Bryan Lathrop House

Landmark Context

Bryan Lathrop House comes into public view at 120 E Bellevue Pl in the Chicago landmark record. City records connect the site to a construction date of 1892 and credits McKim, Meade & White. It was designated on May 9, 1973. Bryan Lathrop House keeps domestic design, residential development, and block-by-block neighborhood change attached to one building instead of dissolving into general background.

Bryan Lathrop 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

Bryan Lathrop House 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. Those records make it easier to test what changed, what remained, and how the building fit into a larger local story.

Bryan Lathrop House can keep observation, source work, and interpretation attached to one building.