodman (Lumber and Patron of the Arts)
http://wp.me/p4q0k7-ez

Potter Palmer (Developed State Street)
http://wp.me/p4q0k7-eR

Charles Wacker
http://wp.me/p4q0k7-fj

John Altgeld
(Lawyer)

Daniel Burnham
(Architect)
http://wp.me/p4q0k7-fs

Getty Tomb

Phillip Armour
(Meat Packer)
“Using all the Pig, except for the squeal”

Mie Van Der Rohe
(Architect)

Richard Nickel

Cyrus McCormick
(Agricultural Machinery)

Marshal Field
(Department Store)

William Hulbert

Alan Pinkerton
(Pinkerton Security)

Laszlo Moholy-Nagy

Howard van Doren Shaw

Inez Clarke
(Interesting Gravesite)

Walter Newberry
(Newberry Library)

Graceland Facts:

Cemetery of Architects
http://wp.me/p4q0k7-el

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:MaCHVdqkF48J:nwks.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/Chicago-Tribune-Article-August-11-2013.pdf+&cd=5&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us

History of Chicago (The Chicago Flag)
http://wp.me/p4q0k7-fD

Those not Buried at Graceland:

Despite the Grave marker Architect William LaBaron Jenney is not buried at Graceland
His ashes were scattered around the grave of his wife: _________

Unmarked Graves:
Jack Johnson, Heavyweight Boxing Champion

Statues:
Eternal Silence (Lorado Taft)