Albert F. Madlener House

Landmark Context

Albert F. Madlener House enters Chicago's public landmark record at 4 W Burton Pl. City records connect the site to a construction date of 1902 and credits Richard E. Schmidt & Hugh M.G. Garden. It was designated on March 22, 1973. Albert F. Madlener House turns into a workable research subject once domestic design, residential development, and block-by-block neighborhood change are kept in view together.

Albert F. Madlener House starts to make more sense when researchers track lot width, setbacks, porches, bays, and rooflines, the rhythm between neighboring houses, and alterations that show changing domestic use. That is often where the longer record of the place starts to come into focus: how one domestic building can still clarify the growth of an entire residential block.

Research Starting Points

Albert F. Madlener House becomes a stronger research subject once the record expands into real-estate atlases and fire insurance maps, permit files and census or directory material, and historic photographs and neighborhood histories. That is usually how a short landmark record turns into a fuller account of use, alteration, and neighborhood setting.

Albert F. Madlener House remains most useful when later evidence keeps returning to the site itself.