Chicago Historic Resources Survey
Between 1983 and 1995 the City surveyed every Chicago building put up before 1940, color-coding each one for age, physical integrity and possible significance. Red and orange are the top two of seven ratings, and they still carry weight in preservation review. A building in the survey is not necessarily a landmark.
Survey by the Commission on Chicago Landmarks. Chapter digitized by Preservation Chicago from the copies in our library; field maps from the Internet Archive.
- American School of Correspondence 850 E. 58th Street · built 1907 · Pond & Pond · designated April 15, 1995 Schools and education
- Frederick C. Robie House 5757 S. Woodlawn Avenue · built 1909 · Frank Lloyd Wright · designated September 15, 1971 Houses Seeking missing report
- Greenwood Row House District Various addresses · built 1903 · Joseph C. Brompton · designated December 8, 2004 Residential districts
- Hyde Park Union Church Hyde Park Baptist Church, First Baptist Church of Hyde Park 5600-5610 South Woodlawn Avenue · built 1906 (Church Building); 1926 (Education Wing) · James Gamble Rogers & Morison & Wallace · designated July 17, 2024 Places of worship
- Hyde Park-Kenwood Nat'l Bank Bldg (Former) 1515-1535 E. 53rd Street · built 1929 · Karl M. Vitzthum · designated October 8, 2008 Banks
- Isidore H. Heller House 5132 S. Woodlawn Avenue · built 1897 · Frank Lloyd Wright · designated September 15, 1971 Houses Seeking missing report
- Keck-Gottschalk-Keck Apartments 5551 S. University Avenue · built 1937 · George and William Keck · designated August 3, 1994 Apartment buildings
- Museum of Science and Industry Palace of Fine Arts, Columbian Museum of Chicago, Field Columbian Museum of Chicago, Field Museum of Natural History, Rosenwald Industrial Museum 57th Street and Lake Shore Drive · built 1891-93 · Charles B. Atwood · designated November 1, 1995 Museums and cultural institutions
- Promontory Apartments 5530-5532 South Shore Drive · built 1946-1949 · Ludwig Mies van der Rohe,Holsman · designated November 20, 2019 Apartment buildings
- Promontory Point Jean-Baptiste_DuSableLSD_54th_56th Sts · built 1922-39 · Emanuel V. Buchsbaum, Alfred Caldwell · designated April 19, 2023 Parks and landscapes
- Rockefeller Memorial Chapel 1156-80 E. 59th Street · built 1925-28 · Bertram Grosvenor Goodhue Associates · designated November 3, 2004 Monuments and sculpture
- Shoreland Hotel 5454 South Shore Drive · built 1925-1926 · Meyer Fridstein · designated September 8, 2010 Hotels
- Site of the 1st...Nuclear Chain Reaction East Side of S Ellis Ave between 56th & 57th St · built 1942 · Sculpture "Nuclear Energy" by Henry Moore, 1967 · designated October 27, 1971 Sites and commemorative markers