Humboldt Park Boathouse Pavilion

Landmark Context

Humboldt Park Boathouse Pavilion enters Chicago's public landmark record at 1301 N Humboldt Blvd. The designation record holds onto a construction date of 1907 and credits Richard E. Schmidt,Garden & Martin w/ Jens Jensen. It was designated on November 13, 1996. Humboldt Park Boathouse Pavilion already has a usable public frame for work on domestic design, residential development, and block-by-block neighborhood change.

Humboldt Park Boathouse Pavilion gains definition in the field when attention concentrates on lot width, setbacks, porches, bays, and rooflines, the rhythm between neighboring houses, and alterations that show changing domestic use. Seen that way, the landmark helps explain how one domestic building can still clarify the growth of an entire residential block.

Research Starting Points

Humboldt Park Boathouse Pavilion 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.

Humboldt Park Boathouse Pavilion can keep observation, source work, and interpretation attached to one building.