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built 1902-1903 and with current city data crediting Pond and Pond, Designated as a Chicago landmark on January 27, 2021. it becomes easier to follow domestic design, residential development, and later change at Perkins-Nordine House.
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Perkins-Nordine House gives domestic design, residential development, and block-by-block neighborhood change a durable public anchor.
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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Perkins-Nordine House is tied to 6106 N. Kenmore Ave in the city's landmark file. The current city data lists it as dating to a construction date of 1902-1903 and credits Pond and Pond. It was designated on January 27, 2021. Perkins-Nordine House already has a usable public frame for work on domestic design, residential development, and block-by-block neighborhood change.
Perkins-Nordine 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. Those observations help show how one domestic building can still clarify the growth of an entire residential block.
Perkins-Nordine House can be checked against real-estate atlases and fire insurance maps, permit files and census or directory material, and historic photographs and neighborhood histories when the designation summary runs out. That source trail can connect landmark status to ownership, alteration, and the changing role of the site in its block or corridor.
Perkins-Nordine House can keep observation, source work, and interpretation attached to one building.
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Development
Chicago's public landmark data records Perkins-Nordine House as built in 1902-1903.
Designation
City of Chicago designated Perkins-Nordine House as an individual landmark on January 27, 2021.
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Perkins-Nordine House remains listed in Chicago's public individual-landmark address list and open-data record.
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