Original Wilmette Bahá’í Temple Design - Earliest Watercolor

THE back of this watercolor states:

“BAHAI TEMPLE-Designed by Louis Bourgeois To be built near Chicago, Ill. A universal house of worship, open to all sects and religions, dedicated to the independent investigation of truth, the oneness of God and the onenes of mankind, to the harmony of science and religion, the diffusion of knowledge and education, the promulgation of universal religion and universal peace.”