While you’re out and about for the BAPA Garden Walk this Sunday, July 10, please stop by the Ridge Historical Society, also.
RHS will now be open to the public on Sunday and Tuesday afternoons from 1:00 to 4:00 p.m. Everyone is welcome and admission is free. Visitors should enter at 10621 S. Seeley Avenue. There is limited parking right at RHS, and abundant street parking on Seeley.
The current exhibit at RHS is “Hetherington Design Dynasty” which explores the architecture careers of three generations of the Hetherington family.
John Todd and Jane Hetherington, their sons and daughter, and their grandchildren, lived in Beverly. It’s safe to say this community would not have become the architecture showplace it has been known as for decades without the contributions of the Hetherington family. They designed close to one hundred buildings in a variety of styles. Just three examples of their work which are publicly accessible are the Graver-Driscoll House (RHS headquarters) which is celebrating its 100th anniversary this year, the Ridge Park field house at 96th and Longwood, and the Rainbow Cone building at 92nd and Western.
This Sunday, the three RHS representatives who developed the exhibit will be there in person to discuss their work. Meet Linda Lamberty, RHS Historian, the most knowledgeable person in the community about local history; Mati Maldre, the Chair of the RHS Historic Buildings Committee and the professional photographer whose images of Hetherington buildings grace an entire wall of the exhibit; and Tim Blackburn, owner of a local Hetherington-designed home, whose tireless research into all-things-Hetherington created the majority of this fascinating exhibit.