Kosciuszko Park is a park located at 2732 N. Avers Ave. Situated along the northern boundary of Chicago's Logan Squarecommunity area at Diversey, it is heavily frequented by residents of Avondale and is considered to be part of Jackowo.
Kosciuszko Park was commissioned in 1914 and completed in 1916; the Northwest Park District, one of Chicago's many park districts of the early twentieth century, opened the park as part of its efforts to add neighborhood parks in Northwest Chicago. As the park's original layout and landscape has changed over time, the fieldhouse is the main surviving piece of its original design. Architect Albert Arthur Schwartz began the design of the building; however, he was replaced by Frederick William Bowes halfway through its construction. The two men gave the fieldhouse a Tudor Revival design with a large half-timberedgable.[2] The fieldhouse was added to the National Register of Historic Places on October 16, 2013.[1]
Kosciuszko Park has long been a community center for Chicago's Northwest Side. The park once housed one of the Chicago Public Library's most frequented branches before it was closed in the 1950s, as well as one of the first two Polish Language Schools in Chicago, Polska Szkoła im. Tadeusza Kościuszki. The Polish School still continues to this day, albeit in a different location as it outgrew the fieldhouse facilities.
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^Тадэвуш Касцюшка — ганаровы грамадзянін Францыі, нацыянальны герой ЗША, Польшчы і Беларусі // Звязда. — 1994. — 23 сак.
^Bartłomiej Szyndler, Powstanie kościuszkowskie 1794, Warszawa 1994, passim.
