Kenwood Observatory was George Ellery Hale's short-lived backyard research observatory. It was dedicated with fanfare in 1891 shortly after Hale's graduation from Masschusetts Institute of Technology. By 1897, the Warner & Swasey telescope and dome were incorporated into the north tower of the new Yerkes Observatory in Williams Bay, Wisconsin, where Hale became the first Director. While the refractor was eventually replaced by a 16-inch photometric telescope, the dome continued in service at Yerkes for a century.
