Cuckoo Clock House
During the late 19th century, Chicago's booming brewing industry produced wealthy brewery owners, many of German descent, who built grand residential mansions in the Wicker Park neighborhood of Chicago and Pierce Ave became known as Beer Barons Row.
One of these is the elaborate residence built for Herman Weinhardt, who wasn't a beer baron, but a prosperous businessman who served as president of the Weinhardt City Pump Company.
Constructed during the neighborhood's post-Chicago Fire building boom, the home reflects the wealth of the prominent German-American industrialists who settled along the tree-lined streets of Wicker Park in the late 19th century.
The Herman Weinhardt House is often informally nicknamed the "cuckoo clock house".
It earned the nickname because of its steep chalet-like roof line and ornate wooden gingerbread trim, that are reminiscent of traditional Black Forest cuckoo clocks
The Cuckoo Clock house has one of the more sprawling, beautifully landscaped side lots along Pierce Avenue, The life-size stone aheep ornamwnts add a pastoral charm to the city plot
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What a charming place! The design of the Cuckoo Clock House is so unique, and it looks like something straight out of a storybook. Thanks for sharing these lovely photos.
I'm glad you enjoyed the photos! It is a unique house.
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It has a lot of character. I'm glad you shared it with us!
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It's incredible how all details are kept intact. Nice house.
Chicago has some amazing architecture.
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This is some rich history, one I never knew about AT ALL. The building is creative architecture at it's finest. It's magnificent and I love the warmth that comes from just looking at it.
Thank you for sharing this lovely post with us!🌺
I'm so glad you enjoyed seeing this one! I'm happy to be able to show you some of the incredible architecture in Chicago.
The house design is beautiful, but my attention was drawn to the yard's nature decor; the atmosphere looks so cool and refreshing.
there is such a dense shade canopy of under those big trees but the ferns, dense hydrangeas, hostas, and ivy are thriving.
It looks very picturesque; I love well-preserved old architecture. It gives it a classic and unique touch, and I love the variety of colors. And I didn't know that fact that it's known for being the home of the cuckoo clock; it has a lot of similarity.
Very beautiful Cuckoo Clock house.
And I have a question - what happened next with the Germans? In the First World War and the Second World War?
My great great grandparents were German immigrants,. By the time of the wars the children in the family had attended American schools and were speaking passable English. They were mostly hard working farmers and skilled barn builders. I think they were known and respected enough in their rural communities, where most everyone else had also immigrated here that they didn't have too many difficulties. They did stop speaking German, but still maintained many of the cultural traditions and cooked German food.
It's great if they weren't looked at as enemies. In Russia, in the USSR, it was just the opposite. Moreover, in the 90s it turned out that in our town there are many descendants from German prisoners who were here during the First World War. There is even a monument in the cemetery to the captured Germans who died at that time. But the attitude towards the Germans was completely different in the 40s of the last century. And this is understandable. There were also a lot of prisoners, but there is a terrible story about how a train with prisoners arrived and no one opened the wagons until the voices stopped. And in the 90s, when people began to be given land for building houses, they found a lot of guests and skulls in the ground. This was the place where people were dragged out of the wagons and buried. I read the articles in the local newspaper then, but they haven't said anything about it for 30 years... It's scary.
So even in the noughties, some of my friends went to live in Germany as repositories. One of them was a girl, my colleague. Recently, her friend told me that Lena's husband died and she wants to come live at home.
But the buildings that the captured Germans made before 1917 are still functioning perfectly. And there is an amazing story about the city's water supply system, which was then built by these people. Before that, there was no running water in the city.
Wow, so beautiful building! ❤️ I love it, it reminds me a fairy tale. 🌸
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I love houses with gingerbread trim!
This was fun to see.
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Now that’s a house with character.
Very beautiful structure like Disney kind of thing. Is this place a tourist spot now or a private place, I noticed some chairs...