Queer Places:
5476 S Ridgewood Ct, Chicago, IL 60615
Lou Wall Moore (died March 14, 1924) was a sculptor, actress, dancer, and designer, well known to Chicago artists. For several years she was in the cast appearing at the Little Theater, and took part in many Grecian plays. One of her specialties was Salome, and in 1910 she was invited to dance in the White House before President Theodore Roosevelt.
One group of artists occupying the top-floor studios of the Fine Arts Building in Chicago, coveted for their capacious skylights, formed the Little Room, a mixed-gender social club whose founding members included painters, writers and other artists, many of whom were gay, like J. C. Leyendecker and his brother Frank Xavier Leyendecker. Fostered by novelists Hamlin Garland and Henry Blake Fuller, The Little Room met on Friday afternoons and occasional evenings. Among the members were George Ade, H.C. Chatfield-Taylor, Alice Gerstenberg, James T. Hatfield, Franklin Harvey Head, John T. McCutcheon, Anna Morgan, Allen Bartlit Pond, Henry Kitchell Webster, Lorado Taft, Lou Wall Moore, Jane Addams, Harriet Monroe and Edith Wyatt.
My published books:
