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Chicago's landmark record gives Abraham Groesbeck House a stable base for work on domestic design, residential development, and the longer public life of the site.
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Abraham Groesbeck House prevents domestic design, residential development, and block-by-block neighborhood change from floating free of the site itself.
From there, the building can be read through design, use, later change, and neighborhood context instead of remaining a detached image or isolated fact.
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Abraham Groesbeck House enters Chicago's public landmark record at 1304 W Washington Blvd. The current city data lists it as dating to a construction date of 1869 and credits Otis L. Wheelock. It was designated on January 12, 1993. Abraham Groesbeck House can be read through domestic design, residential development, and block-by-block neighborhood change without losing sight of the actual site.
At Abraham Groesbeck House, the most useful field notes usually begin with lot width, setbacks, porches, bays, and rooflines, then move outward to the rhythm between neighboring houses and alterations that show changing domestic use. Those observations help show how one domestic building can still clarify the growth of an entire residential block.
Abraham Groesbeck House can be checked against real-estate atlases and fire insurance maps, permit files and census or directory material, and historic photographs and neighborhood histories when the designation summary runs out. That is usually how a short landmark record turns into a fuller account of use, alteration, and neighborhood setting.
Abraham Groesbeck House gives later fieldwork and archives a stable site to keep circling back to.
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Chicago's public landmark data records Abraham Groesbeck House as built in 1869.
Designation
City of Chicago designated Abraham Groesbeck House as an individual landmark on January 12, 1993.
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Abraham Groesbeck House remains listed in Chicago's public individual-landmark address list and open-data record.
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