page_title: Richard and Annette Bloch Cancer Survivors Garden
section_title: Federal Building Columns
hierarchical_section_title: Richard and Annette Bloch Cancer Survivors Garden / Features / Federal Building Columns
caption_attribution_description: English: 1905 Federal Building Columns
context_page_description: The Richard and Annette Bloch Cancer Survivors Garden was built in 1996 and occupies 2 ¼ acres of land in the Northeast corner of Maggie Daley Park. The garden located in Chicago is one of 24 Cancer Survivor parks across the country built by the Richard and Annette Bloch Cancer Foundation. The R.A. Cancer Foundation primarily funded the garden costing $1.3 million to create. The park is designed to be a celebration of life. It is a safe haven for cancer patients and meant to aid them in their healing process. The three main garden rooms represent the three main states of healing: acceptance, support, and celebration.
context_section_description: At its entrance are two 40-foot Corinthian columns salvaged from Chicago’s 1905 Federal Building. The columns are on axis with the classical columns of the Field Museum of Natural History located at the far south end of Grant Park. Architect Henry Ives Cobb designed the columns. Before being placed in the Cancer Survivors Garden, the columns were submerged near the Lake Michigan shoreline in 1983 to help reinforce a breakwater. The Chicago Architecture Foundation donated the columns to be placed next to the garden’s main pavilion.
caption: 1905 Federal Building Columns
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