Navy Pier (Headhouse and East End Building)

Landmark Context

Navy Pier (Headhouse and East End Building) enters Chicago's public landmark record at Grand Av and Streeter Dr at Lake Michigan. The designation record holds onto a construction date of 1916 and credits Charles Summer Frost. It was designated on November 14, 1977. Navy Pier (Headhouse and East End Building) becomes more than a passing image once those facts are held together with domestic design, residential development, and block-by-block neighborhood change.

Navy Pier (Headhouse and East End Building) starts to make more sense when researchers track 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

Navy Pier (Headhouse and East End Building) 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. Those records make it easier to test what changed, what remained, and how the building fit into a larger local story.

Navy Pier (Headhouse and East End Building) gives later fieldwork and archives a stable site to keep circling back to.