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4626 N. Knox
Posted by:
Mercer52
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Date: January 29, 2014 06:09PM
I drove by the Irish American Heritage Center yesterday--such an impressive building. I gather that it used to be a school. Does anyone what the school's name was or anything else about the building's history?
Re: 4626 N. Knox
Posted by:
rjmachon
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Date: January 29, 2014 07:54PM
I believe the IAHC was formed in 1976 according to Manta. I could not find out what year the building was built or what the name was. The city and Cook County Assessor's Office don't show the age of the building. I was there for a wedding around 1990 myself.
Here is what I found for you,
http://chicago.about.com/od/museumsattractions/p/IrishCulturalCt.htm
and their web site,
http://irish-american.org/
Here is what I found for you,
http://chicago.about.com/od/museumsattractions/p/IrishCulturalCt.htm
and their web site,
http://irish-american.org/
Re: 4626 N. Knox
Posted by:
WayOutWardell
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Date: January 29, 2014 08:10PM
I believe it used to be Mayfair School.
Re: 4626 N. Knox
Posted by:
rjmachon
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Date: January 29, 2014 09:23PM
You are correct WayOutWardell, it was the Mayfair School.
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 01/29/2014 09:23PM by rjmachon.
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 01/29/2014 09:23PM by rjmachon.
Re: 4626 N. Knox
Posted by:
Mornac
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Date: January 29, 2014 10:29PM
Questions about Mayfair: I seem to remember it being one of the early City Colleges of Chicago, yet the building looks an awful lot like a CPS high school. Was there a "conversion" at some point? I also remember it being somehow tied to Amundsen High School. Maybe it was some sort of night school thing? There must be someone her a little older than I who would remember something.
Re: 4626 N. Knox
Posted by:
WayOutWardell
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Date: January 29, 2014 11:11PM
Mornac Wrote:
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> Questions about Mayfair: I seem to remember it
> being one of the early City Colleges of Chicago,
> yet the building looks an awful lot like a CPS
> high school. Was there a "conversion" at some
> point? I also remember it being somehow tied to
> Amundsen High School. Maybe it was some sort of
> night school thing? There must be someone her a
> little older than I who would remember something.
Did a bit of searching - I did find numerous mentions of Amundsen-Mayfair Junior College in some education directories, mostly from the mid-60s. The earliest mention is from '63 and the last from '74.
IAHC took over in '85 - was it vacant until then?
There's mention of the Mayfair School principal, Annie S. Newman, in a 1914 almanac, so the building is at least that old.
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> Questions about Mayfair: I seem to remember it
> being one of the early City Colleges of Chicago,
> yet the building looks an awful lot like a CPS
> high school. Was there a "conversion" at some
> point? I also remember it being somehow tied to
> Amundsen High School. Maybe it was some sort of
> night school thing? There must be someone her a
> little older than I who would remember something.
Did a bit of searching - I did find numerous mentions of Amundsen-Mayfair Junior College in some education directories, mostly from the mid-60s. The earliest mention is from '63 and the last from '74.
IAHC took over in '85 - was it vacant until then?
There's mention of the Mayfair School principal, Annie S. Newman, in a 1914 almanac, so the building is at least that old.
Re: 4626 N. Knox
Posted by:
Mercer52
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Date: January 30, 2014 12:22AM
I found mention of the building first as Mayfair Grammar School, then Mayfair Junior College, then the Irish Cultural Center.
Re: 4626 N. Knox
Posted by:
trainutlen
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Date: January 30, 2014 08:17AM
I attended Amundsen from 1963-1967. Mayfair City College had night classes in part of the building. Off topic, I was the last CPS January graduating class and graduated from Amundsen the night of the 1967 blizzard
Re: 4626 N. Knox
Posted by:
rjmachon
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Date: January 30, 2014 03:39PM
Originally this was Jefferson High School until it closed its doors in 1910 when the nearby Carl Schurz High School was completed and students were sent there. The school was eventually razed and the Mayfair Elementary School was built there on that site. Then turned into the IAHC.
This should give you some idea when Mayfair was built. I just don't know how long eventually is.
This should give you some idea when Mayfair was built. I just don't know how long eventually is.
Re: 4626 N. Knox
Posted by:
nordsider
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Date: January 30, 2014 04:51PM
This may be helpful, two Mayfair schools are listed on this map:
School map of Chicago - year 1914
http://www.lib.uchicago.edu/e/collections/maps/chi1900/G4104-C6E68-1914-C7.html
School map of Chicago - year 1914
http://www.lib.uchicago.edu/e/collections/maps/chi1900/G4104-C6E68-1914-C7.html
Re: 4626 N. Knox
Posted by:
lois
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Date: February 02, 2014 12:23AM
Mayfair College which used to be located at 4626 N. Knox moved to 1145 W. Wilson in 1976 and was renamed Harry S Truman College, one of the City Colleges of Chicago.
Re: 4626 N. Knox
Posted by:
lalawmedmba
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Date: June 25, 2015 07:53PM
I attended Mayfair College at 4626 N. Knox Avenue from February 1971 to August 1972, earning a Diploma in Arts. At that time it was affiliated with another campus, Amundsen, in northeastern Chicago, and they were jointly called Amundsen-Mayfair College, one of many campuses of the Chicago City College system, replaced by the newly constructed facility, Truman College, c. 1974. I also attended Truman a few years later, after earning degrees from Northeastern Illinois U. and the University of Illinois, Chicago Circle Campus.
Dr. Lew Amack
J.D., U WASHINGTON
M.D.-PhD. (Biol.) program, U ILLINOIS
National Boards in Medicine, 6/82
M.B.A. with Honors, CALIFORNIA STATE U, LOS ANGELES (CSULA)
PhD. program, Policy Analysis, RAND GRADUATE SCHOOL
M.A., Sociology, U IL
M.S., Psychology, CSULA
B.A., Sociology, NORTHEASTERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY
A.A., LOS ANGELES CITY COLLEGE
Diploma in Arts, MAYFAIR COLLEGE
Certificate, Accounting, CALIFORNIA BUSINESS COLLEGE
Certificate, Computer Programming, CONTROL DATA INSTITUTE, 2/90
Dr. Lew Amack
J.D., U WASHINGTON
M.D.-PhD. (Biol.) program, U ILLINOIS
National Boards in Medicine, 6/82
M.B.A. with Honors, CALIFORNIA STATE U, LOS ANGELES (CSULA)
PhD. program, Policy Analysis, RAND GRADUATE SCHOOL
M.A., Sociology, U IL
M.S., Psychology, CSULA
B.A., Sociology, NORTHEASTERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY
A.A., LOS ANGELES CITY COLLEGE
Diploma in Arts, MAYFAIR COLLEGE
Certificate, Accounting, CALIFORNIA BUSINESS COLLEGE
Certificate, Computer Programming, CONTROL DATA INSTITUTE, 2/90
