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Fremont Row House District

Chicago's designation of Fremont Row House District makes it easier to study street layout and domestic streetscape, parcel rhythm and residential development, and how block-scale preservation protects neighborhood form together rather than one address at a time.

Fremont Row House District Fremont Row House District, Chicago, Illinois

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Quick Take

  • Official status: Chicago landmark district.
  • District number: 18.
  • Designated: March 10, 2004.
  • Use it to study district boundaries, contributing fabric, and preservation at street scale.

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Why It Matters

Fremont Row House District stabilizes street layout and domestic streetscape, parcel rhythm and residential development, and how block-scale preservation protects neighborhood form in one mapped place.

From there, the district can be researched as a living piece of city fabric rather than as a loose collection of attractive buildings.

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Research Narrative

District Context

Fremont Row House District enters the city's landmark system as district number 18. The record anchors the district on March 10, 2004 and pairs that with the extent note 2100-2144 N. Fremont St.; 1875; Edward J. Burling. Fremont Row House District stays legible at the scale where street layout and domestic streetscape, parcel rhythm and residential development, and how block-scale preservation protects neighborhood form actually interact.

Fremont Row House District is best approached by comparing setbacks, porches, rooflines, and frontage rhythm, corner houses, mid-block repetition, and lot width, and later infill or domestic alteration. That is often the point where how residential form survives through repeated building patterns, lot structure, and later stewardship becomes easier to test against the ground.

Research Starting Points

Fremont Row House District starts to deepen once research reaches atlases, Sanborn maps, and designation reports, historic photographs and building permits, and real-estate records and neighborhood histories. That source trail is often where the district's internal logic becomes clear or begins to break apart.

Fremont Row House District gives later archive work one district to return to rather than scattering across unrelated addresses.

Public Actions

Campaign / Petition Record

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1875

Development

Primary development period recorded for the district

Chicago's current district record summarizes the principal period of development for Fremont Row House District as 1875.

March 10, 2004

Designation

Chicago landmark district designation

City of Chicago designated Fremont Row House District as landmark district no. 18 on March 10, 2004.

2025

Inventory

City landmark inventory and mapped district boundary

Fremont Row House District continues to appear in Chicago's public landmark inventory and mapped district boundary datasets.

Sources

Source Trail

Chicago Landmark Name List 2025.6

institution

Use for official landmark status and naming.

City of Chicago Open Data: Landmark Districts

dataset

Use for district names and designation dates in the city data portal.

City of Chicago Open Data: Boundaries - Landmark Districts

dataset

Use for district geometry and boundary-level map work.

Place Snapshot

Place
Fremont Row House District
Location
Fremont Row House District, Chicago, Illinois

Key Facts

Region
Chicago, Illinois / Midwest
Place type
Neighborhood / District
Current status
Preserved
District number
18
Designated
March 10, 2004

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