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Save Maxwell Street's Heritage
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The unique history of Chicago's Maxwell Street neighborhood deserves to be preserved and that is the mission of the Maxwell Street Foundation (MSF).
If you are researching the history of the Maxwell Street neighborhood, please check out these articles:
"Maxwell Street, Still Hanging On,"
"Requiem for Maxwell Street,"
"Some Thoughts (Possibly Final) About Maxwell Street,"
Our National Register nomination.
To navigate the rest of the Maxwell Street Foundation web site, just page down to see the different sections.
To add your own Maxwell Street memories, write in our guestbook.
To contact us via email, click here.
Follow us Facebook.
To make a secure, tax-deductible donation to the MSF via PayPal using your PayPal account or any major credit card, click on the DONATE button below.
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Save Chicago's First German School
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The two-story brick building at 1352 South Union Street in the Maxwell Street neighborhood most recently served as Gethsemane Missionary Baptist Church (1935-2002), but it was built in 1869 as a German School, the first in Chicago. It is one of the city's last pre-fire buildings and the last unprotected building in the Maxwell Street neighborhood. It should be preserved. Click here for a short summary of the historic evaluation of it by architectural historian Nicola Spasoff, Ph.D. Click here to view or download Dr. Spasoff's full report in PDF format. (Click here if you need the free Adobe Acrobat reader.) Contact us if you have suggestions about how to save this historic landmark. |
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The Maxwell Street Collection |
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The Maxwell Street Collection is a history of the Maxwell Street Market and community as told in eleven powerful images by Chicago's top photographers. It spans 1937 to 2000 and features the work of Tom Arndt, Patty Carroll, Ron Gordon, James Iska, Jack Jaffe, Kenneth Josephson, Nathan Lerner, Tom Palazzolo, Marc PoKempner, Bob Thall, and Jay Wolke. Proceeds from sales of the limited-edition fine art portfolio benefit the Maxwell Street Foundation. Click here to view. Click here for more information. |
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News Update |
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If it has anything to do with Maxwell Street and the activities of the Maxwell Street Foundation, you can read all about it here. (With links to stories in our News Archive too.)
The News Update page is in chronological order, with the most recent stories first. It goes back to 1997. (Photo by Bernie Beckman, c. 1964) |
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Upcoming Events |
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Find
out about current and upcoming events, brush up
on the issues surrounding the Maxwell Street controversy and find out what
you can do to help.
This page could also be titled "Miscellaneous." An earlier form of this page was the first Maxwell Street content I put up here. (Photo by Tom Palazzolo, 1961) |
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Buy Something |
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Get the new Maxwell Street "Birthplace of the Chicago Blues" poster (shown, left) and other great Maxwell Street merchandise directly from the Maxwell Street Foundation (MSF). Proceeds from sales help the MSF preserve Maxwell Street's heritage. Click here for official Maxwell Street stuff sold by the MSF. Click here for Maxwell Street-related CDs, videos and books from other sources. |
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