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Gage Park — Chicago Historic Resources Survey

Eric Allix Rogers

Every building the Chicago Historic Resources Survey recorded in Gage Park, community area #63 — 24 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
2734 W 52 St———————1912400020
2414 W 53 St19321933Bednarik, Joseph—Church—S.s. Peter & Paul Orthodox Church1912415041
3401 W 53 Pl1890s———Single Family Residence——1911414022
2432 W 54 St1914—Manse, W.—Single Family Residence——1912422056
3032 W 54 St———————1912323030
3038 W 54 St———————1912323028
2405 W 55 St1920s—South Park Commissioners—Fieldhouse/gymFieldhouse, Gage Park—2008320001
3324 W 55 St1938—Steinbach, J.G.Art Deco/moderneCommercial/residential—H & R Block/kelly's Pub1914204047
3541 W 58 St1890s———Single Family Residence——1914222006
5151 S Albany Av1912——Craftsman2-3 Flat——1720306021
5020 S Artesian Av1926—Christensen, John C.—SchoolDr. Walter's School For Crippled Children—1912223015
5514 S Christiana Av1912———Single Family Residence——1914203021
5126 S Homan Av1880s——Workman's CottageSingle Family Residence——1911402033
4916 S Kedzie Av1914———RailroadRoundhouse—1911202007
5842 S Kedzie Av1925—Loewenberg, M.l.Classical RevivalTheaterColony Theater—1302415047
5632 S Maplewood Av1910s—Griffin, Walter Burley—Single Family Residence——1913208032
5501 S Richmond St1930s—Luther & ChristensenArt Deco/moderneSingle Family Residence——1913105001
5513 S Rockwell St————SchoolGage Park Public School——
5842 S Rockwell St19231924Sammons, W.e.—Church—Iglesia Menonita Cristiana1912323026
5250 S Sawyer Av———————1911411014
5554 S Sawyer Av1926—Braucher, Ernest N.—Single Family Residence——1914205038
5237 S Trumbull Av1880s———2-3 Flat——1911408015
5239 S Trumbull Av1880s———2-3 Flat——1911408016
4919 S Western Bv1920s—Kallal, Charles W.Classical RevivalUtilityWestern Ave. Pumping Station—2007112002