PaperWatercolor

Technique: Watercolor

Lakeshore ChapelCampbell RoadLakeshore DriveShorewoodChurch

14 in

16 in

Excellent

From “Keeping an Eye on History” at the OSH 2018 Lakeshore Chapel in Winter Louie Gelin watercolor, no date the story | It is said that this summertime chapel (1904), at Campbell Road and Lakeshore Drive, was invented at a businessman’s lunch meeting at the coffee shop of Marshal Field’s department store in Chicago. Architect Harry Walker, a student of Frank Lloyd Wright, provided its simple design in the Arts & Crafts manner. Lore also has it that funding for the building was begun by penny collections made by Sunday School students. Lakeshore Chapel is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. the artist | Louie Gelin (1896-1972), born in New York, worked as a commercial artist in advertising in Chicago and later moved to Saugatuck. SDHC Collection, gift of Kenneth R. Carls and James A. Schmiechen Accession number 2018.13.11