Hale House
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A documentary film about Hale House, a Chicago home where Swami Vivekananda lived while a speaker at the 1893 Parliament of Religions at the Columbian Exposition in Chicago. The film lingers on architectural details of the home while a soundtrack of Indian raga sitar music and Vedic chanting fills the air. The film was made by Larry for Swami Bhashyananda, the former head of the Vivekanandra Vedanta Society of Chicago.
Credits
Larry Janiak (filmmaker)
Complete catalog record
Cfa collection: Larry Janiak Collection
Notes: Hale House was located at what is today 1415 N Dearborn St in Chicago's Gold Coast neighborhood. The building that existed there in 1893 was demolished in the late 1960s.
Subjects: Religions; Architecture
Places: North America > United States > Illinois > Chicago
Language: English
Cfa elements: Print, 400 feet
Cfa records: https://collections.chicagofilmarchives.org/Detail/objects/15230; https://collections.chicagofilmarchives.org/Detail/objects/15229
Notes: Hale House was located at what is today 1415 N Dearborn St in Chicago's Gold Coast neighborhood. The building that existed there in 1893 was demolished in the late 1960s.
Subjects: Religions; Architecture
Places: North America > United States > Illinois > Chicago
Language: English
Cfa elements: Print, 400 feet
Cfa records: https://collections.chicagofilmarchives.org/Detail/objects/15230; https://collections.chicagofilmarchives.org/Detail/objects/15229
Sources
- Chicago Film Archives · record ↗ — title, year, creator, length, format, color, sound, genre, description, credits, catalog record, video
Record added 2026-11-08 21:25:19