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F. R. Schock House
Designated as a Chicago landmark on January 20, 1999. F. R. Schock House works well as a public foothold for domestic design, residential development, and block-by-block neighborhood change.
F. R. Schock House
5804 W Midway Park, Chicago, Illinois
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- Official status: Chicago individual landmark.
- Address: 5804 W Midway Park.
- Built: 1886.
- Architect: Frederick Schock.
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Why It Matters
F. R. Schock House gives domestic design, residential development, and block-by-block neighborhood change a durable public anchor.
That is what gives later archival and field work somewhere concrete to begin.
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Landmark Context
F. R. Schock House comes into public view at 5804 W Midway Park in the Chicago landmark record. The designation record holds onto a construction date of 1886 and credits Frederick Schock. It was designated on January 20, 1999. F. R. Schock House turns into a workable research subject once domestic design, residential development, and block-by-block neighborhood change are kept in view together.
F. R. Schock House becomes materially clearer through lot width, setbacks, porches, bays, and rooflines, the rhythm between neighboring houses, and alterations that show changing domestic use. Read carefully, those details begin to explain how one domestic building can still clarify the growth of an entire residential block.
Research Starting Points
F. R. Schock House can be checked against real-estate atlases and fire insurance maps, permit files and census or directory material, and historic photographs and neighborhood histories when the designation summary runs out. That is where early landmark facts begin to connect to a fuller chronology of change, use, and interpretation.
F. R. Schock House can keep observation, source work, and interpretation attached to one building.
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1886
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Construction period recorded in city landmark data
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Chicago's public landmark data records F. R. Schock House as built in 1886.
January 20, 1999
Designation
Chicago individual landmark designation
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City of Chicago designated F. R. Schock House as an individual landmark on January 20, 1999.
February 2026
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City landmark address list and data portal record
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F. R. Schock House remains listed in Chicago's public individual-landmark address list and open-data record.
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Place Snapshot
- Place
- F. R. Schock House
- Location
- 5804 W Midway Park, Chicago, Illinois
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- Exact
Key Facts
- Region
- Chicago, Illinois / Midwest
- Place type
- Residential Complex
- Current status
- Preserved
- Address
- 5804 W Midway Park
- Built
- 1886
- Architect
- Frederick Schock
- Designated
- January 20, 1999
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Frederick Schock
1886
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