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The public record around S. Pond Refectory/Men's & Ladies Comfort Station holds onto movement infrastructure, corridor planning, and how the city organized circulation instead of leaving them as disconnected observations.
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S. Pond Refectory/Men's & Ladies Comfort Station keeps a real place attached to movement infrastructure, corridor planning, and how the city organized circulation.
That is what gives later archival and field work somewhere concrete to begin.
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Research Narrative
S. Pond Refectory/Men's & Ladies Comfort Station is located at 2019 N Stockton Dr in the city's landmark record. Even in summary form, the record keeps together a construction date of 1908&1888 and credits S Pond; Perkins & Hamilton Comfort; Jos. L Silsbee. It was designated on February 5, 2003. S. Pond Refectory/Men's & Ladies Comfort Station can be read through movement infrastructure, corridor planning, and how the city organized circulation without losing sight of the actual site.
S. Pond Refectory/Men's & Ladies Comfort Station starts to make more sense when researchers track span, alignment, or platform relationships, connections to adjoining streets, rail lines, or water, and later mechanical change or deferred maintenance. Read carefully, those details begin to explain how circulation systems stay visible in structure, alignment, and surrounding land use.
S. Pond Refectory/Men's & Ladies Comfort Station is easiest to push beyond designation through engineering records and planning reports, historic maps and photographs, and newspaper coverage of openings, upgrades, and closures. That is where early landmark facts begin to connect to a fuller chronology of change, use, and interpretation.
S. Pond Refectory/Men's & Ladies Comfort Station gives later fieldwork and archives a stable site to keep circling back to.
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Development
Chicago's public landmark data records S. Pond Refectory/Men's & Ladies Comfort Station as built in 1908&1888.
Designation
City of Chicago designated S. Pond Refectory/Men's & Ladies Comfort Station as an individual landmark on February 5, 2003.
Inventory
S. Pond Refectory/Men's & Ladies Comfort Station remains listed in Chicago's public individual-landmark address list and open-data record.
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