227 East Walton Place Apartment Building

Landmark Context

227 East Walton Place Apartment Building comes into public view at 227 East Walton Place in the Chicago landmark record. Even in summary form, the record keeps together a construction date of 1956 and credits Harry Weese. It was designated on May 9, 2012. 227 East Walton Place Apartment Building already has a usable public frame for work on domestic design, residential development, and block-by-block neighborhood change.

227 East Walton Place Apartment Building reveals more once fieldwork compares lot width, setbacks, porches, bays, and rooflines, the rhythm between neighboring houses, and alterations that show changing domestic use. Seen that way, the landmark helps explain how one domestic building can still clarify the growth of an entire residential block.

Research Starting Points

227 East Walton Place Apartment Building is easiest to push beyond designation through real-estate atlases and fire insurance maps, permit files and census or directory material, and historic photographs and neighborhood histories. That source trail is often the best way to move from designation summary to a fuller building history.

227 East Walton Place Apartment Building gives later fieldwork and archives a stable site to keep circling back to.