ORDINANCE
Augustus Warner House 1337 North Dearborn Street
WHEREAS, pursuant to the procedures set forth in the Municipal Code of Chicago (the "Municipal Code"), Sections 2-120-630 through -690, the Commission on Chicago Landmarks (the "Commission") has determined that the Augustus Warner House, located at 1337 North Dearborn Street, Chicago, Illinois, as more precisely described in Exhibit A attached hereto and incorporated herein (the "Building"), satisfies two (2) criteria for landmark designation as set forth in Sections 2-120-620 (4) and (5) of the Municipal Code; and
WHEREAS, the Building is a single-family house that exemplifies, at a high degree of design, craftsmanship and historic physical integrity, the Victorian-era taste for eclecticism in design; and
WHEREAS, the Building combines visual elements from both the English Queen Anne and Victorian Gothic architectural styles in a manner that exemplifies the Victorian love of eclectic, picturesque design. The Building is lavishly detailed with a variety of ornament executed in traditional building materials, including red Indiana pressed brick walls; red molded brick and architectural terra cotta trim; historic multi-paned windows; a visually-unusual and prominent wooden bay projecting from the Building's second floor and supported by wooden brackets; a historic glass-and-wood-paneled front door; and a limestone stoop with decorative-metal railings. The integrity of the Building's front facade—historically the most important and visually dominant of the Building's facades—is exceptional; and
WHEREAS, the Building is the work of Lawrence Gustav Hallberg, Sr. (the "Architect"), who was a significant Chicago architect in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries for his residential, institutional, educational and industrial architecture; and
WHEREAS, the Architect is significant for his designs of finely-designed and -craftedsingle-family houses built in fashionable late-nineteenth century Chicago ...
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