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built 1885 and with current city data crediting John C. Cochrane, Designated as a Chicago landmark on October 1, 2003. it becomes easier to follow domestic design, residential development, and later change at Wood-Maxey-Boyd House.
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Wood-Maxey-Boyd House keeps a real place attached to domestic design, residential development, and block-by-block neighborhood change.
Once that baseline is in place, the site can support deeper work on stewardship, alteration, public memory, and the larger corridor or block around it.
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Wood-Maxey-Boyd House is publicly anchored at 2801 S Prarie Av by the landmark designation record. The designation record holds onto a construction date of 1885 and credits John C. Cochrane. It was designated on October 1, 2003. Wood-Maxey-Boyd House turns into a workable research subject once domestic design, residential development, and block-by-block neighborhood change are kept in view together.
Wood-Maxey-Boyd House reveals more once fieldwork compares 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.
Wood-Maxey-Boyd 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. That source trail can connect landmark status to ownership, alteration, and the changing role of the site in its block or corridor.
Wood-Maxey-Boyd House gives later fieldwork and archives a stable site to keep circling back to.
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Development
Chicago's public landmark data records Wood-Maxey-Boyd House as built in 1885.
Designation
City of Chicago designated Wood-Maxey-Boyd House as an individual landmark on October 1, 2003.
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Wood-Maxey-Boyd House remains listed in Chicago's public individual-landmark address list and open-data record.
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