Walter Burley Griffin Place District

District Context

Walter Burley Griffin Place District enters the public district record as Chicago landmark district number 22. Chicago dates the district designation to November 13, 1981, with the current extent summarized as One block of Griffin Place (104th Place), between Prospect (1600W) and Wood (1800W); 1909-1914; Walter Burley Griffin. Walter Burley Griffin Place District allows street layout and domestic streetscape, parcel rhythm and residential development, and how block-scale preservation protects neighborhood form to be studied as part of one protected piece of the city.

Walter Burley Griffin Place District reveals its internal logic through setbacks, porches, rooflines, and frontage rhythm, corner houses, mid-block repetition, and lot width, and later infill or domestic alteration. That is often the point where how residential form survives through repeated building patterns, lot structure, and later stewardship becomes easier to test against the ground.

Research Starting Points

Walter Burley Griffin Place District can be carried further through atlases, Sanborn maps, and designation reports, historic photographs and building permits, and real-estate records and neighborhood histories. That is usually how the district moves from a protected outline into a fuller history of parcels, fabric, and later change.

Walter Burley Griffin Place District is already workable now without pretending the district history is finished.