The James Merrill House is on the docket for consideration at the upcoming National Historic Landmark Committee Meeting! Poet James Merrill lived here with his male lover for many years. As a poet, James Merrill valued, cultivated and renewed poetry’s traditional practices, and at the same time was boldly experimental. He himself described his poems as…
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Chicago’s Henry Gerber House designated a National Historic Landmark
In recognition of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LBGT) Pride Month, U.S. Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell today announced that the Henry Gerber House in Chicago, Illinois, has been designated a National Historic Landmark, becoming the nation’s second LGBT related property to achieve such recognition. Once the residence of noted gay rights activist Henry…
Chicago’s Henry Gerber House wins unanimous support from National Historic Landmarks Committee
On February 12, 2015 the National Historic Landmarks Committee, chaired by Dr. Stephen Pitti of Yale University, unanimously approved the nomination of the Henry Gerber House at 1710 North Crilly Court, Chicago, Illinois to move forward as a National Historic Landmark (NHL). The nomination goes next to the National Park Service Advisory Board in May…
Join the Rainbow Heritage Network in supporting National Historic Landmark designation for Chicago’s Gerber House
Rainbow Heritage Network strongly supports acceptance of the Henry Gerber home at 1710 North Crilly Court, Chicago, IL as a National Historic Landmark (NHL). The site has extraordinary civil rights significance as the place where the first chartered group was organized to advocate for the civil rights of homosexuals. The organization lasted from 1924 to…
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