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(Former) Schlitz Brewery-Tied House (9401 S Ewing Ave)
(Former) Schlitz Brewery-Tied House (9401 S Ewing Ave) is a concise public starting point for domestic design and residential development, anchored by Chicago's landmark designation.
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Quick Take
- Official status: Chicago individual landmark.
- Address: 9401 S Ewing Ave.
- Built: 1907.
- Architect: Charles Thisslew.
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Why It Matters
(Former) Schlitz Brewery-Tied House (9401 S Ewing Ave) stabilizes domestic design, residential development, and block-by-block neighborhood change in one public landmark record.
Once that baseline is in place, the site can support deeper work on stewardship, alteration, public memory, and the larger corridor or block around it.
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Research Narrative
Landmark Context
(Former) Schlitz Brewery-Tied House (9401 S Ewing Ave) is tied to 9401 S Ewing Ave in the city's landmark file. City records connect the site to a construction date of 1907 and credits Charles Thisslew. It was designated on October 7, 2020. (Former) Schlitz Brewery-Tied House (9401 S Ewing Ave) already ties domestic design, residential development, and block-by-block neighborhood change to one real building before archival digging begins.
(Former) Schlitz Brewery-Tied House (9401 S Ewing Ave) 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. Read carefully, those details begin to explain how one domestic building can still clarify the growth of an entire residential block.
Research Starting Points
(Former) Schlitz Brewery-Tied House (9401 S Ewing Ave) starts to deepen once research reaches real-estate atlases and fire insurance maps, permit files and census or directory material, and historic photographs and neighborhood histories. Those records make it easier to test what changed, what remained, and how the building fit into a larger local story.
(Former) Schlitz Brewery-Tied House (9401 S Ewing Ave) becomes clearer when later research stays attached to the building instead of drifting into abstraction.
Public Actions
Campaign / Petition Record
Ordered oldest to newest.
1907
Development
Construction period recorded in city landmark data
by Public record Previous
Chicago's public landmark data records (Former) Schlitz Brewery-Tied House (9401 S Ewing Ave) as built in 1907.
October 7, 2020
Designation
Chicago individual landmark designation
by Public record Previous
City of Chicago designated (Former) Schlitz Brewery-Tied House (9401 S Ewing Ave) as an individual landmark on October 7, 2020.
February 2026
Inventory
City landmark address list and data portal record
by Public record Current
(Former) Schlitz Brewery-Tied House (9401 S Ewing Ave) remains listed in Chicago's public individual-landmark address list and open-data record.
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Sources
Source Trail
City of Chicago Open Data: Individual Landmarks
dataset
Use for address, built date, architect, and point geometry in the city data portal.
Chicago Landmark Address List February 2026
institution
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Place Snapshot
- Place
- (Former) Schlitz Brewery-Tied House (9401 S Ewing Ave)
- Location
- 9401 S Ewing Ave, Chicago, Illinois
- Coverage
- Exact
Key Facts
- Region
- Chicago, Illinois / Midwest
- Place type
- Industrial Site
- Current status
- Preserved
- Address
- 9401 S Ewing Ave
- Built
- 1907
- Architect
- Charles Thisslew
- Designated
- October 7, 2020
Design / Planning Timeline
Charles Thisslew
1907
Milestone
Design architect or firm credited in current city landmark data
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