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Burling Row House District

Chicago's designation of Burling Row House District makes it easier to study street layout and domestic streetscape, parcel rhythm and residential development, and how block-scale preservation protects neighborhood form together rather than one address at a time.

Burling Row House District Burling Row House District, Chicago, Illinois

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Quick Take

  • Official status: Chicago landmark district.
  • District number: 9.
  • Designated: November 15, 2000.
  • Use it to study district boundaries, contributing fabric, and preservation at street scale.

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Why It Matters

Burling Row House District holds onto street layout and domestic streetscape, parcel rhythm and residential development, and how block-scale preservation protects neighborhood form without collapsing them into a single structure.

Once the district boundary and designation history are visible, deeper work can move into streetscape continuity, alteration, and the arguments that kept the district intact.

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Research Narrative

District Context

Burling Row House District enters the city's landmark system as district number 9. The designation date is November 15, 2000, and the official extent note reads 2225-2245 N. Burling St.; 1875; Edward J. Burling. Burling Row House District stays useful for street layout and domestic streetscape, parcel rhythm and residential development, and how block-scale preservation protects neighborhood form because it does not flatten into one landmark name.

Burling Row House District becomes easier to read on the ground through setbacks, porches, rooflines, and frontage rhythm, corner houses, mid-block repetition, and lot width, and later infill or domestic alteration. This is how the district stops being an abstract boundary and starts showing how residential form survives through repeated building patterns, lot structure, and later stewardship.

Research Starting Points

Burling Row House District becomes a stronger district record once research expands into atlases, Sanborn maps, and designation reports, historic photographs and building permits, and real-estate records and neighborhood histories. Those records are usually what connect the district boundary to real buildings, real streets, and real later pressures.

Burling Row House District gives later archive work one district to return to rather than scattering across unrelated addresses.

Public Actions

Campaign / Petition Record

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1875

Development

Primary development period recorded for the district

Chicago's current district record summarizes the principal period of development for Burling Row House District as 1875.

November 15, 2000

Designation

Chicago landmark district designation

City of Chicago designated Burling Row House District as landmark district no. 9 on November 15, 2000.

2025

Inventory

City landmark inventory and mapped district boundary

Burling Row House District continues to appear in Chicago's public landmark inventory and mapped district boundary datasets.

Sources

Source Trail

Chicago Landmark Name List 2025.6

institution

Use for official landmark status and naming.

City of Chicago Open Data: Landmark Districts

dataset

Use for district names and designation dates in the city data portal.

City of Chicago Open Data: Boundaries - Landmark Districts

dataset

Use for district geometry and boundary-level map work.

Place Snapshot

Place
Burling Row House District
Location
Burling Row House District, Chicago, Illinois

Key Facts

Region
Chicago, Illinois / Midwest
Place type
Neighborhood / District
Current status
Preserved
District number
9
Designated
November 15, 2000

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