{"id":587,"date":"2009-08-18T10:19:06","date_gmt":"2009-08-18T16:19:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.lps.org\/pedia\/?page_id=587"},"modified":"2024-08-29T09:15:56","modified_gmt":"2024-08-29T14:15:56","slug":"willard-building","status":"publish","type":"glossary","link":"https:\/\/home.lps.org\/pedia\/glossary\/willard-building\/","title":{"rendered":"Willard Building"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><strong>LOCATION:<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?f=q&amp;source=s_q&amp;hl=en&amp;geocode=&amp;q=68510&amp;sll=37.0625,-95.677068&amp;sspn=61.969195,77.080078&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;ll=40.800239,-96.730558&amp;spn=0.001842,0.002352&amp;t=h&amp;z=19\">1245 S. Folsom Street<\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong>OPERATION:<\/strong> 1915\u00b71969<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In 1915 the name of <a href=\"http:\/\/wp.lps.org\/pedia\/w\/west-a-street-school-willard\/\">West A Street School<\/a> was changed to Willard to honor Frances E. Willard (1839-1898). After a career as a teacher, Miss Willard was appointed Dean of Women at Northwestern University in 1873. She became increasingly interested in the temperance movement and spent 20 years as president of the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Woman%27s_Christian_Temperance_Union\">W.C.T.U.<\/a> and organizer of the world temperance union. She was a tireless lecturer.<\/p>\n<p>The Willard building survives today as the Willard Community Center.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LOCATION: 1245 S. Folsom Street OPERATION: 1915\u00b71969 In 1915 the name of West A Street School was changed to Willard to honor Frances E. Willard (1839-1898). After a career as a teacher, Miss Willard was appointed Dean of Women at Northwestern University in 1873. She became increasingly interested in the temperance movement and spent 20 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"template":"","glossary-cat":[],"class_list":["post-587","glossary","type-glossary","status-publish","hentry"],"related_terms":"","external_url":"","internal_reference_id":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/home.lps.org\/pedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/glossary\/587","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/home.lps.org\/pedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/glossary"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/home.lps.org\/pedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/glossary"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/home.lps.org\/pedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/home.lps.org\/pedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/glossary\/587\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6623,"href":"https:\/\/home.lps.org\/pedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/glossary\/587\/revisions\/6623"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/home.lps.org\/pedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"glossary-cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/home.lps.org\/pedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/glossary-cat?post=587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}