Spring 25 OP Newsletter

HERITAGE SITES

In addition to the land, the Andrew Corporation bought five outbuildings: the farmhouse, the tenant house, the large barn, the milk house and the stone pump and slaughterhouse. The Andrew Corporation used the large barn as an electrical engineering and antenna laboratory from 1949 1960. Inside the barn, they built a full-size dual frequency antenna for the Empire State Building, which was installed in 1953. The slaughterhouse was used as storage. In 1986, the Village of Orland Park saved the slaughterhouse from demolition when the Andrew

Chiappetti Farm, c. 1948

Corporation wanted to further develop their site and could no longer maintain and upkeep the building. The building was moved carefully along 144th Place from the Andrew Corporation property and placed in its current location. Believing the location to be temporary, the building’s entrance is facing Humphrey Woods – the side you see from the path is the back!

Chiappetti Farm, April 1952 (Photo courtesy of Andy Andrew)

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