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Benjamin F. Ferguson

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Benjamin Franklin Ferguson (died 1905) was an American lumber merchant and co-founder of the Santee River Cypress Lumber Company. [1]

42 relations: Art Institute of Chicago, Art Institute of Chicago Building, Blackwater river, Carl Milles, Chicago, Chicago (magazine), Chicago Pile-1, Chicago Sun-Times, Community areas in Chicago, Ferguson, South Carolina, Fountain of the Great Lakes, Fountain of Time, Francis Beidler, Ghost town, Grant Park (Chicago), Henry Bacon, Henry Moore, Illinois, Illinois Centennial Monument, Isamu Noguchi, Ivan Meštrović, Jackson Boulevard District and Extension, Lincoln Memorial, Logan Square, Chicago, Lorado Taft, Louise Bourgeois, Lumber, Man Enters the Cosmos, Michigan Avenue (Chicago), Near West Side, Chicago, Nuclear Energy (sculpture), Old-growth forest, Philanthropy, Queen Anne style architecture in the United States, Santee River, South Carolina, Taxodium distichum, The Bowman and The Spearman, Time (magazine), Time Inc., United States, United States dollar.

Art Institute of Chicago

The Art Institute of Chicago, founded in 1879 and located in Chicago's Grant Park, is one of the oldest and largest art museums in the United States.

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Art Institute of Chicago Building

The Art Institute of Chicago Building (1893 structure built as the World's Congress Auxiliary Building) houses the Art Institute of Chicago, and is part of the Chicago Landmark Historic Michigan Boulevard District in the Loop community area of Chicago, Illinois.

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Blackwater river

A blackwater river is a type of river with a slow-moving channel flowing through forested swamps or wetlands.

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Carl Milles

Carl Milles (23 June 1875 – 19 September 1955) was a Swedish sculptor.

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Chicago

Chicago, officially the City of Chicago, is the third most populous city in the United States, after New York City and Los Angeles.

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Chicago (magazine)

Chicago is a monthly magazine published by tronc.

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Chicago Pile-1

Chicago Pile-1 (CP-1) was the world's first nuclear reactor.

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Chicago Sun-Times

The Chicago Sun-Times is a daily newspaper published in Chicago, Illinois, United States.

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Community areas in Chicago

The community areas in Chicago, as defined by the Social Science Research Committee at the University of Chicago, are 77 divisions of Chicago.

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Ferguson, South Carolina

Ferguson is a ghost town, a former lumber-mill settlement, in Orangeburg County, South Carolina.

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Fountain of the Great Lakes

Fountain of the Great Lakes, or Spirit of the Great Lakes Fountain, is an allegorical sculpture by Lorado Taft in the Art Institute of Chicago South Stanley McCormick Memorial Court south of the Art Institute of Chicago Building in the Loop community area of Chicago.

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Fountain of Time

Fountain of Time, or simply Time, is a sculpture by Lorado Taft, measuring in length, situated at the western edge of the Midway Plaisance within Washington Park in Chicago, Illinois, in the United States.

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Francis Beidler

Francis Beidler (born 1845 (Chicago), died 1924), was a Chicago-based lumberman active in the first decades of the 20th century.

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Ghost town

A ghost town is an abandoned village, town, or city, usually one that contains substantial visible remains.

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Grant Park (Chicago)

Grant Park is a large urban park (319 acres or 1.29 km²) in the Loop community area of Chicago, Illinois.

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Henry Bacon

Henry Bacon (November 28, 1866 – February 16, 1924) was an American Beaux-Arts architect who is best remembered for the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C. (built 1915–22), which was his final project.

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Henry Moore

Henry Spencer Moore (30 July 1898 – 31 August 1986) was an English artist.

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Illinois

Illinois is a state in the Midwestern region of the United States.

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Illinois Centennial Monument

Illinois Centennial Memorial Column, Logan Square Monument or Illinois Centennial Monument is a public monument in the Logan Square community area and the Chicago Landmark and National Register of Historic Places-listed Logan Square Boulevards Historic District.

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Isamu Noguchi

was a Japanese American artist and landscape architect whose artistic career spanned six decades, from the 1920s onward.

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Ivan Meštrović

Ivan Meštrović (Vrpolje, 15 August 1883 - South Bend, 16 January 1962) was a renowned Croatian sculptor, architect and writer of the 20th century.

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Jackson Boulevard District and Extension

The West Jackson Boulevard District in Chicago, Illinois, also known as West Jackson Historic District, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.

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Lincoln Memorial

The Lincoln Memorial is an American national monument built to honor the 16th President of the United States, Abraham Lincoln.

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Logan Square, Chicago

Logan Square is an official community area, historical neighborhood, and public square located on the northwest side of the City of Chicago.

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Lorado Taft

Lorado Zadok Taft (April 29, 1860 – October 30, 1936) was an American sculptor, writer and educator.

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Louise Bourgeois

Louise Joséphine Bourgeois (25 December 191131 May 2010) was a French-American artist.

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Lumber

Lumber (American English; used only in North America) or timber (used in the rest of the English speaking world) is a type of wood that has been processed into beams and planks, a stage in the process of wood production.

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Man Enters the Cosmos

Man Enters the Cosmos is a cast bronze sculpture by Henry Moore located on the Lake Michigan lakefront outside the Adler Planetarium in the Museum Campus area of downtown Chicago in Cook County, Illinois, United States.

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Michigan Avenue (Chicago)

Michigan Avenue is a north-south street in Chicago which runs at 100 east on the Chicago grid.

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Near West Side, Chicago

The Near West Side, one of the 77 community areas of Chicago, is on the West Side, west of the Chicago River and adjacent to the Loop.

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Nuclear Energy (sculpture)

Nuclear Energy (1964–66) (LH 526) is a bronze sculpture by Henry Moore that is located on the campus of the University of Chicago at the site of the world's first nuclear reactor, Chicago Pile-1.

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Old-growth forest

An old-growth forest — also termed primary forest, virgin forest, primeval forest, or late seral forest— is a forest that has attained great age without significant disturbance and thereby exhibits unique ecological features and might be classified as a climax community.

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Philanthropy

Philanthropy means the love of humanity.

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Queen Anne style architecture in the United States

In the United States, Queen Anne-style architecture was popular from roughly 1880 to 1910.

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Santee River

The Santee River is a river in South Carolina in the United States, long.

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South Carolina

South Carolina is a U.S. state in the southeastern region of the United States.

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Taxodium distichum

Taxodium distichum (bald cypress, cypress, southern-cypress, white-cypress, tidewater red-cypress, Gulf-cypress, red-cypress, or swamp cypress) is a deciduous conifer in the family Cupressaceae that grows on saturated and seasonally inundated soils in the lowlands of the Southeastern and Gulf Coastal Plains of the United States.

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The Bowman and The Spearman

The Bowman and The Spearman (also known collectively as Equestrian Indians, or simply Indians), are two bronze equestrian sculptures standing as gatekeepers in Congress Plaza, at the intersection of Congress Parkway and Michigan Avenue in Chicago's Grant Park, in the U.S. state of Illinois.

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Time (magazine)

Time is an American weekly news magazine and news website published in New York City.

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Time Inc.

Time Inc. was an American worldwide mass media corporation founded on November 28, 1922 by Henry Luce and Briton Hadden and based in New York City.

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United States

The United States of America (USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a federal republic composed of 50 states, a federal district, five major self-governing territories, and various possessions.

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United States dollar

The United States dollar (sign: $; code: USD; also abbreviated US$ and referred to as the dollar, U.S. dollar, or American dollar) is the official currency of the United States and its insular territories per the United States Constitution since 1792.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_F._Ferguson

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