Armour Square Park, also known as Armour Square or Park No. 3, is a park in

Chicago (''City in a Garden''); I Will , image_map = , map_caption = Interactive Map of Chicago , coordinates = , coordinates_footnotes = , subdivision_type = Country , subdivision_name ...

, Illinois featuring

Beaux Arts architecture Beaux-Arts architecture ( , ) was the academic architectural style taught at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris, particularly from the 1830s to the end of the 19th century. It drew upon the principles of French neoclassicism, but also incorporat ...

, designed by D.H. Burnham and the

Olmsted Brothers The Olmsted Brothers company was a landscape architectural firm in the United States, established in 1898 by brothers John Charles Olmsted (1852–1920) and Frederick Law Olmsted Jr. (1870–1957), sons of the landscape architect Frederick Law O ...

. The park was opened in March 1905, at a cost of $220,000. It was named after

Philip Danforth Armour Philip Danforth Armour Sr. (16 May 1832 – 6 January 1901) was an American meatpacking industrialist who founded the Chicago-based firm of Armour & Company. Born on an upstate New York farm, he made $8,000 in the California gold rush, 185 ...

, philanthropist and captain of industry.

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Armour Square Park
Chicago Park District Historic districts in Chicago Parks on the National Register of Historic Places in Chicago Historic districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Illinois 1905 establishments in Illinois Armour Square, Chicago {{CookCountyIL-NRHP-stub