Fuller Park (Chicago park)

Fuller Park is a public park at 331 W. 45th Street in the neighborhood of the same name in Chicago, Illinois. The park was one of several built by the South Park Commission in the early 20th century to provide parks in dense and poor South Side Chicago neighborhoods which lacked them. While most of the South Park Commission parks opened in the mid-1900s, work on Fuller Park did not begin until 1910 due to a dispute over its location, and its facilities gradually opened over the next four years. The park was named for Melville Fuller, an Illinois native and former Chief Justice of the United States. The South Park Commission designed the park's landscape in a similar style to their earlier parks, which had been designed by the Olmsted Brothers; D. H. Burnham and Company designed its buildings, as they had for the earlier parks. The park originally included a Beaux-Arts fieldhouse, a gymnasium, a bathhouse, a grandstand, and a running track and walking paths.[2]

For the neighborhood, see Fuller Park, Chicago.

Fuller Park
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
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Location	331 W. 45th St., Chicago, Illinois
Coordinates	41°48′46″N 87°38′03″W
Area	10.5 acres (4.2 ha)
Architect	Burnham, D.H. & Co.; South Park Commission
Architectural style	Beaux Arts
MPS	Chicago Park District MPS
NRHP reference No.	02001347[1]
Added to NRHP	November 20, 2002

The park was added to the National Register of Historic Places on November 20, 2002.[1]

References

1. "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. November 2, 2013.
2. Bachrach, Julia Sniderman (June 5, 2002). "National Register of Historic Places Registration Form: Fuller Park" (PDF). Illinois Historic Preservation Division. Retrieved October 13, 2019.