Parks and Attractions
Two major area parks are in the neighborhood: Memorial Park and Elmwood Park.St. Margaret Mary Catholic Church and Dundee Presbyterian Church (the church where Warren Buffett attended and was married) are among many congregations in Dundee. The area is home to numerous businesses, including Dundee Dell, Dundee Theatre, the Blue Line Coffee Shop, and Dario's Brasserie. The area is promoted and preserved by Dundee-Memorial Park Association. St. Margaret Mary Catholic Church, and the associated school, are known for extreme pride in their neighborhood. Dundee annually hosts the Dundee Days, featuring a neighborhood festival and dance showdown.
Warren Buffett, the "Oracle of Omaha", lives in a house bought for $31,500 in 1958 in Dundee, on the corner of Farnam and 55th.
Read more about this topic: Dundee-Happy Hollow Historic District
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“Perhaps our own woods and fields,—in the best wooded towns, where we need not quarrel about the huckleberries,—with the primitive swamps scattered here and there in their midst, but not prevailing over them, are the perfection of parks and groves, gardens, arbors, paths, vistas, and landscapes. They are the natural consequence of what art and refinement we as a people have.... Or, I would rather say, such were our groves twenty years ago.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“Perhaps our own woods and fields,—in the best wooded towns, where we need not quarrel about the huckleberries,—with the primitive swamps scattered here and there in their midst, but not prevailing over them, are the perfection of parks and groves, gardens, arbors, paths, vistas, and landscapes. They are the natural consequence of what art and refinement we as a people have.... Or, I would rather say, such were our groves twenty years ago.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“The world,—this shadow of the soul, or other me, lies wide around. Its attractions are the keys which unlock my thoughts and make me acquainted with myself. I run eagerly into this resounding tumult. I grasp the hands of those next to me, and take my place in the ring to suffer and to work, taught by an instinct, that so shall the dumb abyss be vocal with speech.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)