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Kingdom Baptist Church
built 1926-1943 and with current city data crediting Nelson Max Dunning, Designated as a Chicago landmark on February 19, 2025. the public record begins with concrete facts and can move outward into religious architecture and congregational history.
Kingdom Baptist Church
301 N. Central, Chicago, Illinois
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- Official status: Chicago individual landmark.
- Address: 301 N. Central.
- Built: 1926-1943.
- Architect: Nelson Max Dunning.
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Why It Matters
Kingdom Baptist Church keeps a real place attached to religious architecture, congregational history, and immigration and neighborhood change.
That public anchor is what allows later work on ownership, alteration, neighborhood setting, and interpretation to build outward in a disciplined way.
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Research Narrative
Landmark Context
Kingdom Baptist Church is held in public view at 301 N. Central by the city's landmark record. The current city data lists it as dating to a construction date of 1926-1943 and credits Nelson Max Dunning. It was designated on February 19, 2025. Kingdom Baptist Church already has a usable public frame for work on religious architecture, congregational history, and immigration and neighborhood change.
Kingdom Baptist Church becomes materially clearer through entry hierarchy, towers, and symbolic facade work, parish or congregational buildings nearby, and later reuse, subdivision, or adaptive change. That kind of reading often reveals how worship, community identity, and later reuse remain visible in the building.
Research Starting Points
Kingdom Baptist Church can be checked against congregational records, permit files, and historic photographs and neighborhood reporting when the designation summary runs out. Those materials are usually what turn site observation into a more convincing historical record.
Kingdom Baptist Church can keep observation, source work, and interpretation attached to one building.
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1926-1943
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Construction period recorded in city landmark data
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Chicago's public landmark data records Kingdom Baptist Church as built in 1926-1943.
February 19, 2025
Designation
Chicago individual landmark designation
by Public record Previous
City of Chicago designated Kingdom Baptist Church as an individual landmark on February 19, 2025.
February 2026
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City landmark address list and data portal record
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Kingdom Baptist Church 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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Chicago Landmark Address List February 2026
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Place Snapshot
- Place
- Kingdom Baptist Church
- Location
- 301 N. Central, Chicago, Illinois
- Coverage
- Exact
Key Facts
- Region
- Chicago, Illinois / Midwest
- Place type
- Campus / Institutional
- Current status
- Preserved
- Address
- 301 N. Central
- Built
- 1926-1943
- Architect
- Nelson Max Dunning
- Designated
- February 19, 2025
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Nelson Max Dunning
1926-1943
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