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Designated as a Chicago landmark on September 14, 2021. (Former) Schlitz Brewery-Tied House (1393-1399 W. Lake St) works well as a public foothold for domestic design, residential development, and block-by-block neighborhood change.
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(Former) Schlitz Brewery-Tied House (1393-1399 W. Lake St) keeps a real place attached to domestic design, residential development, and block-by-block neighborhood change.
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(Former) Schlitz Brewery-Tied House (1393-1399 W. Lake St) enters Chicago's public landmark record at 1393-1399 W. Lake St. The designation record holds onto a construction date of 1892 and credits Not Known. It was designated on September 14, 2021. (Former) Schlitz Brewery-Tied House (1393-1399 W. Lake St) can be read through domestic design, residential development, and block-by-block neighborhood change without losing sight of the actual site.
(Former) Schlitz Brewery-Tied House (1393-1399 W. Lake St) gains definition in the field when attention concentrates on lot width, setbacks, porches, bays, and rooflines, the rhythm between neighboring houses, and alterations that show changing domestic use. Seen that way, the landmark helps explain how one domestic building can still clarify the growth of an entire residential block.
(Former) Schlitz Brewery-Tied House (1393-1399 W. Lake St) 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. Those materials are usually what turn site observation into a more convincing historical record.
(Former) Schlitz Brewery-Tied House (1393-1399 W. Lake St) still needs deeper source work, but the landmark record already keeps that work tied to one place.
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Chicago's public landmark data records (Former) Schlitz Brewery-Tied House (1393-1399 W. Lake St) as built in 1892.
Designation
City of Chicago designated (Former) Schlitz Brewery-Tied House (1393-1399 W. Lake St) as an individual landmark on September 14, 2021.
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(Former) Schlitz Brewery-Tied House (1393-1399 W. Lake St) remains listed in Chicago's public individual-landmark address list and open-data record.
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