Riverside Park (Riverside Community)

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Creator Olmstead, Vaux & Co. -- Planners -- American; Jenney, Schermerhorn and Bogart -- Architects, Planners -- American
Title Riverside Park (Riverside Community)
Spatial Coverage Riverside, Illinois, United States
Description Riverside Improvement Co. Building (now the F. C. Withers' Arcade Building), ca. 1871, designed by architect Frederick C. Withers. It was the first commercial building erected after the commissioning of the General Plan of Riverside. This building housed the offices of the original developers of Riverside as planned by Calvert Vaux and Frederick Law Olmsted. Photo June 1982.
Work Dates 1868-70
Date Earliest 1868
Century 19
Culture American
Subject Inhabited places -- Planned communities; Commercial buildings; Architectural elements -- Walls -- Exterior walls -- Facades -- Storefronts
Image Source Peter Goss.
Rights Digital image copyright 2007, Peter Goss, University of Utah. All rights reserved.
Contributing Institution University of Utah
CA+P Accession No. PG-0072
Format image/jpeg
Type Image
Digitization Specifications Scanned with a Nikon LS-4000 ED film scanner and saved as uncompressed TIFF. Color corrected manually in Photoshop CS and converted to JPEG.
ARK ark:/87278/s66h4mqx
Setname uu_cap_coa
ID 90054
Reference URL https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s66h4mqx
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