Carl Schurz High School

Landmark Context

Carl Schurz High School is publicly anchored at 3601 N Milwaukee Av by the landmark designation record. Even in summary form, the record keeps together a construction date of 1910 and credits Dwight H. Perkins. It was designated on December 7, 1979. Carl Schurz High School keeps institutional planning, community service and public life, and how buildings shaped neighborhood identity grounded in a real building even when the public record is brief.

Carl Schurz High School reveals more once fieldwork compares entries, wings, and later additions, yards, courts, or campus relationships, and how the building addresses the street. That is often where the longer record of the place starts to come into focus: how public or community-serving institutions left long physical traces in the neighborhood.

Research Starting Points

Carl Schurz High School gains a fuller record through board minutes or annual reports, permit records, and photographs, directories, and local coverage. Those records make it easier to test what changed, what remained, and how the building fit into a larger local story.

Carl Schurz High School is already usable now without pretending the historical work is finished.