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(Former) St. Adalbert Church Building
The public record around (Former) St. Adalbert Church Building holds onto religious architecture, congregational history, and immigration and neighborhood change instead of leaving them as disconnected observations.
(Former) St. Adalbert Church Building
1638 W 17th St, Chicago, Illinois
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- Official status: Chicago individual landmark.
- Address: 1638 W 17th St.
- Built: 1914.
- Architect: Henry J. Schlacks.
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Why It Matters
(Former) St. Adalbert Church Building stabilizes religious architecture, congregational history, and immigration and neighborhood change in one public landmark record.
That is what gives later archival and field work somewhere concrete to begin.
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Research Narrative
Landmark Context
(Former) St. Adalbert Church Building is held in public view at 1638 W 17th St by the city's landmark record. City records connect the site to a construction date of 1914 and credits Henry J. Schlacks. (Former) St. Adalbert Church Building already ties religious architecture, congregational history, and immigration and neighborhood change to one real building before archival digging begins.
(Former) St. Adalbert Church Building starts to make more sense when researchers track entry hierarchy, towers, and symbolic facade work, parish or congregational buildings nearby, and later reuse, subdivision, or adaptive change. This is where the landmark shifts from designation to evidence about how worship, community identity, and later reuse remain visible in the building.
Research Starting Points
(Former) St. Adalbert Church Building usually reveals its next layer in congregational records, permit files, and historic photographs and neighborhood reporting. Those materials are where architecture, use, and later stewardship begin to line up against each other.
(Former) St. Adalbert Church Building can keep observation, source work, and interpretation attached to one building.
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1914
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Construction period recorded in city landmark data
by Public record Previous
Chicago's public landmark data records (Former) St. Adalbert Church Building as built in 1914.
February 2026
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City landmark address list and data portal record
by Public record Current
(Former) St. Adalbert Church Building remains listed in Chicago's public individual-landmark address list and open-data record.
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City of Chicago Open Data: Individual Landmarks
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Chicago Landmark Address List February 2026
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Place Snapshot
- Place
- (Former) St. Adalbert Church Building
- Location
- 1638 W 17th St, Chicago, Illinois
- Coverage
- Exact
Key Facts
- Region
- Chicago, Illinois / Midwest
- Place type
- Campus / Institutional
- Current status
- Preserved
- Address
- 1638 W 17th St
- Built
- 1914
- Architect
- Henry J. Schlacks
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Henry J. Schlacks
1914
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