(Former) Schlitz BreweryTied House at 3159 N. Southport

Landmark Context

(Former) Schlitz BreweryTied House at 3159 N. Southport enters Chicago's public landmark record at 3159 N. Southport Ave. City records connect the site to a construction date of 1903 and credits Frommann and Jebsen. It was designated on July 6, 2011. (Former) Schlitz BreweryTied House at 3159 N. Southport keeps domestic design, residential development, and block-by-block neighborhood change attached to one building instead of dissolving into general background.

(Former) Schlitz BreweryTied House at 3159 N. Southport reveals more once fieldwork compares lot width, setbacks, porches, bays, and rooflines, the rhythm between neighboring houses, and alterations that show changing domestic use. Those clues are often the clearest route into how one domestic building can still clarify the growth of an entire residential block.

Research Starting Points

(Former) Schlitz BreweryTied House at 3159 N. Southport becomes a stronger research subject once the record expands into real-estate atlases and fire insurance maps, permit files and census or directory material, and historic photographs and neighborhood histories. That is where early landmark facts begin to connect to a fuller chronology of change, use, and interpretation.

(Former) Schlitz BreweryTied House at 3159 N. Southport remains most useful when later evidence keeps returning to the site itself.