Site H
The Chicago Baptist Institute, 5120 S. King Drive occupies
buildings completed in 1899 for the Chicago Orphan Asylum, a charitable
institution founded in 1849. Shepley, Rutan & Coolidge designed the
brick "cottages" which were financed in part by the sale of stock
from the nearby elevated railroad. Racial change in the neighborhood, coupled
with new attitudes about orphanages, led to the institution's relocation
in Kenwood in 1931. In addition to changing its address, the institution
also changed its name and function. Now known as the Chicago Child Care
Society, 5467 S. University, it provides day care for children in the Kenwood-Hyde
Park community.
In 1937, Good Shepherd Congregational Church at 5700 S. Prairie purchased
the former orphanage buildings, and the Parkway Community Center nourished
at this location for the next twenty years. The Chicago Baptist Institute,
founded in 1935 at 3816-18 S. Michigan, moved to 5120 South Parkway in
1957, where it continues its educational work on behalf of the city's
black Baptist churches.
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In 1919 and 1920, Jesse Binga's home at 5922
South Parkway (now King Drive) was bombed nearly ten times. One
of the South Side's leading black bankers and real estate men,
Binga was the first black to live in this section of Washington
Park. His home as well as his bank at 36th Place and State were
repeatedly bombed by whites who sought to halt the movement of
blacks into Grand Boulevard and Washington Park. The photograph
at right shows Binga's spacious single-family dwelling in 1985.
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