Richard Wright House

Landmark Context

Richard Wright House is held in public view at 4831 S Vincennes Av by the city's landmark record. The designation record holds onto a construction date of 1893 and credits Unknown. It was designated on February 10, 2010. Richard Wright House gives researchers a way to connect domestic design, residential development, and block-by-block neighborhood change to one actual site.

Richard Wright House becomes materially clearer through lot width, setbacks, porches, bays, and rooflines, the rhythm between neighboring houses, and alterations that show changing domestic use. Read carefully, those details begin to explain how one domestic building can still clarify the growth of an entire residential block.

Research Starting Points

Richard Wright House can be carried further through 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.

Richard Wright House can hold the first facts in place while the larger history catches up.