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Graeme Stewart Public School Building
built 1906-07 and with current city data crediting Dwight H. Perkins(1906), John C. Christensen(1904), Designated as a Chicago landmark on December 14, 2016. the public record begins with concrete facts and can move outward into institutional planning and community service and public life.
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Quick Take
- Official status: Chicago individual landmark.
- Address: 4505-4545 North Kenmore Ave.
- Built: 1906-07.
- Architect: Dwight H. Perkins(1906), John C. Christensen(1904).
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Why It Matters
Graeme Stewart Public School Building stabilizes institutional planning, community service and public life, and how buildings shaped neighborhood identity in one public landmark record.
From there, the building can be read through design, use, later change, and neighborhood context instead of remaining a detached image or isolated fact.
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Research Narrative
Landmark Context
Graeme Stewart Public School Building is held in public view at 4505-4545 North Kenmore Ave by the city's landmark record. Even in summary form, the record keeps together a construction date of 1906-07 and credits Dwight H. Perkins(1906), John C. Christensen(1904). It was designated on December 14, 2016. Graeme Stewart Public School Building gives researchers a way to connect institutional planning, community service and public life, and how buildings shaped neighborhood identity to one actual site.
Graeme Stewart Public School Building reveals more once fieldwork compares entries, wings, and later additions, yards, courts, or campus relationships, and how the building addresses the street. Seen that way, the landmark helps explain how public or community-serving institutions left long physical traces in the neighborhood.
Research Starting Points
Graeme Stewart Public School Building usually reveals its next layer in board minutes or annual reports, permit records, and photographs, directories, and local coverage. That is where early landmark facts begin to connect to a fuller chronology of change, use, and interpretation.
Graeme Stewart Public School Building gives later fieldwork and archives a stable site to keep circling back to.
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Campaign / Petition Record
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1906-07
Development
Construction period recorded in city landmark data
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Chicago's public landmark data records Graeme Stewart Public School Building as built in 1906-07.
December 14, 2016
Designation
Chicago individual landmark designation
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City of Chicago designated Graeme Stewart Public School Building as an individual landmark on December 14, 2016.
February 2026
Inventory
City landmark address list and data portal record
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Graeme Stewart Public School 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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Place Snapshot
- Place
- Graeme Stewart Public School Building
- Location
- 4505-4545 North Kenmore Ave, Chicago, Illinois
- Coverage
- Exact
Key Facts
- Region
- Chicago, Illinois / Midwest
- Place type
- Campus / Institutional
- Current status
- Preserved
- Address
- 4505-4545 North Kenmore Ave
- Built
- 1906-07
- Architect
- Dwight H. Perkins(1906), John C. Christensen(1904)
- Designated
- December 14, 2016
Design / Planning Timeline
Dwight H. Perkins(1906), John C. Christensen(1904)
1906-07
Milestone
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