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Designated as a Chicago landmark on October 1, 2003. Pate-Comiskey House works well as a public foothold for domestic design, residential development, and block-by-block neighborhood change.
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Why It Matters
Pate-Comiskey 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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Pate-Comiskey House is fixed in the city's landmark record at 5131 S Michigan Av. The designation record holds onto a construction date of 1901 and credits George Maher. It was designated on October 1, 2003. Pate-Comiskey House gives researchers a way to connect domestic design, residential development, and block-by-block neighborhood change to one actual site.
Pate-Comiskey House 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. 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.
Pate-Comiskey House starts to deepen once research reaches 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.
Pate-Comiskey House still needs permits, photographs, and comparison, but the landmark record gives that work a stable point of return.
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Chicago's public landmark data records Pate-Comiskey House as built in 1901.
Designation
City of Chicago designated Pate-Comiskey House as an individual landmark on October 1, 2003.
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Pate-Comiskey House remains listed in Chicago's public individual-landmark address list and open-data record.
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