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Quinn Chapel
Quinn Chapel is a concise public starting point for religious architecture and congregational history, anchored by Chicago's landmark designation.
Quinn Chapel
2401 S Wabash Av, Chicago, Illinois
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- Official status: Chicago individual landmark.
- Address: 2401 S Wabash Av.
- Built: 1892.
- Architect: Henry F. Starbuck.
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Why It Matters
Quinn Chapel stabilizes religious architecture, congregational history, and immigration and neighborhood change in one public landmark record.
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
Quinn Chapel is held in public view at 2401 S Wabash Av by the city's landmark record. The designation record holds onto a construction date of 1892 and credits Henry F. Starbuck. It was designated on August 31, 1977. Quinn Chapel gives researchers a way to connect religious architecture, congregational history, and immigration and neighborhood change to one actual site.
Quinn Chapel becomes easier to read on site when attention turns to entry hierarchy, towers, and symbolic facade work, parish or congregational buildings nearby, and later reuse, subdivision, or adaptive change. Seen that way, the landmark helps explain how worship, community identity, and later reuse remain visible in the building.
Research Starting Points
Quinn Chapel opens next into congregational records, permit files, and historic photographs and neighborhood reporting. That is usually how a short landmark record turns into a fuller account of use, alteration, and neighborhood setting.
Quinn Chapel becomes clearer when later research stays attached to the building instead of drifting into abstraction.
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1892
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Construction period recorded in city landmark data
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Chicago's public landmark data records Quinn Chapel as built in 1892.
August 31, 1977
Designation
Chicago individual landmark designation
by Public record Previous
City of Chicago designated Quinn Chapel as an individual landmark on August 31, 1977.
February 2026
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City landmark address list and data portal record
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Quinn Chapel remains listed in Chicago's public individual-landmark address list and open-data record.
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Place Snapshot
- Place
- Quinn Chapel
- Location
- 2401 S Wabash Av, Chicago, Illinois
- Coverage
- Exact
Key Facts
- Region
- Chicago, Illinois / Midwest
- Place type
- Campus / Institutional
- Current status
- Preserved
- Address
- 2401 S Wabash Av
- Built
- 1892
- Architect
- Henry F. Starbuck
- Designated
- August 31, 1977
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Henry F. Starbuck
1892
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Design architect or firm credited in current city landmark data
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