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Designated as a Chicago landmark on October 5, 1994. Edwin Colvin House works well as a public foothold for domestic design, residential development, and block-by-block neighborhood change.
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Edwin Colvin House keeps a real place attached to domestic design, residential development, and block-by-block neighborhood change.
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Edwin Colvin House enters Chicago's public landmark record at 5940 N Sheridan Rd. Even in summary form, the record keeps together a construction date of 1909 and credits George W. Maher. It was designated on October 5, 1994. Edwin Colvin House keeps domestic design, residential development, and block-by-block neighborhood change grounded in a real building even when the public record is brief.
Edwin Colvin House 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. This is where the landmark shifts from designation to evidence about how one domestic building can still clarify the growth of an entire residential block.
Edwin Colvin House can be carried further through real-estate atlases and fire insurance maps, permit files and census or directory material, and historic photographs and neighborhood histories. That is where early landmark facts begin to connect to a fuller chronology of change, use, and interpretation.
Edwin Colvin House can keep observation, source work, and interpretation attached to one building.
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Chicago's public landmark data records Edwin Colvin House as built in 1909.
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City of Chicago designated Edwin Colvin House as an individual landmark on October 5, 1994.
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Edwin Colvin House remains listed in Chicago's public individual-landmark address list and open-data record.
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