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Daniel O. Hill House/SerbianAmericanMuseumSt. Sava is a concise public starting point for domestic design and residential development, anchored by Chicago's landmark designation.
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Daniel O. Hill House/SerbianAmericanMuseumSt. Sava prevents domestic design, residential development, and block-by-block neighborhood change from floating free of the site itself.
Once that baseline is in place, the site can support deeper work on stewardship, alteration, public memory, and the larger corridor or block around it.
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Daniel O. Hill House/SerbianAmericanMuseumSt. Sava is located at 448 W. Barry Avenue in the city's landmark record. The designation record holds onto a construction date of 1902 and credits Frederick W. Perkins. It was designated on March 28, 2018. Daniel O. Hill House/SerbianAmericanMuseumSt. Sava already has a usable public frame for work on domestic design, residential development, and block-by-block neighborhood change.
Daniel O. Hill House/SerbianAmericanMuseumSt. Sava becomes materially clearer through 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.
Daniel O. Hill House/SerbianAmericanMuseumSt. Sava 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. Those records help separate what the landmark file says from what the longer building history actually shows.
Daniel O. Hill House/SerbianAmericanMuseumSt. Sava remains most useful when later evidence keeps returning to the site itself.
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Chicago's public landmark data records Daniel O. Hill House/SerbianAmericanMuseumSt. Sava as built in 1902.
Designation
City of Chicago designated Daniel O. Hill House/SerbianAmericanMuseumSt. Sava as an individual landmark on March 28, 2018.
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Daniel O. Hill House/SerbianAmericanMuseumSt. Sava remains listed in Chicago's public individual-landmark address list and open-data record.
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