6901 Oglesby Cooperative Apartment Building

Landmark Context

6901 Oglesby Cooperative Apartment Building is tied to 6901 S Oglesby Av in the city's landmark file. The designation record holds onto a construction date of 1928-29 and credits Paul Frederick Olsen. It was designated on September 10, 2008. 6901 Oglesby Cooperative Apartment Building can be read through domestic design, residential development, and block-by-block neighborhood change without losing sight of the actual site.

6901 Oglesby Cooperative Apartment Building becomes easier to read on site when attention turns to lot width, setbacks, porches, bays, and rooflines, the rhythm between neighboring houses, and alterations that show changing domestic use. Those clues are often the clearest route into how one domestic building can still clarify the growth of an entire residential block.

Research Starting Points

6901 Oglesby Cooperative Apartment Building gains a fuller record through real-estate atlases and fire insurance maps, permit files and census or directory material, and historic photographs and neighborhood histories. That source trail can connect landmark status to ownership, alteration, and the changing role of the site in its block or corridor.

6901 Oglesby Cooperative Apartment Building still needs deeper source work, but the landmark record already keeps that work tied to one place.