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K. A. M. Isaiah Israel Temple
The public record around K. A. M. Isaiah Israel Temple holds onto religious architecture, congregational history, and immigration and neighborhood change instead of leaving them as disconnected observations.
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Quick Take
- Official status: Chicago individual landmark.
- Address: 1100 E Hyde Park Blvd.
- Built: 1924.
- Architect: Alfred S. Alschuler.
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Why It Matters
K. A. M. Isaiah Israel Temple stabilizes religious architecture, congregational history, and immigration and neighborhood change 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
K. A. M. Isaiah Israel Temple is tied to 1100 E Hyde Park Blvd in the city's landmark file. The current city data lists it as dating to a construction date of 1924 and credits Alfred S. Alschuler. It was designated on June 9, 1977. K. A. M. Isaiah Israel Temple already has a usable public frame for work on religious architecture, congregational history, and immigration and neighborhood change.
K. A. M. Isaiah Israel Temple is best read on the ground through entry hierarchy, towers, and symbolic facade work, parish or congregational buildings nearby, and later reuse, subdivision, or adaptive change. Together, those clues make it easier to understand how worship, community identity, and later reuse remain visible in the building.
Research Starting Points
K. A. M. Isaiah Israel Temple can be checked against congregational records, permit files, and historic photographs and neighborhood reporting when the designation summary runs out. Those materials are where architecture, use, and later stewardship begin to line up against each other.
K. A. M. Isaiah Israel Temple remains most useful when later evidence keeps returning to the site itself.
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Campaign / Petition Record
Ordered oldest to newest.
1924
Development
Construction period recorded in city landmark data
by Public record Previous
Chicago's public landmark data records K. A. M. Isaiah Israel Temple as built in 1924.
June 9, 1977
Designation
Chicago individual landmark designation
by Public record Previous
City of Chicago designated K. A. M. Isaiah Israel Temple as an individual landmark on June 9, 1977.
February 2026
Inventory
City landmark address list and data portal record
by Public record Current
K. A. M. Isaiah Israel Temple remains listed in Chicago's public individual-landmark address list and open-data record.
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Sources
Source Trail
City of Chicago Open Data: Individual Landmarks
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Use for address, built date, architect, and point geometry in the city data portal.
Chicago Landmark Address List February 2026
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Use for address normalization and cross-checking the city's public landmark list.
Place Snapshot
- Place
- K. A. M. Isaiah Israel Temple
- Location
- 1100 E Hyde Park Blvd, Chicago, Illinois
- Coverage
- Exact
Key Facts
- Region
- Chicago, Illinois / Midwest
- Place type
- Campus / Institutional
- Current status
- Preserved
- Address
- 1100 E Hyde Park Blvd
- Built
- 1924
- Architect
- Alfred S. Alschuler
- Designated
- June 9, 1977
Design / Planning Timeline
Alfred S. Alschuler
1924
Milestone
Design architect or firm credited in current city landmark data
Use as a starting point for confirming authorship against permits, drawings, and later landmark reports.
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