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built 1929 and with current city data crediting Paul Gerhardt, Jr., Designated as a Chicago landmark on October 1, 2003. the public record begins with concrete facts and can move outward into public architecture and municipal service.
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Engine Company 65, Truck 52 is located at 3000 W. 42nd St in the city's landmark record. The current city data lists it as dating to a construction date of 1929 and credits Paul Gerhardt, Jr. It was designated on October 1, 2003. Engine Company 65, Truck 52 already ties public architecture, municipal service, and civic identity to one real building before archival digging begins.
Engine Company 65, Truck 52 is best read on the ground through formal entries, symbols, and public-facing rooms, how the building meets its block or civic setting, and later reuse, additions, or security changes. That is often where the longer record of the place starts to come into focus: how a public building continues to shape civic memory even after its original service role changes.
Engine Company 65, Truck 52 becomes a stronger research subject once the record expands into city reports and planning records, permit files and photographs, and newspaper coverage and civic histories. That is where early landmark facts begin to connect to a fuller chronology of change, use, and interpretation.
Engine Company 65, Truck 52 gives later fieldwork and archives a stable site to keep circling back to.
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Chicago's public landmark data records Engine Company 65, Truck 52 as built in 1929.
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City of Chicago designated Engine Company 65, Truck 52 as an individual landmark on October 1, 2003.
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Engine Company 65, Truck 52 remains listed in Chicago's public individual-landmark address list and open-data record.
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