Chicago & North Western Railway Powerhouse

Landmark Context

Chicago & North Western Railway Powerhouse is located at 211 N Clinton St in the city's landmark record. The designation record holds onto a construction date of 1909-11 and credits Frost & Granger. It was designated on January 11, 2006. Chicago & North Western Railway Powerhouse becomes more than a passing image once those facts are held together with domestic design, residential development, and block-by-block neighborhood change.

Chicago & North Western Railway Powerhouse is best approached by paying attention to lot width, setbacks, porches, bays, and rooflines, the rhythm between neighboring houses, and alterations that show changing domestic use. Together, those clues make it easier to understand how one domestic building can still clarify the growth of an entire residential block.

Research Starting Points

Chicago & North Western Railway Powerhouse starts to deepen once research reaches real-estate atlases and fire insurance maps, permit files and census or directory material, and historic photographs and neighborhood histories. That source trail can connect landmark status to ownership, alteration, and the changing role of the site in its block or corridor.

Chicago & North Western Railway Powerhouse can keep observation, source work, and interpretation attached to one building.