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built 1896 and with current city data crediting Adolph Cudell & Arthur Hercz, Designated as a Chicago landmark on June 12, 1974. the public record begins with concrete facts and can move outward into domestic design and residential development.
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Francis J. Dewes House stabilizes domestic design, residential development, and block-by-block neighborhood change in one public landmark record.
That public anchor is what allows later work on ownership, alteration, neighborhood setting, and interpretation to build outward in a disciplined way.
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Francis J. Dewes House enters Chicago's public landmark record at 503 W Wrightwood Av. The current city data lists it as dating to a construction date of 1896 and credits Adolph Cudell & Arthur Hercz. It was designated on June 12, 1974. Francis J. Dewes House can be read through domestic design, residential development, and block-by-block neighborhood change without losing sight of the actual site.
Francis J. Dewes House becomes materially clearer through 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.
Francis J. Dewes House is easiest to push beyond designation through real-estate atlases and fire insurance maps, permit files and census or directory material, and historic photographs and neighborhood histories. That source trail can connect landmark status to ownership, alteration, and the changing role of the site in its block or corridor.
Francis J. Dewes House is already usable now without pretending the historical work is finished.
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Chicago's public landmark data records Francis J. Dewes House as built in 1896.
Designation
City of Chicago designated Francis J. Dewes House as an individual landmark on June 12, 1974.
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Francis J. Dewes House remains listed in Chicago's public individual-landmark address list and open-data record.
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