Garfield Park Fieldhouse

Landmark Context

Garfield Park Fieldhouse comes into public view at 100 N. Central Park Ave in the Chicago landmark record. Even in summary form, the record keeps together a construction date of 1928 and credits Michaelson & Rognstad. It was designated on September 3, 2009. Garfield Park Fieldhouse keeps institutional planning, community service and public life, and how buildings shaped neighborhood identity grounded in a real building even when the public record is brief.

Garfield Park Fieldhouse becomes easier to read on site when attention turns to entries, wings, and later additions, yards, courts, or campus relationships, and how the building addresses the street. That kind of fieldwork helps clarify how public or community-serving institutions left long physical traces in the neighborhood.

Research Starting Points

Garfield Park Fieldhouse is easiest to push beyond designation through board minutes or annual reports, permit records, and photographs, directories, and local coverage. That source trail can connect landmark status to ownership, alteration, and the changing role of the site in its block or corridor.

Garfield Park Fieldhouse can hold the first facts in place while the larger history catches up.