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October 15, 2016 Bill Swislow

Prairie Style Masterpiece

Carl Schurz High School is one of Chicago’s most beautiful school buildings and was included on the 2016 Open House Chicago tour.

The beautiful Dwight Perkins-designed Carl Schurz High School, opened 1910

Carl Schurz High School front view

Carl Schurz High School

Carl Schurz High School side view

Carl Schurz High School

The Carl Schurz library, originally the school auditorium

The Carl Schurz library, originally the school auditorium

Chicago afire in the Carl Schurz library mural

The dome in the Carl Schurz library

Abraham Lincoln portrait in the Carl Schurz library

Mark Twain portrait in the Carl Schurz library

The organ console in the Carl Schurz auditorium. Organ pipes at right

My brother-in-law Joe Franz heads for home in the 1966 Carl Schurz yearbook

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