Site of the John & Mary Jones House

Landmark Context

Site of the John & Mary Jones House enters Chicago's public landmark record at SW Corner of W 9th St & Plymouth Ct. City records connect the site to a building date that still needs confirmation in the next source layer. It was designated on May 26, 2004. Site of the John & Mary Jones House can be read through domestic design, residential development, and block-by-block neighborhood change without losing sight of the actual site.

Site of the John & Mary Jones 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. That is often where the longer record of the place starts to come into focus: how one domestic building can still clarify the growth of an entire residential block.

Research Starting Points

Site of the John & Mary Jones House gains a fuller record through real-estate atlases and fire insurance maps, permit files and census or directory material, and historic photographs and neighborhood histories. Those materials are usually what turn site observation into a more convincing historical record.

Site of the John & Mary Jones House can keep observation, source work, and interpretation attached to one building.