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Every Nook and Cranny: Engineering a Partnership of 19th and 21st Century Technologies

June 6, 2014
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Kris Hartzell is the Director of Facilities and Visitor Services, as well as our resident architectural historian. Many Evanstonians who passed by the Evanston History Center during the past year noticed an increased level of activity surrounding the Dawes House, from fencing and scaffolding to trucks and heavy digging equipment. The concern expressed by the…

National Collaborative for Women’s History Sites

April 7, 2014
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Lori Osborne is the Archivist at the Evanston History Center and Director of the Evanston Women’s History Project. This post was originally written on the Evanston Women’s History Project website . The Evanston Women’s History Project, located in the Evanston History Center, is pleased to announce a new partnership with the National Collaborative for Women’s History…

Our new heating (and cooling) system is live!

February 11, 2014
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Eden Juron Pearlman is the Executive Director of the Evanston History Center. In her spare time she traverses small mountains of snow on her walk to work, shovels snow and drives her kids to school because it is too cold to walk. Isn’t this just the craziest winter? I have lived in the Chicago area…

December 29, 1863

December 29, 2013
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For several years now, we’ve been planning the 150th anniversary of the incorporation of Evanston as a town on December 29, 1863. We’ve held a brainstorming process called Evanston150, resulting in ten big ideas for Evanston’s future, and planned a celebratory year that has included multiple anniversary events and the collection of more than a…

Week 8

October 5, 2013
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The new landscaping of the grounds is nearly complete. Grass seed has been planted and straw mulch is covering the seeds and earth. Six new trees have been planted, five on the lawn. One is next to the terrace, replacing the old burr oak that went down in a storm a few years ago. We…

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