(Former) Lyman Trumbull Public School Building

Landmark Context

(Former) Lyman Trumbull Public School Building is fixed in the city's landmark record at 5200-24 N. Ashland Avenue/1600-1612 W. Foster. City records connect the site to a construction date of 1909-1913 and credits Dwight H. Perkins. It was designated on September 18, 2019. (Former) Lyman Trumbull Public School Building gives researchers a way to connect institutional planning, community service and public life, and how buildings shaped neighborhood identity to one actual site.

At (Former) Lyman Trumbull Public School Building, the most useful field notes usually begin with entries, wings, and later additions, then move outward to yards, courts, or campus relationships and how the building addresses the street. Those clues are often the clearest route into how public or community-serving institutions left long physical traces in the neighborhood.

Research Starting Points

(Former) Lyman Trumbull Public School Building opens next into board minutes or annual reports, permit records, and photographs, directories, and local coverage. That source trail can connect landmark status to ownership, alteration, and the changing role of the site in its block or corridor.

(Former) Lyman Trumbull Public School Building remains most useful when later evidence keeps returning to the site itself.