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Chatham — Chicago Historic Resources Survey

Eric Allix Rogers

Every building the Chicago Historic Resources Survey recorded in Chatham, community area #44 — 60 of them. The survey covered buildings put up before 1940 and was carried out between 1983 and 1995, so it describes them as they stood then.

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Where this comes from. These are the survey’s own records, not a reading of the printed book — the database the City compiled when the survey was made. Nothing here was retyped or inferred. Where a field is blank, the survey left it blank, and that is common: it recorded an architect for about three buildings in ten and an exact year for about five in ten. Where it had only a decade it gives the decade, so “1880s” in the Date column means the survey knew no more than that.

It describes Chicago as it stood between 1983 and 1995, when the survey was carried out, and covers buildings put up before 1940. Some of these are gone. A tenant named here is the one recorded then, not now. The Chicago Landmark column is the survey’s own note at the time and is not a current designation — none on this page carried that flag on this page. For what is designated today, use this site’s own records.

AddressDateCompletedArchitectStyleTypeNameThen occupied byPIN
635 E 79 St19271928Faulkner, Charles D.—Commercial/residentialChamplain Building—2034205001
1015 E 82 St1928—Lund, Anders G.Tudor RevivalCommercial/residential—Sam's Supermarket Food & Liquors2035124014
7900 S Cottage Grove19251926Kocher & Larson—OfficeChatham Building—2034207003
8000 S Cottage Grove19291930Kocher & LarsonClassical RevivalCommercial/residential——2034215016
9234 S Cottage Grove1896———Commercial/residential——2503416031
8854 S Dauphin Av1870s———Single Family Residence——2502105039
8153 S Ellis Av1928—Smith, Z. ErolTudor RevivalCommercial/residential—One Grand Food & Liquor2035118015
8200 S Ellis Av1929—Dalsey, Harry I.Tudor RevivalMulti-residential——2035123013
8718 S Indiana Av19191920Frost, Charles S.—Single Family Residence——2503102029
8720 S Indiana Av19191920Frost, Charles S.—Double House——2503102030
8736 S Indiana Av19191920Frost, Charles S.—Single Family Residence——2503102036
8738 S Indiana Av19191920Frost, Charles S.—Single Family Residence——2503102037
8742 S Indiana Av19191920Frost, Charles S.—Single Family Residence——2503102038
8754 S Indiana Av19191920Frost, Charles S.—Single Family Residence——2503102042
8842 S Indiana Av19191920Frost, Charles S.—Double House——2503108035
8846 S Indiana Av19191920Frost, Charles S.—Double House——2503108036
8858 S Indiana Av19191920Frost, Charles S.—Single Family Residence——2503108040
8105 S La Salle St19271928Christensen, John C.—SchoolAmelia Dunne Hookway Public SchoolR.d. Henton Academy2033221003
8718 S Michigan Av19191920Frost, Charles S.—Single Family Residence——2503101030
8719 S Michigan Av19191920Frost, Charles S.—Single Family Residence——2503102014
8720 S Michigan Av19191920Frost, Charles S.—Single Family Residence——2503101031
8721 S Michigan Av19191920Frost, Charles S.—Double House——2503102015
8724 S Michigan Av19191920Frost, Charles S.—Single Family Residence——2503101032
8731 S Michigan Av19191920Frost, Charles S.—Single Family Residence——2503102018
8732 S Michigan Av19191920Frost, Charles S.—Double House——2503101035
8736 S Michigan Av19191920Frost, Charles S.—Double House——2503101036
8739 S Michigan Av19191920Frost, Charles S.—Single Family Residence——2503102021
8743 S Michigan Av19191920Frost, Charles S.—Single Family Residence——2503102022
8744 S Michigan Av19191920Frost, Charles S.—Single Family Residence——2503101039
8748 S Michigan Av19191920Frost, Charles S.—Single Family Residence——2503101039
8755 S Michigan Av19191920Frost, Charles S.—Single Family Residence——2503102026
8759 S Michigan Av19191920Frost, Charles S.—Single Family Residence——2503102027
8801 S Michigan Av19191920Frost, Charles S.—Single Family Residence——2503108001
8802 S Michigan Av19191920Frost, Charles S.—Single Family Residence——2503107021
8806 S Michigan Av19191920Frost, Charles S.—Single Family Residence——2503107023
8816 S Michigan Av19191920Frost, Charles S.—Double House——2503107026
8822 S Michigan Av19191920Frost, Charles S.—Single Family Residence——2503107028
8831 S Michigan Av19191920Frost, Charles S.—Double House——2503108011
8834 S Michigan Av19191920Frost, Charles S.—Single Family Residence——2503107032
8841 S Michigan Av19191920Frost, Charles S.—Single Family Residence——2503108014
8842 S Michigan Av19191920Frost, Charles S.—Double House——2503107035
8843 S Michigan Av19191920Frost, Charles S.—Double House——2503108015
8848 S Michigan Av19191920Frost, Charles S.—Single Family Residence——2503107037
8852 S Michigan Av19191920Frost, Charles S.—Single Family Residence——2503107038
8300 S St Lawrence Av19281929Christensen, John C.—SchoolArthur Dixon Public School—2034402001
8721 S Wabash Av19191920Frost, Charles S.—Single Family Residence——2503101016
8726 S Wabash Av19191920Frost, Charles S.—Single Family Residence——2503100034
8735 S Wabash Av19191920Frost, Charles S.—Double House——2503101020
8737 S Wabash Av19191920Frost, Charles S.—Double House——2503101021
8742 S Wabash Av19191920Frost, Charles S.—Single Family Residence——2503100039
8744 S Wabash Av19191920Frost, Charles S.—Double House——2503100040
8748 S Wabash Av19191920Frost, Charles S.—Double House——2503100041
8810 S Wabash Av19191920Frost, Charles S.—Single Family Residence——2503106028
8812 S Wabash Av19191920Frost, Charles S.—Double House——2503106029
8815 S Wabash Av19191920Frost, Charles S.—Double House——2503107005
8816 S Wabash Av19191920Frost, Charles S.—Double House——2503106030
8817 S Wabash Av19191920Frost, Charles S.—Double House——2503107006
8825 S Wabash Av19191920Frost, Charles S.—Single Family Residence——2503107009
8848 S Wabash Av19191920Frost, Charles S.—Single Family Residence——2503106041
8859 S Wabash Av19191920Frost, Charles S.—Single Family Residence——2503107020