McCormick Double House

Landmark Context

McCormick Double House is located at 660 N Rush St in the city's landmark record. City records connect the site to a construction date of 1875 and credits Frederick & Edward Baumann. It was designated on October 6, 2005. McCormick Double House gives researchers a way to connect domestic design, residential development, and block-by-block neighborhood change to one actual site.

McCormick Double 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. That kind of reading often reveals how one domestic building can still clarify the growth of an entire residential block.

Research Starting Points

McCormick Double 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 materials are where architecture, use, and later stewardship begin to line up against each other.

McCormick Double House gives later fieldwork and archives a stable site to keep circling back to.