Architect William W. Boyington, A Highland Park Legend

Highland Park ---- Highland Park Historical Society hosts on Monday October 30th at 7 p.m. a presentation by Julia Johnas on the life and work of William W. Boyington. Learn more about this man in whose honor a pictorial installation was placed on October 10th in the Highland Park train station. Boyington was the architect of Chicago’s Water Tower, the entrance to Rosehill Cemetery and many other structures, and a Mayor of Highland Park, where he resided from 1874 until his death in 1898. A long and prolific career is illustrated with slides that showcase his best-known buildings in Chicago and Highland Park . A few Boyington-designed residences remain in Highland Park , including the log house built for Sylvester Millard in 1893 and a Queen Anne-style home for Palmer Montgomery in 1890.

Julia Johnas is author of Highland Park: Settlement to the 1920s. She is also director of adult services at the Highland Park Public Library, where she maintains its local history archive and provides research assistance on local and architectural history and genealogy for historians, and is a liaison to the City of Highland Park Historic Preservation Commission. She has received a Highland Park Historian Commendation from the Highland Park Historical Society.

The William W. Boyington program will be presented at the Highland Park Public Library Auditorium, 494 Laurel Avenue, Highland Park, Illinois. For further information, please contact the Highland Park Historical Society: 847.432.7090 or archives@HighlandParkHistory.org. Admission is free.