Ransom R Cable House

Landmark Context

Ransom R Cable House comes into public view at 25 E Erie St in the Chicago landmark record. Even in summary form, the record keeps together a construction date of 1886 and credits Cobb & Frost. It was designated on April 11, 2007. Ransom R Cable House keeps domestic design, residential development, and block-by-block neighborhood change grounded in a real building even when the public record is brief.

At Ransom R Cable House, the most useful field notes usually begin with lot width, setbacks, porches, bays, and rooflines, then move outward to the rhythm between neighboring houses and alterations that show changing domestic use. Seen that way, the landmark helps explain how one domestic building can still clarify the growth of an entire residential block.

Research Starting Points

Ransom R Cable House becomes a stronger research subject once the record expands into real-estate atlases and fire insurance maps, permit files and census or directory material, and historic photographs and neighborhood histories. That is usually how a short landmark record turns into a fuller account of use, alteration, and neighborhood setting.

Ransom R Cable House can hold the first facts in place while the larger history catches up.