The buildings of The University of Chicago's original quadrangles were patterned after those of Oxford and Cambridge.
Location & Visitor Info
The diverse neighborhoods surrounding the campus are among Chicago's most beautiful and historic—close to Lake Michigan and a short drive or 10-minute train to McCormick Place, and a few minutes more to Soldier Field, Chicago's Museum Campus, the Art Institute, Millennium Park, The Loop, and shopping on Michigan Avenue.
University Quarters Bed & Breakfast & Suites is a short walk to all departments of The University of Chicago and its Medical Center.
The B&B is one and one-half blocks from a city CTA bus stop (including a bus to Midway Airport) and four blocks from a Metra train for a 10-minute ride to McCormick Place and an 18-minute ride to The Loop and Chicago events.
Four blocks from the B&B and next to the university's Main Quadrangles is the Seminary Co-op Bookstore, the largest academic bookstore in the U.S.
You will also be close to The University of Chicago's Oriental Institute Museum, Court Theatre, Smart Museum, Renaissance Society Museum, and Doc Films, as well as Hyde Park's restaurants and stores.
And nearby are Frank Lloyd Wright's Robie House, the Museum of Science and Industry, the Hyde Park Art Center, and the DuSable Museum of African American History.
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Frank Lloyd Wright's Robie House
Hull Gate entrance to the Main Quadrangles
In the middle of the Midway Plaisance, the 264-foot Ferris Wheel created by George Ferris dominated the horizon during the 1893 Columbian Exposition.
The "Fountain of Time" sculpture by Lorado Taft, in Washington Park at the west end of the Midway Plaisance
Buildings on The University of Chicago's Main Quadrangles
Spring on the Midway Plaisance, designed in 1870 by Frederick Law Olmsted
Carl Linnaeus statue on the Midway Plaisance
Botany Pond Bridge , The University of Chicago
The Palace of Fine Arts (currently the Museum of Science and Industry), one of the only buildings still standing from the Columbian Exposition.
The 1893 Columbian Exposition's neo-classic buildings surrounding the Grand Basin (reflecting pool) in the Court of Honor at the center of the " White City."
The "World's Columbian Exposition" of 1893, led by architect Daniel Burnham and landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted, was held in Jackson Park and the Midway Plaisance. The Columbian Exposition provides the backdrop for Devil in the White City by Eric Larson.