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Mathilde Eliel House

The public record around Mathilde Eliel House holds onto domestic design, residential development, and block-by-block neighborhood change instead of leaving them as disconnected observations.

Mathilde Eliel House 4122 S Ellis Av, Chicago, Illinois Precision: Exact

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Quick Take

  • Official status: Chicago individual landmark.
  • Address: 4122 S Ellis Av.
  • Built: 1886.
  • Architect: Adler & Sullivan.

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Why It Matters

Mathilde Eliel House keeps domestic design, residential development, and block-by-block neighborhood change grounded in one address and one building.

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

Mathilde Eliel House is fixed in the city's landmark record at 4122 S Ellis Av. The current city data lists it as dating to a construction date of 1886 and credits Adler & Sullivan. It was designated on October 2, 1991. Mathilde Eliel House becomes more than a passing image once those facts are held together with domestic design, residential development, and block-by-block neighborhood change.

Mathilde Eliel House is best approached by paying attention to lot width, setbacks, porches, bays, and rooflines, the rhythm between neighboring houses, and alterations that show changing domestic use. This is where the landmark shifts from designation to evidence about how one domestic building can still clarify the growth of an entire residential block.

Research Starting Points

Mathilde Eliel House usually reveals its next layer in real-estate atlases and fire insurance maps, permit files and census or directory material, and historic photographs and neighborhood histories. Those records help separate what the landmark file says from what the longer building history actually shows.

Mathilde Eliel House remains most useful when later evidence keeps returning to the site itself.

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Campaign / Petition Record

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1886

Development

Construction period recorded in city landmark data

Chicago's public landmark data records Mathilde Eliel House as built in 1886.

October 2, 1991

Designation

Chicago individual landmark designation

City of Chicago designated Mathilde Eliel House as an individual landmark on October 2, 1991.

February 2026

Inventory

City landmark address list and data portal record

Mathilde Eliel House remains listed in Chicago's public individual-landmark address list and open-data record.

Sources

Source Trail

Chicago Landmark Name List 2025.6

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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
Mathilde Eliel House
Location
4122 S Ellis Av, Chicago, Illinois
Coverage
Exact

Key Facts

Region
Chicago, Illinois / Midwest
Place type
Residential Complex
Current status
Preserved
Address
4122 S Ellis Av
Built
1886
Architect
Adler & Sullivan
Designated
October 2, 1991

Design / Planning Timeline

Adler & Sullivan
1886

Milestone

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