Notes to Pages 3–15 209 Notes Introduction 1. Miller, Prairie Spirit in Landscape Gardening, 2. 2. Ibid. 3. Bruegmann, Architects and the City, 3. The name Chicago is thought to be a French variant of a Native American term for “wild onion.” 4. Eslinger, “Gardening.” 5. D. Miller, City of the Century, 88. 6. Bruegmann, Architects and the City, 3. 7. Karamanski, “Civil War”; see also his Rally ’Round the Flag. 8. Bruegmann, Architects and the City, 4. 9. Sclair, “Cemeteries.” 10. Chappell, Chicago’s Urban Nature, 154. 11. Ibid. 12. D. Miller, City of the Century, 284. 13. Fuller’s With the Procession (1895), quoted in Andrews, Architecture, Ambition, and Americans, 199. 14. Chappell, Chicago’s Urban Nature, 154. 15. Ibid. 16. Sullivan, Autobiography of an Idea, 243–44. 17. Hubbard and Kimball, Introduction to the Study of Landscape Design, 64–65. 1. Thomas Barbour Bryan and the Genesis of Graceland 1. National Cyclopaedia of American Biography, 3:170. See also the entries in Johnson and Malone, Dictionary of American Biography, 2:190–91; and Who Was Who in America, 1:153. Chapter 8 in Berens, Elmhurst (77–95), is devoted to Bryan. Berens writes: “As an undergraduate he specialized in languages: German, French, Italian, Latin and Greek. Before his graduation he wrote a novel textbook ‘For Germans more easily to learn English,’ which was published by Appleton’s and ran through several editions” (79). In Chicago, the Bryans’ addresses included Michigan Avenue at Madison Street, Wabash Avenue at Jackson Street, and Division Street at Lake Shore Drive (79). Bryan’s father, Daniel Bryan, also an attorney and a state senator in Virginia, was a poet whose verses won the respect of Edgar Allan Poe; see Binns, “Daniel Bryan.” 210 Notes to Pages 15–17 2. Johnson and Malone, Dictionary of American Biography, 2:190–91. 3. “Gallery of Local Celebrities, No. XVI. – Thomas B. Bryan,” Chicago Tribune , 13 May 1900, 39. 4. Ibid.; see also Russell, Elmhurst, 25. 5. Funigiello, Florence Lathrop Page, 16; and “Gallery of Local Celebrities.” 6. The hall was at 119–21 North Clark Street. For the site’s later history see “RKO Grand Theater,” in Randall, Building Construction in Chicago, 71. 7. Bryan Hall, Clark Street, Opposite the Court House, Chicago, Illinois (1860), Chicago History Museum, “Programs, unbound and arranged by years, 1861– 1862”; it may also be seen at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.rbc/rbpe.01807500. In this promotional broadside, “Real Estate Attorney and Counsellor at Law” Bryan describes the building in detail and also advertises his real estate investment practice. 8. “Bryan’s New Music Hall—Noble and National Art Decorations,” Chicago Press and Tribune, 20 March 1860, 1. See also the following articles in the Chicago Press and Tribune: “Bryan Hall,” 5 September 1860, 1; “The Dedication of Bryan Hall,” 18 September 1860, 1; “Bryan Hall and Portrait Gallery,” 18 October 1860, 1. On the building’s frescoes, by the well-known Chicago firm of Jevne & Almini, see “House Painting,” 27 July 1860, 1. 9. Berens, Elmhurst, 80. Berens writes that Bryan Hall “was the chief center of musical and theatrical activities, as well as a hub of the social life of the city. Here Chicago society held its great balls and masquerades; here appeared the leading singers, musicians, and entertainers of the time; and here the leading singing societies gave their concerts.” 10. “Ralph Waldo Emerson’s Lecture,” Chicago Tribune, 23 January 1863, 4. 11. Berens, Elmhurst, 80. 12. Laura Kendall Thomas, “Story of Hill Cottage, Later Called Cottage Hill Tavern,” typescript dated 18 November 1936, Elmhurst Historical Museum, Elmhurst, Ill. I thank Nancy Wilson, archivist at the Elmhurst Historical Museum, for supplying me with a copy of this document. According to Thomas, Bryan made the purchase in October 1856. See also Russell, Elmhurst, 13–35; and “Cottage Hill,” Chicago Tribune, 4 October 1867, 2. 13. Berens identifies the site as the Peter Fippinger farmhouse, on County Line Road, where the Bryans lived for a short time in 1857 and 1858. Berens, Elmhurst, 81. In 1936 Elmhurst pioneer Wilbur Hagans recalled: “At the time of my arrival in Cottage Hill, Nov. 9, 1857, Thomas Bryan and family were living at the extreme western edge of Cook County, in a one story frame house at what was then known as ‘The Grove.’” See Bio 1 – Bryan, Thomas (biographical file), Elmhurst Historical Museum, hereafter cited as Bryan file, EHS. See also “Fippinger Family” and “Life in ‘Proviso’ (1850– 1900...