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Designated as a Chicago landmark on November 6, 2002. Site of the Sauganash Hotel/Wigwam works well as a public foothold for commercial development, architectural branding, and corridor and downtown change.
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Site of the Sauganash Hotel/Wigwam gives commercial development, architectural branding, and corridor and downtown change a durable public anchor.
That public anchor is what allows later work on ownership, alteration, neighborhood setting, and interpretation to build outward in a disciplined way.
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Site of the Sauganash Hotel/Wigwam comes into public view at SE corner of Lake St & Wacker Dr in the Chicago landmark record. The current city data lists it as dating to a construction date of 1831,1860. It was designated on November 6, 2002. Site of the Sauganash Hotel/Wigwam already has a usable public frame for work on commercial development, architectural branding, and corridor and downtown change.
Site of the Sauganash Hotel/Wigwam reveals more once fieldwork compares storefront depth, upper-floor expression, and corner treatment, how the facade addresses pedestrian traffic, and later signage, infill, or reuse. Seen that way, the landmark helps explain how commercial architecture stayed visible even as the economic life around it changed.
Site of the Sauganash Hotel/Wigwam can be carried further through trade press and city directories, permit files and assessor records, and historic photographs and newspaper coverage. Those materials are where architecture, use, and later stewardship begin to line up against each other.
Site of the Sauganash Hotel/Wigwam gives later fieldwork and archives a stable site to keep circling back to.
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Chicago's public landmark data records Site of the Sauganash Hotel/Wigwam as built in 1831,1860.
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City of Chicago designated Site of the Sauganash Hotel/Wigwam as an individual landmark on November 6, 2002.
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Site of the Sauganash Hotel/Wigwam remains listed in Chicago's public individual-landmark address list and open-data record.
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