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Illinois, Chicago Landmarks Commission Historical Markers
Scores of markers sponsored by the Commission on Chicago Landmarks, whose members are appointed by the Mayor and City Council. Established in 1968 by City Ordinance, the Commission is responsible for recommending individual buildings, sites, objects, or entire districts be designated as Chicago Landmarks, thereby providing legal protection.
These four picturesque residences, designed by architect Frederick R. Schock, showcase the Queen Anne and Shingle styles of architecture. They helped set the tone for development of the Austin community in the 1880s-90s. — — Map (db m237403) HM
When this house was built, Austin was an independent suburb, accessed from Chicago by commuter railroad. One of the oldest houses in the community, it was built for Charles Hitchcock, an executive of a railroad parts manufacturing company. Its tall . . . — — Map (db m271638) HM
Built four years after the suburb of Austin was annexed to Chicago, this house is among the best of Wright's experiments with inexpensive residences. Within a narrow lot, the house has all the features of his mature Prairie style, characterized by a . . . — — Map (db m235806) HM
This rare example of a small-scale Shingle Style residence was built for the architect's mother. It combines many features of the style, including exaggerated gables, broad surfaces of shingle cladding, and minimal trim. It reportedly influenced the . . . — — Map (db m271636) HM
The Commission on Chicago Architectural Landmarks, by authority of the City Council of the City of Chicago, has designated this building as an architectural landmark
City of Chicago
Richard J. Daley, Mayor
February 11, 1960 — — Map (db m259562) HM
This building is a significant early 20th-century industrial building built for one of Chicago's best-known manufacturers. Founded and headquartered in the city for many years, the Florsheim Shoe Company was one of the nation's leading shoe . . . — — Map (db m94316) HM
At one time sprawling over 475 acres, the Union Stock Yard thrived for more than a century, then closed entirely. This rugged gate, erected in 1875, survives as one of the few visual reminders of Chicago's past supremacy in the livestock and . . . — — Map (db m244150) HM
This is a rare surviving example of a nineteenth-century commuter railroad station in Chicago, one of six in a landmark district stretching from 91st to 115th streets. Stations such as these helped promote the development of many of the city's, . . . — — Map (db m248805) HM
This building represents an important period of experimentation in the career of one of the world's best-known architects. Its horizontal massing, broad porch, and decorative treatment prefigure Wright's later work, demonstrating the evolving form . . . — — Map (db m248804) HM
This church building was the location, in early September 1955, of the open-casket visitation and funeral for Emmett Till, an African-American teenager from Chicago who was murdered while visiting relatives in Mississippi. His brutal, . . . — — Map (db m312330) HM
From the 1890s up to Prohibition, brewing companies built and operated their own taverns, or "tied-houses," throughout Chicago's neighborhoods. This building is designed in the German Renaissance Revival-style of architecture which was used in the . . . — — Map (db m284976) HM
Barry Byrne began his architectural career with Frank Lloyd Wright. Using Wright's teachings as the basis for developing a personal style, Byrne set new precedents in modern ecclesiastical architecture, creating original expressions in a genre . . . — — Map (db m261345) HM
Built during a period of economic prosperity in the 1920s, the former Marquette Park State Bank represents the "golden age" of bank architecture. It is a fine example of Classical Revival architecture, with its monumental limestone columns and . . . — — Map (db m277605) HM
These nine structures are what remains of "The Metropolis," one of the nation's most significant landmarks of African-American urban history. Developed during the first decades of the 20th century, this "city-within-a-city was home to numerous . . . — — Map (db m270515) HM
One of the few surviving collections of rowhouses on the South Side, dating from the late-19th and early-20th centuries and including early works by famed architects Louis H. Sullivan and Frank Lloyd Wright. — — Map (db m270289) HM
Chicago Bee Building
Z. Erol Smith, architect
1929-31
This Art Deco-style building was constructed as
the headquarters for the Chicago Bee newspaper,
which was founded by noted African American
entrepreneur Anthony Overton. It also . . . — — Map (db m188754) HM
Chicago Defender Building
Built 1899; remodeled 1915
This former Jewish synagogue was home to the
Chicago Defender from 1920 until 1960. Founded
by Robert S. Abbott in 1905, the newspaper
became nationally known for its . . . — — Map (db m188261) HM
This defining structure of 20th-century architecture is one of the masterpieces of this world reknowned architect. Designed to house the Illinois Institute of Technology's departments of architecture, planning, and design, the building's dramatic . . . — — Map (db m270262) HM
The District's five groups of masonry row houses, built between 1886 and 1892, are designed in architectural styles ranging from Italianate, Queen Anne, Romanesque, and Classical Revival to the unusual Flemish Revival style. The house at 3800 S. . . . — — Map (db m299691) HM
The District's five groups of masonry row houses, built between 1886 and 1892, are designed in architectural styles ranging from Italianate, Queen Anne, Romanesque, and Classical Revival to the unusual Flemish Revival style. The house at 3800 S. . . . — — Map (db m299692) HM
The District's five groups of masonry row houses, built between 1886 and 1892, are designed in architectural styles ranging from Italianate, Queen Anne, Romanesque, and Classical Revival to the unusual Flemish Revival style. The house at 3800 S. . . . — — Map (db m299693) HM
The District's five groups of masonry row houses, built between 1886 and 1892, are designed in architectural styles ranging from Italianate, Queen Anne, Romanesque, and Classical Revival to the unusual Flemish Revival style. The house at 3800 S. . . . — — Map (db m299694) HM
The District's five groups of masonry row houses, built between 1886 and 1892, are designed in architectural styles ranging from Italianate, Queen Anne, Romanesque, and Classical Revival to the unusual Flemish Revival style. The house at 3800 S. . . . — — Map (db m299699) HM
Overton Hygienic Building
Built 1922-23
Built as the headquarters for the Overton
Hygienic Co., one of the nation's foremost
producers of African-American cosmetics, this
structure also housed the Victory Life Insurance
Company and . . . — — Map (db m180693) HM
Pilgrim Baptist Church
Adler and Sullivan, Architects
1891
The decorative and planning skills of Sullivan and the engineering ability of Adler are embodied in the strong masonry forms of this building, embellished with terra-cotta . . . — — Map (db m189477) HM
These are the only row houses designed by Wright that were actually built. The facades display the steeply pitched triangular gables and rectangular bands of windows characteristic of the English Tudor style. Sullivanesque terracotta ornament . . . — — Map (db m262319) HM
The generous window openings and the sculpted qualities of the materials are a precursor to the firm's later works, such as the Rookery and Monadnock Building. Built for one of the founders of the Chicago Union Stock Yard Company, this is one of the . . . — — Map (db m286360) HM
Sunset Cafe
Built 1909
Following a 1921 remodeling, this simple
automobile garage was transformed into one
of the city's earliest and most legendary jazz
venues. Its house orchestra featured such
famed musicians as Louis . . . — — Map (db m189053) HM
This was the longtime headquarters of the Supreme Life Insurance Co., the first African-American owned and operated insurance company in the northern United States. The firm was founded in 1919 by Frank L. Gillespie, and moved into this building in . . . — — Map (db m188528) HM
Unity Hall
L. B. Dixon, architect
1887
Originally built as the Lakeside Club, a Jewish
social organization, this structure was renamed
in 1917 when it became the headquarters of the
Peoples Movement Club, a political . . . — — Map (db m189249) HM
Named for a prominent 19th-century abolitionist, this Classical Revival-style school was Chicago's first predominantly African-American high school. It is noteworthy for its many distinguished alumni and faculty, including Chicago's first . . . — — Map (db m299662) HM
United States Senator Stephen Douglas, who died in 1861 at the age of forty-eight, was a firm believer in the future of Chicago. He held states offices and became nationally known for his debating skill in the Senate and in his campaign against . . . — — Map (db m120728) HM
Commissioned by prominent real estate developer Edward Carson Waller to meet the demand for affordable housing, these apartments are considered among the earliest examples of subsidized housing in Chicago. The simplified design of the facade . . . — — Map (db m294369) HM
This cast-concrete park fieldhouse is an excellent example of the Classical Revival architectural style and is comprised of a large central pavilion, flanked by two gymnasium wings. Its design elements feature eyebrow dormers, large-scale . . . — — Map (db m252550) HM
This Prairie-style house was designed by one of the finest progressive Chicago architects of the early 20th century and is one of the finest remaining mansions on North Sheridan Road. Roughly rectangular in form, the house has both foliate and . . . — — Map (db m287281) HM
This vernacular carpenter-builder house is one of the oldest-surviving buildings in the Forest Glen neighborhood. It has Queen Anne-style wood details typical of the carpenter guides popular at the time and is remarkably intact. It was built by . . . — — Map (db m248200) HM
This distinctive example of a railroad suburb, platted in 1894, was built near the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railroad, and many early residents were company officials. — — Map (db m242955) HM
The genesis of the house is perhaps unlike any other in Chicago for it was built as a grand prize for a raffle sponsored by the St. William Catholic parish located nearby. The name Miracle House first appeared on the raffle tickets, and it has . . . — — Map (db m268952) HM
The clarity, simplicity, and order of the Madlener House make it an outstanding residence in the tradition of the Chicago and Prairie schools of architecture. It has the massing, logic, and dignity of a Renaissance palace, yet is a thoroughly modern . . . — — Map (db m261352) HM
Bryan Lathrop House
McKim, Mead and White, architects
1892
Drawing inspiration from the neo-classical styles of
the eighteenth century, Charles Follen McKim here
created a residence of great dignity and elegance.
The clarity and . . . — — Map (db m180726) HM
This rare Art Moderne-style design is also one of the city's best examples of pre-World War II modernism. Further distinguishing the building is its handcrafted ornamentation by prominent artist Edgar Miller. The 12 residential units front on a . . . — — Map (db m235355) HM
Built to provide a safe, supportive, and economical residence for young women studying the arts, this was one of a number of structures designed for artists around the turn of the century, indicative of a growing appreciation for the arts in urban . . . — — Map (db m242449) HM
Ebenezer Missionary Baptist Church
(Originally, Isaiah Temple)
Dankmar Adler, architect
1898-99
Built as one of Chicago's early Reform Judaism synagogues, this
Classical Revivial-style building is the last building designed by
famed . . . — — Map (db m188631) HM
Melissia Ann Elam Home
Henry L. Newhouse, Architect
1903
This Chateauesque mansion was purchased in the 1920s by Melissia Ann Elam, who [illegible] in Chicago. — — Map (db m181855) HM
Richard Wright House
architect unknown
1893
While residing, in the second-floor apartment of this building
from 1929 to 1932, celebrated author Richard. Wright effectively
began his professional literary career writing his first . . . — — Map (db m188618) HM
This group of 20 visually distinctive row houses
was built in 1903 by one of Chicago's most prolific
early developers, Samuel E. Gross. The fine detailing
and craftsmanship used for building entrances and
cornices reflect the influence of the . . . — — Map (db m188627) HM
Originally built as the Palace of Fine Arts for the World's Columbian Exposition, this plaster-clad structure later became the first home of the Field Museum of Natural History. After the museum left in the 1920s, the decayed building was . . . — — Map (db m238465) HM
Attracted by landscaped parkways and a requirement that all houses be in the bungalow mode, buyers in this development built residences, largely between 1907 and 1922, that show the influence of the Prairie and Craftsman styles and also the . . . — — Map (db m294846) HM
Once referred to as the "Lake Forest of the South,"
this residential suburb was annexed to Chicago in 1889.
It was home to many of the city's leading industrialists,
who built residences designed by such notable architects
as George Maher, . . . — — Map (db m188828) HM
Kenwood United Church of Christ
William. W. Boyington and Henry B. Wheelock,
architects
1887-88
This Richardsonian Romanesque-style church building is
a textbook example of this medieval-influenced style, popular in
the late nineteenth . . . — — Map (db m188566) HM
This terra-cotta-clad flat-iron building makes the most of its triangular building lot. Like many neighborhood banks from the 1920s, the Marshfield Trust and Savings Bank employed the Classical Revival style of architecture to convey a sense of . . . — — Map (db m208809) HM
Brewster Apartments
Enoch H. Turnock, architect
1893
The principles of skeleton-frame construction
that made possible tall commercial buildings
were used here for an early highrise apartment
building, originally known as the . . . — — Map (db m187901) HM
The 42nd/Town Hall Police Station is one of the oldest police staions in the City and represents a rare, remaining example of this building type. The building was built in 1907 on the site of the demolished Lake View Township Town Hall, . . . — — Map (db m261281) HM
Alta Vista Terrace displays a lively variety of architectural styles and detail, yet every townhouse on one side is duplicated with only minor variations at the diagonally opposite end of the block. The distinctly human scale creates a unity and . . . — — Map (db m261324) HM
Alta Vista Terrace displays a lively variety of architectural styles and detail, yet every townhouse on one side is duplicated with only minor variations at the diagonally opposite end of the block. The distinctly human scale creates a unity and . . . — — Map (db m261326) HM
This distinctive and highly intact ensemble of buildings exemplifies the high-quality working-class residential architecture constructed in Chicago's neighborhoods during the late 19th and early 20th centuries as the city expanded outward into . . . — — Map (db m261279) HM
This distinctive and highly intact ensemble of buildings exemplifies the high-quality working-class residential architecture constructed in Chicago's neighborhoods during the late 19th and early 20th centuries as the city expanded outward into . . . — — Map (db m261280) HM
One of the oldest and most important public sculptures in Chicago, this monument to Americas sixteenth president influenced a generation of sculptors due to its innovative combination of a natural-looking Lincoln-–depicted deep in thought as . . . — — Map (db m47815) HM
One of the most important historic landscapes in Chicago, this “hidden garden” in Lincoln Park was designed by note landscape architect Alfred Caldwell in the Prairie style. Inspired by his mentor Jens Jensen and the work of architect . . . — — Map (db m47845) HM
These streets in the Lincoln Park neighborhood are lined with visually-distinctive single-family houses, apartment buildings, and institutional buildings that exemplify the high-style architecture historically built in Chicago's fashionable . . . — — Map (db m261232) HM
These streets in the Lincoln Park neighborhood are lined with visually-distinctive single-family houses, apartment buildings, and institutional buildings that exemplify the high-style architecture historically built in Chicago's fashionable . . . — — Map (db m261233) HM
These streets in the Lincoln Park neighborhood are lined with visually-distinctive single-family houses, apartment buildings, and institutional buildings that exemplify the high-style architecture historically built in Chicago's fashionable . . . — — Map (db m261234) HM
These streets form one of the most picturesque and intact 19th-century neighborhood commercial streetscapes remaining in Chicago. Ornamented with a profusion of pressed-metal bays, cornices, and corner turrets, these Victorian-era buildings display . . . — — Map (db m261189) HM
The August Dewes House is one of a pair of architecturally complimentary houses built by two German-born brothers who were executives of the Standard Brewery in Chicago. With its handsomely-detailed stone facades and distinctive mansard root, the . . . — — Map (db m261270) HM
This unique ensemble of residential flats was intended to resemble an elite street of mansions. Because it was financed, designed, and built as a single development, it possesses a unified layout that is unusual among Chicago residential blocks. . . . — — Map (db m261202) HM
This unique ensemble of residential flats was intended to resemble an elite street of mansions. Because it was financed, designed, and built as a single development, it possesses a unified layout that is unusual among Chicago residential blocks. . . . — — Map (db m261203) HM
Elks National Memorial Headquarters Building
Egerton Swartwout, architect
1924-26
This building was constructed by the Benevolent and Protective
Order of Elks, an American fraternal organization, in tribute to
the 1,037 Elks who died . . . — — Map (db m188338) HM WM
The exuberant baroque detailing of the Dewes House reflects the European background of the original owner and his two architects. The house is a monument to old-world splendor, an example of the eclectic architecture popular in Chicago after the . . . — — Map (db m261265) HM
This rare grouping of twenty 1870s Italianate-style row houses was designed by Edward J. Burling, one of Chicago's earliest and important architects. They were conceived as a unified composition with similar incised window hoods and a common wood . . . — — Map (db m261200) HM
This rare grouping of twenty 1870s Italianate-style row houses was designed by Edward J. Burling, one of Chicago's earliest and important architects. They were conceived as a unified composition with similar incised window hoods and a common wood . . . — — Map (db m261207) HM
One of the oldest surviving buildings designed by Dankmar Adler and Louis Sullivan, an architectural partnership that helped transform modern architecture. It illustrates the type of design innovations and distinctive ornamentation that Sullivan . . . — — Map (db m261226) HM
Located in one of the country's oldest municipal zoological parks, the Lion House blends both the grandly-scaled public architecture of the Classical style with the innovative Prarie style developed by Chicago architects in the early 20th century. . . . — — Map (db m10653) HM
These row houses were built as an investment by the McCormick Theological Seminary which was located here from 1863 to 1975. Designed in a simplified Queen Anne style, with a private street and park in the center of the development, these houses are . . . — — Map (db m261213) HM
This comfort station, commonly known as the Carlson Cottage, exemplifies Victorian-era picturesque architecture and reflects a commitment to constructing high quality buildings in the park even for the most mundane functions. Trained at MIT and . . . — — Map (db m293430) HM
These streets feature a cross-section of architectural styles and building types from the late-19th century, including pre-Fire of 1871 wood cottages, Italianate style rowhouses, and masonry residences designed in the Queen Anne and Richardsonian . . . — — Map (db m289975) HM
These streets feature a cross-section of architectural styles and building types from the late-19th century, including pre-Fire of 1871 wood cottages, Italianate style rowhouses, and masonry residences designed in the Queen Anne and Richardsonian . . . — — Map (db m289988) HM
These streets feature a cross-section of architectural styles and building types from the late-19th century, including pre-Fire of 1871 wood cottages, Italianate style rowhouses, and masonry residences designed in the Queen Anne and Richardsonian . . . — — Map (db m289992) HM
This area, with its concentration of brick row houses,
is typical of urban residential communities developed
during the last three decades of the nineteenth
century. The high quality of its architecture, well-
preserved and well-maintained, . . . — — Map (db m185766) HM
North Chicago Hospital Building
Meyer J. Sturm, architect;
M. Louis Kroman, associated architect
1928-29
This building is a handsome example of a neighborhood hospital
building, built when Chicago was dotted with small . . . — — Map (db m180732) HM
Noted for its highly accurate use of ancient Egyptian imagery and hieroglyphics, this building represents one of the nation's best examples of pure academic-style Egyptian Revival architecture. It was built by a storage and moving company founded by . . . — — Map (db m289990) HM
Built by brewer Joseph Theurer and sold in 1911 to chewing gum manufacturer William Wrigley, Jr., this is an early design by Richard Schmidt and possibly Hugh Garden, who were part of the Prairie school movement but whose first designs were in a . . . — — Map (db m261236) HM
Designed by the architect of the Old Chicago Water Tower and predating it by five years, the Rosehill Cemetery Entrance is a rare Midwestern example of castellated Gothic architecture. Many prominent Chicagoans are buried here in plots marked by . . . — — Map (db m94331) HM
Here, in 1899, Jane Addams and Ellen Gates Starr started what became the most influential social settlement in America. It eventually consisted of several buildings around this house which had been built in 1856 by Charles Hull. The Dining Hall . . . — — Map (db m61819) HM
This Arch marks the eastern gateway to West 26th Street, Little Village's vibrant retail corridor which has been referred to as the "Mexican capital of the Midwest." The Arch is unique in Chicago as the only example of a street gateway inspired . . . — — Map (db m258347) HM
This building is a fine example of the impressive bank buildings constructed in Chicago's neighborhoods during a period of national prosperity in the 1920s. Like many banks from that time, it uses the Classical Revival style of architecture to . . . — — Map (db m273130) HM
Like his contemporary Frank Lloyd Wright, Maher attempted to redefine American residential architecture. This building's traditional boxlike form is updated by a broad hipped roof and stark window and door openings. John Rath, who commissioned the . . . — — Map (db m273133) HM
Featuring streetscapes of handsome mansions, apartment buildings, and institutional and commercial buildings from the 1880s through the 1930s, the District is one of the best-preserved portions of Chicago's extensive park boulevards system. — — Map (db m234590) HM
Featuring streetscapes of handsome mansions, apartment buildings, and institutional and commercial buildings from the 1880s through the 1930s, the District is one of the best-preserved portions of Chicago's extensive park boulevards system. — — Map (db m234591) HM
Featuring streetscapes of handsome mansions, apartment buildings, and institutional and commercial buildings from the 1880s through the 1930s, the District is one of the best-preserved portions of Chicago's extensive park boulevards system. — — Map (db m234592) HM
Featuring streetscapes of handsome mansions, apartment buildings, and institutional and commercial buildings from the 1880s through the 1930s, the District is one of the best-preserved portions of Chicago's extensive park boulevards system. — — Map (db m234593) HM
Featuring streetscapes of handsome mansions, apartment buildings, and institutional and commercial buildings from the 1880s through the 1930s, the District is one of the best-preserved portions of Chicago's extensive park boulevards system. — — Map (db m234594) HM
Featuring streetscapes of handsome mansions, apartment buildings, and institutional and commercial buildings from the 1880s through the 1930s, the District is one of the best-preserved portions of Chicago's extensive park boulevards system. — — Map (db m273206) HM
Featuring streetscapes of handsome mansions, apartment buildings, and institutional and commercial buildings from the 1880s through the 1930s, the District is one of the best-preserved portions of Chicago's extensive park boulevards system. — — Map (db m273209) HM
Featuring streetscapes of handsome mansions, apartment buildings, and institutional and commercial buildings from the 1880s through the 1930s, the District is one of the best-preserved portions of Chicago's extensive park boulevards system. — — Map (db m273211) HM
Featuring streetscapes of handsome mansions, apartment buildings, and institutional and commercial buildings from the 1880s through the 1930s, the District is one of the best-preserved portions of Chicago's extensive park boulevards system. — — Map (db m273212) HM
Featuring streetscapes of handsome mansions, apartment buildings, and institutional and commercial buildings from the 1880s through the 1930s, the District is one of the best-preserved portions of Chicago's extensive park boulevards system. — — Map (db m273215) HM
Featuring streetscapes of handsome mansions, apartment buildings, and institutional and commercial buildings from the 1880s through the 1930s, the District is one of the best-preserved portions of Chicago's extensive park boulevards system. — — Map (db m273216) HM
Featuring streetscapes of handsome mansions, apartment buildings, and institutional and commercial buildings from the 1880s through the 1930s, the District is one of the best-preserved portions of Chicago's extensive park boulevards system. — — Map (db m273218) HM
Featuring streetscapes of handsome mansions, apartment buildings, and institutional and commercial buildings from the 1880s through the 1930s, the District is one of the best-preserved portions of Chicago's extensive park boulevards system. — — Map (db m273221) HM
Featuring streetscapes of handsome mansions, apartment buildings, and institutional and commercial buildings from the 1880s through the 1930s, the District is one of the best-preserved portions of Chicago's extensive park boulevards system. — — Map (db m273224) HM
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