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To protect, serve, foster and perpetuate the distinctive Architectural and Historical qualities of Chicago Heights.
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Circa 1893
Circa 1913
Circa 1952
Chicago Heights Historic Preservation Advisory Committee
| In Memory |
On August 23, 2009, the Chicago Heights Historic
instrumental member of our Committee, our Chair
and historian, Barbara Paul. She was a complete
Preservation Advisory Committee lost a friend and
preservationist, not only restoring her own home
and others beautifully with her husband, John, but
an advocate, educator and mentor. She was also a
great friend to us all and her absence will leave a
hole as no other.
instrumental member of our Committee, our Chair
and historian, Barbara Paul. She was a complete
Preservation Advisory Committee lost a friend and
preservationist, not only restoring her own home
and others beautifully with her husband, John, but
an advocate, educator and mentor. She was also a
great friend to us all and her absence will leave a
hole as no other.
In December 2009, the Preservation Advisory
Committee lost another friend and member, Kelley
Papiez. Kelley was an active and important member
of our committee who was friendly, thoughtful, full
of insight, and very funny. She will be very much
missed by us all.
Committee lost another friend and member, Kelley
Papiez. Kelley was an active and important member
of our committee who was friendly, thoughtful, full
of insight, and very funny. She will be very much
missed by us all.
Therefore, when we build, let us think that we build for ever. Let it not be for present
delight, nor for present use alone; let it be such work as our descendants will thank us for,
and let us think, as we lay stone on stone, that a time is to come when those stones will be
held sacred because our hands have touched them, and that men will say as they look upon
the labor and wrought substance of them, "See! this our fathers did for us." For, indeed,
the greatest glory of a building is not in its stones, or in its gold. Its glory is in its Age. "
John Ruskin
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