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Joseph Downey House and Coach House

built 1906 and with current city data crediting William Carbys Zimmerman, Designated as a Chicago landmark on June 13, 2013. the public record begins with concrete facts and can move outward into domestic design and residential development.

Joseph Downey House and Coach House 6205 N. Sheridan Road, Chicago, Illinois Precision: Exact

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  • Official status: Chicago individual landmark.
  • Address: 6205 N. Sheridan Road.
  • Built: 1906.
  • Architect: William Carbys Zimmerman.

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Why It Matters

Joseph Downey House and Coach House keeps a real place attached to domestic design, residential development, and block-by-block neighborhood change.

Once that baseline is in place, the site can support deeper work on stewardship, alteration, public memory, and the larger corridor or block around it.

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Research Narrative

Landmark Context

Joseph Downey House and Coach House is fixed in the city's landmark record at 6205 N. Sheridan Road. The current city data lists it as dating to a construction date of 1906 and credits William Carbys Zimmerman. It was designated on June 13, 2013. Joseph Downey House and Coach House becomes more than a passing image once those facts are held together with domestic design, residential development, and block-by-block neighborhood change.

Joseph Downey House and Coach House 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. Those clues are often the clearest route into how one domestic building can still clarify the growth of an entire residential block.

Research Starting Points

Joseph Downey House and Coach House gains a fuller record 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.

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1906

Development

Construction period recorded in city landmark data

Chicago's public landmark data records Joseph Downey House and Coach House as built in 1906.

June 13, 2013

Designation

Chicago individual landmark designation

City of Chicago designated Joseph Downey House and Coach House as an individual landmark on June 13, 2013.

February 2026

Inventory

City landmark address list and data portal record

Joseph Downey House and Coach House remains listed in Chicago's public individual-landmark address list and open-data record.

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Chicago Landmark Name List 2025.6

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Chicago Landmark Address List February 2026

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Place Snapshot

Place
Joseph Downey House and Coach House
Location
6205 N. Sheridan Road, Chicago, Illinois
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Key Facts

Region
Chicago, Illinois / Midwest
Place type
Residential Complex
Current status
Preserved
Address
6205 N. Sheridan Road
Built
1906
Architect
William Carbys Zimmerman
Designated
June 13, 2013

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William Carbys Zimmerman
1906

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