ORDINANCE
Pilsen Historic District
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 Pilsen Historic District (the "District"), predominantly located at West 18th Street between South Leavitt and South Sangamon Streets, and 13 blocks bounded by West 18th Street to the north, South Ashland Avenue to the west, West 21st Street to the south and South Racine Avenue to the east, Chicago, Illinois, as more precisely described in Exhibit A and Exhibit B, both attached hereto and incorporated herein, satisfies four (4) criteria for landmark designation as set forth in Sections 2-120-620 (1), (4), (6) and (7) of the Municipal Code; and
WHEREAS, the District is one of the city's best-surviving examples of a neighborhood that served as a port of entry for waves of immigrants beginning just after the Great Fire of 1871. A variety of industries such as garment making; lumber, furniture, and related products; meat packing and sausage making; and mattress and pillow firms attracted workers to settle in the area. As each successive wave of immigrants found success and moved to other Chicago neighborhoods and the western suburbs, new immigrants settled in the neighborhood. By the late 1950's, Mexican immigrants, attracted by many of the features that spurred earlier settlement, moved into the neighborhood; and
WHEREAS, Chicago's Bohemian immigrants brought cultural values and aspirations with them when they began to settle in Pilsen in the late 19th century. As they valued education, "freethought," and physical fitness, they formed sokols, gathered in saloons where they could discuss ideas and debate politics, and they read locally-published newspapers. Therefore, buildings in the neighborhood reflect the importance of ethnic immigration in Chicago's history and development, generally, and specifically the contributions of the Chicago's Bohemian ethnic community; and
WHEREAS, Chicago's Mexican immigrants brought their own customs, culture and aesthetic when they began settling in Pilsen in the mid-20th century. The neighborhood of family homes, apartment buildings, shops and businesses, retains the feel of an ethnic enclave even as the visual landscape has changed to reflect the voice and culture of the neighborhood's most recent settlers. The visual character of the neighborhood's built environment has been supplemented with Spanish language signage, traditional Mexican decoration, and murals depicting themes from Mexican and Mexican-American culture; and
WHEREAS, historically, the District was a thriving mixed-use community. The District, and especially the West 18th Street corridor, is filled with store-and-flat buildings, as well as industrial structures located in close proximity to cottages and flats. The vibrant, mixed-use character of the community continues to define Pilsen today; and
WHEREAS, the District's buildings are distinguished for representing a broad range of periods and styles, each designed with special features and flourishes representing the homelands of their immigrant builders and owners. Flourishes that can be described as|1010|
"Bohemian Baroque" include unusually-shaped parapets, carved-stone lintels, sculptural treatments of hoodmolds and cornices, and decorative patterns in the brickwork; and
WHEREAS, the District's immigrant residents valued community spaces where residents could gather, attend cultural events, participate in athletic training and tournaments, and discuss politics and other ideas. As a result, several monumental sokols and halls were designed in ornate styles and built of high quality materials. For example Thalia Hall at 1807 South Allport Street is a fine Romanesque Revival style structure designed by architects Faber & Pagels. Bohemian-born architect Frank Randak designed two impressive sokols in Pilsen, the Plzensky Sokol at 1812 South Ashland Avenue; and the Czesky-Slavonsky Americky Sokol at 1436-1440 West 18th Street; and
WHEREAS, the District's extensive collection of high quality buildings was largely designed and produced by talented immigrant tradesmen and architects, many of whom lived in the neighborhood. Among the local tradesmen of fine 19th century structures was Bohemian immigrant contractor Frank C. Layer, who produced the Romanesque style mixed-use building at 1332-1334 West 18th Street European immigrant architects or first-generation Americans who designed buildings in the community include Frank Randak, Anton C. and Anton O. Charvat, Ludwig Novy and Novy & Son, and Lonek & Houda; and
WHEREAS, although varied in their range of styles and periods of construction, the buildings in the District provide a strong sense of architectural continuity in terms of their scale, materials, and "Bohemian Baroque" details. Italianate style and Queen Anne style structures with ornate lintels, hoodmolds, cornices, and parapets are especially prolific and lend the District a strong design theme; and
WHEREAS, mixed-use buildings of two- to four-stories tall with ornate primary facades are prolific especially along the West 18th Street corridor. The store-and-flat type allowed many District building owners to live and work in their structures while also generating revenue from tenants. In other Chicago neighborhoods, examples of 19th and early-20th century mixed-use buildings are scattered throughout the area or in small groups along a commercial street. However, Pilsen retains hundreds of such buildings especially along West 18th and South Racine Streets, and South Blue Island and South Ashland Avenues; and
WHEREAS, many 19th century residential cottages and flats in the District provide a sense of unity through scale, materials, and architectural details. For example, there are dozens of Italianate style brick cottages and flats with gable roofs, the front door on one side, tall rectangular windows, ornamented hoods or lintels above the door and windows, and fanciful parapets that generally conceal the peak ofthe gable behind them. Many such buildings can be found on South Allport, South Loomis, South Laflin, and South Throop Streets, West Cullerton Avenue, and West 18th Place; and
WHEREAS, over the course of four decades, scores of artists have contributed to the evolving visual landscape of the District through artistic painting, decoration, and mosaic. Although the content and style vary widely including religious iconography, pre-Columbian imagery, tribute pieces, pop-culture, calls for peace, the Mexican-American experience on both sides of the border, historic and folk cultural images and abstract expression, collectively these works communicate the unique multilayered culture and history of the Pilsen community; and|1010|
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WHEREAS, originally inspired by the post-Revolution Mexican Mural Movement of the 1920's and the art created under the Works Progress Administration's Federal Art Project of the 1930's, a number of artists began creating large-scale murals in the District in the 1960's and 1970's. The work that emerged at this time continues to attract and inspire artists to express their voices on buildings in this neighborhood. The influence of Mexican culture and the Mexican-American experience on many of these works and artists solidifies a strong connection to works of the most widely recognized Mexican Muralists of the 1920's, including: David Alfaro Siqueiros, Jose Clemente Orozco and Diego Rivera. Additionally, the murals of Pilsen create a distinctive physical appearance which - although originally built by an earlier Bohemian community - retains the feel of an ethnic enclave that reflects the voice and culture of its current residents; and
WHEREAS, consistent with Section 2-120-630 of the Municipal Code, the District has a significant historic, community, architectural, or aesthetic interest or value, the integrity of which is preserved in light of its location, design, setting, materials, workmanship, and ability to express such historic, community, architectural, or aesthetic interest or value; and
WHEREAS, on May 16, 2019, the Commission adopted a resolution recommending to the City Council of the City of Chicago (the "City Council") that the District be designated a Chicago Landmark; now, therefore,
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF CHICAGO:
SECTION 1. The above recitals are hereby adopted as the findings of the City Council.
SECTION 2. The District is hereby designated a Chicago Landmark in accordance with Section 2-120-700 of the Municipal Code.
SECTION 3. For purposes of Sections 2-120-740 and 2-120-770 of the Municipal Code governing permit review, the significant historical and architectural features of the District are identified as:
? All exterior elevations, including rooflines, of the buildings visible from public rights of way.
? Murals on exterior facades of the buildings visible from public rights of way.
SECTION 4. The Commission is hereby directed to create a suitable plaque appropriately identifying the District as a Chicago Landmark.
SECTION 5. If any provision of this ordinance shall be held to be invalid or unenforceable for any reason, the invalidity or unenforceability of such provision shall not affect any of the other provisions of this ordinance.
SECTION 6. All ordinances, resolutions, motions or orders in,conflict with this ordinance are hereby repealed to the extent of such conflict.|1010|
SECTION 7. This ordinance shall take effect upon its passage and approval.
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The approximate boundaries of the District, as depicted on Exhibit A and identified by PIN on Exhibit B below, are as follows, subject to verification by survey if necessary.
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EXHIBIT B
Property Index Numbers (PINs) and Addresses in the Pilsen Historic District
Permanent Index Number (PIN)
Address
17-19-300-008-0000
2158 W. 18th Street
17-19-300-009-0000
2156 W. 18th Street
17-19-300-010-0000
2152 W. 18th Street
17-19-300-011-0000
2150 W. 18th Street
17-19-300-012-0000
2148 W. 18th Street
17-19-300-013-0000
2146 W. 18th Street
17-19-300-014-0000
2144 W. 18th Street
17-19-300-015-0000
2142 W. 18th Street
17-19-300-016-0000
2138 W. 18th Street
17-19-300-017-0000
2136 W. 18th Street
17-19-300-018-0000
2134 W. 18th Street
17-19-300-029-0000
2124 W. 18th Street
17-19-300-030-0000
2122 W. 18th Street
17-19-300-031-0000
2120 W. 18th Street
17-19-300-032-0000
2118 W. 18th Street
Permanent Index Number (PIN)
Address
17-19-300-033-0000
2114 W. 18th Street
17-19-300-034-0000
2112 W. 18th Street
17-19-300-035-0000
2110 W. 18th Street
17-19-300-036-0000
2108 W. 18th Street
17-19-300-037-0000
2106 W. 18th Street
17-19-300-038-0000
2102 W. 18th Street
17-19-300-039-0000
2100 W. 18th Street
17-19-301-026-0000
2058 W. 18th Street
17-19-301-027-0000
2056 W. 18th Street
17-19-301-028-0000
2050 W. 18th Street
17-19-301-029-0000
2048 W. 18th Street
17-19-301-030-0000
2046 W. 18th Street
17-19-301-031-0000
2042 W. 18th Street
17-19-301-032-0000
2040 W. 18th Street
17-19-301-033-0000
2038 W. 18th Street
17-19-301-034-0000
2036 W. 18th Street
17-19-301-035-0000
2034 W. 18th Street
Permanent Index Number (PIN)
Address
17-19-301-036-0000
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2032 W. 18th Street
17-19-301-037-0000
2028 W. 18th Street
17-19-301-038-0000
2026 W. 18th Street
17-19-301-039-0000
2024 W. 18th Street
17-19-301-040-0000
2022 W. 18th Street
17-19-301-041-0000.
2020 W. 18th Street
17-19-301-042-0000
2016 W. 18th Street
17-19-301-043-0000
2014 W. 18th Street
17-19-301-044-0000
2012 W. 18th Street
17-19-301-045-0000
2010 W. 18th Street
' 17-19-301-046-0000
2008 W. 18th Street
17-19-301-047-0000
2002 W. 18th Street
17-19-301-048-0000
2000 W. 18th Street
17-19-304-001-0000
2159 W. 18th Street
17-19-304-002-0000
2153 W. 18th Street
17-19-304-003-0000
2151 W. 18th Street
17-19-304-004-0000
2149 W. 18th Street
Permanent Index Number (PIN)
Address
17-19-304-005-0000
2147 W. 18th Street
17-19-304-006-0000-
2145 W. 18th Street
17-19-304-008-0000
2139 W. 18th Street
17-19-304-009-0000
2137 W. 18th Street
17-19-304-010-0000
2135 W. 18th Street
17-19-304-011-0000
2133 W. 18th Street
17-19-304-012-0000
2131 W. 18th Street
17-19-304-013-0000
2127 W. 18th Street
17-19-304-014-0000
2125 W. 18th Street,
17-19-304-015-0000
2123 W. 18th Street '
17-19-304-016-0000
2121 W. 18th Street
17-19-304-017-0000
2117 W. 18th Street
17-19-304-018-0000
2115 W. 18th Street
17-19-304-019-0000
2113 W. 18th Street
17-19-304-020-0000
2111 W. 18th Street
17-19-304-021-0000
2109 W. 18th Street
17-19-304-022-0000
2105 W. 18th Street
Permanent Index Number (PIN)
Address
17-19-304-023-0000
2103 W. 18th Street
17-19-304-024-0000
2101 W. 18th Street
17-19-305-001-0000
2059 W. 18th Street
17-19-305-004-0000
2051 W. 18th Street
17-19-305-005-0000
2049 W. 18th Street
17-19-305-006-0000
2047 W. 18th Street
17-19-305-007-0000
2043 W. 18th Street
17-19-305-008-0000
2041 W. 18th Street
17-19-305-009-0000
2039 W. 18th Street
17-19-305-010-0000
2037 W. 18th Street
17-19-305-011-0000
2035 W. 18th Street
17-19-305-012-0000
2033 W. 18th Street
17-19-305-021-0000
2011 W. 18th Street
17-19-305-022-0000
2009 W. 18th Street
17-19-305-023-0000
2007 W. 18th Street
17-19-305-024-0000
2003 W. 18th Streef
17-19-305-025-0000
2001 W. 18th Street
Permanent Index Number (PIN)
Address
17-19-305-051-0000
2021 W. 18th Street
17-19-305-052-0000
2053-2057 W. 18th Street
17-19-405-025-0000
1858 W. 18th Street
17-19-405-026-0000
1856 W. 18th Street
17-19-405-027-0000
1854 W. 18th Street
17-19-405-028-0000
1852 W. 18th Street
17-19-405-029-0000
1848 W. 18th Street
17-19-405-030-0000
1846 W. 18th Street
17-19-405-031-0000
1844 W. 18th Street
17-19-405-032-0000
1842 W. 18th Street
17-19-405-033-0000
1840 W. 18th Street
17-19-405-034-0000
1836W. 18th Street
17-19-405-035-0000
1834 W. 18th Street
17-19-405-036-0000
1832 W. 18th Street
17-19-405-037-0000
1830 W. 18th Street
17-19-405-038-0000
1828 W. 18th Street
17-19-405-039-0000
1824 W. 18th Street
Permanent Index Number (PIN)
Address
17-19-405-040-0000
1822 W. 18th Street
17-19-405-041-0000
1820 W. 18th Street
17-19-405-042-0000
1818 W. 18th Street
17-19-405-043-0000
1814 W. 18th Street
17-19-405-044-0000
1812 W. 18th Street
17-19-405-045-0000
1810 W. 18th Street
17-19-405-046-0000
1808 W. 18th Street
17-19-405-047-0000
1806 W. 18th Street
17-19-405-048-0000
1802 W. 18th Street
17-19-405-049-0000
1800 W. 18th Street
17-19-406-025-0000
1758 W. 18th Street
17-19-406-026-0000
1756 W. 18th Street
17-19-406-027-0000
1754 W. 18th Street
17-19-406-028-0000
1750 W. 18th Street
17-19-406-029-0000
1748 W. 18th Street
17-19-406-030-0000
1746 W. 18th Street
17-19-406-031-0000
1742 W. 18th Street
Permanent Index Number (PIN)
Address
17-19-406-032-0000
1740 W. 18th Street
17-19-406-033-0000 >
1738 W. 18th Street
17-19-406-034-0000
1736 W. 18th Street
17-19-406-035-0000
1734 W. 18th Street
17-19-406-036-0000
1732 W. 18th Street
17-19-406-037-0000
1730 W. 18th Street
17-19-406-038-0000
1726 W. 18th Street
17-19-406-039-0000
1724 W. 18th Street
17-19-406-040-0000
1722 W. 18th Street
17-19-406-041-0000
1720 W. 18th Street
17-19-406-042-0000
1716 W. 18th Street
17-19-406-043-0000
1714 W. 18th Street
17-19-406-044-0000
1702 W. 18th Street
17-19-407-018-0000
1654 W. 18th Street
17-19-407-019-0000
1650 W. 18th Street
17-19-407-020-0000
1648 W. 18th Street
17-19-407-021-0000
1646 W. 18th Street
Permanent Index Number (PIN)
Address
17-19-407-022-0000
1644 W. 18th, Street
17-19-407-023-0000
1640 W. 18th Street
17-19-407-024-0000
1638 W. 18th Street
17-19-407-025-0000
1636 W. 18th Street
17-19-407-026-0000
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1634 W. 18th Street
17-19-407-027-0000
1630 W. 18th Street
17-19-407-028-0000
1628 W. 18th Street
17-19-407-029-0000
1626 W. 18th Street
17-19-407-030-0000
1624 W. 18th Street
17-19-407-031-0000
1620 W. 18th Street
17-19-407-032-0000
1618 W. 18th Street
17-19-407-033-0000
1616 W. 18th Street
17-19-407-034-0000
1700 S. Ashland Avenue
17-19-407-035-0000
1708 S. Ashland Avenue
17-19-407-036-0000
1710 S. Ashland Avenue
17-19-407-037-0000
1712 S. Ashland Avenue
17-19-407-038-0000
1714 S. Ashland Avenue
Permanent Index Number (PIN)
Address
17-19-407-039-0000
1718 S. Ashland Avenue
17-19-407-040-0000
1720 S. Ashland Avenue
17-19-407-041-0000
1722-1724 S. Ashland Avenue
17-19-410-001-0000
1759 W. 18th Street
17-19-410-002-0000
1757 W. 18th Street
17-19-410-003-0000
1755 W. 18th Street
17-19-410-004-0000
1751 W. 18th Street
17-19-410-005-0000
1749 W. 18th Street
17-19-410-006-0000
1747 W. 18th Street
17-19-410-007-0000
1745 W.18th Street
17-19-410-008-0000
1743 W. 18th Street
17-19-410-009-0000
1739 W. 18th Street
17-19-410-010-0000
1737 W. 18th Street
17-19-410-011-0000
1735 W. 18th Street
17-19-410-012-0000
1733 W. 18th Street
17-19-410-013-0000
1731 W. 18th Street
17-19-410-014-0000
1727 W. 18th Street
Permanent Index Number (PIN)
Address
17-19-410-015-0000
1725W. 18th Street
17-19-410-016-0000
1723 W. 18th Street
17-19410-017-0000
1721 W. 18th Street
17-19-410-018-0000
1719 W. 18th Street
17-19-410-019-0000
1713 W. 18th Street
17-19-410-020-0000
1709 W. 18th Street
17-19-410-021-0000
1707 W. 18th Street
17-19-410-022-0000
1705 W. 18th Street
17-19-411-001-0000
1659 W. 18th Street
17-19-411-002-0000
1657 W. 18th Street
17-19-411-003-0000
1655 W. 18th Street
17-19-411-004-0000
1653 W. 18th Street
17-19-411-005-0000
1649 W. 18th Street
17-19-411-006-0000
1647 W. 18th Street
17-19-411-007-0000
1645 W. 18th Street
17-19-411-008-0000
1641 W. 18th Street
17-19-411-009-0000
1639 W. 18th Street
Permanent Index Number (PIN)
Address
17-19-411-010-0000
1637 W. 18th Street
17-19-411-011-0000
1635 W. 18th Street
17-19-411-012-0000
1631 W. 18th Street
17-19-411-013-0000
1629 W. 18th Street
17-19-411-014-0000
1627 W. 18th Street
17-19-411-015-0000
1625 W. 18th Street
17-19-411-016-0000
1621 W. 18th Street
17-19-411-017-0000
1619 W. 18th Street
17-19-411-018-0000
1617 W. 18th Street
17-19-411-037-0000
1800 S. Ashland Avenue
17-19-411-038-0000
1804 S. Ashland Avenue
17-19-411-039-0000
1808 S. Ashland Avenue
17-19-411-040-0000
1812 S. Ashland Avenue
17-19-411-041-0000
1818 S. Ashland Avenue
17-19-411-042-0000
1820 S. Ashland Avenue
17-19-411-043-0000
1822 S. Ashland Avenue
17-19-411-044-0000
1824 S. Ashland Avenue
Permanent Index Number (PIN)
Address
17-19-502-021-0000
1712 W. 18th Street
17-20-302-026-0000
1540 W. 18th Street
17-20-302-027-0000
1538 W. 18th Street
17-20-302-028-0000
1536 W. 18th Street
17-20-302-029-0000
1532 W. 18th Street
17-20-302-030-0000
1530 W. 18th Street
17-20-302-031-0000
1528 W. 18th Street
17-20-302-032-0000
1524 W. 18th Street
17-20-302-033-0000
1522 W. 18th Street
17-20-302-034-0000
1520 W. 18th Street
17-20-302-035-0000
1518 W. 18th Street
17-20-302-036-0000
1514 W. 18th Street
17-20-302-037-0000
1512 W. 18th Street
17-20-302-038-0000
1510 W. 18th Street
17-20-302-039-0000
1508 W. 18th Street
17-20-302-040-0000
1504 W. 18th Street
17-20-302-041-0000
1502 W. 18th Street
Permanent Index Number (PIN)
Address
17-20-302-042-0000
1500 W. 18th Street
17-20-302-044-0000
1723 S. Ashland Avenue
17-20-302-045-0000
1550 W. 18th Street
17-20-303-021-0000
1458 W. 18th Street
17-20-303-022-0000
1456 W. 18th Street
17-20-303-023-0000
1454 W. 18th Street
17-20-303-024-0000
1450 W. 18th Street
17-20-303-025-0000
1448 W. 18th Street
17-20-303-026-0000
1446 W. 18th Street
17-20-303-027-0000
1444 W. 18th Street
17-20-303-028-0000
1438 W. 18th Street
17-20-303-029-0000
1434 W. 18th Street
17-20-303-030-0000
1430 W. 18th Street
17-20-303-031-0000
1428 W. 18th Street
17-20-303-032-0000
1426 W. 18th Street
17-20-303-033-0000
1424 W. 18th Street
17-20-303-034-0000
1420 W. 18th Street
Permanent Index Number (PIN)
Address
17-20-303-035-0000
1418 W. 18th Street
17-20-303-036-0000
1416 W. 18th Street
17-20-303-037-0000
1414 W. 18th Street
17-20-303-038-0000
1412 W. 18th Street
17-20-303-049-0000
1724 S. Loomis Street
17-20-305-020-0000
1647 S. Blue Island Avenue
17-20-305-021-0000
1657 S. Blue Island Avenue
17-20-305-022-0000
1663 S. Blue Island Avenue
17-20-305-023-0000
1350 W. 18th Street
17-20-305-033-0000
1332 W. 18th Street
17-20-305-034-0000
1328W. 18th Street
17-20-305-035-0000
1326 W. 18th Street
17-20-305-036-0000
1324 W. 18th Street
17-20-305-037-0000
1322 W. 18th Street
17-20-305-038-0000
1320 W. 18th Street
17-20-305-039-0000
1316 W. 18th Street
17-20-305-040-0000
1314 W. 18th Street
Permanent Index Number (PIN)
Address
17-20-305-061-0000
1658 S. Throop Street
17-20-306-020-0000
1659 S. Throop Street
17-20-306-044-0000
1236 W. 18th Street
17-20-307-022-0000
1637-43 S. Allport Street (Two buildings on this PIN, St. Procopius Church and Chapel, are not included in landmark district, per 2-120-660 of the Municipal Code)
17-20-307-025-0000
1726 S. Racine Avenue
17-20-307-027-0000
1210 W. 18th Street
17-20-308-001-0000
1801 S. Ashland Avenue
17-20-308-002-0000
1545 W. 18th Street
17-20-308-003-0000
1805 S. Ashland Avenue
17-20-308-004-0000
1807 S. Ashland Avenue
17-20-308-005-0000
1811 S. Ashland Avenue
17-20-308-006-0000
1813 S. Ashland Avenue
17-20-308-007-0000
1815 S. Ashland Avenue
17-20-308-008-0000
1817 S. Ashland Avenue
17-20-308-009-0000
1819 S. Ashland Avenue
17-20-308-010-0000
1823 S. Ashland Avenue
Permanent Index Number (PIN)
Address
17-20-308-011-0000
1825 S. Ashland Avenue
17-20-308-012-0000
1541 S. Ashland Avenue
17-20-308-013-0000
1539 S. Ashland Avenue
17-20-308-014-0000
1537 S. Ashland Avenue
17-20-308-015-0000
1535 S. Ashland Avenue
17-20-308-016-0000
1531 W. 18th Street
17-20-308-017-0000
1529 W. 18th Street
17-20-308-018-0000
1527 W. 18th Street
17-20-308-019-0000
1523 W. 18th Street
17-20-308-020-0000
1521 W. 18th Street
17-20-308-021-0000
1519 W. 18th Street
17-20-308-022-0000
1517 W. 18th Street
17-20-308-023-0000
1515 W. 18th Street
17-20-308-024-0000
1507-11 W. 18th Street
17-20-308-025-0000
1503 W. 18th Street
17-20-308-026-0000
1501 W. 18th Street
17-20-308-027-0000
1540 W. 18th Place
Permanent Index Number (PIN)
Address
17-20-308-028-0000
1538 W. 18th Place
17-20-308-029-0000
1536 W. 18th Place
17-20-308-030-0000
1532 W. 18th Place
17-20-308-031-0000
1530 W. 18th Place
17-20-308-032-0000
1528 W. 18th Place
17-20-308-033-0000
1526 W. 18th Place
17-20-308-034-0000
1522 W. 18th Place
17-20-308-035-0000
1520 W. 18th Place
17-20-308-036-0000
1518 W. 18th Place
17-20-308-039-0000
1514 W. 18th Place
17-20-308-040-0000
1814 S. Laflin Avenue
17-20-308-041-0000
1816 S. Lafliri Avenue
17-20-308-042-0000
1820 S. Laflin Street
17-20-308-043-0000
1822 S. Laflin Street
17-20-308-044-0000
1824 S. Laflin Street
17-20-308-045-0000
1516 W. 18th Place
17-20-309-007-0000 17-20-309-042-0000
1859 S. Ashland Avenue
Permanent Index Number (PIN)
Address
17-20-309-008-0000
1541 W. 18th Place
17-20-309-009-0000
1539 W. 18th Place
17-20-309-010-0000
1537 W. 18th Place
17-20-309-013-0000
1529 W. 18th Place
17-20-309-014-0000
1527 W. 18th Place
17-20-309-015-0000
1523 W. 18th Place
17-20-309-016-0000
1521 W. 18th Place
17-20-309-017-0000
1519 W. 18th Place
17-20-309-018-0000
1517 W. 18th Place
17-20-309-019-0000
1515 W. 18th Place
17-20-309-020-0000
1834 S. Laflin Street
17-20-309-021-0000
1836 S. Laflin Street
17-20-309-022-0000
1838 S. Laflin Street
17-20-309-023-0000
1840 S. Laflin Street
17-20-309-024-0000
1842 S. Laflin Street
17-20-309-025-0000
1540 W. 19th Street
17-20-309-026-0000
1538 W. 19th Street
Permanent Index Number (PIN)
Address
17-20-309-027-0000
1536 W. 19th Street
17-20-309-028-0000
1532 W. 19th Street
17-20-309-029-0000
1530W. 19th Street
17-20-309-030-0000
1528 W. 19th Street
17-20-309-031-0000
1526 W. 19th Street
17-20-309-032-0000
1522 W. 19th Street
17-20-309-033-0000
1520 W. 19th Street
17-20-309-034-0000
1518 W. 19th Street
17-20-309-036-0000
1512 W. 19th Street
17-20-309-037-0000
1510 W. 19th Street
17-20-309-038-0000
1508 W. 19th Street
17-20-309-039-0000
1504 W. 19th Street
17-20-309-040-0000
1502 W. 19th Street
17-20-309-041-0000
1500 W. 19th Street
17-20-310-001-0000
1801 S. Laflin Street
17-20-310-002-0000
1803 S. Laflin Street
17-20-310-003-0000
1807 S. Laflin Street
Permanent Index Number (PIN)
Address
17-20-310-004-0000
1809 S. Laflin Street
17-20-310-005-0000
1811 S. Laflin Street
17-20-310-006-0000
1815 S. Laflin Street
17-20-310-007-0000
1817 S. Laflin Street
17-20-310-008-0000
1819 S. Laflin Street
17-20-310-009-0000
1821 S. Laflin Street
17-20-310-010-0000
1823 S. Laflin Street
17-20-310-011-0000
1825 S. Laflin Street
17-20-310-012-0000
1827 S. Laflin Street
17-20-310-013-0000
1831 S. Laflin Street
17-20-310-014-0000
1833 S. Laflin Street
17-20-310-015-0000
1837 S. Laflin Street
17-20-310-016-0000
1839 S. Laflin Street
17-20-310-017-0000
1841 S. Laflin Street
17-20-310-018-0000
1843 S. Laflin Street
17-20-310-019-0000
1847 S. Laflin Street
17-20-310-020-0000
1849 S. Laflin Street
Permanent Index Number (PIN)
Address
17-20-310-021-0000
1851 S. Laflin Street
17-20-310-022-0000
1853 S. Laflin Street
17-20-310-027-0000
1441 W. 18th Street
17-20-310-028-0000
1439 W. 18th Street
17-20-310-029-0000
1812 S. Bishop Street
17-20-310-030-0000
1814 S. Bishop Street
17-20-310-031-0000
1816 S. Bishop Street
17-20-310-032-0000
1820 S. Bishop Street
17-20-310-033-0000
1822 S. Bishop Street
17-20-310-034-0000
1824 S. Bishop Street
17-20-310-035-0000
1447 W. 18th Street
17-20-310-038-0000
1445 W. 18th Street
17-20-310-039-0000
1443 W. 18th Street
17-20-311-001-0000
1431 W. 18th Street
17-20-311-002-0000
1429 W. 18th Street
17-20-311-003-0000
1425 W. 18th Street
17-20-311-004-0000
1423 W. 18th Street
Permanent Index Number (PIN)
Address
17-20-311-005-0000
1417 W. 18th Street
17-20-311-006-0000
1813 S. Bishop Street
17-20-311-007-0000
1870 S. Blue Island Avenue
17-20-311-008-0000
1868 S. Blue Island Avenue
17-20-311-009-0000
1866 S. Blue Island Avenue
17-20-311-010-0000
1864 S. Blue Island Avenue
17-20-311-011-0000
1862 S. Blue Island Avenue
17-20-311-012-0000
1860 S. Blue Island Avenue
17-20-311-013-0000
1856 S. Blue Island Avenue"
17-20-311-014-0000
1854 S. Blue Island Avenue
17-20-311-015-0000
1852 S. Blue Island Avenue
17-20-311-016-0000
1850 S. Blue Island Avenue
17-20-311-017-0000
1848 S. Blue Island Avenue
17-20-311-018-0000
1844 S. Blue Island Avenue
17-20-311-019-0000
1842 S. Blue Island Avenue
17-20-311-020-0000
1840 S. Blue Island Avenue
17-20-311-021-0000 y
1836 S. Blue Island Avenue
Permanent Index Number (PIN)
Address
17-20-311-022-0000
1834 S. Blue Island Avenue
17-20-311-023-0000
1832 S. Blue Island Avenue
17-20-311-024-0000
1830 S. Blue Island Avenue
17-20-311-025-0000
1828 S. Blue Island Avenue
17-20-311-026-0000
1806 S. Blue Island Avenue
17-20-311-027-0000
1810 S. Blue Island Avenue
17-20-311-028-0000
1810 S. Blue Island Avenue
17-20-311-029-0000
1810 S. Blue Island Avenue
17-20-311-030-0000
1810 S. Blue Island Avenue
17-20-311-031-0000
1810 S. Blue Island Avenue
17-20-311-032-0000
1800 S. Blue Island Avenue
17-20-312-001-0000
1825 S. Blue Island Avenue
17-20-312-002-0000
1835 S. Blue Island Avenue
17-20-312-010-0000
1840 S. Loomis Street
17-20-312-011-0000
1846 S. Loomis Street
17-20-312-012-0000
1846 S. Loomis Street
17-20-312-015-0000
1846 S. Loomis Street
Permanent Index Number (PIN)
Address
17-20-312-016-0000
1856 S. Loomis Street
17-20-312-017-0000
1855 S. Blue Island Avenue
17-20-312-019-0000
1859 S. Blue Island Avenue
17-20-312-020-0000
1855 S. Blue Island Avenue
17-20-313-001-0000
1803 S. Loomis Street
17-20-313-002-0000
1805 S. Loomis Street
17-20-313-003-0000
1805 S. Loomis Street
17-20-313-004-0000
1817 S. Loomis Street
17-20-313-005-0000
1821 S. Loomis Street
17-20-313-006-0000
1345 W. 18th Street
17-20-313-007-0000
1343 W. 18th Street
17-20-313-008-0000
1339 W. 18th Street
17-20-313-009-0000
1337 W. 18th Street
17-20-313-010-0000
1335W. 18th Street
17-20-313-011-0000
1333 W. 18th Street
17-20-313-012-0000
1329 W. 18th Street
17-20-313-013-0000
1327 W. 18th Street
Permanent Index Number (PIN)
Address
17-20-313-014-0000
1325 W. 18th Street
17-20-313-015-0000
1323 W. 18th Street
17-20-313-016-0000
1321 W. 18th Street
17-20-313-017-0000
1317 W. 18th Street
17-20-313-018-0000
1315 W. 18th Street
17-20-313-019-0000
1344 W. 18th Place
17-20-313-020-0000
1340 W. 18th Place
17-20-313-021-0000
1338 W. 18th Place
17-20-313-022-0000
1336W. 18th Place
17-20-313-023-0000
1334 W. 18th Place
17-20-313-024-0000
1332 W. 18th Place
17-20-313-025-0000
1328 W. 18th Place
17-20-313-026-0000
1326 W. 18th Place
17-20-313-027-0000
1324 W. 18th Place
17-20-313-028-0000
1322 W. 18th Place
17-20-313-029-0000
1320W. 18th Place
17-20-313-030-0000
1316 W. 18th Place
Permanent Index Number (PIN)
Address
17-20-313-031-0000
1314 W. 18th Place
17-20-313-032-0000
1800 S. Throop Street
17-20-313-033-0000
1802 S. Throop Street
17-20-313-034-0000
1806 S. Throop Street
17-20-313-035-0000
1808 S. Throop Street
17-20-313-036-0000
1810 S. Throop Street
17-20-313-037-0000
1812 S. Throop Street
17-20-313-038-0000
1814 S. Throop Street
17-20-313-039-0000
1818 S. Throop Street
17-20-313-040-0000
1820 S. Throop Street
17-20-313-041-0000
1822 S. Throop Street
17-20-313-042-0000
1824 S. Throop Street
17-20-314-001-0000
1835 S. Loomis Street
17-20-314-002-0000
1837 S. Loomis Street
17-20-314-003-0000
1839 S. Loomis Street
17-20-314-004-0000
1841 S. Loomis Street
17-20-314-005-0000
1845 S. Loomis Street
Permanent Index Number (PIN)
Address
17-20-314-006-0000
1847 S. Loomis Street
17-20-314-007-0000
1851 S. Loomis Street
17-20-314-008-0000
1857 S. Loomis Street
17-20-314-009-0000
1859 S. Loomis Street
17-20-314-010-0000
1345 W. 18th Place
17-20-314-011-0000
1341 W. 18th Place
17-20-314-012-0000
1339 W. 18th Place
17-20-314-013-0000
1337 W. 18th Place
17-20-314-017-0000
1327 W. 18th Place
17-20-314-018-0000
1325W. 18th Place
17-20-314-019-0000
1323 W. 18th Place
17-20-314-020-0000
1321 W. 18th Place
17-20-314-021-0000
1317 W. 18th Place
17-20-314-022-0000
1315 W. 18th Place
17-20-314-023-0000
1344 W. 19th Street
17-20-314-024-0000
1340W. 19th Street
17-20-314-025-0000
1338 W. 19th Street
Permanent Index Number (PIN)
Address
' 17-20-314-026-0000
1336 W. 19th Street
17-20-314-027-0000
1334 W. 19th Street
17-20-314-028-0000
1332 W. 19th Street
17-20-314-029-0000
1328 W. 19th Street
17-20-314-030-0000
1326 W. 19th Street
17-20-314-031-0000
1324 W. 19th Street
17-20-314-032-0000
1322 W. 19th Street
17-20-314-033-0000
1320 W. 19th Street
17-20-314-034-0000
1316 W. 19th Street
17-20-314-035-0000
1314 W. 19th Street
17-20-314-036-0000
1834 S. Throop Street
17-20-314-037-0000
1836 S. Throop Street
17-20-314-038-0000
1838 S. Throop Street
17-20-314-039-0000
1850 S. Throop Street
(One building on this PIN, Holy Trinity
Church, is not included in landmark
district, per 2-120-660 ofthe Municipal
Code)
17-20-314-040-0000
1852 S. Throop Street
17-20-314-041-0000
1856 S. Throop Street
Permanent Index Number (PIN)
Address
17-20-314-042-0000
1858 S. Throop Street
17-20-314-044-0000
1331 W. 18th Place
17-20-314-045-0000
1333 W. 18th Place
17-20-314-046-0000
1335 W. 18th Place
17-20-315-001-0000
1801 S. Throop Street
17-20-315-002-0000 17-20-315-003-0000
1807 S. Throop Street
17-20-315-004-0000
1829 S. Throop Street
17-20-315-005-0000
1831 S. Throop Street
17-20-315-006-0000
1833 S. Throop Street
17-20-315-007-0000
1835 S. Throop Street
17-20-315-008-0000
1839 S. Throop Street
17-20-315-009-0000
1841 S. Throop Street
17-20-315-010-0000 17-20-315-011-0000 17-20-315-012-0000 17-20-315-013-0000 17-20-315-014-0000 17-20-315-015-0000
1843-53 S. Throop Street
17-20-315-016-0000
1800 S. Allport Street
Permanent Index Number (PIN)
Address
17-20-315-017-0000
1802 S. Allport Street
17-20-315-018-0000
1806 S. Allport Street
17-20-315-020-0000
1810 S. Allport Street
17-20-315-021-0000
1812 S. Allport Street
17-20-315-024-0000
1820 S. Allport Street
17-20-315-025-0000
1822 S. Allport Street
17-20-315-026-0000
1826 S. Allport Street
17-20-315-027-0000
1828 S. Allport Street
17-20-315-028-0000
1830 S. Allport Street
17-20-315-029-0000
1832 S. Allport Street
17-20-315-030-0000
1836 S. Allport Street
17-20-315-031-0000
1838 S. Allport Street
17-20-315-032-0000
1840 S. Allport Street
17-20 315 033-0000
i
1842 S. Allport Street
17 20 315 034-0000
1844 S. Allport Street
17-20-315-035-0000
1848 S. Allport Street
17-20-315-036-0000
i.
1850 S. Allport Street
Permanent Index Number (PIN)
Address
17-20-315-037-0000
1852 S. Allport Street
17-20-315-038-0000
1854 S. Allport Street
17-20-315-039-0000
1858 S. Allport Street
17-20-315-041-0000
1816 S. Allport Street
17-20-315-042-0000
1818 S. Allport Street
17-20-315-043-0000
1808 S. Allport Street
17-20-316-001-0000
1805 S. Allport Street
17-20-316-002-0000
1811 S. Allport Street
17-20-316-003-0000
1813 S. Allport Street
17-20-316-004-0000
1817 S. Allport Street
17-20-316-005-0000
1819 S. Allport Street
17-20-316-006-0000
1821 S. Allport Street
17-20-316-007-0000
1823 S. Allport Street
17-20-316-008-0000
1827 S. Allport Street
17-20-316-009-0000
1829 S. Allport Street
17-20-316-010-0000
1831 S. Allport Street
17-20-316-011-0000
1833 S. Allport Street
Permanent Index Number (PIN)
Address
17-20-316-012-0000
1837 S. Allport Street
17-20-316-013-0000
1839 S. Allport Street
17-20-316-014-0000
1841 S. Allport Street
17-20-316-015-0000
1843 S. Allport Street
17-20-316-016-0000
1847 S. Allport Street
17-20-316-017-0000
1849 S. Allport Street
17-20-316-018-0000
1851 S. Allport Street
17-20-316-019-0000
1853 S. Allport Street
17-20-316-020-0000
1857 S. Allport Street
17-20-316-021-0000
1859 S. Allport Street
17-20-316-022-0000
1804 S. Racine Avenue
17-20-316-023-0000
1806 S. Racine Avenue
17-20-316-024-0000
1808 S. Racine Avenue
17-20-316-025-0000
1810 S. Racine Avenue
17-20-316-026-0000
1812 S. Racine Avenue
17-20-316-027-0000
1816 S. Racine Avenue
17-20-316-028-0000
1818 S. Racine Avenue
Permanent Index Number (PIN)
Address
17-20-316-029-0000
1820 S. Racine Avenue
17-20-316-030-0000
1822 S. Racine Avenue
17-20-316-031-0000
1824 S. Racine Avenue
17-20-316-032-0000
1828 S. Racine Avenue
17-20-316-033-0000
1830 S. Racine Avenue
17-20-316-034-0000
1832 S. Racine Avenue
17-20-316-035-0000
1834 S. Racine Avenue
17-20-316-036-0000
1838 S. Racine Avenue
17-20-316-037-0000
1840 S. Racine Avenue
17-20-316-038-0000
1842 S. Racine Avenue
17-20-316-039-0000
1844 S. Racine Avenue
17-20-316-043-0000 ,
1854 S. Racine Avenue
17-20-316-044-0000
1854 S. Racine Avenue
17-20-316-045-0000
1850 S. Racine Avenue
17-20-317-001-0000
1911 -1919 S. Ashland Avenue (One building on this PIN, St. Pius V Church, is not included in landmark district, per 2-120-660 ofthe Municipal Code)
17-20-317-002-0000
1539W. 19th Street
Permanent Index Number (PIN)
Address
17-20-317-003-0000
1537 W. 19th Street
17-20-317-004-0000
1533 W. 19th Street
17-20-317-005-0000
1531 W. 19th Street
17-20-317-007-0000
1525W. 19th Street
17-20-317-008-0000
1523 W. 19th Street
17-20-317-009-0000
1521 W. 19th Street
17-20-317-010-0000
1519 W. 19th Street
17-20-317-011-0000
1517 W. 19th Street
17-20-317-012-0000
1513 W. 19th Street
17-20-317-013-0000
1511 W. 19th Street
17-20-317-014-0000
1509 W. 19th Street
17-20-317-015-0000
1505 W. 19th Street
17-20-317-016-0000
1503W. 19th Street
17-20-317-017-0000
1910 S. Laflin Street
17-20-317-018-0000
1538 W. Cullerton Street
17-20-317-019-0000
1536 W. Cullerton Street
17-20-317-020-0000
1532 W. Cullerton Street
Permanent Index Number (PIN)
Address
17-20-317-021-0000
1530 W. Cullerton Street
17-20-317-022-0000
1528 W. Cullerton Street
17-20-317-023-0000
1526 W. Cullerton Street
17-20-317-024-0000
1522 W. Cullerton Street
17-20-317-025-0000
1520 W. Cullerton Street
17-20-317-026-0000
1518 W. Cullerton Street
17-20-317-028-0000
1510 W. Cullerton Street
17-20-317-029-0000
1508 W. Cullerton Street
17-20-317-030-0000
1504 W. Cullerton Street
17-20-317-032-0000
1914 S. Laflin Street
17-20-317-033-0000
1920S. Laflin Street
17-20-317-034-0000
1516 W. Cullerton Street
17-20-317-035-0000
1514 W. Cullerton Street
17-20-318-003-0000
2007 S. Ashland Avenue
17-20-318-004-0000
2011 S. Ashland Avenue
17-20-318-005-0000
2013-17 S. Ashland Avenue
17-20-318-006-0000
2019 S. Ashland Avenue
Permanent Index Number (PIN)
Address
17-20-318-007-0000
2021 S. Ashland Avenue
17-20-318-008-0000
2023 S. Ashland Avenue
17-20-318-009-0000
1539 W. Cullerton Avenue
17-20-318-010-0000
1537 W. Cullerton Avenue
17-20-318-011-0000
1535 W. Cullerton Avenue
17-20-318-012-0000
1531 W. Cullerton Avenue
17-20-318-013-0000
1529 W. Cullerton Avenue
17-20-318-014-0000
1527 W. Cullerton Avenue
17-20-318-015-0000
1529 W. Cullerton Avenue
17-20-318-016-0000
1523 W. Cullerton Avenue
17-20-318-017-0000
1538 W. 21st Street
17-20-318-018-0000
1536 W. 21st Street
17-20-318-019-0000
1532 W. 21st Street
17-20-318-020-0000
1530 W. 21st Street
17-20-318-021-0000
1528 W. 21st Street
17-20-318-022-0000
1526 W. 21st Street
17-20-318-023-0000
2002 S. Blue Island Avenue
Permanent Index Number (PIN)
Address
17-20-318-024-0000
2008 S. Blue Island Avenue
17-20-318-025-0000
2012 S. Blue Island Avenue
17-20-318-026-0000
2014 S. Blue Island Avenue
17-20-318-027-0000
2018 S. Blue Island Avenue
17-20-318-030-0000
2024 S. Blue Island Avenue
17-20-318-031-0000
2026 S. Blue Island Avenue
17-20-318-032-0000
2030 S. Blue Island Avenue
17-20-318-033-0000
2003 S. Ashland Avenue
17-20-318-034-0000
2005 S. Ashland Avenue
17-20-318-035-0000
2020 S. Blue Island Avenue
17-20-319-001-0000
2027 S. Blue Island Avenue
17-20-320-001-0000
1900 S. Blue Island Avenue
17-20-320-002-0000
1910 S. Blue Island Avenue
17-20-320-003-0000
1912 S. Blue Island Avenue
17-20-320-004-0000
1914 S. Blue Island Avenue
17-20-320-005-0000
1916 S. Blue Island Avenue
17-20-320-006-0000
1918 S. Blue Island Avenue
Permanent Index Number (PIN)
Address
17-20-320-007-0000
1920 S. Blue Island Avenue
17-20-321-001-0000
1901 S. Blue Island Avenue
17-20-321-002-0000
1903 S. Blue Island Avenue
17-20-321-003-0000
1907 S. Blue Island Avenue
17-20-321-004-0000
1907 S. Blue Island Avenue
17-20-321-005-0000
1911 S. Blue Island Avenue
17-20-321-006-0000
1915 S. Blue Island Avenue
17-20-321-009-0000
1929 S. Blue Island Avenue
17-20-321-010-0000
1423 W. 19th Street
17-20-321-011-0000
1419 W. 19th Street
17-20-321-012-0000
1417 W. 19th Street
17-20-321-013-0000
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1415 W. 19th Street
17-20-321-014-0000
1428 W. Cullerton Street
17-20-321-015-0000
1426 W. Cullerton Street
17-20-321-016-0000
1424 W. Cullerton Street
17-20-321-017-0000
1422 W. Cullerton Street
17-20-321-018-0000
1418 W. Cullerton Street
Permanent Index Number (PIN)
Address
17-20-321-019-0000
1416 W. Cullerton Street
17-20-321-020-0000
1414 W. Cullerton Street
17-20-321-021-0000
1402 W. 19th Street
17-20-321-022-0000
1904 S. Loomis Street
17-20-321-023-0000
1906 S. Loomis Street
17-20-321-024-0000
1908 S. Loomis Street
17-20-321-025-0000
1910 S. Loomis Street
17-20-321-026-0000
1914 S. Loomis Street
17-20-321-027-0000
1916 S. Loomis Street
17-20-321-028-0000
1918 S. Loomis Street
17-20-321-029-0000
1922 S. Loomis Street
17-20-321-030-0000
1924 S. Loomis Street
17-20-321-031-0000
1919 S. Blue Island Avenue
17-20-322-001-0000
2001 S. Blue Island Avenue
17-20-322-002-0000
2005 S. Blue Island Avenue
17-20-322-003-0000 '
2007 S. Blue Island Avenue
17-20-322-004-0000
2009 S. Laflin Street
Permanent Index Number (PIN)
Address
17-20-322-006-0000
2025 S. Laflin Street
17-20-322-007-0000
1424 W. 21st Street
17-20-322-008-0000
1443 W. Cullerton Street
17-20-322-009-0000
1441 W. Cullerton Street
17-20-322-010-0000
1437 W. Cullerton Street
17-20-322-011-0000
1435 W. Cullerton Street
17-20-322-012-0000
1433 W. Cullerton Street
17-20-322-013-0000
1429 W. Cullerton Street
17-20-322-014-0000
1427 W. Cullerton Street
17-20-322-015-0000
1425 W. Cullerton Street
17-20-322-016-0000
1423 W. Cullerton Street17-20-322-017-0000
1419 W. Cullerton Street
17-20-322-018-0000
1417 W. Cullerton Street
17-20-322-019-0000
1415 W. Cullerton Street
17-20-322-020-0000
1424-1444 W. 21st Street
17-20-322-021-0000
1424-1444 W. 21st Street
17-20-322-022-0000
1424-1444 W. 21st Street
Permanent Index Number (PIN)
Address
17-20-322-023-0000
1424-1444 W. 21st Street
17-20-322-024-0000
1424-1444 W. 21st Street
17-20-322-025-0000
2000 S. Loomis Street
17-20-322-026-0000
2004 S. Loomis Street
17-20-322-027-0000
2006 S. Loomis Street
17-20-322-028-0000
2008 S. Loomis Street
17-20-322-029-0000
2010 S. Loomis Street
17-20-322-030-0000
2014 S. Loomis Street
17-20-322-031-0000
2016 S. Loomis Street
17-20-322-032-0000
2018 S. Loomis Street
17-20-322-033-0000
2022 S. Loomis Street
17-20-322-034-0000
2024 S. Loomis Street
17-20-322-035-0000
2013-2021 S. Laflin Street
17-20-322-036-0000
2011 S. Laflin Street
17-20-32-3001-0000
1901 S. Loomis Street
1720323002-0000
1905 S. Loomis Street
1720323003-0000
1907 S. Loomis Street
Permanent Index Number (PIN)
Address
17-20-323-004-0000
1911 S. Loomis Street
17-20-323-005-0000
1913 S. Loomis Street
17-20-323-006-0000
1915 S. Loomis Street
17-20-323-007-0000
1917 S. Loomis Street
17-203-230-08-0000
1921 S. Loomis Street
17-20-323-010-0000
1343-1345 W. 19th Street
17-20-323-011-0000
1343-1345 W. 19th Street
17-20-323-012-0000
1341 W. 19th Street
17-20-323-013-0000
1339 W. 19th Street
17-20-323-014-0000
1337 W. 19th Street
17-20-323-015-0000
1333 W. 19th Street
17-20-323-016-0000
1331 W. 19th Street
17-20-323-017-0000
1329 W. 19th Street
17-20-323-018-0000
1327 W. 19th Street
17-20-323-019-0000
r"
1323 W. 19th Street
17-20-323-020-0000
1321 W. 19th Street
17-20-323-021-0000
1319 W. 19th Street
Permanent Index Number (PIN)
Address
17-20-323-022-0000
1317 W. 19th Street
17-20-323-023-0000
1313 W. 19th Street
17-20-323-025-0000
1342 W. Cullerton Street
17-20-323-026-0000
1340 W. Cullerton Street
17-20-323-027-0000
1338 W. Cullerton Street
17-20-323-028-0000
1336 W. Cullerton Street
17-20-323-029-0000
1332 W. Cullerton Street
17-20-323-030-0000
1330 W. Cullerton Street
17-20-323-031-0000
1328 W. Cullerton Street
17-20-323-032-0000
1326 W. Cullerton Street
17-20-323-033-0000
1322 W. Cullerton Street
17-20-323-034-0000
1320 W. Cullerton Street
17-20-323-035-0000
1318 W. Cullerton Street
17-20-323-036-0000
1316 W. Cullerton Street
17-20-323-037-0000
1312 W. Cullerton Street
17-20-323-038-0000
1900-1902 S. Throop Street
17-20-323-039-0000
1904 S. Throop Street
Permanent Index Number (PIN)
Address
17-20-323-040-0000
1906 S. Throop Street
17-20-323-041-0000
1910 S. Throop Street
17-20-323-042-0000
1912 S. Throop Street
17-20-323-043-0000
1914 S. Throop Street
17-20-323-044-0000
1916 S. Throop Street
17-20-323-045-0000
1920 S. Throop Street
17-20-323-046-0000
1922 S. Throop Street
17-20-323-047-0000
1924 S. Throop Street
17-20-323-048-0000
1923 S. Loomis Street
17-20-323-049-0000
1925 S. Loomis Street
17-20-324-001-0000
2001 S. Loomis Street
17-20-324-002-0000
2003 S. Loomis Street
17-20-324-003-0000
2005 S. Loomis Street
17-20-324-004-0000
2009 S. Loomis Street
17-20-324-005-0000
2011 S. Loomis Street
17-20-324-006-0000
2013 S. Loomis Street
17-20-324-007-0000
2015 S. Loomis Street
Permanent Index Number (PIN)
Address
17-20-324-008-0000
1347 W. Cullerton Street
17-20-324-009-0000
1343 W. Cullerton Street
17-20-324-010-0000
1341 W. Cullerton Street
17-20-324-011-0000
1339 W. Cullerton Street
17-20-324-012-0000
1337 W. Cullerton Street
17-20-324-013-0000
1335 W. Cullerton Street
17-20-324-014-0000
1331 W. Cullerton Street
17-20-324-015-0000
1329 W. Cullerton Street
17-20-324-016-0000
1327 W. Cullerton Street
17-20-324-017-0000
1323 W. Cullerton Street
17-20-324-018-0000
1321 W. Cullerton Street
17-20-324-019-0000
1319 W. Cullerton Street
17-20-324-020-0000
1317 W. Cullerton Street
17-20-324-021-0000
1313 W. Cullerton Street
17-20-324-022-0000
1314 W. 21st Street
17-20-324-023-0000
1314 W. 21st Street
17-20-324-024-0000
1314 W. 21st Street
Permanent Index Number (PIN)
Address
17-20-324-025-0000
1314 W. 21st Street
17-20-324-026-0000
2000 S. Throop Street
17-20-324-027-0000
2002 S. Throop Street
17-20-324-028-0000
2004 S. Throop Street
17-20-324-029-0000
2006 S. Throop Street
17-20-324-030-0000
2010 S. Throop Street
17-20-324-031-0000
2012 S. Throop Street
17-20-324-032-0000
2014 S. Throop Street
17-20-324-033-0000
2018 S. Throop Street
17-20-324-034-0000
2020 S. Throop Street
17-20-324-035-0000
2020 S. Throop Street
17-20-324-036-0000
2022 S. Throop Street
17-20-325-001-0000
1901 S. Throop Street
17-20-325-002-0000
1903 S. Throop Street
17-20-325-003-0000
1241 W. 19th Street/2001 S. Throop Street
17-20-325-004-0000
2011 S. Throop Street
17-20-325-005-0000
2013 S. Throop Street
Permanent Index Number (PIN)
Address
17-20-325-006-0000
2015 S. Throop Street
17-20-325-007-0000
2017 S. Throop Street
17-20-325-008-0000
2019 S. Throop Street
17-20-325-009-0000
2021 S. Throop Street
17-20-325-010-0000
2023 S. Throop Street/ 1248 W. 21st Street
17-20-325-011-0000
1241 W. 19th Street
17-20-325-012-0000
2006 S. Allport Street
17-20-325-013-0000
2008 S. Allport Street
17-20-325-014-0000
2012 S. Allport Street
17-20-325-015-0000
2014 S. Allport Street
17-20-325-016-0000
2016 S. Allport Street
17-20-325-017-0000
2018 S. Allport Street
17-20-325-018-0000
2020 S. Allport Street
17-20-325-019-0000
2024 S. Allport Street
17-20-325-020-0000
2022 S. Allport Street
17-20-326-001-0000
1901 S. Allport Street
17-20-326-002-0000
1903 S. Allport Street
Permanent Index Number (PIN)
Address
17-20-326-003-0000
1907 S. Allport Street
17-20-326-004-0000
1909 S. Allport Street
17-20-326-005-0000
1911 S. Allport Street
17-20-326-006-0000
1913 S. Allport Street
17-20-326-007-0000
1915 S. Allport Street
17-20-326-008-0000
1919 S. Allport Street
17-20-326-009-0000
1921 S. Allport Street
17-20-326-010-0000
1923 S. Allport Street
17-20-326-012-0000
1927 S. Allport Street
17-20-326-013-0000
1931 S. Allport Street
17-20-326-014-0000
2001 S. Allport Street
17-20-326-015-0000
2003 S. Allport Street
17-20-326-016-0000
2005 S. Allport Street
17-20-326-017-0000
2007 S. Allport Street
17-20-326-018-0000
2011 S. Allport Street
17-20-326-019-0000
2013 S. Allport Street
17-20-326-020-0000
2015 S. Allport Street
Permanent Index Number (PIN)
Address
17-20-326-021-0000
2017 S. Allport Street
17-20-326-022-0000
2019 S. Allport Street
17-20-326-023-0000
2021 S. Allport Street
17-20-326-024-0000
2025 S. Allport Street
17-20-326-025-0000
1916 S. Racine Avenue
17-20-326-026-0000
1918 S. Racine Avenue
17-20-326-027-0000
1920 S. Racine Avenue
17-20-326-028-0000
1924 S. Racine Avenue
17-20-326-029-0000
1926 S. Racine Avenue
17-20-326-030-0000
1928 S. Racine Avenue
17-20-326-031-0000
1930 S. Racine Avenue
17-20-326-032-0000
1934 S. Racine Avenue
17-20-326-033-0000
1936 S. Racine Avenue
17-20-326-034-0000
1938 S. Racine Avenue
17-20-326-035-0000
1940 S. Racine Avenue
17-20-326-036-0000
1942-1944 S. Racine Avenue
17-20-326-037-0000
1946 S. Racine Avenue
Permanent Index Number (PIN)
Address
17-20-326-038-0000
2000 S. Racine Avenue
17-20-326-039-0000
2002 S. Racine Avenue
17-20-326-040-0000
2014-2022 S. Racine Avenue
17-20-401-009-0000
1723 S. Racine Avenue
17-20-401-037-0000
1156 W. 18th Street
17-20-401-038-0000
1154 W. 18th Street
17-20-401-039-0000
1152 W. 18th Street
17-20-401-040-0000
1148 W. 18th Street
17-20-401-041-0000
1146 W. 18th Street
17-20-401-042-0000
1144 W. 18th Street
17-20-401-043-0000
1142 W. 18th Street
17-20-401-044-0000
1140 W. 18th Street
17-20-401-045-0000
1136 W. 18th Street
17-20-401-046-0000
1134 W. 18th Street
17-20-401-047-0000
1132 W. 18th Street
17-20-401-048-0000
1126 W. 18th Street
17-20-401-049-0000
1122 W. 18th Street
Permanent Index Number (PIN)
Address
17-20-401-050-0000
1118 W. 18th Street
17-20-401-051-0000
1116 W. 18th Street
17-20-401-052-0000
1114 W. 18th Street
17-20-401-053-0000
1112 W. 18th Street
17-20-401-054-0000
1110 W. 18th Street
17-20-401-055-0000
1106 W. 18th Street
17-20-401-056-0000
1102-1104 W. 18th Street
17-20-401-057-0000
1714 S. Carpenter Street
17-20-401-058-0000
1158 W. 18th Street
17-20-402-016-0000
1038 W. 18th Street
17-20-402-017-0000
1036 W. 18th Street
17-20-402-018-0000
1034 W. 18th Street
17-20-402-023-0000 17-20-402-024-0000 17-20-402-025-0000 17-20-402-026-0000 17-20-402-027-0000 17-20-402-028-0000 17-20-402-029-0000
1620 S. Miller Street
Permanent Index Number (PIN)
Address
17-20-402-036-0000
1044 W. 18th Street
17-20-402-037-0000
1040 W. 18th Street
17-20-403-023-0000
1008-1012 W. 18th Street
17-20-403-024-0000
1004 W. 18th Street
17-20-403-025-0000
1002 W. 18th Street
17-20-403-048-0000
974 W. 18th Street
17-20-403-049-0000
972 W. 18th Street
17-20-403-050-0000
966 W. 18th Street
17-20-403-051-0000
960 W. 18th Street
17-20-403-052-0000
1010 W. 18th Street
17-20-404-020-0000
950 W. 18th Street
17-20-404-021-0000
952 W. 18th Street
17-20-404-022-0000
948 W. 18th Street
17-20-404-023-0000
946 W. 18th Street
17-20-404-024-0000
944 W. 18th Street
Permanent Index Number (PIN)
Address
17-20-407-001-0000
1801 S. Racine Avenue
17-20-407-002-0000
1805 S. Racine Avenue
17-20-407-003-0000
1807 S. Racine Avenue
17-20-407-005-0000
1813 S. Racine Avenue
17-20-407-006-0000
1815 S. Racine Avenue
17-20-407-007-0000
1817 S. Racine Avenue
17-20-407-008-0000
1819 S. Racine Avenue
17-20-407-009-0000
1821 S. Racine Avenue
17-20-407-010-0000
1825 S. Racine Avenue
17-20-407-011-0000
1827 S. Racine Avenue
17-20-407-012-0000
1829 S. Racine Avenue
17-20-407-015-0000
1167 W. 18th Street
17-20-407-016-0000
1165 W. 18th Street
17-20-407-017-0000
1165 W. 18th Street
17-20-407-018-0000
1163 W. 18th Street
17-20-407-019-0000
1159 W. 18th Street
17-20-407-020-0000
1157 W. 18th Street
Permanent Index Number (PIN)
Address
17-20-407-021-0000
1157 W. 18th Street
17-20-407-029-0000
1145 W. 18th Street
17-20-407-030-0000
1145 W. 18th Street
17-20-407-053-0000
1151 W. 18th Street
17-20-408-001-0000
1801 S. May Street
17-20-408-008-0000
1125 W. 18th Street
17-20-408-009-0000
1121 W. 18th Street
17-20-408-010-0000
1117 W. 18th Street
17-20-408-011-0000
1115 W. 18th Street
17-20-408-012-0000
1113 W. 18th Street
17-20-408-020-0000
1800 S. Carpenter Street
17-20-410-001-0000
1801 S. Carpenter Street
17-20-410-009-0000
1025 W. 18th Street
17-20-410-010-0000 v
1023 W. 18th Street
17-20-410-011-0000
1021 W. 18th Street
17-20-410-012-0000
1019 W. 18th Street
17-20-410-013-0000
1015 W. 18th Street
Permanent Index Number (PIN)
Address
17-20-410-014-0000
1013 W. 18th Street
17-20-410-021-0000
1800 S. Morgan Street
17-20-412-001-0000
971 W. 18th Street
17-20-412-002-0000
969 W. 18th Street
17-20-412-003-0000
965 W. 18th Street
17-20-412-004-0000
963 W. 18th Street
17-20-412-005-0000
961 W. 18th Street
17-20-412-006-0000
957 W. 18th Street
17-20-412-007-0000
955 W. 18th Street
17-20-412-009-0000
949 W. 18th Street
17-20-412-010-0000
947 W. 18th Street
17-20-412-011-0000
945 W. 18th Street
17-20-412-012-0000
943 W. 18th Street
17-20-412-013-0000
939 W. 18th Street
17-20-412-014-0000
937 W. 18th Street
17-20-412-015-0000
935 W. 18th Street
17-20-414-001-0000
927 W. 18th Street
Permanent Index Number (PIN)
Address
17-20-414-002-0000
917 W. 18th Street
17-19-304-050-1001
2141 W. 18th Street, Unit 1
17-19-304-050-1002
2141 W. 18th Street, Unit 2
17-19-304-050-1003
2141 W. 18th Street, Unit 3
17-20-309-043-1001
1516 W. 19th St, Unit 1
17-20-309-043-1002
1516 W. 19th St, Unit 2
17-20-309-043-1003
1516 W. 19th St, Unit 3
17-20-309-044-1001
1533 W. 18TH PLACE, Unit 1E
17-20-309-044-1002
1533 W. 18TH PLACE, Unit 1W
17-20-309-044-1003
1533 W. 18TH PLACE, Unit 2E
17-20-309-044-1004
1533 W. 18TH PLACE, Unit 2W
17-20-309-044-1005
1533 W. 18TH PLACE, Unit 3E
17-20-309-044-1006
1533 W. 18TH PLACE, Unit 3W
17-20-317-036-1001
1529W. 19TH ST. UNIT 1
17-20-317-036-1002
1529W. 19TH ST. UNIT 2
17-20-317-036-1003
1529 W. 19TH ST. UNIT 3
17-20-315-044-1001
1808 S. ALLPORT, R-1
Top Left: Frank Kriz, who emigrated from Bohemia in 1854, built a store-and-flat building at 1140 W. 18th St. At the time, a total of thirty-five residents were living in Kriz's building.
Top Center: Joseph Liska, a butcher who, built this mixed-use building in 1907 at 1328 W. 18th St. It was designed by architect Anton Charvat.
Top Right: Thomas Kosatka and his wife Anna were Bohemian immigrants who purchased the building at 1425 W. 18th St around 1909 and opened a music store in the mixed-use building .
Bottom Left: The Loeb Brothers had two facilities in Pilsen between the late 1880s and early 1900s, including and this one at 1915 S. Blue Island Ave. where they ran their meat-packing operation.
Bottom Right: Photographer Francis D. Nemecek, who emigrated from Bohemia with his family as a child, began his own photography studio around 1903. In 1907, Nemecek was able to hire the prominent Czech architect Frank Randak to design a new photography studio at 1439 W. 18th St.
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Permanent Index Number (PIN)
Address
17-20-315-044-1002
1808 S. ALLPORT, R-2
17-20-315-044-1003
1808 S. ALLPORT, R-3
17-20-323-050-1001
1346 W. Cullerton, #1
17-20-323-050-1002
1346 W. Cullerton, #2
17-20-323-050-1003
1346 W. Cullerton, #3
17-20-326-041-1001
1925 S. Allport St., #1
17-20-326-041-1002
1925 S. Allport St., #2
17-20-326-041-1003
1925 S. Allport St., #3
17-20-417-028-1001
1915 S. Racine, Unit 1
17-20-417-028-1002
1915 S. Racine, Unit 2
17-20-417-028-1003
1915 S. Racine, Unit 3
17-20-412-031-1001
953 W. 18th St., Unit A
17-20-412-031-1002
953 W. 18th St., UnitB
17-20-412-031-1003
953 W. 18th St., UnitC
17-20-412-031-1004
953 W. 18th St., Unit D
Pilsen Historic District
W. 17th Street
W. 18th Place W. 18th Street W. 19th Street W. 21st Street S. Allport Street S. Ashland Avenue S. Bishop Street S. Blue Island Avenue S. Carpenter Street S. Cullerton Street S. Damen Avenue S. Hamilton Avenue S. Hoyne Avenue S. Laflin Street Leavitt Street South Loomis Street South S. Marshfield Avenue S. May Street S. Miller Street S. Morgan Street S. Paulina Street S. Racine Avenue
1200-1556 (evens; 1200-1556 (evens 1658-2024 (evens 1708-1824 (evens 1800-1852 (evens 1800-2030 (evens 1714-1800 (evens 1300-1556 (evens 1714-1810 (evens 1714-1724(evens 1714-1810 (evens
1714- 2024 (evens
1715- 1811 (odds) 1724-2026 (evens 1714-1810 (evens 1800-1804 (evens 1624-1658 (evens 1800-1802 (evens 1714-1812 (evens 1724-2024 (evens
1201-1557 (odds) 1201-1557 (odds) 1637-2025 (odds) 1723-2025 (odds) 1801-1855 (odds) 1647-2031 (odds) 1715-1801 (odds) 1301-1557 (odds)
1715-1725 (odds) 1715-1811 (odds) 1715-2025 (odds)
1801-2025 (odds) 1701-1827 (odds) 1801-1805 (odds) 1655-1659 (odds) 1801-1809 (odds) 1713-1811 (odds) 1723-1843 (odds)
S. Sangamon Street
S. Throop Street S. Wolcott Avenue S. Wood Street
1800-1808 (evens), 1801-1809 (odds)
1656-1840 (evens), 1850-2024 (evens), 1655-2025 (odds)
1713- 1725 (odds)
1714- 1724 (evens), 1713-1811 (odds)
1713-
CITY OF CHICAGO COMMISSION ON CHICAGO LANDMARKS
May 16, 2019
RECOMMENDATION TO THE CITY COUNCIL OF CHICAGO THAT CHICAGO LANDMARK DESIGNATION BE ADOPTED FOR
PILSEN HISTORIC DISTRICT
Including the Following Address Ranges (even/odd addresses):
W. 17th Street W. 18th Place
W. 18th Street W. 19th Street
W. 21st Street S. Allport Street
S. Ashland Avenue
S. Bishop Street S. Blue Island Avenue S. Carpenter Street S. Cullerton Street S. Damen Avenue S. Hamilton Avenue S. Hoyne Avenue S. Laflin Street
Leavitt Street South Loomis Street South S. Marshfield Avenue S. May Street S. Miller Street
1601-1611 (odds)
1300- 1358 (evens), 1500-1610 (evens),
1301- 1359 (odds), 1501-1557 (odds)
940-2158 (evens), 917-2159 (odds)
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Docket No. 2019-02
To the Mayor and Members ofthe City Council ofthe City of Chicago:
Pursuant to Section 2-120-690 of the Municipal Code ofthe City of Chicago (the "Municipal Code"), the Commission on Chicago Landmarks (the "Commission") has determined that the Pilsen Historic District (the "District") is worthy of Chicago Landmark designation. On the basis of careful consideration of the history and architecture of the District, the Commission has found that it satisfies the following four (4) criteria set forth in Section 2-120-620 of the Municipal Code:
I. Its value as an example ofthe architectural, cultural, economic, historic, social, or other aspect ofthe heritage of the City of Chicago, State of Illinois, or the United States.
4. Its exemplification of an architectural type or style distinguished by innovation,
rarity, uniqueness, or overall quality of design, detail, materials, or craftsmanship.
6. Its representation of an architectural, cultural, economic, historic, social, or other theme expressed through distinctive areas, districts, places, buildings, structures, works of art, or other objects that may or may not be contiguous.
7. Its unique location or distinctive physical appearance or presence representing an established and familiar visual feature of a neighborhood, community, or the City of Chicago.
1. BACKGROUND
The formal landmark designation process for the District began on December 6, 2018, when the Commission approved a preliminary landmark recommendation (the "Preliminary Recommendation") for the District as a Chicago Landmark. The Commission found that the District meets four of the seven criteria for designation, as well as the integrity criterion, identified in the Chicago Landmarks Ordinance (Municipal Code, Section 2-120-580 et
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seq.). The Preliminary Recommendation, incorporated herein and attached hereto as Exhibit A, initiated the process for further study and analysis of the proposed designation of the District as a Chicago Landmark. As part of the Preliminary Recommendation, the Commission identified the "significant historical and architectural features" ofthe District as:
? All exterior elevations, including rooilines, of the buildings visible from public rights of way.
? Murals on exterior facades ofthe buildings visible from public rights of way.
On December 13, 2018, the Commission received a demolition permit application for a two-story brick cottage at 1822 S. Throop Street within the District. At the Commission's next regular meeting on January 10, 2019, the Commission staff notified the Commission that the demolition application for 1822 S. Throop Street had been withdrawn, therefore the Commission need not vote on a preliminary denial of the application. Also al its regular meeting of January 10, 2019, the Commission received a report from David L. Reifman, Commissioner of the Department of Planning and Development ("DPD"), stating that the proposed landmark designation ofthe District supports the City's overall planning goals and is consistent with the City's governing policies and plans. This report is incorporated herein and attached hereto as Exhibit B (the "DPD Report").
At its regular meeting of February 7, 2019, the Commission adopted a Preliminary Summary of Information report from Commission staff. This report establishes the historic and architectural significance of the district, and includes a building catalog and mural inventory. A copy of this report is included as Exhibit C (the "Preliminary Summary of Information"). Upon receiving the report, the Commission adopted a Resolution, identified as Exhibit D, which reaffirmed its Preliminary Recommendation of December 6, 2018, and adopted the Preliminary Summary of Information.
On February 20, 2019, the Commission received three applications to demolish properties in the proposed District located at 1730, 1732 and 1734 W. 18th Street. At its regular meeting of March 7, 2019, the Commission voted to preliminarily disapprove these demolition permit applications. Per the Municipal Code, the Commission's preliminary disapproval of the demolition applications triggered expedited consideration of both the proposed Pilsen District landmark designation and the demolition permit applications.
In a letter dated March 26, 2019, the Commission notified owners of property within the proposed District that Commission's preliminary disapproval ofthe demolition applications for 1730, 1732 and 1734 W. 18th Street triggered expedited consideration of both the proposed Pilsen District landmark designation and the demolition permit applications. The March 26th letter also notified owners of an informational community meeting scheduled for April 16, 2019, at the Lozano Library in Pilsen.
The March 26, 2019, letter also notified owners that a public hearing on the proposed designation of the District as well as the preliminary disapproval ofthe permit applications was scheduled for April 24, 2019, in accordance with the Landmarks Ordinance and the
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Rules and Regulations of the Commission on Chicago Landmarks. Notices of the time and date ofthe hearing were (a) posted on signs in the proposed District, and (b) published as a legal notice in the Chicago Sun-Times, as required by the Landmarks Ordinance. A notice was also posted on the DPD web site.
II. PUBLIC HEARING
The hearing was convened, as scheduled and noticed, on Wednesday, April 24, 2019, at 9:30 a.m. at City Hall, 121 N. LaSalle St., Rm. 201-A. Commission member Ernest C. Wong served as Hearing Officer, assisted by Lisa Misher, Deputy Corporation Counsel ofthe Real Estate and Land Use Division ofthe City's Law Department, as legal counsel to the Commission. The hearing was conducted in accordance with the Commission's Rules and Regulations, specifically Article V regarding the conduct of public hearings for expedited consideration of proposed landmark designations and permit applications.
The Commission staffs presentation recommending the proposed landmark designation was given by Matt Crawford, Coordinating Planner. At the conclusion of the staff presentation, the Commission's Rules and Regulations allow property owners, regardless of whether they request party status, to question the staff. The owner of property at 2014 S. Allport Street asked how the Commission would review changes to buildings located below grade to allow for ADA access. Staff responded that district-specific design guidelines will be developed for the District to guide the Commission on these unusual conditions found in Pilsen. Another owner of a property at 1518 W. 18th Street asked about the incentives available to property owners, particularly the State Property Tax Assessment Freeze Program. The owner noted that the minimum investment threshold of 25 per cent of the market value was too high for many owners to utilize and she asked if the incentive could be modified. Staff responded that they have heard from the community that this incentive is difficult to utilize and that DPD and the alderman-elect would continue to explore other options to assist homeowners to care for their buildings.
One (1) representative of a property owner within the proposed District specifically requested and was granted party status by the Hearing Officer:
? Mark Kupiec, an attorney representing Fox Chicago, LLC, an Illinois limited liability company that owns properties 1730, 1732 and 1734 West 18th Street which are the subject of the demolition permits. After consultation with the Hearing Officer, Mr. Kupiec agreed to wait to present his case until the second portion ofthe hearing dealing with the demolition permits. In that portion of the hearing, Mr. Kupiec argued that the buildings at 1730, 1732 and 1734 West 18th Street were non-contributing to the district and should therefore be permitted to be demolished.
After the presentation by this party, property owners within the District not requesting party status and members of the general public made statements.
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Three (3) owners of property within the District spoke in favor to the District. Four (4) owners of property within the District spoke in opposition to the District.
Eight (8) members ofthe general public spoke in favor to the District, including Landmarks Illinois, Preservation Chicago and The Resurrection Project.
Two (2) members of the general public stated that they had not yet formed an opinion about the District and sought more information about its benefits and more time for community engagement, including the 18th Street Development Corporation and Pilsen Alliance.
Two (2) members of the general public spoke in opposition to the District.
25th Ward Alderman-Elect Sigcho-Lopez addressed the hearing stating that a robust process of community engagement was needed to educate property owners within the proposed district about the benefits and responsibilities of the landmark district proposal. The Alderman-Elect also raised concerns about gentrification, displacement and increased property taxes that were affecting his constituents in the proposed District.
The transcript (the "Hearing Transcript") and related exhibits from the public hearing are attached hereto.
III. TALLY OF SUPPORT/OPPOSITION FORMS TO THE DESIGNATION AND CHANGES TO THE DISTRICT
Because the designation was subject to the expedited consideration process, there was no time for the Commission to include its standard written request-for-consent process in the designation. In lieu of this process, the March 26, 2019, letter to owners also requested that owners return an enclosed form indicating if they support or oppose the District. As of May 15, 2019, the staff has received 14 forms indicating support for the District and 88 forms indicating opposition to it.
Because a majority of property owners in the District responding to the Commission's informal inquiry about the proposed designation do not support it, a recommendation to City Council for landmark designation of the District must be approved by the affirmative vote of at least six members of the Commission as required by Section 2-120-690 ofthe Municipal Code.
IV. FINDINGS OF THE COMMISSION ON CHICAGO LANDMARKS
WHEREAS, pursuant to the procedures set forth in the Municipal Code, Sections 2-120-630 through -690, the Commission has determined that the District, predominantly located at West 18th Street between South Leavitt and South Sangamon Streets, and 13
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blocks bounded by West 18th Street to the north, South Ashland Avenue to the west, West 21st Street to the south and South Racine Avenue to the east, Chicago, Illinois, satisfies four (4) criteria for landmark designation as set forth in Sections 2-120-620 (1), (4), (6) and (7) of the Municipal Code; and
WHEREAS, the District is one of the city's best-surviving examples of a neighborhood that served as a port of entry for waves of immigrants beginning just after the Great Fire of 1871. A variety of industries such as garment making; lumber, furniture, and related products; meat packing and sausage making; and mattress and pillow firms attracted workers to settle in the area. As each successive wave of immigrants found success and moved lo other Chicago neighborhoods and the western suburbs, new immigrants settled in the neighborhood. By the late 1950's, Mexican immigrants, attracted by many of the features that spurred earlier settlement, moved into the neighborhood; and
WHEREAS, Chicago's Bohemian immigrants brought cultural values and aspirations with them when they began to settle in Pilsen in the late 19th century. As they valued education, "frcethought," and physical fitness, they formed sokols, gathered in saloons where they could discuss ideas and debate politics, and they read locally-published newspapers. Therefore, buildings in the neighborhood reflect the importance of ethnic immigration in Chicago's history and development, generally, and specifically the contributions of the Chicago's Bohemian ethnic community; and
WHEREAS, Chicago's Mexican immigrants brought their own customs, culture and aesthetic when they began settling in Pilsen in the mid-20th century. The neighborhood of family homes, apartment buildings, shops and businesses, retains the feel of an ethnic enclave even as the visual landscape has changed to reflect the voice and culture ofthe neighborhood's most recent settlers. The visual character ofthe neighborhood's built environment has been supplemented with Spanish language signage, traditional Mexican decoration, and murals depicting themes from Mexican and Mexican-American culture; and
WHEREAS, historically, the District was a thriving mixed-use community. The District, and especially the West 18th Street corridor, is filled with store-and-flat buildings, as well as industrial structures located in close proximity to cottages and flats. The vibrant, mixed-use character ofthe community continues to define Pilsen today; and
WHEREAS, the District's buildings are distinguished for representing a broad range of periods and styles, each designed with special features and flourishes representing the homelands of their immigrant builders and owners. Flourishes that can be described as "Bohemian Baroque" include unusually-shaped parapets, carved-stone lintels, sculptural treatments of hoodmolds and cornices, and decorative patterns in the brickwork; and
WHEREAS, the District's immigrant residents valued community spaces where residents could gather, attend cultural events, participate in athletic training and tournaments, and discuss politics and other ideas. As a result, several monumental sokols and halls were designed in ornate styles and built of high quality materials. For example Thalia Hall at 1807 South Allport Street is a fine Romanesque Revival style structure designed by architects Faber & Pagels. Bohemian-born architect Frank Randak designed two impressive sokols in Pilsen, the Plzensky Sokol at 1812 South Ashland Avenue; and the Czesky-Slavonsky Americky Sokol at 1436-1440 West 18th Street; and
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WHEREAS, the District's extensive collection of high quality buildings was largely designed and produced by talented immigrant tradesmen and architects, many of whom lived in the neighborhood. Among the local tradesmen of fine 19th century structures was Bohemian immigrant contractor Frank C. Layer, who produced the Romanesque style mixed-use building at 1332-1334 West 18th Street European immigrant architects or first-generation Americans who designed buildings in the community include Frank Randak, Anton C. and Anton O. Charvat, Ludwig Novy and Novy & Son, and Lonek & Houda; and
WHEREAS, although varied in their range of styles and periods of construction, the buildings in the District provide a strong sense of architectural continuity in terms of their scale, materials, and "Bohemian Baroque" details. Italianate style and Queen Anne style structures with ornate lintels, hoodmolds, cornices, and parapets are especially prolific and lend the District a strong design theme; and
WHEREAS, mixed-use buildings of two- to four-stories tall with ornate primary facades are prolific especially along the West 18th Street corridor. The store-and-flat type allowed many District building owners to live and work in their structures while also generating revenue from tenants. In other Chicago neighborhoods, examples of 19th and early-20th century mixed-use buildings are scattered throughout the area or in small groups along a commercial street. However, Pilsen retains hundreds of such buildings especially along West 18th and South Racine Streets, and South Blue Island and South Ashland Avenues; and
WHEREAS, many 19th century residential cottages and flats in the District provide a sense of unity through scale, materials, and architectural details. For example, there are dozens of Italianate style brick cottages and flats with gable roofs, the front door on one side, tall rectangular windows, ornamented hoods or lintels above the door and windows, and fanciful parapets that generally conceal the peak of the gable behind them. Many such buildings can be found on South Allport, South Loomis, South Laflin, and South Throop Streets, West Cullerton Avenue, and West 18th Place; and
WHEREAS, over the course of four decades, scores of artists have contributed to the evolving visual landscape of the District through artistic painting, decoration, and mosaic. Although the content and style vary widely including religious iconography, pre-Columbian imagery, tribute pieces, pop-culture, calls for peace, the Mexican-American experience on both sides ofthe border, historic and folk cultural images and abstract expression, collectively these works communicate the unique multilayered culture and history of the Pilsen community; and
WHEREAS, originally inspired by the post-Revolution Mexican Mural Movement of the 1920's and the art created under the Works Progress Administration's Federal Art Project of the 1930's, a number of artists began creating large-scale murals in the District in the 1960's and 1970's. The work that emerged at this time continues to attract and inspire artists to express their voices on buildings in this neighborhood. The influence of Mexican culture and the Mexican-American experience on many of these works and artists solidifies a strong connection to works ofthe most widely recognized Mexican Muralists of the 1920's, including: David Alfaro Siqueiros, Jose Clemente Orozco and Diego Rivera. Additionally, the murals of Pilsen create a distinctive physical appearance which - although originally built
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by an earlier Bohemian community - retains the feel of an ethnic enclave that reflects the voice and culture of its current residents; and
WHEREAS, the District meets the four (4) criteria for landmark designation set forth in Sections 2-120-620 (1), (4), (6) and (7) of the Municipal Code; and
WHEREAS, consistent with Section 2-120-630 ofthe Municipal Code, the District has a significant historic, community, architectural, or aesthetic interest or value, the integrity of which is preserved in light of its location, design, setting, materials, workmanship, and ability to express such historic, community, architectural, or aesthetic interest or value; now, therefore,
THE COMMISSION ON CHICAGO LANDMARKS HEREBY:
1. Incorporates the preamble and Sections I, II, III, and IV into its findings; and
2. Adopts the Final Designation Report, as revised and dated this 16th day of May 2019; and
3. Finds, based on the Designation Report, DPD Report, the Hearing Transcript and the entire record before the Commission, that the District meets the four (4,) criteria for landmark designation set forth in Sections 2-120-620 (1), (4), (6) and (7) of the Municipal Code; and
4. Finds that the District satisfies the "integrity" requirement set forth in Section 2-120-630 of the Municipal Code; and
5. Finds that the significant historical and architectural features of the District are identified as follows:
? All exterior elevations, including rooflines, of the buildings visible from public rights
of way.
? Murals on exterior facades of the buildings visible from public rights of way. 6. Recommends that the District be designated a Chicago Landmark.|1010|This recommendation was adopted I/^^^MCS; >
COMMISSION ON CHICAGO LANDMARKS EXHIBIT A
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W. 18th Street W. 19th Street W. 21st Street S. Allport Street S. Ashland Avenue S. Bishop Street S. Blue Island Avenue S. Carpenter Street S. Cullerton Street S. Damen Avenue S. Hamilton Avenue S. Hoyne Avenue S. Laflin Street Leavitt Street South Loomis Street South S. Marshfield Avenue S. May Street S. Miller Street S. Morgan Street S. Paulina Street S. Racine Avenue S. Sangamon Street S. Throop Street
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December 6,2018
Whereas, the Commission on Chicago Landmarks (hereinafter the "Commission") preliminarily finds that:
? The Pilsen Historic District (hereinafter the "District"), located at the addresses noted above, meets four (4) criteria for landmark designation as set forth in Section 2-120-620 (1), (4), (6) and (7) of the Municipal Code of Chicago (the "Municipal Code"), as specifically described in the Preliminary Building Catalog submitted to the Commission on this 6th day of December, 2018, by the Department of Planning and Development; and
? The District satisfies the historic integrity requirement set forth in Section 2-120-630 of the Municipal Code; now, therefore
Be it resolved by the Commission on Chicago Landmarks:
Section 1. The above recitals are expressly incorporated in and made part of this resolution as though fully set forth herein.
Section 2. The Commission hereby adopts the Preliminary Building Catalog and makes a preliminary landmark recommendation concerning the District in accordance with Section 2-120-630 of the Municipal Code.
Section 3. For purposes of Section 2-120-740 of the Municipal Code governing permit review, the significant historical and architectural features of the District are preliminarily identified as:
? All exterior elevations, including rooflines, of the buildings visible from public rights of way.
? Murals on exterior facades of the buildings visible from public rights of way.
Section 4. The Commission hereby requests a report from the Commissioner of the Department of Planning and Development which evaluates the relationship of the proposed designation to the City's governing plans and policies and the effect of the proposed designation on the surrounding neighborhood in accordance with Section 2-120-640 of the Municipal Code.
Section 5. The Commission hereby requests a Preliminary Summary of Information Report researching the historic and architectural significance of the District.
This resolution was adopted
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Rafael M. Leon, Chairman Commission on Chicago Landmarks
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COMMISSION ON CHICAGO LANDMARKS EXHIBIT B
DEPARTMENT OF PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT CITY OB' CHICAGO
January 10,2019
Report (o the Commission on Chicago Landmarks On the Pilsen Historic District
The boundaries of the Pilsen Historic District are: 18th Street between Leavitt and Sangamon Streets, and 13 blocks bounded by 18th Street to the north, Ashland Avenue to the west, 21st Street to the south, and Racine Avenue to the east.
The Department of Planning and Development finds that the proposed designation ofthe Pilsen Historic District supports the City's overall planning goals for the surrounding Lower West Side Community Area (which includes Pilsen) and is consistent with the City's governing policies and plans.
The Department supports the Commission's preliminary landmark recommendation for the Pilsen Historic District. The district is part of a comprehensive, community-based strategy to preserve the culture, character and aflbrdability of the Midwest's largest Mexican community. While the landmark district is limited to a portion of the Pilsen neighborhood, the Department's larger planning and housing strategy includes the entire Pilsen and Little Village neighborhoods.
Pilsen received its first official historical recognition in 2006 when a large portion ofthe neighborhood was listed in the National Register of Historic Places by the National Park Service., This designation is primarily honorary, however, and does not protect buildings from demolition or alteration. The district's historic architecture was built between 1872 and World War II. The historic buildings are characterized by a vibrant mix of Baroque and Italianate architectural styles that reflect the area's settlement by Czech and Bohemian immigrants that built and largely occupied the neighborhood between the 1870s and the mid-20th century. The community's diverse array of mixed-use buildings, meeting halls, cottages, two-flats, schools, churches and banks subsequently evolved as the center for Mexican life in Chicago, with more than three-quarters of local residents today identifying themselves as Latino, according to the U.S. Census. The Mexican community has preserved the historic architecture of Pilsen and has enhanced the neighborhood's buildings with murals reflecting the community's history and culture. This landmark designation would be one of the first designations to recognize the multi-cultural importance of a Chicago neighborhood, with the intent to preserve not a single point in time but the cultural heritage of both the early Bohemian and later Mexican residents.
In addition to the landmark district designation, the Department's planning strategy includes enhanced affordability requirements for market-rate housing developments; new housing resources
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to help existing residents avoid displacement caused by gentrification; an industrial modernization strategy to increase sustainable, head-of-household jobs; and open-space improvements that enhance neighborhood character and livability. Several ofthe strategies, including the landmark district in Pilsen, are identified in the Pilsen and Little Village Action Plan, completed last year by DPD through extensive community participation. These strategies are now underway in coordination with the City's Department of Housing. In summary, the Department's other strategies underway in the Pilsen neighborhood include the following:
Affordable Requirement Ordinance (ARO) Pilot: The ARO pilot will increase the City of Chicago's required affordability component for any large residential projects located within a 7.2-square mile area in Pilsen and Little Village. The affordability requirement will increase from 10 to 20 percent of total units, with new provisions to increase the number of family-sized units in each project. Developer in-lieu fees will increase by $50,000 per unit. At least half of the required affordable units, or 10 percent of the total unit count, would have to be built on site.
Affordable Housing Resources on Behalf of Existing Residents: In conjunction with the ARO pilot, the City is investing resources from the Affordable Housing Opportunity Fund, which receives the fees paid by developers under the ARO, in Pilsen and Little Village to preserve affordable housing for existing residents. The City will make financial assistance available for developers that purchase or refinance multi-family residential buildings in the ARO pilot area in exchange for long-term affordable rental covenants. Additional resources will be made available in the ARO pilot area as forgivable loans to help income-qualified owner-occupants of one- to four-unit properties upgrade their properties and remain in their homes. The strategy will also prioritize outreach to area homeowners by the Chicago Community Land Trust, which provides reduced property taxes in exchange for long-term affordability, and to low-income tenants by the Chicago Low-Income Housing Trust Fund, which provides rental subsidies on their behalf.
Industrial Corridor Modernization: The Industrial Corridor Modernization effort will create strategies to enhance employment, transportation and other amenities within the neighborhoods' two industrial corridors to foster job-intensive uses that support families and the regional economy. The process was initiated in the Little Village Industrial Corridor in April 2018, with a framework plan for regulatory land use improvements anticipated in early 2019. The planning process for the Pilsen Industrial Corridor is expected to start in 2019.
Open Space Enhancements: Area open space enhancements include the completion of the Paseo's planned route along an underutilized rail line from 16th Street in Pilsen to 31st Street in Little Village while connecting new and existing parks through community-based designs that embrace local culture througl>aft and programming. A recently introduced ordinance will authorize the City to acquire four-miles of the route from the BNSF Railway.
David L. Reifman, Commissioner Department of Planning and Development
COMMISSION ON CHICAGO LANDMARKS EXHIBIT C
PRELIMINARY SUMMARY OF INFORMATION
SUBMITTED TO THE COMMISSION ON CHICAGO LANDMARKS IN FEB. 2019
Pilsen Historic District
Primarily West 18th Street between South Leavitt and South Sangamon Streets, and 13 blocks bounded by West 18th Street to the North, South Ashland Avenue to the West, West 21st Street to the South and South Racine Avenue to the East.
CITY OF CHICAGO Rahm Emanuel, Mayor
Department of Planning and Development David Reifman, Commissioner
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Executive Summary|910|Introduction|910|District Map 6-9
The Development of the Pilsen Neighborhood
and the Buildings in the Pilsen Historic District
Early History and Settlement (1840s - 1880s) 10
Free-Thinking, Religion, Arts & Culture, and Politics (1870s-1890s) 15 9
City within a City (1890s - 1900s) 17
Overcrowding and Other Adversities (1900s-l920s) 21
Continuity and Change (1920s-1950s) 26
Mexican Influence on Art and Culture (1950s-2018) 27
Building Types in the Pilsen Historic 36
Pilsen's Architectural Character & Styles 62
Select Architects in the Pilsen Historic District 65
Select Murals and Artists in the Pilsen Historic District 69
Criteria for Designation 80
Significant Historical and Architectural Features ' 83
Selected Bibliography- 84
District Address Ranges 87
Building Catalog 88
Mural Inventory 113
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EXUCUTIVE SUMMARY
Pilsen is known for the cultural footprints left behind by waves of immigrants. Beginning with Irish and German immigrants in the mid-19th century, then Bohemian and other Eastern European immigrants after the Chicago Fire, and more recently by Mexican immigrants. Although the historic architecture in Pilsen is largely attributed to the Bohemian-era of development, Mexican immigration has made a significant impact on the character of the neighborhood.
By the late 1890s, Pilsen had evolved into a thriving community with W. 18lh Street serving as the "Main Street," much as it does today. The boundaries of the local district include 14 blocks along the 18th Street corridor as well as a predominantly residential core of 13 blocks south of 18th Street. There are approximately 850 buildings within these boundaries representing many of the uses of a self-sufficient community: industry, entertainment, residential, schools, churches, banks, and commercial.
Pilsen's builders generally followed Chicago's architectural stylistic norms of their day. Built of brick and stone, most of these structures are examples of the Italianate, Romanesque, and Queen Anne styles. But the neighborhood developed its own special character of "Bohemian Baroque" flair which is expressed through unusually shaped parapets, carved stone lintels, sculptural treatments of hoodmolds and other details, and decorative patterns in the brickwork.
The neighborhood's buildings, originally constructed by the Bohemian community, have persisted or been adapted for new uses as the community has changed. The neighborhood retains the feel of an ethnic enclave even as the visual landscape has evolved to reflect the voice and culture of the newest residents. The visual character of the neighborhood's built environment began to be embellished in the 1960s and 1970s as murals, signage, and decoration representing themes from Mexican culture and history appeared on the facades of Pilsen's buildings.
The Pilsen Historic District meets Criterion 1 for heritage as a self-contained port of entry for immigrants from Europe in the late-19th century and Mexico beginning in the mid-20th century. The District also meets Criterion 4 for architecture as extensive collection of high quality buildings that were largely designed and produced by talented immigrant tradesmen and architects, many of whom lived in the neighborhood. The District meets Criterion 6 with the buildings collectively conveying a strong sense of architectural continuity in terms of their scale, materials, and "Bohemian Baroque" details, as well as many additive Mexican decorative features. The many murals in the District lend it a distinct visual appearance that meets Criterion 7.
With regards to the Integrity Criterion, the District retains an exceptionally high number of structures dating from 1872 through 1968, and many possesses a high level of historic integrity. Most buildings are intact to a strong degree in location, exterior design, setting, materials, and workmanship. Exceptions include minor ground-floor alterations and the inclusion of a few non-contributing buildings.
The Pilsen Historic District has two periods of significance, one for buildings and a separate period for murals. For buildings within the district, the period begins with 1870 when the oldest buildings in the district are believed to have been constructed. The historic buildings in the district were primarily built between the 1880s and the late 1940s, however historic buildings in the district continued to be used and altered as the Mexican immigrant began to settle in Pilsen in the 1960s. The National Register of Historic Places, a national program that recognizes historic significance, has adopted a fifty-year rule which is used by the National Register staff to evaluate historic significance. The Commission on Chi-
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cago Landmarks does not have a fifty-year rule, however the Commission does apply the National Register standards in much of its work. Adoption of a fifty-year cutoff for the period of significance for buildings in the Pilsen Historic District will ensure that architectural contributions made in the district by Mexican immigrants can be evaluated as significant. Therefore,, the period of significance for buildings, whether new construction or alteration, should be 1969, or fifty years from the adoption of this report. '
The period of significance for the murals in the district begins in 1978, the date of the oldest mural within the district boundary. Murals in the district are continuously restored and repainted up to the present day and this process will likely continue. No specific end date for the period of significance is identified in recognition of the ongoing evolution of this art form in the Pilsen Historic District.
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PILSEN HISTORIC DISTRICT
PRIMARILY WEST 18TH STREET BETWEEN SOUTH LEAVITT AND SOUTH SANGAMON STREETS, AND 13 BLOCKS BOUNDED BY WEST 18TH STREET TO THE NORTH, SOUTH ASHLAND AVENUE TO THE WEST, WEST 21 ST STREET TO THE SOUTH AND SOUTH RACINE AVENUE TO THE EAST.
PERIODS OF SIGNIFICANCE
ARCHITECTURE: 1870 TO 1969 ART & MURALS: 1978 TO Ongoing
Located within Chicago's Lower West Side community area, the Pilsen neighborhood has been an important port of entry for many major immigrant groups throughout the city's history. Pilsen is situated within the original boundaries of Chicago at the time of its incorporation as a city in 1837. The neighborhood developed over time within the confines of some notable physical boundaries: the South Branch of the Chicago River along the east and south, the BNSF rail lines (between W. 15th and W. 16th Streets), along the north and the Union Pacific rail lines (between S. Western Ave. and S. Rockwell St.) along the west. These transit-oriented boundaries also made the area attractive to industry and commerce, and in turn jobs.
Pilsen is perhaps best known for the deep cultural footprints left behind by waves of immigrants. Beginning with Irish and German immigrants in the mid-19lh century, then Bohemian and other Eastern European immigrants after the Chicago Fire, and more recently by Mexican immigrants. Although the historic architecture in Pilsen is largely attributed to the Bohemian-era wave of immigration and development, the later era of Mexican immigration has made a significant impact on the visual character of the neighborhood through the influence of art and culture.
In 2006, a large portion of the Pilsen neighborhood was listed as a Historic District in the National Register of Historic Places. The local Chicago District lies completely within the larger National District boundary, and much of the historic and architectural significance that was recognized in that district similarly applies here.
Although Pilsen, like most neighborhoods, may have somewhat porous boundaries that ebb and flow with each generation, there has long been consensus that W. 18th Street is the heart of this community. Where manufacturing and industry were primarily concentrated around the edges of the neighborhood, W. 18th Street served as the commercial "Main Street," much as it does today. The boundaries of the local district include the commercial corridor on W. 18th Street between S. Leavitt and S. Sangamon Streets as well as a historic core of 13 residential blocks bounded by W. 18th Street to the north, S. Ashland Avenue to the west, W. 21st Street to the south and S. Racine Avenue to the east. There are approximately 850 buildings within these boundaries.
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MAP AREA A: South Leavitt Street at the west, through South Wolcott Avenue at the east.
The boundaries ofthe Pilsen Historic district include the commercial corridor on W. 18th Street between S. Leavitt and S. Sangamon Streets as well as a historic core of 13 residential blocks bounded by W. 18th Street to the north, S. Ashland Avenue to the west, W. 21st Street to the south and S. Racine Avenue to the east. There are approximately 850 buildings within these boundaries.|1010|
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THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE PILSEN NEIGHBORHOOD AND THE BUILDINGS IN THE PILSEN HISTORIC DISTRICT
Early History and Settlement (1840s - 1880s)
During the 1840s, the area that would become known as Pilsen had its earliest settlement. The first settlers were Irish and German immigrant laborers who helped build the Illinois and Michigan Canal which connected the Great Lakes with the Mississippi River. Before long, other opportunities attracted immigrant settlers to the community including construction ofthe nearby Burlington and Chicago and Alton Railroads. Plank Roads along Ogden and Archer Avenues and a cinder roadway, known then as Black Road (now S. Blue Island Ave.), served as important arterials for raw materials and goods produced at nearby lumber yards, brickyards, tanners, and black smiths.
By the early 1860s, another important industry had become established in the area: brewing. Prussian immigrant Peter Schoenhoefen and a partner, Matheus Gottfried, had success with a smaller operation. So they moved their facility to W. 16th and S. Canalport Streets in 1862. According to the Encyclopedia of Chicago the firm initially produced about 600 barrels of lager beer annually. In 1867, Schoenhoefen bought out Gottfried renaming the firm as the Peter Schoenhoefen Brewing Company. He soon increased its output to 10,000 barrels a year. Several other breweries operated in Pilsen during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Bohemians (native to the western region of the present-day Czech Republic) first began settling in Pilsen immediately after the Great Fire of 1871. Bohemia had been ruled under the Hapsburg Monarchy for hundreds of years beginning in the 16th century. In the late 1850s, the earliest Bohemian immigration to America was spurred by failed attempts at revolution against what was then the Austro-Hungarian Empire. The earliest Bohemian immigrants to arrive in Chicago settled near Lincoln Park and the Near West Side. The surrounding neighborhood came to be known as "Prague." Much ofthe neighborhood was destroyed in the Great Fire of 1871. Following the fire, Chicago's Czechs moved west of the South Branch of the Chicago River and along W. 18th Street.
The new Bohemian neighborhood was soon dubbed "Pilsen." According to various sources the name came from a tavern near S. Carpenter and W. 19th Streets called "U Mesta Plzne," meaning "Near the City of Pilsen."
The community continued to grow as other industries moved to the Lower West Side including McCor-mick Reaper Works whose original complex was destroyed by the Great Fire. Cyrus McCormick built an even larger factory just west of Pilsen at W. Blue Island and S. Western Avenues. The manufacturing company soon became a major employer for Pilsen residents.
Pilsen's early population was predominantly Bohemian; however, immigrants from many other European ethnicities settled here as well. They included Slovaks, Prussians, Lithuanians, Poles, Swedes, Dutch, and Croatians. Like Bohemians, many were skilled tradesman who had been lured to Chicago by the opportunities to rebuild the city after the Great Fire. Home ownership was a shared goal. Tradesmen could stretch their budgets by serving as contractor for their own projects. Very modest cottages often provided a home for extended families. For example German immigrant Henry Nottke, a laborer in a brickyard, built a brick cottage around 1875 at 2022 W. 18th St. The 1880 Census indicates that early on, Henry Nottke lived there with his wife Minnie, their three children, his mother, and his brother John, who worked at an iron foundry. Thirty years later, after Minnie's death, the Nottke brothers rented space in their home to a Polish widow and her daughter.
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The buildings ofthe Pilsen Historic District form a distinctive group of historic residential, commercial, and mixed-use buildings. Primarily developed in the late 19th Century by Bohemian immigrants, the buildings demonstrate European influences within the Architecture.
Top: Three buildings along the 1300 block of W. 18th Place constructed in the Italianate style with distinctive Bohemian flair, particularly at their parapets.
Bottom Left: German immigrant Henry Nottke, a laborer in a brickyard, built this brick cottage circa 1875 at 2022 W. 18th St.
Bottom right: The Store with Flats building type is prevalent along the commercial corridor of West 18th Street (1454-1456 W. 18th Street) with buildings constructed primarily of brick and stone masonry in a variety of Revival styles.
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Sometimes Pilsen residents would build a home at the rear of their lot where they would live until they had the means to erect a larger more expensive house closer to the street. By having two homes on the same lot, they could accommodate extended family and often also to take in renters and supplement their income.
Another interesting characteristic of many of Pilsen's early structures is that several of the smaller buildings and their lots lie below the grade of the street and sidewalk. These buildings must be accessed by either a small bridge leading to the front door, or by steps down from the sidewalk to a front entrance at the lower grade level. (In some instances, a stoop leads up to the front door at what was originally the second story.) These homes were built before or during the time when the neighborhood's streets were raised. Following an outbreak of cholera in 1854 - the sixth year in a row that saw widespread epidemics attributed to the unsanitary living conditions of standing water and poor drainage - the City drafted a plan for a municipal sewer system. The new system utilized gravity to provide proper drainage. This meant that the grade of all streets in settled neighborhoods had to be raised out of the swamp in which the city had been built.
Execution of the plan began in 1858 and took two decades to complete. Although the City of Chicago was responsible for laying of all the pipe, and raising roadways and sidewalks, the responsibility to raise buildings to meet the new surface elevations was the responsibility of individual property owners. Where funds or manpower were limited, owners simply created new doorways at the second floor. Sometimes the lower level became a basement and in other cases the open space between the street and the house provided a place for a small garden. According to Czechs of Chicagoland, so many Pilsen families planted below street level gardens in front of their houses that Pilsen was nicknamed the "Garden City."
The architecture of many of Pilsen's early homes and businesses often reflected the influence ofthe owner's homeland. The preferred building material, brick, not only provided better fire resistance than wood, but it was also the material used for many traditional structures in Central Europe. While many of Pilsen's 19th century structures are expressions of the popular architectural styles of the day, such as Italianate and Romanesque Revival, they had special flourishes that gave their buildings a "Bohemian Baroque" flair. For example, brick cottages and flat buildings often had carved limestone lintels or molded surrounds enlivened by ornamentation with floral motifs.
Pilsen's enterprising immigrant residents often remodeled and rebuilt their structures to adapt to changing needs. One early example was Polish immigrant Jacob Zaremba's 1870s frame cottage at 1314 W. 18th St. which features fishtail shingles at its gable end. Listed as a house mover in an 1875 City Directory, Zaremba used his professional skills to raise his house onto a new brick first story in 1880 (five years later). The remodeled structure provided a first story grocery store that was run by his son Frank, and an apartment for the family above.
The neighborhood grew quickly, soon including stores, offices.; restaurants, and saloons as well as residences. Since the demand for housing had continued to grow, these businesses were often designed to have commercial space on the first story and flats above, lending the building type its historic name of "store and flats" building. Some noteworthy examples include a well-detailed 1886 mixed-use brick building at 1644 W. 18th St.; Joseph Nowak's 1887 corner saloon and apartment building at 1501-1503 W. 18tl? St.; and Peter Niedzicki's 1880s mid-block saloon at 1636 W. 18lh St.
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Top Right: Pilsen's enterprising immigrant residents often remodeled their structures to adapt to changing needs. One example was Polish immigrant Jacob Zaremba's 1870s frame cottage at 1314 W. 18th St. Zaremba raised his house onto a new brick first story approximately five years after constructing it. The remodeled structure provided a first story grocery store that was run by his son Frank.
Top Left: An interesting characteristic of many of Pilsen's early structures is that the buildings lie below street level. These homes were built before or during the time when the neighborhood's streets were raised and were never raised to meet the new grade like this example at 945 W. 18th St. Other examples include 2145 W. 18th St. (Center Left) and 1938 S. Racine Ave. (Bottom Left)
Top Left: One ofthe neighborhood's first parishes for Bohemian Catholics, was SL Procopius Church. Named after the patron saint of Czechoslovakia, the parish erected a handsome brick church at 1222-1226 W. 18th St. in the early 1880s.
Top Right: During the 1890s, a number of sokols, or meeting halls, were built in Pilsen. A sokol was a social club for men that was meant to foster healthy minds and bodies. In 1892, the Bohemian Freethought organization erected the Plzensky Sokol at 1812 S. Ashland Ave. Designed by Bohemian immigrant architect Frank Randak, the structure was first built as a one story hall with a gymnasium; then significantly enlarged three years later.
Bottom: One ofthe most popular newspapers in Pilsen was Denni Hlasatel (Daily Herald) founded in 1891. After 1904 their headquarters were located at 1545 W. 18th St. in 1904.
While some early residents managed to build or purchase their own homes, life was far from easy in Pilsen. Most area residents worked ten-hour days, six days per week in the area's garment factories, lumber mills, railyards, meat processing plants, and other factories. Families often had to put their children to work, and accidents, even fatal ones, were commonplace.
Because of the scale of industrial work in the area, and the strong desire of local residents to improve their lot in life, Pilsen became a key center in the development of the labor movement in Chicago. According to the Encyclopedia of Chicago, "Perhaps no city in the United States exceeded Chicago in the number, breadth, intensity and national importance of labor upheavals between the Civil War and 1919." These Chicago upheavals "were notable for their social impact." From the 1900s, immigrant workers in Pilsen were involved in labor actions, mobilizations, strikes and walkouts. Labor protesters often faced police, militia and even the US Army. These protests were among the most important labor actions in American history and helped forge the American labor movement.
Free-Thinking. Religion, Arts & Culture, and Politics (1870s-1890s)
Pilsen had a sizable Catholic population during the late 19th century. One of the neighborhood's first parishes for Bohemian Catholics, St. Procopius Church, was founded in 1875. Named after the patron saint of Czechoslovakia, the parish erected a handsome brick church at 1222-1226 W. 18th St. in the early 1880s. Around the same time, there were also Catholic parishes in the area that served immigrants from other parts of Europe. For instance, Jesuit priests from Chicago's Holy Family had founded a small frame mission church for Irish immigrants in Pilsen in 1874. A decade later, they made plans to replace that structure with the monumental St. Pius V Church completed in 1893 at 1901-1907 S. Ashland Ave. As St. Pius V Church was reaching completion. Holy Trinity Roman Catholic Church first opened its doors to serve Croatian immigrants at 1848 S. Throop St.
Many Bohemians who, under Hapsburg rule, had been forced to follow the government's official state religion and practice Catholicism, had come to America seeking religious freedom. Some followed other Christian faiths, but many rejected religion altogether, instead choosing to follow a form of secular humanism, known as Freethought. A local organization of Bohemian Freethinkers known as Svobodna obec Chicagu had formed as early as 1870.
Throughout the late 19th century, the Pilsen community was characterized by an unusual diversity of its members' religious and political beliefs. Many Bohemians were active in the Democratic and Socialist parties. By the early 1890s, Freethinkers far outnumbered the religious followers. Freethinkers were quite intellectual and often met to discuss and debate politics, religion, and other subjects. Pilsen's immigrant residents were often well-educated. Almost the entire adult population could read and write in their native language. This high level of literacy, and the strong and diverse attitudes about religion, politics, and other subjects, created a market for many daily Czech newspapers. One ofthe most popular in Pilsen was Denni Hlasatel (Daily Herald) founded in 1891. As readership increased, the newspaper soon outgrew its offices on S. Racine Ave and moved its headquarters to 1545 W. 18th St. in 1904.
During the 1890s, a number of sokols, or meeting halls, were built in Pilsen. Much like a German Turnverein, a sokol was a social club for men that was meant to foster healthy minds and bodies. In 1892, the Bohemian Freethought organization erected the Plzensky Sokol at 1812 S. Ashland Ave. Designed by Bohemian immigrant architect Frank Randak, the structure was first built as a one story hall with a gymnasium; then significantly enlarged three years later. The Plzensky Sokol was used for gymnastic training and exhibitions, lectures, and various social programs. Frank Randak also designed another important hall in the neighborhood, Cesko-Slovansky Podporujici Spolek (Czech Slavic Be-
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Top Left: John Dusek, a Bohemian immigrant, decided to combine the need for a large hall for performances, lectures, meetings and other events with rental apartments and storefronts, as well as a corner saloon. Located at 1805 S. Allport St., Dusek's impressive 1892 Romanesque Revival style Thalia Hall is a designated Chicago Landmark.
Top Right: Schrayer's & Sons, a hardware firm near W. Roosevelt Rd. and S. Blue Island Ave., made their own line of tinware and iron products. They expanded by building a second Schrayer's & Sons Factory at 917-925 W. 18th St. in 1905.
Bottom Left: Anthony Kozel's bank building at 1332-1334 W. 18th St. was designed and built by his brother-in-law, Frank Layer in 1892. After the completion ofthe Romanesque Revival style building, both Kozel and Layer lived in units above the bank with their families.
Bottom Right: Frank J. Petru built his business at 1443 W. 18th St. providing safe deposit vaults, insurance, and loans, but with a major focus on real estate.
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nevolent Society), later called Czesky Slovonsky Americky Sokol (C.S.A.S), at 1436-1440 W. 18Ih St. First built in 1893, it also began as a one-story structure, and then was enlarged in 1902 to a monumental four-story building. In addition to operating its large meeting hall, C.S.A.S was a protective society. If Czech men had injuries at work, were laid off, or died, the organization helped take care of their families. Since women were not initially admitted into the Sokols, they formed their own organizations such as Jendota Ceskych Dam (Union of Czech Ladies), a national organization with several local chapters.
In addition to religion, politics, and physical fitness, many Bohemian immigrants were interested in music and theater. While a number of performing arts groups had formed by the early 1890's there were few places for them to practice or perform. John Dusek, a Bohemian immigrant and saloonkeeper, decided to combine the need for a large hall for performances, lectures, meetings and other events with rental apartments and storefronts, as well as a corner saloon. Located at 1805 S. Allport St., Dusek's impressive 1892 Romanesque Revival style Thalia Hall (a designated Chicago Landmark) was named in honor of one of Zeus's daughters, the mythical Muse of comedy and pastoral poetry.
City within a City (1890s - 1900s)
By the late 1890s, Pilsen had evolved into a thriving self-sufficient community. Historian Bessie Louise Pierce described the neighborhood of that period as a small city within the larger city. She wrote, "...here, the Streets lined with Bohemian provision stores, restaurants, and other businesses, appeared transplanted from the home across the sea, reminders of a place and day now gone." As a result of the substantial Czech immigration to Chicago leading up to the turn-of-the century, the city was recognized as having the largest Bohemian population in the nation, and third in the world (following Prague and Vienna).
At this time the McCormick Reaper Works was still a major employer of Pilsen residents, but many other manufacturers and companies also had operations in the neighborhood. The Chicago Stove Works Foundry was located at 22nd St. and Blue Island Ave. Schrayer's & Sons, a hardware firm near W. Roosevelt Rd. and S. Blue Island Ave., made their own line of tinware and iron products. They expanded by building a second Schrayer's & Sons Factory at 917-925 W. 18lh St. in 1905. There were other small blacksmiths and foundries throughout Pilsen.
Railroads continued to provide many area residents with jobs. Breweries also became even more prolific than before. In the early 1890s, proprietors of an earlier company known as Bohemian Brewery opened a larger firm called the Atlas Brewery Company at S. Blue Island Ave and W. 21st St.
Other local businesses were related to the lumber industry. These included the Pilsen Lumber Company; Maxwell Brothers' box-making factory at S. Loomis St. and W. 21st St.; the Goss & Phillips Manufacturing Company at Cermak Rd. and Carpenter St. that specialized in doors and window sashes; and numerous furniture factories.
Many Pilsen workers, especially women, were employed in the garment industry. Dozens of small garment finishing sweatshops and tailor shops operated throughout the neighborhood. Wives and daughters often put in long hours at home producing piecework for the manufacturers of cloaks, suits, gloves, or other clothing. Hart Schaffner & Marx, the largest clothing maker in the nation, had manufacturing facilities in several areas of Chicago, including Shop No. 5 east of the Pilsen Historic District at W. 18th and S. Halsted Streets.
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Pilsen's hardworking immigrant residents were known to be thrifty with their money as they strove to own a home or start a business. Thus there was a strong local demand for safe places to deposit money. Large downtown banks were far away and they tended to discriminate against working-class immigrants. In response, many small neighborhood banks opened in Pilsen during the late 19th century. Since their services often included mortgages, Pilsen bankers also specialized in real estate, and several building and real estate offices were erected in; structures with flats above so that Pilsen bankers and realtors could live and work in their building. For example, Anthony Kozel's bank building at 1332-,1334 W. 18th St. was designed and built by his brother-in-law, Frank Layer in 1892. After the completion of the Romanesque Revival style building, both Kozel and Layer lived in units above the bank with their families.
Frank J. Petru built his business at 1443 W. 18th St. providing safe deposit vaults, insurance, and loans, but with a major focus on real estate. As was typical during this period, Petru didn't build a whole new building. Instead, he remodeled an existing brick structure around 1908 into an office and flat building that resembles a small Classical temple. He and his family lived in one of the apartments in the structure during his business's early years. Although they later moved to Cicero, he continued to run his office out ofthe Frank J. Petru Building for decades.
Rental properties in the neighborhood could be quite lucrative. Frank Kriz, who built a handsome four-story store-and-flat building at 1140 W. 18th St., listed his occupation in the 1900 Census as "capitalist." Having emigrated from Bohemia in 1854, Kriz had managed to raise two professional sons- a lawyer and an electrician. They lived (along with a daughter and a younger son) in one of the apartments, and rented the other units to four Bohemian immigrant families. At the time, a total of thirty-five residents were living in Kriz's building. Tenants included a saloon-keeper, a carpenter, a carriage painter, an errand boy, blacksmiths, tailors, and glove knitters.
Another successful building owner was music dealer Thomas Kosatka. He and his wife Anna were Bohemian immigrants who rented an apartment at 1415-1421 W. 18th St. in 1900. Within a decade, they were able to purchase 1425 W. 18th St., a mixed-use building that previously housed a jewelry shop. The Kosatkas opened a music store where they sold Victor Victrola products. They lived in an upper level apartment, and rented out the other two units.
Pilsen had many meat-packing firms, sausage factories, and butcher shops, also frequently housed in buildings with flats above. The Loeb Brothers had two locations in Pilsen between the late 1880s and early 1900s. One was an expansive operation at 1915 S. Blue Island Ave. where they presumably ran their meat-packing operation, and a much small corner storefront at 952 W. 18th St., which was likely a butcher shop. Both buildings had residential apartments on the upper floors.
Joseph Liska, a butcher who, in 1900 rented a space for his business and lived in the apartment above, managed to purchase the structure several years later. In 1907, he replaced the older structure with his own mixed-use building at 1328 W. 18th St. designed by architect Anton Charvat. Along with his butcher shop and an apartment for his own family, Liska rented units to four other families.
Another business owner who was able to build his own architect-designed structure was photographer Francis D. Nemecek who emigrated from Bohemia with his family as a child. He began running his own photography studio from a space in 1450 W. 18th St. around 1903. With a few years, Nemecek was able to hire the prominent Czech architect Frank Randak to design a new photography studio that he built at 1439 W. 18th St. in 1907. Nemecek continued operating his business from the elegant corner building for more than forty years.
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German immigrant and Chicago resident Edward G. Uihlein, headed the Schlitz Brewing Company, and built fifty-seven tied houses in Chicago Uihlein hired Frommann & Jebsen, a local German-American architectural firm to design the tied houses. These included an 1899 Schlitz Tied-House at 1870 S. Blue Island Ave. (Top Right)
Although many independent saloons-like those at 1800 S. Throop St. (Top Left) and 1858 S. Allport St. (Bottom) continued operating throughout Pilsen, they often faced complaints and were investigated by authorities. In contrast, the tied houses were impressive establishments designed to attract customers while conveying a sense of legitimacy and decency in the face of rising social opposition against alcohol.
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Saloons, which had existed in Pilsen since the 1870s, became even more numerous in the 1890s and early 1900s. As explained by the National Register of Historic Places Pilsen Historic District Registration Form (NRHP Pilsen Historic District Form), throughout the city, the popularity of beer was "bolstered by the fact that water was often of relatively low quality and because milk was difficult to keep fresh." Pilsen's saloons were especially popular because "the Bohemians were known throughout the world as being makers - and consumers of exceptional beer." Beyond the popularity of the beverage being served, saloons also offered a much needed respite from the congestion of the neighborhood. The overall density of Pilsen meant that there were often many people living in each house making leisure time at home impossible. Spending time outdoors was equally challenging as Pilsen had very little open green space, and the city's larger parks were far away.
As the Temperance Movement grew in Chicago, Pilsen's saloons were receiving new scrutiny. John Huss, a religious missionary, was so concerned about the neighborhood's vast number of saloons that he wrote a book entitled What I Found in Pilsen. He wrote, "I saw only one place where the gospel is preached and counted 72 liquor saloons on one side of the street, and presume there were as many more on the other side, within a distance of about one and a half miles." Among the neighborhood's numerous saloons of the 1890s and 1900s were establishments run by Joseph Skupa at 1858 W. All-port St.; Joseph Bernard at 1901-1903 S. Blue Island Ave; Paul Heil at 1326 W. 18lh St; John Sonfel at 2024 W. 18th St; and Joseph Novotny at 1800 S. Throop St.
During this period, the intense competition among brewing companies and increasing legal restrictions and social pressures on public drinking, lead some of Chicago's breweries to adopt a "tied-house" system. Developed in England a century earlier, tied houses allowed large brewing companies to have direct control by exclusively selling their products at their own establishments. Although many independent saloons continued operating throughout Pilsen, they often faced complaints and were investigated by authorities. In contrast, the tied houses were impressive establishments designed to attract customers while conveying a sense of legitimacy and decency in the face of rising social opposition against alcohol.
The brewing companies employed high-quality architectural designs and popular historical styles of architecture for their tied-houses. German immigrant and Chicago resident Edward G. Uihlein, who headed the Schlitz Brewing Company, built fifty-seven tied houses in Chicago from 1897 to 1905 at a cost of $328,800. Uihlein hired Frommann & Jebsen, a talented German-American local architectural firm to produce the handsomely designed and well-detailed tied houses. These included an 1899 Schlitz Tied-House at 1870 S. Blue Island Ave. A number of other similar tied-houses throughout Chicago have been designated as Chicago Landmarks.
Overcrowding and Other Adversities (1900s-1920s)
At the turn ofthe twentieth century, as Chicago's immigration rates continued to rise, Pilsen's population grew rapidly, and the neighborhood became extremely overcrowded. In fact, Chicago: City of Neighborhoods reports that in 1901, more than 7,000 people were living within a nine-block area of Pilsen. Congested living and working conditions often led to public health crises.
Sweatshops operated out of many of Pilsen's flat buildings and disease spread rapidly to the workers and residents of them. The Illinois Chief Factory Inspector, Dr. F. J. Patera began investigating such workplaces in 1893 and published annual reports for more than a decade. His First Annual Report sheds light on the deplorable conditions that took place in many of Pilsen's sweatshops. In describing
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Small businesses in Pilsen fared well in the 1920s. New stores and shops along W. 18th St. and S. Ashland Ave. reflected the prosperity of the times as well as the desires of an increasingly consumer-? oriented culture.
Top Left: Bien Motor Sales at 1706-1708 S. Ashland Ave.
Top Right: Ashland Radio Shop at 1712 S. Ashland Ave.
Bottom Left: Joseph Jiran Co. at 1333 W. 18th St. supplied tubes and other parts for radio repairs.
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the conditions of Mr. B. Kunick's sweatshop located behind a "deep and crowded four-story tenement and lodging house" at 1423 W. 19th St., the report explained: " .Passing down the alley west of this building, entrance is had through stable cesspools and past foul closets, to a rear building of three stories, Kunick's shop being on the second floor, with another shop below it and tenants above; entrance to shop by a dark and dirty stairway." He went on to say that the garment contractor lived on the premises, and employed 17 men, 7 women, and 5 children under the age of 16.
In 1894, a smallpox epidemic ravaged Pilsen, spreading largely through the sweatshops and many of the mixed-use buildings that housed them. Responding to the smallpox epidemic, City officials required that victims of the disease be sent to a public health facility known as the "pest-house." Public health officers were known to treat the ill with brutality. So much so, that in May of 1894, a group of residents gathered near W. 19th and S. Allport Streets and attempted to fight off the six officials who came to take several small pox victims away. This scuffle prompted Bohemian residents to rally for an investigation of the Health Department.
Social reformers recognized the extreme level of need in Pilsen. Inspired by Jane Addams's Hull House, several settlement houses formed in the community. These included Gads Hill Social Settlement, which opened in a former saloon at 1919 W. Cullerton Ave. in 1898, and the Bohemian Settlement House (later Casa Aztlan) located at 1831 S. Racine Ave.
Although not unique within the city of Chicago, Pilsen had long suffered from an inadequate number of public schools to keep up with the growing immigrant population. Throop School (later demolished and now the site of Throop Park) had been the only public school in the community for years. The Board of Education built several new schools in just over a decade: Longfellow School (1882, demolished); Komensky School (1890, now Perez School Annex); Jirka School (1898, now Pilsen Community Academy), originally named for a Czech physician who created a make-shift school to fill the void in the neighborhood; and Jungman School (1903). In addition, the Board rented space in the mixed-use building at 952 W. 18th St. and operated there the Eighteenth St. Branch School for a few years in the early 1900s.
Despite additional public facilities in the neighborhood, the plight of workers hadn't improved much after the turn of the century. In September of 1910, a group of young women workers from Pilsen began what turned into one of the most important labor strikes in American history. The 17 female employees of Hart, Schaffner & Marx's Shop No. 5 in Pilsen walked out in protest against long hours, low wages, and oppressive working conditions. Tens of thousands of workers from other garment shops throughout the city would join the four-month strike. The Garment Workers' Strike inspired acts of labor activism throughout the country as well as the formation ofthe Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America. Perhaps emboldened by the garment workers, employees of other Pilsen companies rallied for labor reforms the next several years. In one example, the workers from the Burton-Dixie Cotton Mattress Company at 2014-2024 S. Racine Ave. held a strike in 1915 that led to violence between unionized and non-unionized workers.
As labor reforms, including efforts to enact child labor laws, made slow but steady progress, life improved for many working-class residents of Pilsen. Many first generation American children of the area's immigrant families became more prosperous than their parents. Immigration stalled when American entered WWI in 1917. Czechoslovakia gained independence after the war, and as a result, fewer Bohemians were interested in emigrating.
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The prosperity ofthe 1920s ended abruptly with the onset ofthe Great Depression and little construction took place throughout Chicago. One exception is the 1935 U.S. Post Office for Pilsen (above) funded through President Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal. Designed by Chicago architect John C. Bollenbacher, the impressive Art Moderne style Post Office is located at 1859 S. Ashland Ave. This large postal facility replaced a much smaller post office which operated for at 1509 W. 18th St. (top), a structure that still has a Pony Express logo in bas relief above the front door (center left).
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Above: Undertaker Jospeh Linhart, who previously ran his mortuary business from a rented space, built his own Gothic Revival Style funeral home with flats at 1343-1345 W. 19th St. in 1938.
Right: Joseph Kaszab, a Hungarian immigrant who had a W. 21st St. business that produced murphy beds in the 1920s, began specializing in office furniture in the 1930s. In the mid-1940s he began operating under a subsidiary, Woodwork Corporation of America. The firm built a large new plant at 1424-1444 W. 21st St. in 1946. A Chicago Tribune article published 20 years later marveled that because so many ofthe firm's 200 cabinetmakers were European immigrants who spoke little English, the foremen knew how to explain a job in German, Czech, and Polish.
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In 1920, the Lower West Side community area, which includes the Pilsen neighborhood, reached its highest peak in population with more than 85,000 residents, but those numbers soon began to fall. At the time, the population of Czech immigrants and first generation Czech-Americans throughout Chicago was estimated at 200,000, but they did not all reside in Pilsen. Many had moved to the Lawndale neighborhood (nicknamed Czech California), while others had begun to relocate to Cicero and other suburbs.
Continuity and Change (1920s-1950s)
Despite Pilsen's slow decline of population, the community remained stable through the 1920s and many residents continued to have a strong sense of pride in their cultural heritage. In August of 1921, a huge parade celebrating Czechoslovak heritage, started at W. 18th St. and S. Ashland Ave. and proceeded to Chicago's Coliseum at W. 15th St and S. Wabash Ave. After participants in traditional folk clothing and military regalia held a colorful parade, men, women, and children performed in gymnastics exhibitions at the Coliseum. In 1925, a five-day National Sokol Tournament was held Soldier Field. By this time, girls were allowed to participate in gymnastic training in sokols in many major American cities. Czechoslovak-Americans throughout the nation came to Chicago to participate in the Soldier Field Tournament. Female athletes from the Pilsen Sokol won first place.
Small businesses in Pilsen also fared well into the 1920s. New stores and shops along W. 18th St. and S. Ashland Ave. reflected the prosperity of the times as well as the desires of an increasingly consumer -oriented culture. Several auto sales companies had opened in the area- Bien Motor Sales at 1708 S. Ashland Ave.; G & L Auto Sales at 2002 W. 18lh St., and the E & M Auto Supply Co. at 1734 W. 18lh St. There was an Ashland Radio Shop at 1712 S. Ashland Ave. and the Joseph Jiran Co. at 1335 W. 18th St. supplied tubes and other parts for radio repairs. The Ben J. Fitz Men's Clothes store opened in a renovated building at 1726 W. 18th St. in 1926.
The prosperity of the 1920s ended abruptly with the onset of the Great Depression. Pilsen's population had plunged significantly by the end of the 1920s, and continued dropping through the 1930s. Little construction took place throughout Chicago and especially in cash-strapped Pilsen. But one exception is the 1935 U.S. Post Office for Pilsen funded through President Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal. Designed by Chicago architect John C. Bollenbacher, the impressive Art Moderne style Post Office is located at 1859 S. Ashland Ave. This large postal facility replaced a much smaller post office which operated for two decades or so out of 1509 W. 18lh St., a structure that still has a Pony Express logo in bas relief above the front door.
By the late 1930s and early 1940s, most ofthe area's buildings were well over fifty years old. As few owners had the means to undertake major repairs, many structures began to fall into disrepair. But earlier patterns continued with many families making their livings as small business owners in Pilsen, whether they still lived above their shop or commuted from another neighborhood or suburb. Always the strivers, some Pilsen residents opened their first store during this period. For example jewelry repairman Joseph Cwiak added a new brick storefront onto the front of his frame house and opened a jewelry shop at 1743 W. 18th St. Similarly, undertaker Joseph Linhart, who previously ran his operation from a rented space, built his own Gothic Revival style funeral home with flats at 1343-1345 W. 19th St. in 1938.
After WWII, some manufacturing companies left the neighborhood, but others remained. Meat packing, sausage factories, and butchers remained prevalent. Other long-time industrial firms continued to do well. The Burton-Dixie Company which had run a mattress-making factory at 2014-2024 S. Racine Ave. since the turn-of-the-century, was producing pillows, comforters, and sleeping bags in the 1940s
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and 1950s. At the time, several furniture-making and woodworking firms continued to operate in Pilsen. Joseph Kaszab, a Hungarian immigrant who had a W. 21st St. business that produced murphy beds in the 1920s, began specializing in office furniture in the 1930s. In the mid-1940s he began operating under a subsidiary, Woodwork Corporation of America. The firm built a large new plant at 1424-1444 W. 21st St. in 1946. A Chicago Tribune article published 20 years later marveled that because so many of the firm's 200 cabinetmakers were European immigrants who spoke little English, the foremen knew how to explain a job in German, Czech, and Polish.
Mexican Influence on Art and Culture (1950s-Present)
Known as ethnic succession by sociologists, many ethnic neighborhoods in Chicago evolved as new ethnic groups replaced older ones. Pilsen was no exception. Originally settled in the 1840s by Irish and German workers, Pilsen later become home to other groups including Bohemians, Lithuanians, Croats and Poles. The area attracted these groups due to its affordable housing and ample job opportunities. -. Beginning in the 1950's, Pilsen, changed yet again to reflect the culture and aesthetic of its most recent Mexican immigrants. The new arrivals in Pilsen came from Mexico directly, as well as relocating from other nearby neighborhoods, some of which were undergoing redevelopment.
Until this time, most of Chicago's Mexican immigrants lived on the Southeast Side, Back-of-the-Yards, or Near West Side. However, construction of the Eisenhower Expressway (1-290) beginning in 1949, the Stevenson Expressway (1-55) in 1960, and the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) campus in 1963, was responsible for the displacement of thousands of African American, Italian, Jewish, Greek and Mexican residents. Many of these Mexican families moved to Pilsen as long time European residents of Pilsen relocated to the surrounding suburbs.
In 1952, the Reverend of St. Procopius Church noted that his congregation was becoming more diverse as it now included Mexicans along with Bohemians, Croatians, and Poles. By 1958, Howell Neighborhood House had begun offering English lessons to Spanish speakers. Pilsen's population began growing for the first time in decades. By the late 1960's the demographic of Pilsen changed, and within a decade it became a majority Mexican community. By 1970, Mexican-born residents accounted for nearly fifty percent of Pilsen's population, while the community's Czech-born population had dropped to less than one percent. ;
The Pilsen Neighbors Community Council, a grassroots civic organization that had been founded in 1954 by Eastern European immigrants, embraced the change as new residents began assuming leadership roles in the organization and the focus of PNCC became community organizing. Along with Czech specialties, the Council's annual street carnival began featuring Mexican foods in the early 1960s. In 1964, the Pilsen Neighbors asked the Board of Education to begin offering additional resources for the overcrowded schools in Pilsen. Noting the many children come from homes where only Spanish was spoken, the Community Council stressed the importance of providing English lessons in those schools.
Like the Bohemian immigrants that preceded them, Pilsen's Mexican-American residents possess a strong sense of cultural pride. In celebration of Mexican heritage, history, culture and language, the Pilsen Neighbors Community Council began holding an annual four-day festival each July called Fiesta Del Sol; The National Mexican Museum of Art hosts an annual exhibit for Dia de los Muertos (Day of the Dead) each October featuring traditional and contemporary installations honoring the departed; and other celebrations of Mexican food, art and culture have become commonplace throughout Pilsen.
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Beginning in the 1920's, mural painting became a prevalent form of social and political expression in Mexico. The government hired many artists to paint murals in and on public buildings, with the three most influential being David Alfaro Siqueiros (center right), Jose Clemente Orozco (top left) and Diego Rivera (top right). It is primarily the work of these three artists known as Los Tres Grandes (The Big Three), that created the visual narrative seen on the walls throughout Mexico.
Early Pilsen Artists were also influenced by the painters ofthe Works Progress Administration (WPA) Federal Art Project including those who created works at Chicago's Lane Tech High School: Epochs in the History of Man (Center Left) by Edgar Britton, and Illinois (Bottom) by T.C. Wick.
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The neighborhood's buildings, originally designed and constructed by the earlier Bohemian community remained, but many were adapted for new uses as the need for Sokols was replaced by a demand for soccer clubs. The neighborhood of family homes interspersed with apartment buildings, small shops and businesses, ethnic bakeries and restaurants, social service agencies and health care facilities retained the feel of an ethnic enclave especially as the visual landscape began to reflect the voice and culture of the newest residents.
The visual character of the neighborhood's built environment began to be embellished as murals depicting themes from Mexican culture and history sprouted on the facades of Pilsen's buildings. Spanish language signage in shop windows made clear that the neighborhood demographic had changed.
Along with the cultural footprints of blue-collar working-class immigrants, the historic echoes of their labor history and political action continued well into the 1970s and became an important part of Chicago's history. Major national and international events ofthe 1960's, protests against the Vietnam War, the rise of Cesar Chavez and the United Farm Workers and the growing Chicano movement arrived in Pilsen provoking and inspiring community activism through both protest and artistic expression. New community based artistic and political collaborations and organizations formed and began to claim Pilsen's public spaces, much as they had in Mexico a few decades earlier.
Above: Mario Castillo's Metafisica or Peace (1968), formerly near 19th and Halsted
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Beginning in the 1920's, large- and small-scale mural painting became a prevalent form of nationalistic, social and political expression throughout Mexico. Mexico's history prior to this time included invasion, conquest, colonization and military interventions by Spain, France and the United States. The Mexican Revolution of 1910, considered to be the first major political revolution of the 20th century, was a populist movement led by charismatic folk heroes Emiliano Zapata, Pancho Villa, Victoriano Huerta and Venustiano Carranza against the 40 year dictatorship of President Porfirio Diaz. These larger than life figures led their armies through a decade of civil war that would result in an estimated death toll of 3 million people and major social and economic upheaval. Diaz was removed from power and
Above: The facade of Casa Aztlan at 1831 S. Racine Ave. was first painted in 1970 and then restored and revised several times in the coming decades (shown at left, circa 2015). Following the original mural's destruction in 2017, and in response to community outcry, the mural was repainted by Ray Patlan, Roberto Valadez and Gerardo Cazares following a design composed digitally by Salvador Vega (shown at right, 2018).
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Below: Marcos Raya's Homage a Diego Rivera Man at the Cross Roads (1972), formerly at 1147 W 18th Street.
exiled to France in 1911, but the conflict was not over and many of the revolutionary leaders were assassinated. Struggle for power continued until 1920 with the election of Alvaro Obregon.
Confronted by a largely illiterate and rural populace, newly appointed Mexican Secretary of Education Jose Vasconselos conceived of government-sponsored murals as a way to promote the ideals ofthe Mexican Revolution and Mexicanidad, or the mestizo identity of the Mexican People. The government hired many artists to paint murals in and on public buildings, with the three most influential and commonly recognized being David Alfaro Siqueiros (1896-1974), Jose Clemente Orozco (1883-1949) and Diego Rivera (1886-1957). It is primarily the work of these three artists known as Los Tres Grandes (The Big Three), that created the visual narrative seen on the walls of buildings throughout Mexico. Techniques used in the creation of murals included frescos painted on freshly plastered walls, and hot wax or encaustic painting. Siqueiros, also used commercial enamels and automotive paint, and was the first to airbrush for artistic purposes.
The influence of the Mexican Mural Movement came to Chicago along with the newly-arrived Mexican immigrants of the 1920s and 1930s. In 1931, investigators Robert Jones and Louis Wilson for the Comity Commission of the Chicago Church Federation wrote for the first time about Mexican murals in their publication The Mexican in Chicago. They described walking along south Halsted St. where they found, "a restaurant whose brilliantly painted walls are covered by designs of that Indian culture which Cortez and his followers so ruthlessly destroyed." In addition to the description of works by anonymous artists, this publication includes several linocuts dating from the late 1920's attributed to William L. Ortiz who took classes at Jane Addams Hull House (a designated Chicago Landmark), founded in 1889 to provide social services to residents of the West Side.
Above: Aurelio Daiz', Education Para El Pueblo (Education for the People) was created in 1980 at 1800 -1808 S. Racine Ave.
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In 1940 artist Adrian Lozano, who had emigrated from Mexico with his parents at the age of four, painted a 5 foot by 20 foot casein mural titled Progress of Mexico for the Benito Juarez Mexican Club in the Boy's Club Building at Hull House. The mural was destroyed in the late 60's when Hull-House buildings were demolished during the construction of the University of Illinois at Chicago. Lozano who was taking classes at Hull House, worked under the supervision and tutelage of muralists Mitchell Si-porin and Edward Millman who, as painters for the Works Progress Administration (WPA), were also responsible for painting murals at Lane Tech High School at Western and Addison.
President Franklin Roosevelt created the WPA as a way of putting Americans to work. In 1935 the project was expanded by the addition ofthe Federal Art Project creating jobs for out of work artists. Roosevelt had been presented with information about the work of Mexico's Minister of Education, Jose Vasconcelos, by artist George Biddle, a personal friend. The Mexican government's art patronage program offered artists commissions to paint fresco murals. Biddle's information and proposal would become a New Deal work relief program.
Mario Castillo's 1968 Melafisica or Peace (formerly near 19th and Halsted), would echo the work of the WPA artists, but was informed and inspired by the Mexican mural movement ofthe early 20th century. Melafisica, painted on the exterior walls of the Urban Progress Center is generally regarded as Chicago's first outdoor mural ofthe Contemporary Mural Movement, a community-based expression of public art throughout Canada and the United States which began in the late 1960s.
Castillo, created this work as part of a summer Neighborhood Improvement and Beautification Program supporting President Johnson's War on Poverty. It also became a proto-type outdoor classroom introducing students at a young age to the process of mural painting from conception to completion. Castillo, a veteran of the Vietnam War, created the abstract mural with Anti-Vietnam sentiment and incorporated indigenous cultural themes from Mesoamerican and Huichol art reflecting the early beginnings of Chicano consciousness. In a 2007 phone interview with Tracey Grimm (archivist with the Institute for Latino Studies at Notre Dame), Castillo said he was influenced by the WPA murals at Lane Tech, the ancient murals of Teotihuacan, as well as Mexican muralists Diego Rivera, Jose Clemente Orozco and David Alfaro Siqueiros.
Born in Michoacan, Mexico, Castillo's Chicago connection is strong. He attended and graduated from Chicago Public Schools, Jungman Elementary and Lane Tech High School, where he studied surrounded by WPA murals. He earned a Bachelor's from the School ofthe Art Institute of Chicago and his Masters of Arts from the California Institute of Art. He has been teaching, working and living in California since 1975.
Metafisica was partially destroyed in 1988 by the introduction of new doors and windows in the building at 19th and Halsted, and then completely sandblasted a few years later resulting in an immense artistic loss to the Pilsen community. But during its tenure it would teach and inspire those that followed including artists who are currently working in Pilsen, among them Hector Duarte, Raymond "Ray"' Patlan, Marcos Raya, and Jeff Zimmerman.
Another early and historically important mural was painted on the facade of Casa Aztlan (1831 S. Racine Ave.) beginning in 1970. The former Bohemian Settlement House was renamed Casa Aztlan as it evolved into a community center for arts and education holding exhibitions, providing studio space, classroom space and a health clinic run by the social justice organization known as the Brown Berets. In the early 1970s, native-Chicago artist Ray Patlan used the building's exterior walls as a canvas while
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working as an artist in residence with 40 members of the Neighborhood Youth Corps., As a young man, on a visit to Mexico with his family, Patlan was inspired by seeing and experiencing in person the famous murals ofthe Mexican Mural Movement. A meeting with famous muralist Siqueiros inspired him to paint murals with social and political messages.
At Casa Aztlan, Patlan conceived a unique process that allowed youth corps members to explore native motifs in a creative fashion, applying their designs directly to the wall. Bands of horizontal colors connected the different images and unified the design which also included the faces of historic figures and heroes. After a fire in 1974, Marcos Raya, Salvador Vega, Aurelio Diaz, Carlos Barrera and others reworked the mural. Over the following years, as time and weather took its toll, the murals were restored and repainted by the continued collaborative efforts of several artists including Marcos Raya, Carlos Barrera and Salvador Vega. Raya and Vega added new faces to the mural in 1994.
This vibrant and much loved facade; one of the most recognized murals in Pilsen, became a flashpoint for community protests after it was painted over in June of 2017 as the building came under new ownership. A community protest was organized, following the form of a vigil much like those formed in the wake of someone's death. Pilsen's 25th Ward Alderman, Danny Solis facilitated meetings with the building's owner who, after meeting with Patlan and members of Pilsen Alliance, allowed for the repainting of the facade which was completed in December of 2017- Patlan, Roberto Valadez and Gerar-do Cazares began working on the restoration project after a design, composed digitally by Salvador Vega, gained community approval. Among the collaborative artists who worked on the project were, Hector Duarte, Mark Nelson, Mirrella Campos, John Weber, Traz Juarez, and many community volunteers.
Throughout the 1970s a number of artists created large scale works of art in the Pilsen neighborhood, both within the District and beyond its borders. Some of these can be found along the train embankment at 16lh Street where dozens of works of art spanning nearly five decades continue to be created, restored, updated (sometimes by the original artists) and celebrated by the community. Additionally, time and progress have resulted in the loss of some of Pilsen's earliest murals. Among them, Ray Patlan's 1971 Reformay Libertad (Reform and Liberty), formerly at 2013 S. Laflin St. and Marcos Raya's Homage a Diego Rivera Man at the Cross Roads (1972), formerly at 1147 W. 18th Street.
Aurelio Diaz, who also contributed to works at Casa Aztlan, painted two of the earliest extant murals in the Pilsen Historic District. Organicemonos Para Que Haiga Paz (Let's Organize So That We May Have Peace) was created in 1978 at 1657-1659 S. Throop St. and Educacion Para El Pueblo (Education for the People) was created in 1980 at 1800-1804 S. Racine Ave. Both works have faded with time but continue to convey the sense of community engagement and a continuity with social history that was the hallmark of the Mexican Mural Movement and the Contemporary Mural Movement.
Between the creation of these earliest works, and the re-creation of the Casa Aztlan mural, scores of artists have contributed to the evolving visual landscape of Pilsen through artistic painting, decoration, and mosaic. Although the content and style vary widely including religious iconography, pre-Columbian imagery, tribute pieces, pop-culture, calls for peace, the Mexican-American experience on both sides ofthe border, and abstract expression; collectively these works continue to communicate the unique culture ofthe Pilsen community.
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Top: (2159 W. 18th St.) Beginning in the 1950s the visual character ofthe neighborhood's built environment began to be take on the character of the community's newest immigrants. Folk art, decoration and murals depicting themes from Mexican culture and history sprouted on the facades of Pilsen's buildings. Spanish language signage in shop windows made clear that the neighborhood demo graphic had changed.
Bottom: Virgen de Guadalupe, 1966, artist unknown, 1214-1218 W. 18th St. (Chapel of our Lady of Lourdes at St Procopius)
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Scores of artists have contributed to the evolving visual landscape of Pilsen through artistic painting, decoration, and mosaic. The content and style vary widely including religious iconography, pre-Columbian imagery, tribute pieces, pop-culture, calls for peace, the Mexican-American experience on both sides ofthe border, and abstract expression. Collectively these works continue to communicate the unique culture ofthe Pilsen community.
Above: Reach for Peace, 2011, Yollocalli Arts Reach, 1544-1550 W 18th St.
Right: Woman with Flag, 2013, Alejandro Medina, 1637 S. Allport St.
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BUILDING TYPES IN THE PILSEN HISTORIC DISTRICT
Residential Buildings
Built between the mid-1870s and early 1910s, Pilsen's historic residential buildings represent a mix of building types ranging from small worker's cottages to two- three- and four-flats, to larger multi-family structures. Census data of 1880, 1900, and 1910 reveals that buildings that appear to be single family homes or two-flats, often accommodated numerous families.
To leverage their investment, Pilsen's early property owners often built a cottage at the rear of their lot and another structure (often a flat building) at the front of their lot. Examples of modest brick cottages that sit at the rear of their lots with no front buildings can be found at 1820 S. Throop and 1748 W. 18th Streets. (In instances in which front and rear historic buildings exist on the same lot today, rear buildings that are not visible from the right-of-way have been deemed as non-contributing structures to the landmark district.)
Many workers' cottages and flat buildings that date from the mid-1870s to mid-1880s are examples of the Italianate style, but often with carved lintels or other special details that give them a Bohemian Baroque flair. As is typical of other workers' cottages in Chicago, Pilsen's cottages are generally rectangular in plan with the short end of the buildings facing the street. Front doors are typically located at one side of the front facade, visually balanced by windows, with a smaller window at the attic level beneath the peak of the gable.
Frame workers' cottages can be found throughout Pilsen. Many are quite modest. For example, the cottage at 2012 W. 18th St. is one-and-a-half stories tall. Its gabled roof features a Jerkinhead. Like many cottages in the neighborhood, it was built before or during the time when the area's streets were being raised. Thus, it has a lower level entry door that is below street level. Though many of these modest cottages resemble single family homes they were often built as flats. Carpenter Frank Stebal, built a frame cottage in the rear of his lot at 1819 S. Allport St. around 1875. A total of four Bohemian immigrant families (including his own) were living in the simple two-and-a half story cottage in 1880. While most frame workers' cottages are devoid of architectural details, there are some that have embellishments. For instance, the two-and-a-half story structure at 2008 S. Allport Ave. has a fine cornice with dentils and paired brackets. Most frame cottages in Pilsen have artificial siding today.
Many of Pilsen's cottages are composed of brick. Their primary facade may be face brick or common brick, and some have been painted. Several modest one-and-a-half-story brick cottages with special architectural flourishes can be found throughout Pilsen. For example, the cottage at 2041 W. 18th St. has carved decorative lintels with a floral motif above the windows and door, and paired brackets at the gabled cornice. The 2046 W. 18th St. cottage is similar, although its arched lintels feature a center keystone in relief, and its first story windows have been replaced with a picture window. Other one-and-a-half story cottages with similar details can be found at 2022 W. 18th St., 1015 W. 18th St., and 2004 S. Throop St. The cottage at 2006 S. Throop St. lacks the decorative lintels, but it has a fanciful cornice with dentils and brackets.
Two-and-a-half story versions ofthe Italianate style brick cottages were extremely common in Pilsen. Many have an entryway with a single door (or a double door within a single frame), which give them the appearance of a single-family home. However, early Census data reveals that such cottages often provided homes to five or six families during their early history. There are many two-and-a-half story brick cottages with gabled roofs, decorative cornices, the front door on one side, long rectangular win-
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dows, and arched/ornamented hoods or lintels above the door and windows. These include: 1815, 1819, 1842, 1843,2013, 2014 S. Allport St.; 1321 W. Cullerton St.; 1836 and 2014 S. Throop St.; 1836 W. 18th St.; 1316, 1320, 1526, and 1530 W. 18th PI. and 1321, 1322, 1323, 1325, 1327, and 1513 W. 19lh St.
There is another version ofthe two-and-a-half story Italianate style brick cottage type in which a parapet further enlivens the front facade. These cottages are quite similar to those in which the cornice follows the gable end. However, in this version, the cornice forms a parapet above the attic window. In some cases, the parapet and its cornice arch over the upper window. Examples include: 1840, 1844, and 2015 S. Allport St., 1802 and 1820 S. Throop St. and 1527 W. 18th PI. A slightly modified version can be seen at 1838 S. Allport St., where the parapet angles over the attic window and the cornice becomes a decorative frame around it. In another variation, the structures have a fanciful parapet but no attic window. In this version, the parapet often includes the year of construction as its centerpiece. Examples of this can be found at 1916 and 1920 S. Throop St. and 1518 W. 18th PI. The two-flat at 1323 W. 18th PI. represents another version in which small arched windows are tucked between the cornice's brackets and the parapet rises to a center pediment. In another variant of this two-and-a-half story type, the parapet takes the form of a false mansard roof. Buildings that reflect this variation can be found at 1341 S. Allport St.; 1445 W. 18th St.; and 1312, and 1425 W. Cullerton St
Some Pilsen builders erected three-and-a-half story versions of the brick Italianate style flat building between the mid-1880s and mid-1890s. Due to their taller stature, these buildings look more like low-rise flats than cottages. However, they share most of the features. They have double entry doors located to one side ofthe facade. They too have decorative lintels or hoods and ornate cornices with parapets. In this taller version, there are often limestone beltcourses that visually divide the stories. (These beltcourses are sometimes a feature of the two-and-a-half story structures as well.) Examples of this of the three-and-a-half story Italianate brick flats include: 1818 W. 18th St.; 1842 S. Laflin St.; 1320, 1332, 1508, and 1512 W. 19lh St.; 1927, 2018, and 2020 S. Allport St.; and 1315, 1322, 1324, 1328, and 1516 W. 18th PL (the cornice is missing on several of these structures.)
During the 1880s and 1890s, a few Romanesque Revival style flat buildings were erected in Pilsen. A three-story walk-up at 2007 S. Ashland Ave. represents a restrained expression of the style. Built in 1892, the structure's primary facade is fully clad in rusticated limestone. Its upper reaches are enhanced by a pattered masonry frieze. Two other buildings are somewhat livelier expressions of the style. A four-story structure at 957 W. 18th St. features round and segmented arched openings and alternating courses and blocks of smooth and rusticated limestone, creating a checkerboard effect. The primary facade of a three-and-a-half story flat building at 1837 S. Allport St. is clad mostly in smooth blocks of limestone. But it is also enlivened by Ionic pilasters of rusticated blocks, arched patterned window hoods, panels of garlands and other foliate motifs, and the construction date-1890- carved above the center second story window.
Queen Anne style residential structures of this era include a corner two-and-half-story double-flat building at 2003-2005 S. Ashland Ave. (1899). This building features projecting bays, chimneys of patterned brickwork, a prominent bracketed cornice, and false mansard roof with dormers: Nearby at 2011 S. Ashland Ave., a red brick two-flat has a variety of arched openings, patterned brickwork, fanciful Queen Anne windows with art glass and multi-paned upper sashes, and a decorative pressed metal cornice. On the same block, twin-two flats at 2019 and 2021 S. Ashland Ave. each have a three-sided projecting bay, carved limestone lintels joined by beltcourses, fine Eastlake style porches, ornamental iron porch rails, and ornate pressed metal cornices.
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Two-and-a-half story Italianate style brick cottages are extremely common in Pilsen. Many have an en-tryway with a single door (or a double door within a single frame), which give them the appearance of a single-family home. However, these cottages often provided homes to five or six families during their early history. Examples with a traditional gable-end include:
Top: 1321, 1323,1325,1327 W. 19th St.
Bottom: 1316, 1320 W. 18th PI.
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Top: Another version of the two-and-a-half story Italianate style brick cottage incorporates a cornice which forms a parapet above the attic window. Examples include 1840 (left) and 1844 (right), S. Allport St
Center Right: Yet another variation has fanciful parapet but no attic window. Examples of this can be found at 1916 (right) and 1920 (left) S. Throop St.
Left: Some Pilsen builders erected three-and-a-half story versions ofthe brick Italianate style flat building between the mid-1880s and mid-1890s. Due to their taller stature, these buildings look more like low-rise flats than cottages. However, they share most of same the features. Examples include 1320 W. 19th St. (top left), and 1324 W. 18th PI. (bottom left).
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Several three-and-a-half story brick flat buildings have handsome facades with details of stone and lively cornices and rooflines. The structure at 2014 W. 18th St. (1897), has a subtly projecting side bay, a first story window opening capped by an arch of rusticated stone, and bands of rusticated limestone above the second and third stories. Quite similar in height and massing is a red brick flat building at 1319 W. Cullerton St. This structure features arched window and door openings, a fanlight window at the attic level, a parapet peaked on one side, and false mansard roof running behind it. A red brick building of the same stature at 1314 W. 18th PI. has long rectangular windows, however, those at the third story are capped with blind arches. This building also has a false mansard roof with a center dormer capped by a brick pediment.
Many other red brick three-and-a-half story flats of this period feature a variety of eclectic forms and details. The structure at 1332 W. 18th PI. has a three-sided bay that projects above the first story, culminating in an engaged conical roof with false mansard behind it. An art glass window is located within the upper sash of the first story's triple window. The three-and-a-half story walk-up at 1417 W. 19th St. has a lively facade with numerous limestone beltcourses that contrast against the red brick. Some have a series of arches, and others stretch across in straight lines. This building culminates in a false stepped parapet with limestone coping.
Some three-and-a-half story apartment buildings of the same period are clad in tan or brown brick, rather than red. The tan brick structure at 1815 S. Ashland Ave. sits on a base of rusticated limestone, and has numerous fine patterned masonry details. The walk-up at 1334 W. 18th PI. has a light-tan brick -clad flat primary facade that is enlivened by patterned brickwork, subtly contrasting smooth limestone beltcourses and double arched windows sitting within a fine peaked parapet at its upper reaches. The flat building at 1818 W. 18th St., clad in dark brown brick, features rusticated limestone beltcourses, decorative brickwork, vertical brick insets with small limestone ornaments, and a highly decorated cornice and peaked parapet.
At the turn-of-the century, Pilsen was well built up, and many residents lived in an apartment above a store or other business. But another wave of multi-residence buildings without commercial space went up between the early 1900s and 1910s. Many were designed by architects who, like their clients, had emigrated from Central Europe. Theodore,Duessing, a German immigrant, designed an orange brick two-flat at 2040 W. 18th St. (1903), featuring a three-sided projecting bay, limestone lintels and sills, a decorative cornice, and a flat brick parapet that edges its flat roof. A two-flat next door at 2042 W. 18th St. (1906), echoes the massing of its neighbor and has similar detailing. However, this structure, clad in light tan brick, has a gabled roof, and the cornice extends across only the top of its projecting bay.
Some of the early 20th century flat buildings in the neighborhood are Classically-inspired. A three-flat at 1819 S. Ashland Ave. (1904) has a three-sided projecting bay running the full height of the primary facade. Clad in brown brick, the structure has a smooth limestone base, a limestone porch with Doric columns, and parapet enlivened by a foliated pediment and finial. Another example is 1314 W. 19th St (1905), designed by Bohemian immigrant architect Anton C. Charvat. The entire primary facade ofthe three-and-a-half story tall brick building is clad in smooth limestone. The front porch comprises delicate Ionic columns supporting a pedimented roof. The.triangular form is repeated.at the gable end, and accentuated by a harp-like finial. Although this structure appears to be a traditional three-flat, it was built to provide two units on each of its four stories.
As in earlier eras, turn-of-the-century flat buildings in Pilsen have elements that give them a distinctly European character. Bohemian immigrant architect Ludwig Novy designed a two-and-a-half story structure at 1739 W. 18th St. (1903), clad in variegated orange brick, and possessing the classic three-
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Many brick and limestone three-and-a-half story flats of this period feature a variety of eclectic forms and details.
Top Left: The structure at 1332 W. 18th PI. has a three-sided bay that projects above the first story, culminating in an engaged conical roof with false mansard behind it.
Top Center: The tan brick structure at 1815 S. Ashland Ave. sits on a base of rusticated limestone, and has numerous fine patterned masonry details.
Some ofthe early 20th century flat buildings in the neighborhood are Classically-inspired. Some examples include:
Top Right: 1314 W. 19th St. (1905), designed by Bohemian immigrant architect Anton C. Charvat.
Left: 1852 S. Allport St. (1902), designed by Bohemian immigrant architect James Dibelka.
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sided projecting bay. But the building has some Bohemian Baroque features. Most notably, it has a bell-shaped parapet topped by a limestone fanlike or sunburst ornament framed in orange brick and topped with a stylized finial. Another example is the three-and-a-half story structure at 1852 S. Allport St. (1902), designed by James Dibelka, another Bohemian immigrant architect. This highly detailed brick flat building has many Classical Revival style details such as pediments crowning its front entry-way and above some ofthe third story windows and scrolled brackets that support them. But it also has some distinctly Bohemian elements such as delicate bows and flowers that embellish its porch columns, and brick parapets above the attic windows that are topped with fanlike ornaments and spindly finials.
Although less ornate, several early 20th century flats that are similar in appearance also have a vaguely European flair. One example is a three-and-a-half story tall building at 1815 S. Laflin St. (1908) designed by Charvat. The side bay, is flat, and it projects only slightly. But here again, it is the upper reaches that most distinguish this type. The attic windows fit within a Palladian arch, and are capped by a hood that follows the same form. Above this, the brick parapet is angled at its sides, but at the crest, it echoes the top of the Palladian arch. Charvat designed a very similar three-flat at 1521 W. 18th PI. (1911). He also produced a building with similar massing and details, but without the Palladian windows at 1505 W. 19th St. (1912). Nearby, at 1511 W. 19th St. (1911), a Dibelka-designed three-and-a-half story walk-up, has a three-sided projecting bay, but it has a similar parapet.
Religious Buildings
Like many other aspects of daily life in Pilsen, houses of worship became a link to the native customs, cultures and language ofthe immigrant population. Most of the 19th century churches in Pilsen originally served eastern European immigrants, and although Catholicism was the dominant religion in the neighborhood, there were also Jewish and Protestant congregations. For example Slovak Jews in Pilsen built B'Nai Jehoshua Synagogue on S. Ashland Ave. and W. Cullerton St. in 1892. The congregation worshipped there for more than six decades, eventually merging with a suburban synagogue. The building was razed in the early 1960s.
Over the next century many churches and their individual communities would evolve and sometimes dissolve. Today, there is still a strong religious presence amongst the predominantly Mexican community in Pilsen. This is felt and seen the various and sometimes elaborate celebrations for El Dia de los Muertos (Day of the Dead) each October, El Dia de los Ninos (Children's Day) each April, and the Way of the Cross annual procession through the streets of Pilsen each spring reenacting the Crucifixion of Christ.
One of the earliest Catholic churches in Pilsen was founded by Czech immigrants in 1875. St. Procopius Church at 1222-1226 W. 18th St. is named for the patron saint of Czechoslovakia. The congregation's modest beginnings afforded a small frame building purchased from a nearby Methodist congregation that was constructing a new church. The building was moved from 19th and Halsted to three lots at 18th and Allport Streets. By 1881 St. Procopius parish was able to commission a monumental building designed by J. Paul Huber (1826-1902) in the Romanesque Revival style. The new building was dedicated on September 23, 1883, by Archbishop Patrick H. Feehan. Composed of brown common brick, the structure is trimmed in limestone and it sits on a rusticated limestone base. Tall narrow arches and trefoil details are featured across the church's primary facades. Its fine monumental bell tower and spire were not completed until September 1892.
In 1885, St Procopius Church came under the leadership of the Benedictine Order. The first Benedictine Pastor, Father John Nepomucene Jaeger, oversaw the construction of St. Procopius Rectory (1641
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Like many other aspects of daily life in Pilsen, houses of worship became a link to the native customs, cultures and language ofthe immigrant population. Most ofthe 19th century churches in Pilsen originally served eastern European immigrants, but over the next century many churches would evolve to serve the predominantly Mexican community.
Top Left: Chapel of our Lady of Lourdes, 1908, 1214-1218 W. 18th St.
Top Right: In 1881 St. Procopius parish was able to commission a monumental building designed by J. Paul Huber at 1222-1226 W. 18th St. in the Romanesque Revival style.
Bottom Left: St. Procopius Rectory, 1886,1641 S. Allport St.
Bottom Right: Historic view of St. Procopius Church.
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Top: St. Pius V. Church at 1901-1907 S. Ashland Ave, 1885-1892, by James J. Egan Bottom Left: St. Pius V. Rectory at 1909 S. Ashland Ave.
Bottom Right: Holy Trinity Church and School (1914) was organized to serve Croatian Catholics in the Pilsen neighborhood at 1848 S. Throop St.
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S. Allport St.) in 1886. The rectory served as an Abbey until 1914 when the Benedictine Fathers moved to Lisle. Both the Abby and a nearby Convent sought to prepare Czech-speaking abbots and nuns to teach at parochial schools. The flat-roofed red brick three-and-a-half story structure has a rusticated limestone base. Its primary facade is enlivened by details in smooth limestone, terra cotta panels, and brickwork including long vertical crucifix shapes made from recessed areas in the brick.
To counter the growing secular Freethinker movement, the Benedictines at St. Procopius began the Benedictine Press which published a daily Catholic, Bohemian-language newspaper called Narod (The Nation), a tri-weekly periodical Katolik (The Catholic) and a youth magazine Pritel Ded (The Children's Friend). In 1905, Father Valentine Hohlbek oversaw the construction of a new Benedictine Press building at 1637 S. Allport St. Architects Lonek & Houda designed the building. Lonek was Bohemian-born, and Houda, a first-generation American, grew up in Pilsen. Clad in smooth limestone, the two-and-a-half story structure has Classically-inspired details including pilasters and a pediment.
In 1908, as St Procopius was celebrating the 25th anniversary of their permanent brick church, the Chapel of our Lady of Lourdes (1214-1218 W. 18th St.) was dedicated just the east ofthe main church. Constructed of rusticated Joliet-Lemont ashlar limestone, the small chapel sits back from the street. The long side of gable-roofed structure fronts onto W. 18th Street and features domed tower. The south face of this tower is embellished with a mosaic of Our Lady of Guadalupe which was created in the 1970s. The Benedictine Monks of St Procopius had begun learning Spanish in the 1960s to support the growing Mexican Catholic population in Pilsen and mass continued to be offered in three languages for more than a decade.
The tremendous influx of new residents to the City in the 1870s and 1880s created a population density that allowed factions of previously established congregations to form their own churches either to differentiate themselves by doctrine, geography, language, or culture. In 1874, Jesuit priests from Chicago's Holy Family Church founded a small frame church for Irish immigrants at 18th and Paulina Streets. This marked the beginnings of St. Pius V Parish. As the mission church quickly became overcrowded, expansion plans were underway within three years. Architect James J. Egan designed the new St. Pius V Church at 1901-1907 S. Ashland Ave.
The cornerstone ofthe current St. Pius V Church was laid in 1885 and construction of only the basement level commenced at this time. This portion of the building accommodated 1500 worshipers until 1892 when the remainder of the structure was completed. Egan's Romanesque Revival style, St. Pius V Church is somewhat modest in its exterior ornamentation. Composed of red brick and trimmed in smooth limestone, the structure's appearance contrasts with many of Egan's other churches which were clad in rusticated stone. The Romanesque form of the dramatic sloping roof and the deeply recessed arched windows, is complimented by fine details in geometric and stylized forms which evoke Arts & Crafts style influences.
The St. Pius V. Rectory is located at 1909 S. Ashland Avenue. The four-story flat-roof red brick structure is trimmed in limestone. The primary facade's smooth limestone details include an ashlar base, double arched window surrounds with pilasters at the second story level, and prominent quoins that extend from the second to fourth stories. A large addition at the east side of this structure dates to the late 1940s. Just to the south, a parochial school addition is located at 1919 S. Ashland Avenue. Constructed in 1960, this three story structure is clad in red brick and has streamlined limestone details.
Holy Trinity Church (1848 S Throop St.) was organized to serve Croatian Catholics in the Pilsen neighborhood. The combination church and school building, as well as a Rectory (1850 S. Throop St.)
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Top : Designed by architect August Fiedler in 1890, the Komensky School (now Perez School Annex 2001 S Throop St.) was named in honor of a Czech philosopher. The design of the building incorporates rectilinear forms of red brick, with a substantial rusticated limestone stone base.
Bottom: In a continuing effort to ease overcrowding Jungman School was built in 1902 at 1632 S Miller St. Designed by Board Architect William B Mundie, the three-story, 22-room school would provide space for nearly 1,200 students.
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were constructed in 1914. Both structures are clad in orange brick. The primary facade ofthe building (1848 S. Throop St.) features geometric details of brickwork and limestone. A pair of engaged limestone columns with fanciful capitals flank the front door and contrast with the building's other architectural elements. Holy Trinity School, housed in the upper stories of the church building (1848 S Throop) served Croatian families from 1914 through 1990.
Schools
During the early history of Pilsen, the existing schools were consistently overcrowded as the population underwent rapid growth. Two early public schools in the neighborhood were Throop School at 1811 S Throop (1878, demolished 1947) and Longfellow School (1882, demolished circa 1987).
By 1890, the Board of Education began making plans to ease overcrowding. The Board utilized extra land adjacent to the Longfellow lot which had been left vacant to build the "new" Longfellow School. Designed by architect August Fiedler, the building was constructed with 13 classrooms and an assembly hall allowing for instruction of over 700 students (in two shifts). With an L-shaped plan, the structure has a hipped, clay tile roof with dormers along the north accommodating the upper level assembly hall; the south portion of the building has a flat roof. The design of the building incorporates rectilinear forms of red brick, with a substantial rusticated limestone stone base. By the opening ofthe next school year the building was renamed Komensky School (2001 S .Throop St.) after the Czech philosopher Jan Amos Komensky. Today the building is part ofthe Perez School (1241 W. 19th St.) campus. The building features a fine entrance with a three-story-tall ornamental surround that includes the building name and construction date.
In a continuing effort to ease overcrowding, Jungman School was built in 1902 at 1632 S. Miller St. Designed by Board Architect William B Mundie, the three-story, 22-room school would provide space for nearly 1200 students, but within three years the Board was planning a 12 room addition. The classroom addition was never realized due to challenges with land acquisition, but a combination assembly hall/gymnasium, designed by Dwight Perkins, was constructed in 1913. The design of the Jungman School includes monumental pilasters, a highly ornamented entablature, a bracketed pressed metal cornice, quoined corners, and hooded windows; elements that would appear in many of Mundie's school designs and likened them to other civic and municipal architecture in Chicago. The assembly hall addition takes its design influence from the school building and continues the use of red brick and limestone detailing.
Sokols, Benevolent Societies & Settlement Houses
As immigrant populations grew in Chicago, the creation of ethnocentric social, entertainment, and athletic clubs was widespread. German immigrants created Turnhalles, Polish immigrants created Falcon Halls, and Bohemian immigrants created Sokols. The Sokol movement in America started in 1865 in St Louis and, according to Ethnic Chicago, there were 184 Sokol societies in the United States by 1900. Pilsen was no exception, offering a number of facilities to the neighborhood residents.
One of the foremost purposes of the Sokol was athletic in nature, providing amenities to support strong bodies and minds and organizing competition. However, many among the prevalent working-class did not want to spend their free time exhausting themselves further. Thus the Sokols also offered entertainment options, sometimes in hopes of keeping young men away from the Saloons as reported in a Chicago Tribune article from 14 December, 1896: "free public entertainment in the Plzensy Sokol Hall. No tickets were needed for admission, but the use of the Bohemian language was used as a password.
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The Sokol buildings in Pilsen are among the largest and most prominent. The Czesky Slavonsky Americky Sokol (C.S.A.S.) at 1436-1440 W. 18th St. (top), constructed in 1893 and expanded in 1902, was designed by Frank Randak. This imposing 5-story, Classical Revival limestone fagade with a mansard roof, recalls the designs ofthe World's Columbian Exposition and differs from the Bohemian influences of many of Randak's other buildings in Pilsen.
Also designed by Frank Randak, the Plzensky Sokol at 1812 S. Ashland Ave. (bottom) was built in two separate campaigns starting in 1892 and completing in 1895. Randak chose to execute the design of this hall in the Romanesque style with rusticated stone at the lower two floors and brick ad terra cotta at the upper floors.
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The entertainment consisted [of] gymnastic feats... musical and vocal solos, stereopticon views of Bohemia, addresses, and declamations."
Beyond providing a social and athletic venue, Sokols also offered immigrants a path to self-education. Many offered opportunities to learn English, and conversely opportunities to preserve the Bohemian language and culture among both children and adults.
The Sokol buildings in Pilsen are among the largest and most prominent. One of the earliest was Cesko -Slovanska Podporujici Spolecnost (C.S.P.S.), built at 1126W. 18th St. in 1886, the building was later destroyed by fire in 1918. The Czesky Slavonsky Americky Sokol (C.S.A.S.) at 1436-1430 W. 18lh St., constructed in 1893 and expanded in 1902, was designed by Frank Randak. This imposing 5-story, Classical Revival limestone facade with a mansard roof, recalls the designs of the World's Columbian Exposition and differs from the Bohemian influences of many of Randak's other buildings in Pilsen. The pedimented openings, balustrades, Ionic columns and pilasters were likely intended to convey a sense of permanence for this early Sokol. The building included a 2,000 seat theater, many smaller meeting rooms, and a saloon.
Also designed by Frank Randak, the Plzensky Sokol at 1812 S. Ashland Ave. was similarly built in two separate campaigns starting in 1892 and completing in 1895. Randak chose to execute the design of this hall in the Romanesque style with rusticated stone at the lower two floors and brick ad terra cotta at the upper floors. The original cornice has been removed but the two-story Corinthian columns and the highly detailed arched openings continue to convey the important position that the building held in the neighborhood.
In 1913 the Bohemian newspaper Denni Hlasatel announced the opening of the new Bohemian Settlement House at 1831 S. Racine Ave. The building, sometimes referred to as Howell House after its primary benefactors, contained "a gymnasium covering an area of 50 by 100 feet, and an electric washing machine which will be available to the neighborhood women. The first floor contains a large assembly hall, a dispensary, a reading room, and an office. The second floor is divided into several schoolrooms, a kindergarten, a sewing room, cooking school, and two music rooms. On the third floor are living quarters for those who will work in the Settlement, and there is room for eleven employees. The rooms are modern throughout, tastefully furnished, and electrically lighted, and all those present agreed that the new Bohemian Settlement House surpasses all buildings of its kind in Chicago." In the 1970s the building became home to Casa Aztlan, a social service agency founded to serve Mexican immigrant families.
The cultural, educational and entertainment needs of the Bohemian community were also served by the grand Thalia Hall at 1807 S. Allport St. (a designated Chicago Landmark). John Dusek hired architects Faber & Pagels to design his large mixed-use building. The structure rises to a height of four stories with five commercial spaces along the ground floor and 21 apartments above on the W. 18th St. frontage. The primary facades of the handsome Romanesque Revival style corner building are clad in rough rusticated limestone. The exceptions to this surface treatment, found in the cluster columns ofthe entrances, the string courses, the alternating courses of rusticated and ashlar facings on the second floor, the third floor arches, and the ashlar facing of the fourth floor dormers and towers, serve to articulate the mass and emphasize the monumental aspect of the facade. The ground floor elevation is punctuated by a rhythm of rectangular storefront openings that alternate with the massive stone arches ofthe residential entrances. The elevation is asymetrical, having towers of differing size and shape at its east and west ends. Variety was emphasized in the profile of the roofline which includes hip, truncated hip, mansard front, and dome designs.
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Top: M. Schrayer & Sons, a firm that made its own line of tin iron products, hired architect Henry Leopold Ottenheimer to design their building at 917-925 W. 18th St. The son of German immigrants, Ottenheimer had studied architecture in Paris and also trained under Adler & Sullivan.
Bottom: The Dixie Cotton Felt Mattress Company Building produced pillows, sleeping bags and blankets at this manufacturing building completed in 1906.
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At the time of Thalia Hall's completion in 1892. the residential apartments were considered to be among the finest in Pilsen. offering to tenants what were described in the contemporary press as "all the modern conveniences." Dusek and his family were among the original tenants of the building. Dusek operated his saloon in the corner storefront space, which was connected to the adjoining theater by an enclosed passage, the better to gain patronage from those attending its functions. Today, the building continues to provide its original functions.
In addition to Pilsen's large sokols and halls, there were also some small clubs in the community, often with athletic facilities. For example a two-and-a-half story structure at 1821 S. Racine Ave. was built as a club with a gymnasium in 1906. The building's red brick primary facade is trimmed in limestone with fine eclectic details including a portal window accentuated by a foliated frame and an unusual parapet with arched crenellations. While the building was likely constructed by a private Bohemian club, it housed a chapter of the National Athletic Club from at least the late 1930s to the late 1950s.
Industrial Buildings
Since Pilsen's early history, the presence of industrial complexes in the neighborhood attracted workers and their families to settle here. Many of the area's 19th century manufacturing structures are no longer extant. However, today, a collection of handsome industrial buildings dating from the early to mid-20th century remains. While some have been adapted to apartments or work space lofts, others still support manufacturing or related uses.
Two of the earliest industrial structures in the district are the M. Schrayer & Sons Building at 917-925 W. 18th St. (1905) and the Dixie Cotton Felt Mattress Company Building at 2014-2024 S. Racine Ave. (1906). Both are brown brick buildings with large windows and simple pattered brickwork. These structures are simple expressions of the Classical style with pilasters, cornices, and monumental massing. However, they also convey an Arts & Crafts sensibility with strong horizontal bands of brickwork that make the scale of each structure seem less daunting.
M. Schrayer & Sons, a firm that made its own line of tin iron products, hired architect Henry Leopold Ottenheimer (1868-1919) to design their building at 917-925 W. 18th St. The son of German immigrants, Ottenheimer had studied architecture in Paris and also trained under Adler & Sullivan. His work includes the 1913 Swedish American Bank at 5400 N. Clark St. (a designated Chicago Landmark.)
The Dixie Cotton Felt Mattress Company Building was built in stages, but the existing building dates largely to a substantial addition designed by architects Postle & Mahler in 1906. As the firm was owned by the Burton Company, a panel with word "Burton" tops the doorway at 2022 S. Racine Ave. Their work featured the five story corner part ofthe building.
For many decades meat processing, packing, and butchering served as a major industry in Pilsen. The Fuhrman & Forster Company, which was founded by Bavarian immigrants in 1897, had expanded their facilities to include several markets in Pilsen in the early 1900s. As the firm grew, they needed additional facilities. Two structures they built in the neighborhood in the 1920s survive-the Cold Storage Building at 1846 S. Loomis St. (1922 ) and the Truck Fleet Complex at 1647 S. Blue Island Ave. (1924). Architect Worthman & Steinbach designed the Cold Storage Building, featuring simple limestone and brick details that give a vague sense of the Gothic Revival style. Architect William Se-vic (1898-1983), the son of Czech immigrants who grew up nearby on S. Blue Island Ave., produced
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the Truck Fleet Building. The red brick structure features fine terra cotta details including an eagle and a shield, and a panel spelling out the "Furhman & Forster" name.
Although manufacturing slowed in the 1930s and 1940s, there were some firms that built fine Modern industrial buildings in Pilsen at that time. Two examples are 2050 W. 18th St. (1934), a sleek yellow brick warehouse built by The Kusper Brothers, a wholesale liquor dealer; and 1424-1444 W. 21s1 St. (1946) built as a woodworking production facility. For years this building housed the Woodworking Corporation of America which employed 200 cabinetmakers mostly of Czech, German, Hungarian and Polish descent. The red brick building has horizontal ribbons of massive windows and a limestone central stair tower with glass block windows. In the early 2000s, the building was rehabilitated into the Woodworking Lofts.
Bank Buildings
During the late 19th and early 20th centuries, several small neighborhood banks opened in Pilsen. As most of Chicago's larger banking institutions would not lend money to laborers or other low-wage earners, neighborhood banks and building and loan associations (later called savings and loans) formed to provide this service and generate profits.
At the time, Illinois state laws prohibited banks from opening multiple branches. The intention of the law was to prevent the growth of bank monopolies and to support small independent banks. As a result ofthe law, independent banks were established throughout Chicago neighborhoods. Serving local banking needs their services included checking and savings accounts, safety deposit vaults, as well as business loans and mortgages. Because these businesses helped residents finance the purchase of their homes, the proprietors often offered real estate services as well.
Top Left: Industrial Bank at 2007 S. Blue Island Ave. was established by General August L. Chetlain.
Bottom Left: The Novak and Steiskal Bank at 18103-1805 S. Loomis St. (1925) features a Classically-designed facade of limestone with monumental Corinthian columns and an ornate cornice.
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Industrial Bank at 2007 S. Blue Island Ave. was established by General August L. Chetlain, a North Sider who realized that tens of thousands of workers in and around Pilsen needed created a tremendous
market for banking. Erected in 1891, the Romanesque Revival style structure's front facade is clad in rusticated limestone with fine foliated ornamentation. The name, "Industrial Bank Building," is incised into the curved stone base of the business's original storefront. Historically, the building featured the bank on the first story and flats above.
The Savings and Mortgage Bank at 1332-1334 W. 18th St. (1892) is another beautifully detailed Romanesque Revival style bank with upper flats. Its founder, Anthony Kozel, had emigrated from Bohemia in the 1860s and settled in Pilsen within a decade or so. Kozel became involved in real estate in 1890. He hired his brother-in-law, Frank C. Layer (1860-1941), a Bohemian immigrant contractor, to design and build his Savings and Mortgage Bank building. The structure has a prominent corner round bay. Its primary facade is also enlivened by alternating bands of smooth and rusticated limestone. Kozel and his family briefly lived in one of the apartments above his Savings and Mortgage Bank.
Many banks in Pilsen underwent additions and renovations over the years. John L. Novak and Frank Steiskal first established a small private bank occupying about half of what would become a more expansive structure at 1817 S. Loomis St. structure. The Novak and Steiskal Bank thrived, especially after it became a state bank in 1921. By the mid-1920s, Noval and Steiskal acquired an adjacent lot in order to expand their existing facility into a much more substantial building. They hired an up-and-coming architect, Leonard A. Gliattd to undertake the ambitious remodeling project.
Born in Chicago to Italian immigrant parents, Leonard Anthony Gliatto (1896-1974) received a degree in architecture from the Armour Institute (IIT) in 1920. Three years later, he established his own firm. As the new Novak and Steiskal State Bank had a construction budget of $105,000, there is no doubt that the project was among Gliatto's most prominent early commissions. In 1925, as the Novak and Steiskal State Bank expansion was underway, the Chicago Tribune reported that the larger structure was "being built right over the old banking quarters without interruption to business." Gliatto's enlarged structure featured a Classically-designed primary facade of smooth limestone with monumental Corinthian columns and an ornate cornice with dentils scrolled modillions.
The structure operated as the Novak and Steiskal State Bank until the early 1930s, when a prominent local banker, Frank J. Skala (1869-1968) purchased the structure. Skala had previously operated a two-story bank at 966-970 W. 18th Street (now a vacant lot.) According to the Chicago Tribune Skala had emigrated from Pisek, Bohemia in 1890, and worked as a journalist. He soon purchased a steamship ticket agency, providing a service that was in high demand during a time when immigration was on the rise. And, the article explains, "as the residents of Pilsen community prospered, an increasing number of them brought Skala their savings and asked his advice on investments." The 1817 S. Loomis building continued as Skala Bank until 1963, when it was sold and renamed as the Republic National Bank of Chicago. The structure continued to operate as a bank until the mid-1970s. Another Classically-designed real estate and mortgage building was erected sometime around 1919 at 1809 S. Racine Avenue. This two-story brick structure has an impressive primary facade fully clad in white terra cotta with tall Doric columns, an elaborate entryway, and a prominent cornice topped by a balustrade. Pilsen resident and real estate broker James Karban erected the building. The structure functioned as a bank for just over a decade. Today, it houses a storefront church.
A somewhat smaller and earlier bank building with a livelier Classical Revival style facade is located at 1443 W. 18lh St. Frank J. Petru (1880-1972), the son of Bohemian immigrants, purchased an existing commercial structure and hired an unknown architect to remodel into his bank and real estate office around 1908. Petru's services included safe deposit vaults, insurance, and loans, but his primary real focus was real estate. Clad in white terra cotta, the Frank J. Petru Building emulates a diminutive Greek
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temple. The one-and-a-half story structure has a prominent pediment with a sculptural eagle as the centerpiece, a palmette crowning the parapet, an original doorway and storefront flanked by tall Ionic pilasters, and a cartouche in the smaller pediment over the front door. Frank J. Petru's name is spelled out in the terra cotta within the frieze below the pediment.
Petru and his family lived in a flat within the building during his business's early years. Although they later moved to Cicero, he continued to run his office from the Frank J. Petru Building at 1443 W. 18th St. until 1957. The structure was then converted to other commercial uses.
The Ashland State Bank at 1800 S. Ashland Ave. was a small bank with a much more subdued appearance. According to a Chicago Tribune article entitled "New Ashland State Bank Buys Ashland Corner" its organizers purchased an existing three story brick structure in 1921 to be converted into their new bank. With the bank on the first story and flats above, the corner building has two primary facades. Each features two doorways flanked by fluted engaged columns and crowned by open-scroll pediments. They building facades have a pleasing two-tone effect, with red brick along the upper stories, and a smooth limestone base. The name "Ashland State Bank" in relief stretches across the limestone frieze at the top of the base.
Commercial/Mixed Use Buildings
During Pilsen's early history, enterprising residents and businessmen began erecting buildings that combined commercial and residential uses, a building type historically known as a "store and flat". Many examples of this building type are found along 18th Street, Pilsen's commercial corridor. With a store and flat building, shop owners could live above their own business while also leveraging their investment by renting out additional units to tenants. Builders and owners often strove to create high-quality and architecturally distinguished mixed-use structures. Like other buildings in the neighborhood, the structures were often expressions of popular styles of the day, but with Baroque flourishes referencing the architecture of Central Europe. But their motivations were not merely sentimental. Cognizant of the need to create good impressions for potential tenants and customers, landlords strove to own buildings with fine exterior appearances.
Many of the mixed-use buildings erected in Pilsen between the mid-1870s and late-1880s were similar in materials and style to the neighborhood's cottages and flats of the same era. Most are expressive of the Italianate style, and as was the case with residential structures, Pilsen's early mixed-use Italianate style buildings often had special flourishes such as carved lintels or hood moldings and highly decorative cornices and parapets.
There are a number of mixed-use Italianate style buildings dating the mid-to-late 1870s in Pilsen. Like many of the residential flats that began going up in the neighborhood during the mid-1870s, these are often red-brick structures with long rectangular windows topped with fine carved lintels or hood molds. One example, 1916 S. Racine Ave., has a prominent cornice and a false mansard roof. Although the original use of its storefront is unclear, it housed a pharmacy from at least 1896 to 1926. Bohemian immigrant druggist Voita Vavra and his family lived above the store, and rented out the other units. Another 1870s Italianate, 2008-2010 S. Blue Island Ave., a three-story building, has long arched windows with ornately sculpted stone hood molds. This deep structure had many rental units over two first story commercial spaces. At the storefront level, the facade retains original cast iron pillars and brick pilasters with simple stone capitals.
Many noteworthy mixed-use buildings in the neighborhood date to the mid-1880s. A handsome three-and-a-half story Italianate style red brick building at 1914 S. Throop St. was built in 1886. Along with
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Pilsen's commercial/mixed use buildings are designed in a variety of architectural styles including Italianate, Romanesque Revival and Queen Anne.
Top Right: 1501 W. 18th St. (circa 1895) Built by John Nowak, this Italianate structure originally housed his saloon in the first story storefront.
Bottom Left: 1636 W. 18th St. (circa 1882) Polish immigrant Peter Niedzwicki and his family resided in this Italianate building and operated a saloon in the storefront until prohibition when he converted it into a shop.
Bottom Right: 1722 S. Ashland Ave (1894) This corner Italianate structure built has two primary facades-one expressing the Italianate style and the other Romanesque, and operated his "Dental Parlor" here until his death in 1917.
Top Left: 2008-2010 S. Blue Island Ave. (circa 1879).
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Top Left: 1844 S. Racine Ave. (1897) the name "F.M. Smolik" is carved in stone at the this Romanesque Revival style structure's parapet on which a miniature hipped roof crowns the peak ofthe gable.
Top Right: 1646 W. 18th St. (1895) historically housed the Soukup School of English.
Bottom Left: 1663 S. Blue Island Ave. (1893) This Queen Anne style building has a second primary facade at 1340 W. 18th St. Interestingly, the W. 18th Street facade is clad in brown brick, rather than red.
Bottom Right: 1454 W. 18th St. (1894) George Hulla, a Bohemian immigrant dentist owned the building
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an ornate cornice and parapet, it has carved limestone lintels and pilaster capitals that flank its storefront- the location of a bakery in the late 1890s. A two-and-a-half story structure that dates to the same period at 1636 W. 18th St. shares many of the same features. Its owner, Polish immigrant Peter Niedzwicki and his family resided here from at least 1889 to 1920, and they had tenants in four other units. Niedzwicki operated a saloon in the storefront until prohibition when he converted the space into a shop.
A two story mixed-use building with four storefronts is located at 1415-1421 W. 18lh St. This brown brick structure has restrained patterned brickwork, a limestone beltcourse that extends above the second story windows with floral carvings between the bays, and pilasters with ornately carved capitals between each of the storefronts. An exquisite pressed metal cornice stretches across the top of its primary facade. Erected in 1886, the building's storefronts originally included a crockery store and a real estate office.
Architects Edbrooke & Burnham, a Chicago firm with a national practice, designed a series of three mixed-use buildings at 948, 950, and 952 W. 18th Street. These two-story brick structures were also erected in 1886. They lack the carved lintels or sculpted hood molds that were typical of the Italianate buildings of the area. Rather, two of them have second story projecting bays, and the other (948) has patterned brickwork. The center storefront (950) has been completely refaced. The corner structure (952) originally housed the Loeb Bros. Meat Market, one of Pilsen's many early butcher shops.
Some 1880s Italianate style mixed-use buildings included turrets and towers that would become characteristic of the Queen Anne style. For example the three-story building at 1040 W. 18th St. is red brick with long arched windows that have sculpted surrounds. This Italianate style structure has a round corner tower with a conical roof. Another example of a large Italianate style store and flat building with a prominent tower is at 1501-1503 W. 18th St. Built by John Nowak, this structure originally housed his saloon in the first story storefront. According to Engineering & Building Record and ihe Sanitary Engineer, the 1887 building was the work of builders Riedel & Widlar. The four-story red brick structure has fanciful carved limestone lintels, beltcourses, brickwork, a dormered mansard roof and a four-sided projecting bay that is described by the AIA Guide to Chicago Architecture as "an effusively ornamented pressed-metal corner tower."
Another fine red brick tenement with storefronts is the three-story Stuchlik Pharmacy and Flat Building at 1008-1012 W. 18th St. Built by William Stuchlik, the son of one of earliest Bohemian's to settle in Chicago, the structure had sixteen rental units over three storefronts. It has bold limestone beltcourses, three-sided projecting bays, a deep decorative cornice, and a hipped roof with dormers.
During the 1890s, many Romanesque Revival mixed-use buildings began springing up in Pilsen. With primary facades that are fully clad in limestone, the structures convey a sense of strength or permanency. A two-story example at 1714 S. Ashland Ave. features alternating courses of smooth and rusticated limestone with a handsome entryway nestled into an arched opening. Rising from its flat stone parapet features are two fanlike carved details, one framed within a pediment, and the other in a curved panel. Built in 1894, the building originally housed the publishers ofthe Dziennkl Polski Gazette and the A. Wohl Co. embroidery firm.
A large corner structure built at 1722-1724 S. Ashland Ave. in 1894 has two primary facades- one expressing the Italianate style and the other Romanesque. Comprising a long rectangular mass, the building's W. 18th Street facade did not originally house commercial spaces. On this brick face, long rectangular windows have the same kind of stone lintels with floral carvings throughout the many Italianate
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facades nearby. At the corner of S. Ashland Ave, the building features a curved projecting bay, and this entire elevation is clad in rusticated limestone. The facade is enlivened by a few smooth stone beltcourses, alternating areas of smooth and rusticated blocks in a checkerboard, and dentil-like details across a smooth band beneath the cornice.
The neighborhood has an extensive collection of three-and-a-half and four-story flat roofed Romanesque Revival style buildings with handsome rusticated limestone facades- a few that retain elements of their original storefronts. The structures at 1456, 1640, and 1646 W. 18th Street are all stone-faced subtle checker-board style ornamentation beneath third and fourth story windows. The 1646 W. 18th St. building, which retains much of its cast iron storefront, historically housed the Soukup School of English, with several apartments above. Two other noteworthy examples with rusticated stone facades are located at 1536 W. 18th St. and 1844 S. Racine Ave. The one at 1536 W. 18th Street has a lively stone parapet. At 1844 S. Racine Ave., the name "F.M. Smolik" is spelled in stone at the center of the structure's parapet on which a miniature hipped roof crowns the peak ofthe gable. The 1897 Smolik Building has an exquisite facade with a center arch, pediments over third story windows, and a variety of other carved stone details. Frank Smolik, a successful Bohemian butcher, lived in the building with his family and ran his business from its storefront.
Some of Pilsen's Romanesque buildings have substantial amounts of smooth limestone which give them a more Classical Revival appearance. The facade of 1806-1824 S. Blue Island Ave. is embellished with a mix of rusticated outer.bays and smooth ones in the center with triple columns and a variety of carved details. For many decades, this building served as Lurie's, a department store with flats. Its storefront was later bricked in, and a larger grocery story added on its southeast side. A nearby four -story department store with flats is located at 1852 S. Blue Island Ave. Designed by architect Frank Randak, the 1894 building has a primary facade clad almost entirely in smooth limestone. Limited rusticated masonry and minimal foliate carvings and dentils subtly embellish the upper levels.
Many mixed-use buildings found throughout the neighborhood are expressions ofthe Queen Anne style. In Pilsen, these structures, which generally have corner towers or projecting bays, often incorporated Bohemian Baroque references. The three-and-a-half story tall structure at 1002 W. 18th St., built in 1890, has the same kind of red face brick and limestone beltcourses as found in many nearby Italianate style structures. However, it also features a well-ornamented corner turret with a conical roof, terra cotta lintels with rosettes at each end, and small terra cotta panels flanking its attic windows expressive of the Queen Anne style. A characteristically Bohemian sunburst carved into a small limestone panel is located above the storefront window opening.
Another building that represents a transition from the Italianate to Queen Anne style is at 1663 S. Blue Island Ave. Completed in 1893, the four-story structure was developed by William Menge, a successful German immigrant grocer and coal dealer. Although this four-story building is clad in red brick and has limestone lintels and belt, it also has a three-sided projecting bay, patterned brickwork and several highly ornamental terra cotta panels. One panel includes the date 1892 (when the building was first planned) below William Menge's initials. The structure has a second primary facade at 1340 W. 18th St. Both sides originally featured first story storefronts. Interestingly, the W. 18th Street facade is clad in brown brick, rather than red. It features a round engaged tower and patterned brickwork.
A four-story mixed-use building at 1454 W. 18th St. was designed in the Queen Anne style without making reference to Bohemian architecture. Erected in 1894, this painted-brick structure has a three-sided projecting bay with lively applied ornamentation at each of the upper levels. George Hulla, a Bohemian immigrant dentist owned the building. He lived nearby and operated his "Dental Parlor" here until his death in 1917. A much larger Queen Anne structure is located at 1800 S. Morgan St. and also
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encompasses 983-1011 W. 18' St The four story corner building is clad in light tan brick and has engaged corner towers with conical roofs at its eastern and western ends that front onto W. 18th Street. Its owner was John Klaus, an Austrian immigrant grocer who lived about two blocks away and likely had his store in this building.
A Queen Anne style mixed-use building that has some Gothic Revival details is located at 1125 W. 18th St. Anton C. Charvat, a prolific local architect, designed this three-and-a-half story structure for the Bohemian immigrant undertakers, the Urban Brothers. Clad in light brown brick, the walk-up has an engaged corner tower, limestone beltcourses, Gothic windows in the corner facade of its storefront, and a limestone Gothic Revival style entryway with the word "Morticians" inscribed over the door. Albert and John Urban worked in the 1902 building and lived in apartments above with their families. They rented the third unit to tenants.
Charvat also produced a 1907 mixed-use building at 1328 W. 18th St. that provides a hint about its owner's profession. Clad entirely in smooth limestone, the four-story structure has a subtly projecting bay on one side that is topped by a tall bell-shaped parapet. Restrained foliate ornamentation stretches above triple windows on the second story and the inner part of a fourth story pediment. A sculptural cow's head projects above the third story triple windows. The cow represents the profession ofthe building's owner, Bohemian-immigrant butcher Joseph Liska.
Another nearby building that has a primary facade clad in smooth limestone is the Nemecek Photography Studio and Apartment Building at 1439 W. 18th St. Designed by Frank Randak, a Czech-immigrant architect who was responsible for several noteworthy structures in Pilsen, the building was also completed in 1907. Frances D. Nemecek (1880-1950) grew up in Pilsen and became a successful photographer. The structure housed his second story studio, first story shop, and four apartments, including the one the Nemecek family occupied. It has an enormous slanted skylight in Nemecek's original studio as well as other fine leaded glass windows. The facade includes an engaged corner tower beneath an egg-shaped roof. The limestone surfaces are embellished by fine carved ornamentation including several characteristically Bohemian shell-like details.
During the early 20th century, some mixed-use brick buildings have eclectic details but convey an overall sense of the Arts and Crafts style. In Pilsen, these structures often have some Bohemian Baroque attributes. For instance, a three-and-a-half story orange brick store and flats at 1620 W. 18th St. has a subtly projecting bay, leaded glass upper windows, arched limestone lintels, and brick quoins flanking most of the window openings. The structure has a tall peaked parapet enlivened by brickwork and topped with a finial with an elongated shell motif.
Another noteworthy eclectic structure at 1742-44 W. 18lh St. was built in 1909. Architect Perley Hale designed this building for watchmaker Paul Lenik and his family. In addition to Lenik's jewelry store there were four residential units above. The light brown primary facade is embellished with lively yellow brick details. A tall vivacious bell-shaped parapet has pattered brickwork and limestone finials.
New construction slowed considerably in the 1910s, but a handful of mixed-use buildings went up at this time. Though buildings of this period were generally restrained in design, most still featured a distinctive parapet. One example, a 1912 dark brown three-and-a-half story structure at 1858 W. 18th St. was designed by architect John Flizikowski. Its restrained and generally flat primary facade is distinguished by tall brick pilasters, limestone stringcourses, and arched windows at the attic level. Its steep parapet angles in on both sides rising to a flat top and has a squared peak on each side near the tops of the upper windows-echoing the form of many others in Pilsen.
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Top Left: 1620 W. 18th St. (circa 1900) possesses an overall sense ofthe Arts and Crafts style with Bohemian Baroque attributes.
Top Center: M.V. Kowalski hired architect Josesph Klafter to design his funeral home and flats at 1737 W. 18th St. (1940) in an Art Deco version ofthe Gothic Revival Style.
Top Right: A noteworthy eclectic structure at 1742-44 W. 18th St. (1909) was designed by architect Perley Hale for watchmaker Paul Lenik and his family.
Bottom Left: Some buildings with a restrained design still featured a distinctive parapet, including 1858 W. 18th St. (1912 ) designed by architect John Flizikowski.
Bottom Right: Anton Charvat designed the 1907 mixed-use building at 1328 W. 18th St. with a subtly projecting bay on one side that is topped by a tall bell-shaped parapet.
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Another three-and-a-half story mixed use building that dates to 1912 is located at 1339 W. 18 St. Produced by architects Novy & Son, the structure is clad in light brown brick and well-trimmed in simple Arts & Crafts style limestone details. Its two square attic windows sit within a rectangular limestone frame. They stand in the center of a fine stepped parapet that has limestone coping and detail of vertical lines and squares, as well as a round finial that rises from its flat top. This building housed P'llsen Electric Supply from 1912 until at least late 1940s. A two-and-a-half story red brick structure at 1524 W. 18th St. was erected in 1915. Its sparse Arts & Crafts style details of limestone squares and horizontal lines are most pronounced at its parapet which is both angled and stepped.
Throughout Pilsen's history, building owners often altered existing structures to either provide more space or accommodate new uses. By the mid-1910s, the community was built up and these kinds of projects were much more commonplace than new construction. One example is a two-and-a-half story structure at 1412 W. 18th St. Built in a series of additions, the building's oldest part is one-story brick cottage that sits at the rear end of the lot. In 1901, a one-story brick addition was built onto the front of the cottage. The storefront housed the Joseph Mendel Florist Shop. In 1916, a much larger two-and-a-half story flat-roofed addition was erected that includes the existing primary facade. Clad in yellow brick, the facade had includes simple limestone details including a flat parapet with a step and peak in the center.
Another example is 1624 W. 18th St., a two-and-a-half story brick structure that resulted from a major alteration and new front addition in 1926. The primary facade, clad in light yellow brick, has attractive limestone details. Its flat parapet, which has steps at its outer ends, conceals the building's gable roof. The gabled portion fronts onto two contiguous flat-roofed structures at the rear. The building housed an employment office in the early 1910s. After the construction of its addition, it included six apartments and the storefront space. The store was converted into an office space in the m id-1950s.
During the Depression era, alterations to existing buildings continued. Sometime around 1935, a Yugoslavian couple, Frank and Annette Ciekovic made alterations to an existing one-story brick structure at 1802 S. Allport St. They transformed the structure into a tavern in the front and their apartment in the back. The building's primary facade represent a simplified Art Deco expression. It is clad in lan-non stone (painted dark grey) and has large glass block openings that curve towards the front doorway.
Over the decades, several business proprietors in Pilsen had added small one-story brick storefronts to the front of their homes. One example is jeweler Joseph Cwiak who built a brick storefront onto the front of his frame house in 1940. The storefront at 1743 W. 18th St. originally housed Cwiak's jewelry shop has an assuming yellow brick facade. A number of similar storefronts added onto the fronts of cottages can be found throughout Pilsen.
Only a limited number of entirely new mixed-use buildings were erected in Pilsen after the late 1910s. Two noteworthy examples are funeral homes, both constructed during the Depression years. Czech immigrant undertaker Joseph Linhart built his funeral home with flats at 1343-1345 W. 19th St.in 1938. The building is, in essence, two contiguous large rectangular structures with a unifying primary facade. Composed of two-toned header bricks that form a checkboard pattern, the facade features three alternating bays of smooth limestone. The building represents the Gothic Revival style, but with some modernistic elements such as ziggurat repeating shapes.
Similarly, the other funeral home is an Art Deco version of the Gothic Revival Style. M.V. Kowalski hired architect Josesph Klafter - to design his funeral home and flats at 1737 W. 18th St. in 1940. Clad in yellow brick, the structure's primary facade has expansive applied smooth limestone with stylized
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details. The structure functioned as a funeral home until the late 1970s when it was converted into an office for the Spanish Coalition for Jobs. Around 2010, the National Latino Education institute moved in. Today, the building houses a Chinese restaurant, and some ofthe facade's most interesting elements are obscured by a large awning.
PILSEN'S ARCHITECTURAL CHARACTER & STYLES
As explained in the NRHP Pilsen Historic District Form, the neighborhood's immigrants "enthusiastically expressed their national identity in architectural terms, constructing many buildings based on the forms and styles of their homeland."
Pilsen's builders generally followed Chicago's architectural stylistic norms of their day. Built of brick and stone, most of these structures are examples of the Italianate, Romanesque, and Queen Anne styles. But the neighborhood developed its own special character because the immigrant builders and architects also incorporated Baroque references that related to the architecture of their homeland.
The Baroque style had been popular in Central Europe since the late 17th and early 18th century. A highly ornate expression that evolved from Italian Renaissance architecture, Baroque influences took many forms. In general, buildings of this type are characterized by undulating shapes, curvaceous forms, and highly decorative treatments. In cities such as Plzen and Prague, there were many Baroque churches, monasteries, chateaus and palaces. These structures commonly had curving rooflines and fanciful facades with towers, ornate sculptural treatments, highly detailed fenestration, and intricate painted surfaces, often in bright colors. In smaller towns throughout Southern Bohemia, buildings reflecting a simpler expression considered "Folk Baroque" became common. For example Holasovice Historic Village, a UNESCO heritage site, features buildings of painted stucco with varied rooflines and fanciful decorations. The upper reaches of the gable ends of the bell shaped facades were often particularly well-decorated. Fanlight shaped windows with painted frames or sunburst-like motifs were often located at the attic level of the rooflines.
The "Bohemian Baroque" was expressed in Pilsen's architecture through unusually shaped parapets, carved stone lintels, sculptural treatments of hoodmolds and other details, and decorative patterns in the brickwork. These expressions were adapted to the various architectural styles and period of development in the community. Rooflines are especially ornate. Ornate parapets are often bell-shaped, angled, or have a curved form at their center concealing the peak ofthe gable roof behind them. Many structures also have fanciful finials capping the upper reaches of their facade.
The following architectural styles are found throughout Pilsen, many in "Bohemian Baroque" variations:
Italianate
The Italianate style, which first came into fashion in America in the 1840s, was popular in Chicago from the pre-Fire (1871) period until the mid-to-late- 1880s. Buildings ofthe style are characterized by hipped or gabled roofs with overhanging eaves, bracketed cornices, long windows that are flat or arched on the top, and arched hoods or lintels above doors and windows. Structures may be constructed of wood-frame or brick walls. The Italianate style is quite prolific in Pilsen. It is expressed in workers' cottages, residential flats, and mixed-use buildings.
Romanesque Revival
Inspired by the work of renowned architect Henry Hobson Richardson (1838-1886), the Romanesque Revival style became popular throughout the nation from approximately 1880 to the late 1890s. In Pil-
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sen, buildings that represent this style are seen from the early to late 1890s. Romanesque Revival style buildings are characterized by primary facades that are fully clad in limestone. Rusticated limestone is most common, however, in many facades, both rusticated and smooth limestone are used. In addition to varied masonry textures, the buildings of this style often feature carved limestone ornamentation. Romanesque structures often have arched openings, projecting or curved bays, and decorative cornices or parapets.
Medieval churches and cathedrals in Europe often inspired ecclesiastic buildings designed in the Romanesque Revival style. These structures are often composed of brick and trimmed in limestone. They generally feature asymmetrical facades, towers, and arched doorways and window openings.
Queen Anne
The Queen Anne style became nationally popular including throughout Chicago between the late 1880s and 1910. Many examples can be found in Pilsen. Although buildings of this style can be constructed of wood-frame or brick walls, in this neighborhood most are brick. Color is often emphasized, and Pilsen's Queen Anne structures represent a range of colors of brick. The structures often have corner towers, turrets or projecting bays. Lively decorative schemes are composed of patterned brickwork, terra cotta panels, applied ornamentation, and leaded or art-glass windows. Pressed metal cornices or applied ornamentation is popular in the style. Pilsen's Queen Anne buildings often represent eclectic mixes and elements of Eastlake, Second Empire, or Gothic Revival. As was the case with other styles, these Victorian ere elements were frequently blended with Bohemian references.
Classical Revival
In America's architectural history, there have been several periods in which Classical Revival expressions were popular. In Chicago, the style was popularized by design of the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition which emphasized symmetry and formality and made references ancient Greece and Rome. In Pilsen, the Classical Revival style was most popular from the early 1900s through the 1920s. In this neighborhood, the style was most commonly used for banks, real estate offices, and other businesses that wanted to convey a sense of importance or integrity such as newspaper publishers. Buildings of this type are often monumental in scale. They often include columns, pilasters, pediments, dentils, and other elements that have Greek or Roman precedents.
Arts & Crafts
Arts & Crafts was a movement that took place in England and America during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Spurred in reaction to overly-fanciful designs and poorly constructed machine-made items, this aesthetic movement valued handcrafted goods, clean lines, and simplicity. In Chicago bungalows and classic two- and three-flats can be considered part of this style. Pilsen has no bungalows. However, it has a fine collection of flats and mixed-use Arts & Crafts buildings. These structures are generally constructed of brick. They often emphasize straight lines and are sparsely detailed with brickwork and limestone details in geometric patterns. Some of these buildings have leaded or art-glass windows.
Art Deco
An expression of Modernism first popularized in Paris in the 1920s, the Art Deco style became most common in Chicago from the 1930s to mid- 1940s. In architecture, the style emphasizes clean lines, geometric forms, and stylized representations of earlier forms or details. In Pilsen, only a limited number of buildings were constructed or remodeled during the 1930s or 1940s. Those that represent the Art Deco style are generally constructed of brick and may include sparse geometric details, glass block, and the use of two contrasting materials such as brick and smooth limestone.
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Pilsen's builders generally followed Chicago's architectural stylistic norms of their day. Built of brick and stone, most of these structures are examples ofthe Italianate, Romanesque, and Queen Anne styles. But the neighborhood developed its own special character because the immigrant builders and architects also incorporated Baroque references that related to the architecture of their homeland. In general, buildings of this type are characterized by undulating shapes, curvaceous forms, and highly decorative treatments. In cities such as Plzen and Prague, there were many Baroque churches, monas
SELECT ARCHITECTS IN THE PILSEN HISTORIC DISTRICT
Anton Charvat (1864-1925)
Anton (or Anthony) C. Charvat was a Bohemian immigrant who established an architectural practice in Pilsen in the late 1880s. Little is known about his education or architectural training. Initially he worked from his home at 1921 S. Loomis Street. By 1914, Charvat had an office at 1801 S. Ashland Avenue in Pilsen, and he and his family had moved to the Lawndale community. Several years later, Charvat ran his office out his home on S. Millard Avenue. By 1920, his son Anton (or Anthony) O. Charvat (1884 -1940) was working as a draftsmen for the firm.
Charvat Sr. was active in many Bohemian organizations and societies, often receiving commissions through these connections. For example, he designed the Bohemian Old People's Home and Orphanage at W. Foster and N. Crawford Avenues, and the Jan Hus Memorial at 4236 W. Cermak Road which served as a library and community center for Bohemian Freethinkers. The Charvats produced a large collection of residential and mixed-use buildings in Pilsen, Lawndale (especially in the K-Town area of North Lawndale, which had a large Czech population, and is listed as a NRHP Historic District.) They were responsible for designing more than ten extant structures in Pilsen including mixed-use and multi-residential buildings.
James B. Dibelka (1869-1925)
James B. Dibelka emigrated from Bohemia with his family during his childhood. He grew up in Pilsen and was educated in the Chicago Public Schools. It is unclear where Dibleka received his architectural training. By 1899, he had established his own firm. He soon became quite busy designing a variety of projects including residential properties, religious buildings, industrial structures, and park build- ' ings including the Natatorium in Union Park. Dibelka served on Chicago's Board of Education for several years. He was appointed as State Architect in 1913 and continued in that role for four years. Through this position, he produced several buildings at the University of Illinois, and the Illinois Building at the 1915 Panama Pacific International Exposition in San Francisco, for which he won an international gold medal in architecture. His work in Pilsen includes flat buildings, the Bohemian Bazaar Building (1906) at 1657 S. Blue Island Ave., and the Bohemian Reformed Church on S. Ashland Avenue (no longer extant).
James J. Egan (1839-1914)
Born in Cork, Ireland, Egan studied the Government School of Design at Queens College prior to immigrating to New York. He worked for several New York firms and then relocated to Chicago, where he became one ofthe city's most prominent early architects. Egan was especially well-known for his ecclesiastic work. In addition to St. Pius V. his churches include St. Vincent DePaul Church in Chicago; St. Ambrose Cathedral in Des Moines, IA; and St. Mary's of the Assumption Cathedral in San Francisco, CA (no longer extant).
William August Fiedler (1842-1903)
Born in Elbing, Germany, W. August Fiedler was educated in architecture before immigrating to the United States in 1871. He worked as an architect in New York City for several years, and then moved to Chicago in 1874 as part of a large influx of architects that saw professional opportunity in the rapidly-growing city. Fiedler was also one of a number of German-born architects who were drawn to Chicago with its large German-American population.
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Once in Chicago, Fiedler entered the field of interior design and high-quality furniture and furnishings, first in partnership with John W. Roberts and then by himself as A. Fiedler & Co. Fiedler's clients included many ofthe city's social elite, with one of his most elaborate interior designs created in 1879 for Samuel M. Nickerson's sumptuous residence (1883, 40 East Erie St., a designated Chicago Landmark).
During the 1880s, Fiedler formed an architectural firm with John Addison, who was known for his "Modern Gothic" designs. The firm designed grand homes and commercial buildings in Chicago and across the Midwest. One of their best Chicago works was the Germania Club Building (1889, 108 West Germania PL, a designated Chicago Landmark). In 1890, Fiedler and Addison ended their partnership, and Fiedler briefly practiced independently until he was appointed Board of Education Architect in 1893.
During his 3-year tenure at the Board of Education, Fiedler designed 58 new school buildings and dozens of additions, including Komensky School (1890, 2001 S Throop St. now Perez Annex), Yates School (1896, 1839 North Richmond St.), and Goethe School (1895, 2236 North Rockwell St.). Fiedler's designs outside of the school system include, most notably, the expansion of the West Side Grounds at Taylor and Wolcott Streets (1893, demolished 1920), which was the home of the Chicago Cubs until the team moved to Weeghman Park (now Wrigley Field) in 1916.
John S. Flizikowski (1868-1934)
John S. Flizikowski, a Prussian immigrant, received his architectural training at the Art Institute of Cologne and the Technical University of Berlin. He graduated in 1891, and two years later immigrated to the United States. He established his own firm in Chicago in 1894 and was soon designing buildings in neighborhoods throughout the city. His noteworthy buildings include the Polish Roman Catholic Union of America in Chicago's West Town neighborhood which now houses the Polish Museum of America. Flizikowski produced several store and flat buildings in Pilsen
Frommann & Jebsen (Firm 1881-1925)
The Chicago architectural firm of Frommann & Jebsen enjoyed frequent patronage from Edward Uihlein and the Schlitz Brewing Company. The American Contractor identifies 27 commissions that the firm received from Uihlein or the brewery; a substantial number of these buildings were tied houses. Frommann & Jebsen also designed Uihlein's residence at 2041 W. Pierce (1877, demolished circa 1921) and the brewery's distribution and bottling facility at Ohio and Union Avenues (1903, also demolished). Surviving tied houses known to have been designed by Frommann & Jebsen including those at 3159 N. Southport Ave. (1903) and 8900 S. Normal Ave. (1910). Frommann & Jebsen likely designed the tied house at 11400 S. Front Ave. (1906) and the stable building at 11314 S. Front Ave. (1906) in "Schlitz Row" near Pullman. The firm also produced the Schlitz Tied House at 1870 S. Blue Island Ave. in Pilsen.
Architect Emil Henry Frommann (1860-1950) was born in Peoria as the son of German immigrant and architect George N. Frommann. In 1871, the elder Frommann moved to Chicago to participate in the post-Fire reconstruction. The younger Frommann apprenticed in his father's office in the late-1870s before leaving to study architecture at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1880. His father's death a year later cut short his formal education, though he was able to return to Chicago and successfully carry on his father's practice with Ernst Jebsen (1850-1917), about whom little is known. Frommann continued to practice architecture after Jebsen's death, with his last-known design completed in 1925.
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John Klucina (1861-1921)
John Klucina emigrated from Bohemia in 1890 and settled in Pilsen. He received his architectural training prior to immigration. Klucina established his own firm sometime before 1900. Within the following decade Klucina and his family moved to W. 26th Street in the heart of Chicago's "Czech California" district and he began receiving many design commissions from the community. Although he produced some buildings that reflect Victorian styles, Klucina's work is characteristically representative of Arts & Crafts architecture. Klucina produced several residential and mixed-use buildings in Pilsen.
Lonek and Houda
Lonek & Houda was an architectural firm founded by Adolph Lonek and Joseph F. Houda. Born in Bohemia, Adolph Lonek (1864-1938) immigrated to America in 1892, and established his own firm in Chicago by 1898. He became quite active designing residential and mixed-use buildings for Bohemian clients, especially in the Lawndale neighborhood. Along with his architectural work, Lonek served on the boards of two banks in Lawndale. Lonek went into partnership with architect Joseph Houda around 1905.
The son of a Bohemian immigrant tailor, Joseph Houda (1874-1933) was born in Chicago and raised in the Pilsen neighborhood. Although little is known about his architectural training, he attended college. Houda began practicing on his own by 1900, quickly developing a large body of work. Lonek and Houda produced several buildings in Pilsen including stores and flats at 1152 and 1538 W. 18lh St. and the Benedictine Press Building at 1637 S. Allport St.
John Hulla
Bohemian immigrant John Hulla (1876-1970) lived in Oak Park, Illinois and ran an architectural firm from an office in downtown Chicago from the 1890s until at least the mid-1950s. His wife, Adelaide Benham Hulla received an architectural degree from the Armour Institute and assisted her husband. Hulla's work includes a 1905 Rectory for the All Saints Episcopal Church in the Ravenswood neighborhood, several buildings in the Dover Street Historic District, and the couple's own home at 417 S. Grove Street in Oak Park. In Pilsen, the Hullas designed store and flat buildings.
William B. Mundie (1863-1939)
William Bryce Mundie was born in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada in 1863. His parents were natives of Scotland and both his father and paternal grandfather were architects. Mundie was educated in public schools and the Hamilton Collegiate Institute. He worked as an "indentured student" (his own term) for Peter Brass from 1880 to 1884. That year he came to Chicago and was hired as a draftsman by William Le Baron Jenney. In 1891 he became Jenney's partner in the firm of Jenney & Mundie. In 1892 he married Jenney's niece, Bessie Russel.
In 1905, Elmer Jensen joined the practice as William Jenney went into retirement, and the firm became Jenney, Mundie & Jensen. In 1907 Jenney died, and the firm became Mundie & Jensen until 1936. From then until the time of Mundie's death in 1939 the practice was known as Mundie, Jensen, Bourke & Havers.
Mundie joined Jenney as he was building the Home Insurance Building (1885, demolished 1931) commonly credited as the first metal skeleton frame building. While Mundie and Jenney worked together their main commissions were tall office buildings, including the State Bank of India Building (1893,19 South LaSalle St.), and the LaSalle-Monroe Building (1894, 37 South LaSalle St.). Among the im-
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portant buildings designed by Jenney, Mundie & Jensen are the Lake View Building (1912, 116 South Michigan Ave), and the Union League Building (1926, 65 West Jackson Blvd).
Mundie was Architect for the Chicago Board of Education from December 1898 to May 1904. Some of his extant designs include Jungman School (1902, 1632 S Miller St.), Plamondon School (1903, 2642 West 15lh St.) and Phillips High School (1904, 244 East Pershing Road, a designated Chicago Landmark). According to Donna Rae Nelson in her study of Dwight Perkins (who followed Mundie as Board of Education Architect), Mundie was "badgered out of office by a school board that was more interested in rewarding cronies than in quality scholastic architecture." The March 28, 1904, Chicago Board of Education Proceedings state that Mundie resigned "on account of his health." He died in 1939 and is buried at Rosehill Cemetery.
Ludwig Novy (1854-1917); L. Novy & Son
Ludwig Novy was trained as an architect in Bohemia and immigrated with his wife and son in 1880. He soon established the firm of L. Novy architect. He became quite prolific, specializing in residential and commercial buildings for Bohemian immigrant clients. His son, Joseph James Novy (1878- 1964), began working in the practice before 1900, and the firm's name was changed to L. Novy & Son around 1909. Continuing after his father's death, the practice became known as J.J. Novy in 1918. Joseph's son Norman Novy (1907-1998) later joined the office and went on to established his own practice after Joseph retired in the 1950s.
The three generations of Novy's produced a large body of work in Chicago and the western suburbs. Among the firm's best known buildings is the Sokol Slavsky Building at 6130 W. Cermak Avenue in Cicero. Constructed in 1927, the structure included a grand ballroom that was later converted to a movie theater. The Novys produced store and flat buildings as well as a blacksmith shop and flats at 1530 W. 21st St.in Pilsen.
Frank Randak (1861-1926)
Frank Randak was an architect who had produced a number of prominent buildings in Pilsen and other nearby Czech communities. Born in Bohemia, he trained in architecture before emigrating in 1888. His Pilsen work includes the Plzensky Sokol at 1812-1816 S. Ashland Avenue; the Cesko-Slovansky Pod-porujici Spolek at 1436-1440 W. 18th; and the Nemecek Photography Studio and Flats at 1439 W. 18th Street. He also designed the store and flats at 1852 S. Blue Island Ave.
Among Randak's other noteworthy work are the Anton Cermak House at 2483 S. Millard (designed with architect James B. Rezny); the Lawndale National Bank 3333 W. 26th Street; the Douglas Natato-rium and Gymnasium (no longer extant); and the Crematorium at Bohemian National Cemetery (5200 N. Pulaski Road).
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SELECTED MURALS & ARTISTS IN THE PILSEN HISTORIC DISTRICT
Outdoor murals are, by their very nature, ephemeral as they are subjected to their interaction with nature and humankind. They are also often dynamic, perhaps more so with community based art. The murals of Pilsen are no exception, with many having been lost or faded to near-obscurity but also revived, modified to suit a new social-political context, or even re-created to maintain an important community connection.
Despite these facts, the murals of Pilsen are a key part of the community identity, even if any description of their content is merely a snapshot in time. Similarly, the artists who have contributed this snapshot include well-known and recognized leaders in the art community; numerous self -taught, outsider, folk and naTve artists; as well as students, neighbors and anonymous contributors. The following descriptions, presented in chronological order, provide a sample of the art and artistry that exist in the Pilsen Historic District today.
Organicemonos Para Que Haiga Paz (Let 's Organize So We May Have Peace), 1978, Aurelio Diaz 1657 S. Throop Street
Aurelio Diaz (b. 1954) immigrated to the United States from Zamora, Michoacan, Mexico in the early 1970's. He painted murals in the Southwest, Arizona, and New Mexico before migrating to Chicago. Diaz' murals in Pilsen and Little Village include Organicemonos Para Que Haiga Paz and several at St. Pius V Church and School. He currently resides in Mexico.
Nuestra Sagrada Familia (Our Holy Family), 1989, Aurelio Diaz 1919 S. Ashland Avenue, St. Pius V School
Above the doorway on the south side of the school, families are depicted examining books. On either side of the central image of multi-racial families, Aztec warriors stand at attention. The mural which evokes the style of Diego Rivera, highlights cultural pride and the importance of knowledge.
Mural @ La Catrina Cafe, date unknown, Salvador Vega 1800 S. Morgan Street (also 1011 W. 18th Street)
Above: Organicemonos Para Que Haiga Paz (Let's Organize So We May Have Peace), 1978, Aurelio Diaz, 1657-1659 S. Throop Street.
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Chicago born and raised, Salvador Vega has been an artist and muralist since the 1970's. A life- long activist, he participated in Pilsen demonstrations that resulted in the construction of Benito Juarez High School. Vega was also one of many young student artists who worked on the execution of A La Es-peranza the 2,000 foot mural painted on the east side of the new school. Later, as a student at the
Murals can be found throughout Pilsen dating from 1970s and continuing to today. Artists who have contributed these work include well-known and recognized leaders in the art community; numerous self -taught, outsider, folk and naive artists; as well as students, neighbors and anonymous contributors.
Top: Nuestra Sagrada Familia (Our Holy Family), 1989, Aurelio Diaz, 1919 S. Ashland Avenue, St. Pius V School
Bottom: Mural @ La Catrina Cafe, date unknown, Salvador Vega, 1800 S. Morgan Street (also 1011 W. 18th Street)
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School of the Art Institute of Chicago, he was a leader in protests for more rights and representation. Vega continues to work as an artist and muralist often provides technical assistance to other artists based on his years of experience.
Homage lo the Women of Mexico and others, 1993-1995, Francisco Mendoza 1710 W 18th Street at the CTA Pink Line Station
Mendoza, working with Joy Anderson and other local artists and area youth, painted murals on the stairs, stairway walls and platform wall of the Chicago Transit Authority (CTA) 18th Street Pink Line Station. They mixed traditional and contemporary Mexican designs with iconic Pre-Columbian images in an exuberant homage to Mexican Culture. Sponsored by the Mexican Fine Arts Center Museum, the Chicago Transit Authority Community Station Program and Gallery 37, the installation grew to include the glass tile mosaic Homage to the Women of Mexico at the entrance to the station.
Born in Blue Island, Illinois, Francisco Mendoza (1958 - 2012) was a graduate of Bowen High School and later of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. He taught at Cooper Elementary school where, with support from the Mexican Fine Art Center Museum, he taught and worked with students directing a multi-year project to create mosaics featuring historic cultural heroes on the facade of the school. Mendoza's public art projects also included murals at the former St. Vitus Church Plaza, the first mosaic/mural at the CTA 18th Street station, and the largest Venetian glass mosaic mural project in Chicago on the facade of Jose Clemente Orozco Community Academy. He was also a Golden Apple Finalist
Left: Popocatepetl and Iztaccihuatl, date unknown, artist unknown at 18th Street facade of 1658 S Allport St.
Mexican theme of star-crossed lovers Popocatepetl and Iztaccihuatl, based on the original image La Leyenda de Los Volcanes by Mexican painter Jesus Helguera (1910-71). The mural continues above the door with images ofthe Sun Stone and Aztec Calendar.
and was recognized with the OPPY Award for Excellence in Teaching for his work at Jose Clemente Orozco and Cooper Elementary school. He was a gifted printmaker and the quintessential art educator, many of his former students are now artists or teachers.
Popocatepetl and Iztaccihuatl, date unknown, artist unknown 1244 W. 18th Street (also 1658 S Allport Street)
Mexican theme of star-crossed lovers Popocatepetl and Iztaccihuatl, based on the original image La Leyenda de Los Volcanes by Mexican painter Jesus Helguera (1910-71), an illustrator whose images were used extensively on calendars and cigar boxes.
Sirvales (Serve), 2005, Jeff Zimmerman 1538 W Cullerton Avenue
One of the artist's well recognized photo realist murals with imagery raising the issue of Social Justice and Education. The apple and water representing education flowing from suspended hands to the children of the neighborhood.
Chicagoan Jeff Zimmerman's large- scale Pilsen photo realistic murals done in the 90's marked his beginnings as muralist. After graduating from the University of Illinois with a degree in art history and computer design, Zimmerman spent two years working with the Jesuit Volunteer Corp in Peru working with children. Upon his return, he began volunteering at St. Pius V teaching art to at-risk students. His work in Pilsen began with the murals around St. Pius church and school.
All About the Women, 2006, Alejandro Medina 1757 W. 18th Street
Alejandro Medina, a local artist, created a number of large scale images that can be seen at various sites in Pilsen. He also worked with students as part of Yollocalli Arts Reach. All About the Women celebrates female figures who have achieved iconic status in Mexican/Mexican American history and culture. The women depicted include La Malinche, Josefa Ortiz de Dominguz, La Adelita, Gabriela Mistral, Dolores Del Rio, Frida Kahlo, Dolores Huerta and Rigoberta Menchu.
Declaration of Immigration, 2009, Yollocalli Arts Reach With Salvador Jimenez-Florez 1808-29 S Blue Island Avenue
Continuing the artist/student collaborative model supported by the National Museum of Mexican Art, Salvador Jimenez-Flores with Yollocalli Arts Reach students created a 2-story tall by 30 foot wide mural on the southwest exterior wall of what was then the Yollocalli Arts Reach/Radio Arte building. It was unveiled on August 11, 2009, and was dedicated to all immigrants and allies in the face of anti-immigrant rhetoric. Historic and current issues were examined in its conceptualization and design as a way of emphasizing that the foundation of the United States was immigration. An interdisciplinary artist from Jalisco, Mexico, Jimenez-Flores creates public and studio-based art exploring the themes of colonization, migration and cultural appropriation. His work reflects his life experience on both sides of the border.
Wall of Hope, 2010-12, Yollocalli Arts Reach with Jesus Chucho Rodriguez 1856 S. Loomis Street
Yollocalli Arts Reach started in 1997 as an initiative of the National Museum of Mexican Art. The program, whose name means "House of Youth" in the Aztecan language Nahuatl, received a National Arts and Humanities Youth Program Award in 2009. Program participants often called "Yollos" collaborate and learn from artists through all aspects of the art making process. The program has engaged
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Top Left: Sirvales (Serve), 2005, Jeff Zimmerman, 1538 W Cullerton Avenue.
Bottom Left: All About the Women, 2006, Alejandro Medina, 1757 W. 18th Street.
Top Right: Declaration of Immigration, 2009, Yollocalli Arts Reach With Salvador Jimenez-Florez, 1800-1808 S. Blue Island Avenue.
Bottom Right: Wall of Hope, 2010-12, Yollocalli Arts Reach with Jesus Chucho Rodriguez, 1856 S. Loomis Street.
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over 1,000 youth artists with more than 40 art professionals. Together they have created over 50 murals throughout Chicago including this one along the south elevation of the now shuttered San Jose Obrero Mission.
Flyboy, 2013, Hebru Brantley 972 W. 18th Street
Chicago-native and internationally recognized artist Hebru Brantley created Flyboy, one of his signature iconic characters, inspired by the Tuskegee Airmen (a group of African-American WWII fighter pilots). Brantley's works often address ideas around nostalgia, power and hope.
Pilsen Wall of Honor, 2014-17, J-Def Peace Project 1700-04 W. 18lh Street (at the Paulina Street facade) .
This block long tribute mosaic is one of several created by The J-Def Peace Project whose mission is memorialized in the mural itself: "The J-Def Peace Project was created in honor of Jeff Moldonado Jr., a young Pilsen Artist who was killed in a case of mistaken gang identity. Jeff or J-Def, as he was known, was a talented college student and hip hop emcee whose music tells the story of growing up in the community he loved yet that was filled with violence. Jeff was killed on July 25, 2009, a day after his 19th birthday. He was returning home from the barbershop preparing for his first public performance that afternoon. J-Def Peace Project is an organization whose mission is to provide teens with a positive safe place where creativity and peace flourish.
Top: Pilsen Heart, 2016, Jo Dufo , 1436-40 W. 18th Street.
Left: P/7sen Wall of Honor, 2014-17, J-Def Peace Project, 1700-04 W. 18th Street (at Paulina Street facade)
Right: Flyboy, 2013, Hebru Brantley, 972 W. 18th Street.
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Pilsen Heart, 2016, Jo Dufo 1436-40 W. 18th Street
Pilsen Heart, by Jo Dufo of Fort Worth, Texas, is painted on the cornerstone of the former Czesky Slovonsky Americky Sokol (C.S.A.S) building. A number of other murals by various artists join this work along the base ofthe structure. Dufo has been a visionary public muralist since 1991. Through her "Walls of Peace Global Peace Mural Project" she has painted Peace Murals in orphanages, clinics and community centers around the world.
Pilsen, 2016, Raul "Rawooh" Ramirez 1447 W. 18th Street
Ramirez works as an aerosol muralist, an illustrator and an advertising artist. He describes his style as a fusion between comic books and graffiti.
Greed, 2016, Pablo Machioli Taming the Bull, 2016, Nether 410 1430-34 W. 18th Street
Uruguayan born Pablo Machioli, immigrated to the United States in 2003. He has exhibited, taught and painted all over the world. He currently resides in Baltimore.
Nether 410 is a Baltimore-based street artist and mural painter. His interests focus on documenting the struggles, histories and dilemmas faced by cities as they age and change. He has worked internationally and co-founded Arts+Parks.
From Matter to Mind, From Mind to Matter, 2016, Ruben Aguirre 960 W. 18th Street
Ruben Aguirre, a Chicago based painter, describes his work as being at the intersection of abstract graffiti, formalism and mural painting. His non-narrative work is primarily abstract, plays with color, texture, negative and positive space on infrastructure.
La Dama (The Woman), 2016, MATR and KOZMO
1447 W. 18th Street
El Corazon (The Heart). 2016, MATR and KOZMO
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Right: Greed (left), 2016, Pablo Machioli; Taming the Bull (right), 2016, Nether 410; 1430-34 W. 18th Street.
Left: Pilsen, 2016, Raul "Rawooh" Ramirez , 1447 W. 18th Street.
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Top Left: From Matter to Mind, From Mind to Matter, 2016, Ruben Aguirre, 960 W. 18th Street. Top Right: La Dama (The Woman), 2016, MATR and KOZMO, 1447 W. 18th Street. Bottom Left: El Corazon (The Heart), 2016, MATR and KOZMO, 1448 W. 18th Street,
Bottom Right: La Valienta (The Brave One), 2016, MATR and KOZMO, 1454 W. 18th Street.
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La Valienla (The Brave One), 2016, MATR and KOZMO 1454 W. 18th Street
El Apache (The Apache) and La Sirena (The Siren), 2016, MATR and KOZMO 1715 S. Laflin Street
Collaborative artists Manuel "MATR" Macias and his wife Brenda "KOZMO" Macias -Lopez have created numerous images of Loten'a (Mexican Bingo) cards on doors along 18th St. MATR is both a visual artist and a tattoo artist from Back of the Yards neighborhood whose style is based on realism. KOZMO, was born in Chicago and raised in Puerto Rico and her style leans more toward pop art. They have combined their styles for the Loten'a series as well as other public art in Chicago. Other artists have also contributed to the Loten'a collection in Pilsen.
MLS Soccer Mural, 2017, Sam Kirk with Jenny Q, Eva Gancino and Karla Olvera 1722-24 S. Ashland Avenue
Commissioned by Major League Soccer (MLS), the Soccer Mural celebrates the 22nd Annual MLS All-StarGame at Soldier Field in 2017. Kirk's work highlights people of underrepresented communities with the goal of inspiring recognition and pride in themselves and their culture/community.
Casa Aztlan, 2017, Ray Patlan, Robert Valdez and others; design by Salvador Vega 1831 S. Racine
This facade of the former Bohemian Settlement House was originally painted in 1970 by native-Chicago artist Ray Patlan. As a young man, on a visit to Mexico with his family, Patlan was inspired by seeing and experiencing in person the famous murals of the Mexican Mural Movement. A meeting with famous muralist Siqueiros inspired him to paint murals with social and political messages. The original mural was reworked and revised several times over the following three decades by various artists including Marcos Raya, Salvador Vega, Aurelio Diaz, Carlos Barrera and others.
Above: MLS Soccer Mural, 2017, Sam Kirk with Jenny Q, Eva Gancino and Karla Olvera, 1722-24 S. Ashland Avenue, Commissioned by Major League Soccer (MLS), the Soccer Mural celebrates the 22nd Annual MLS All-Star Game at Soldier Field in 2017.
The original mural was lost in 2017, but following outcry from the community, a new mural was created in its place. Patlan, Roberto Valadez and Gerardo Cazares created the mural with numerous collaborating artists and community volunteers based on a design by Salvador Vega.
Top: Casa Aztlan, 2017, Ray Patlan, Robert Valdez and others; design by Salvador Vega, 1831 S. Racine Avenue. This facade ofthe former Bohemian Settlement House was originally painted in 1970 native-Chicago artist Ray Patlan. Patlan, Roberto Valadez and Gerardo Cazares created the current mural with numerous collaborating artists and community volunteers based on a design by Salvador Vega.
Bottom: Frida K, 2018, Roberto Valadez, 1711-13 W. 18th Street
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CRITERIA FOR DESIGNATION
According to the Municipal Code of Chicago (Sections 2-120-620 and -630), the Commission on Chicago Landmarks has the authority to make a preliminary recommendation of landmark designation for an area, district, place, building, structure, work of art or other object with the City of Chicago if the Commission determines it meets two or more of the stated "criteria for designation," as well as possesses a significant degree of historic integrity to convey its significance.
The following should be considered by the Commission on Chicago Landmarks in determining whether to recommend that the Pilsen Historic District be designated a Chicago Landmark.
Criterion 1: Value as an Example of City, State, or National Heritage
Its value as an example ofthe architectural, cultural, economic, historic, social, or other aspects ofthe heritage of the City of Chicago, State of Illinois, or the United States.
? The Pilsen Historic District is one of the city's best-surviving examples of a neighborhood that served as a port of entry for waves of immigrants beginning just after the Great Fire of 1871. A variety of industries such as garment making; lumber, furniture, and related products; meat packing and sausage making; and mattress and pillow firms attracted workers to settle in the area. As each successive wave of immigrants found success and moved to other Chicago neighborhoods and the western suburbs, new immigrants settled in the neighborhood. By the late 1950s Mexican immigrants, attracted by many of the features that spurred earlier settlement, moved into the neighborhood.
? Chicago's Bohemian immigrants brought cultural values and aspirations with them when they settled in Chicago. As they valued education, "freethought," and physical fitness, they formed sokols, gathered in saloons where they could discuss ideas and debate politics, and they read locally published newspapers. Therefore, buildings in the neighborhood reflect the importance of ethnic immigration in Chicago's history and development, generally, and specifically the contributions of the Chicago's Bohemian ethnic community.
? Chicago's Mexican immigrants brought their own customs, culture and aesthetic when they began settling in Pilsen. The neighborhood of family homes, apartment buildings, shops and businesses, retains the feel of an ethnic enclave even as the visual landscape has changed to reflect the voice and culture of the neighborhood's most recent settlers. The visual character of the neighborhood's built environment has been supplemented with Spanish language signage, traditional Mexican decoration, and murals depicting themes from Mexican and Mexican-American culture.
? Historically, Pilsen was a thriving mixed-use community. The district, and especially the W. 18lh Street corridor, is filled with stores and flat buildings, as well as industrial structures located in close proximity to cottages and flats. The vibrant, mixed-use character of the community continues to define Pilsen today.
Criterion 4: Exemplary Architecture
Its exemplification of an architectural type or style distinguished by innovation, rarity, uniqueness, or overall quality of design, detail, materials, or craftsmanship.
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? Pilsen's buildings are distinguished for representing a broad range of periods and styles, each designed with special features and flourishes representing the homelands of their immigrant builders and owners. Flourishes that can be described as "Bohemian Baroque" include unusually shaped parapets, carved stone lintels, sculptural treatments of hoodmolds and cornices, and decorative patterns in the brickwork.
? Pilsen's immigrant residents valued community spaces where residents could gather, attend cultural events, participate in athletic training and tournaments, and discuss politics and other ideas. As a result, several monumental sokols and halls were designed in ornate styles and built of high quality materials. For example Thalia Hall at 1807 S. Allport St. is a fine Romaneque Revival style structure designed by architects Faber & Pagels. Bohemian-born architect Frank Randak designed two impressive sokols in Pilsen, the Plzensky Sokol at 1812 S. Ashland Avenue; the Czesky-Slavonsky Americky Sokol at 1436-1440 W. 18lh St.
? Pilsen's extensive collection of high quality buildings was largely designed and produced by talented immigrant tradesmen and architects, many of whom lived in the neighborhood. Among the local tradesmen of fine 19th century structures was Bohemian immigrant contractor Frank C. Layer, who produced the Romanesque style mixed-use building at 1332-1334 W. 18th St. European immigrant architects or first-generation Americans who designed buildings in the community include Frank Randak, Anton C. and Anton O. Charvat, Ludwig Novy and Novy & Son, and Lonek & Houda.
Criterion 6: Distinctive Theme as a District
Its unique location of distinctive physical presence representing an established and familiar visual feature of a neighborhood, community or City of Chicago.
? Although varied in their range of styles and periods of construction, the buildings in the district provide a strong sense of architectural continuity in terms of their scale, materials, and "Bohemian Baroque" details. Italianate style and Queen Anne style structures with ornate lintels, hoodmolds, cornices, and parapets are especially prolific and provide a design theme that is unique to Pilsen.
? Mixed-use buildings of two- to four-stories tall with ornate primary facades are prolific especially along the W. 18lh St. corridor. The "store and flat" type allowed many Pilsen building owners to live and work in their structure while also generating revenue from tenants. In other Chicago neighborhoods, examples of 19th and early-20th century mixed-use buildings are scattered throughout the area or in small groups along a commercial street. However, Pilsen retains hundreds of such buildings especially along W. 18th and S. Racine Streets, and S. Blue Island and S. Ashland Avenue.
? Many 19th century residential cottages and flats in the neighborhood provide a sense of unity through scale, materials, and architectural details. For example, there are dozens of Italianate style brick cottages and flats with gable roofs, the front door on one side, long rectangular windows, ornamented hoods or lintels above the door and windows, and fanciful parapets that generally conceal the peak of the gable behind them. Many such buildings can be found on S. All-port, S. Loomis, S. Laflin, and S. Throop Streets, and W. Cullerton Ave., W. 18th Place.
Criterion 7: Distinctive Visual Feature
Its unique location or distinctive physical appearance or presence representing an established and familiar visual feature of a neighborhood, community, or the City of Chicago.
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? Over the course of four decades, scores of artists have contributed to the evolving visual landscape of Pilsen through artistic painting, decoration, and mosaic. Although the content and style vary widely including religious iconography, pre-Columbian imagery, tribute pieces, pop-culture, calls for peace, the Mexican-American experience on both sides ofthe border, historic and folk, cultural images and abstract expression, collectively these works communicate the unique multilayered culture and history of the Pilsen community.
? Originally inspired by the post-Revolution Mexican Mural Movement of the 1920's and the art created under the Works Progress Administration Federal Art Project of the 1930's, a number of artists began creating large-scale murals in the neighborhood of Pilsen in the 1960s and 1970s. The work that emerged at this time continues to attract and inspire artists to express their voice on buildings in this neighborhood. The influence of Mexican culture and the Mexican-American experience on many of these works and artists solidifies a strong connection to works of the most widely recognized Mexican Muralists ofthe 1920s, including: David Alfaro Siqueiros, Jose Clemente Orozco and Diego Rivera. Additionally, the murals of Pilsen create a distinctive physical appearance which - although originally built by an earlier Bohemian community - retains the feel of an ethnic enclave that reflects the voice and culture of its current residents.
Integrity Criteria
The integrity of the proposed landmark must be presented in light of its location, design, setting, materials, workmanship and ability to express its historic community, architecture or aesthetic interest or value.
The Pilsen neighborhood retains an exceptionally high number of structures dating from the 1870s to early 20th century. The district possesses a high level of historic integrity, especially for buildings of such early vintage in Chicago. Most are intact to a strong degree in location, exterior design, setting, materials, and workmanship. With the exception of relatively minor ground-floor alterations and the inclusion of a few non-contributing buildings, the buildings strongly reflect the character ofthe district in the years 1872 through 1969, during the period when the area developed as a thriving mixed-use community.
Historically, many Pilsen residents were thrifty immigrants who altered or added onto their existing structures rather than fully razing them to construct new ones. Therefore, alterations of high quality materials and design are often representations of significant changes over time. Similarly, as is the case in other neighborhoods that have large collections of commercial or mixed-use buildings, some changes to Pilsen buildings were spurred by commercial prosperity, changes in architectural tastes, the advent of new building materials and technologies, and changes in building use. These changes often occurred during district's period of significance, and are important as a reflection ofthe evolution of the neighborhood.
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Changes to street-level storefronts are among the most common alterations in commercial and mixed use historic districts; storefront alterations in Pilsen are numerous, particularly along the W. 18th Street corridor. Some modern aluminum frame-and-glass storefront assemblies have been installed often within the original storefront openings. Remnants of original cast iron storefronts are often present in Pilsen buildings even when new assemblies have been added.
The upper story facades of Pilsen buildings often retain exceptionally high integrity. In cases where storefronts have been significantly altered but the remainder of the primary facades are well intact, the overall integrity is still considered high.
SIGNIFICANT HISTORICAL AND ARCHITECTURAL FEATURES
Whenever an area, district, place, building, structure, work of art or other object is under consideration for landmark designation, the Commission on Chicago Landmarks is required to identify the "significant historical and architectural features" of the property. This is done to enable the owners and the public to understand which elements are considered most important to preserve the historical and architectural character of the proposed landmark.
Based upon its preliminary evaluation of the Pilsen Historic District, the Commission staff recommends that the significant features be identified as:
? All exterior elevations, including rooflines, of the buildings visible from public rights of way.
? Murals on exterior facades of the buildings visible from public rights of way.
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SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
Books & Articles
Adams, Jane [1910] 1938. Twenty Years at the Hull House. New York: Macmillan
Adelman, William J. [1979] 1983. Pilsen and the West Side: A Tour Guide. Chicago: Illinois Labor History Society.
Armstrong, Liz. 2006. "Whitewashed How the City Wiped Out a Decade of History". Chicago Reader, September 2626. Downloaded from the Chicago Reader Story Archive, www.Chicagoreader.com
Bohemian National Cemetery. 1927. Padesatilete Jubileum Ceskeho Ndrodniho Hfhitova v Chicago. Illinois. Chicago: Tiskem R. Mejdrich & Co.
Chicago (111.). Board of Education. "Annual Report" (various years). Chicago: Board of Education.
Chicago Fact Book Consortium, editors. Local Community Fact Book: Chicago Metropolitan Area Chicago: The Chicago Factbook Consortium, 1980, pp. 86-88.
Chicago Historic Resources Survey, 1996.
Encyclopedia of Chicago. 2005. http://www.encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org/
George, P. B. & Cumpian, C. (1977) Interview with Carlos Cumpian from MARCH: Movimiento Ar-tistico Chicano, Chicago, Illinois, part 1. Chicago, Illinois, July 2. [Audio] Retrieved from the Library of Congress https://www.loc.gov/item/afc 1981004_afs20770/.
Fernandez, Lila 2012. Brown in the Windy City Mexicans and Puerto Ricans in Postwar Chicago. Chicago: University of Chicago Press
Ganz, Cheryl R. and Margaret Strobel 2004 Pots of Promise Mexicans and Pottery at Hull House, 1920 -140. Urbana and Chicago. University of Illinois Press.
Goldman, Shifra M. 1994. Dimensions ofthe Americas: Art and Social Change in Latin America and the United States. University of Chicago Press.
Goodspeed, Weston A. and Daniel D. Healy. 1909. History of Cook County Illinois. Chicago: The Goodspeed Historical Association.
Gonzalez, Jose Gamiel. 2010. Bringing Aztlan lo Mexican Chicago: My Art, My Work, My Life. Introduced and edited by Marc Zimmerman. Urbana. U of Illinois Press.
Grams, Diane 2010. Producing Local Color Art Networks in Ethnic Chicago. Chicago University of Chicago Press.
Gray, Mary Lackritz. 2001 A Guide to Chicago's Murals. Chicago: University of Chicago Press
Gude, Olivia and Huebner, Jeff 2000 Urban Art Chicago. Chicago: Ivan R. Dee Press.
Hurlburt, Laurance P. 1991 The Mexican Muralists in the United States. New Mexico: University of New Mexico Press.
Herrera, Olga U. 2008. Contributors Sorell, Victor A and Cardenas , Gilberto Toward the Preservation of A Heritage Latin American and Latino Art in the Midwestern United States. Notre Dame Ind: Institute for LatinoStudies.
Jones, Robert C. and Louis Wilson. 1931 The Mexican in Chicago. Chicago, II,: Pub for the Comity commission of the Chicago Church federation.
Jirasek, Rita Arias and Carlos Tortolero. 2001 Mexican Chicago. Arcadia Publishing: Charleston, SC
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Mexican Fine Arts Center -Museum 1987. The Barrio Murals (Murales Del Barrio), July 21 -September 1, 1987. Chicago, IL Mexican Fine Arts-Center Museum
Moreno, Cesareo, 2018 Sin Fronteras Art Knows No Borders. Gilcrease Magazine of Gilcrease Institute of American History and Art.
Pacyga, Dominic. 2009. Chicago: A Biography. Chicago: University of Chicago Press:
Pacyga, Dominic and Ellen Skerrett. 1986. Chicago City of Neighborhoods, Chicago: Loyola University Press.
Pero, Peter N. 2011. Chicago's Pilsen Neighborhood. Arcadia Publishing: Charleston SC.
Pierce, Bessie Louise. A History of Chicago, Volume III, The Rise of a Modern City (Chicago: University of Chicago, 1957.
Rogovin, Mark, Burton, Marie; and Highfill, Holly. 1975 Mural Manual. Tim Drescher, ed. Beacon Press, Boston.
Sinkevitch, Alice, ed. AIA Guide to Chicago. Orlando: Harcourt Brace, 1993
Sorell, Victor A. "The Enduring Presence ofthe Chicano-Mexican Mural in Chicago" In Arceo, Sorell, and Rogovi, Barrio Murals, 3-7.
, Barrio Murals In Chicago: Painting the Hispanic-American Experience on "Our Community
Walls" Revista Chicano-Riquena Fall 1976. Pgs 79
Taft, Maggie and Robert Cozzolino. Art in Chicago: A History from the Fire to Now. 2018 Chicago: the University of Chicago Press
United States Census Data from 1870, 1880, 1900, 1910, 1920, 1930, 1940. Available at: Ances-try.com.
Withey, Henry F. and Elsie Rathburn Withey. Biographical Dictionaiy of American Architects (Deceased). Los Angeles: Hennessey & Ingalls, 1970.
Zimmerman, Mark. "Latino Art Now! On the eve of the Lan Conference: A state of the art "Pre-History" in El BeisMan: http://www.elbeisman.com/article.php?action=read&id=1035
Newspapers, Periodicals, & Reports
American Architect and Architecture; various dates. American Contractor, various dates
Annual Report of Factory Inspector of Illinois. Chicago: Office of Inspector of Factories and Workshops; various dates between 1893 and 1908.
Certified List of Domestic and Foreign Corporations, various dates.
Chicago Daily Tribune; various dates.
Chicago Tribune, various dates.
Chicago Directory Company and Lakeside Press. Lakeside Chicago City Directories, 1887, 1897, 1899,1900,1909,1910.
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The Economist; various dates.
The Inland Architect and News Record, various dates. Sanitary News, various dates.
Landmark Nominations
Bluestone, Daniel and Lydia Brandt, Diane Dillon, Cora Palmer, Edgar Barron, Flora Favela, David Hernandez, and Stephanie Navarro. Pilsen Historic District. National Register of Historic Places Registration Form. U.S. Department of the Interior, October, 2005.
City of Chicago, Commission on Chicago Landmarks. Preliminary Staff Summary of Information on Thalia Hall. October, 1988.
City of Chicago, Department of Planning and Development. Landmark Designation Report for Former Schlitz Brewery Tied House (5120 N. Broadway Avenue), Feb. 3, 2011.
City of Chicago, Department of Planning and Development. Landmark Designation Report for Former Schlitz Brewery Tied House (1801 W. Division Street), March 11, 2011.
City of Chicago, Department of Planning and Development. Landmark Designation Report for Former Schlitz Brewery Tied House (1944 W. Oakley Street). July 7, 2011.
City of Chicago, Department of Planning and Development. Landmark Designation Report for Five Schlitz Brewery Tied Houses and One Schlitz Brewery Stable Building. April 7, 2011.
Logman, Elisabeth, Midwest Preservation, LLP. K-Town Historic District. National Register of Historic Places Registration Form. U.S. Department ofthe Interior, May 5, 2010.
Illustrations
All photographs 2018 by Bauer Latoza Studio (consultant) except those noted below: Courtesy of Bill Latoza: p 42
Chicago History in Postcards: pp 12 (top left), 39 (top left and bottom right) Mexican Chicago (Jirasek and Tortolero): pp 26, 28 (bottom)
Department of Planning and Development, Historic Preservation Division: p 28 (top left)
Smithsonian Institution, Archives of American Art: p 26:
Top left: Jose Clemente Orozco, ca. 1938 / Alfredo Valente, photographer. Alfredo Valente papers, 1941-1978.
Top right: Diego Rivera at work in his studio, 194- / unidentified photographer. Florence Arquin papers, 1923-1985.
Center right: David Alfaro Siqueiros with "Heroic Voice", 1971 / unidentified photographer. Heritage Gallery records, 1944-2000, bulk 1960-1998.
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DISTRICT ADDRESS RANGES
W. 17th Street
1601-1611 (odds)
W. 18th Place
1300- 1358 (evens), 1500-1610 (evens),
1301- 1359 (odds), 1501-1557 (odds)
W. 18th Street
940-2158 (evens), 917-2159 (odds)
W. 19th Street
1200-1556 (evens), 1201 -1557 (odds)
W. 21st Street
1200-1556 (evens), 1201 -1557 (odds)
S. Allport Street
1658-2024 (evens), 1637-2025 (odds)
S. Ashland Avenue
1708-1824 (evens), 1723-2025 (odds)
S. Bishop Street
1800-1852 (evens), 1801 -1855 (odds)
S. Blue Island Avenue
1800-2030 (evens), 1647-2031 (odds)
S. Carpenter Street
1714-1800 (evens), 1715-1801 (odds)
S. Cullerton Street
1300-1556 (evens), 1301-1557 (odds)
S. Damen Avenue
1714-1810 (evens)
S. Hamilton Avenue
1714-1724 (evens), 1715-1725 (odds)
S. Hoyne Avenue
1714-1810 (evens), 1715-1811 (odds)
S. Laflin Street
1714-2024 (evens), 1715-2025 (odds)
S. Leavitt Street
1715-1811 (odds)
S. Loomis Street
1724-2026 (evens), 1801-2025 (odds)
S. Marshfield Avenue
1714-1810 (evens), 1701 -1827 (odds)
S. May Street
1800-1804 (evens), 1801 -1805 (odds)
S. Miller Street
1624-1658 (evens), 1655-1659 (odds)
S. Morgan Street
1800-1802 (evens), 1801-1809 (odds)
S. Paulina Street
1714-1812 (evens), 1713-1811 (odds)
S. Racine Avenue
1724-2024 (evens), 1723-1843 (odds)
S. Sangamon Street
1800-1808 (evens), 1801 -1809 (odds)
S. Throop Street
1656-2024 (evens), 1655-2025 (odds)
S. Wolcott Avenue
1713-1725 (odds)
S. Wood Street
1714-1724 (evens), 1713-1811 (odds)
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BUILDING CATALOG
The categorization of whether a property is contributing, non-contributing or potentially contributing to the Pilsen Historic District represents a preliminary determination by the Bureau of Planning, Historic Preservation and Sustainability staff only. It is solely provided as guidance for property owners and the public to anticipate how these properties might be treated under the Chicago Landmarks Ordinance. Individual property owners retain the right to petition the Commission on Chicago Landmarks and the City Council on whether a building is contributing, non-contributing or potentially contributing to (he district on a case-by-case basis as part of the permit review process. The Commission and the City Council reserve the right to make a final determination in accordance with the procedures established by the Ordinance and the Commission's adopted Rules and Regulations. The staff's preliminary determination remains preliminary-it is not binding on the staff or the Commission on Chicago Landmarks, nor does the Commission or the City Council
Address
Building Type
Date
Architect ? ?
Original Owner,~Ma
Contributing :f||f;?. ' Non-Contributing ""Jl Potentially Contributing
1308-12 W. 18th Place
Flats
18S6
NA
.1 olm Pajdar
Contributing
1314 W. 18th Place
Tliree Flat
1890
NA
Joseplrina Vasato
Contributine
1315 W. ISth Place
Three Flat
1895
NA
Vaclav Filip
Contriliutina
1316 W. ISthPlace
Cottage
circa 1S80
NA
NA
Contributine
1317 W. 18th Place
Cottage
circa 1S80
NA
NA
N on-Contributine
1320 W. ISthPlace
Cottage
18S0
NA
John Macltna
Contributine
1321 W. ISthPlace
Cottage
circa 1875
NA
NA
Contributine.
1322 W. ISthPlace
Three Flat
1889
NA
Frank Sewcilt
Contributine
1323 W. ISthPlace
Two Flat
1894
NA
John Pliillips
Contributine
1324 W. ISthPlace
Three Flat
1889
NA.
Michael Bumba
Contributine
1325 W. 18th Place
Two Flat
circa 1885
NA
NA
Contributine
1326 W 18th Place
Cottage
circa 1880
NA
NA
Contributing
1327 W. ISthPlace
Single Family Residence
1883
NA
Fred Volanee
Contributing
1328 W. 18th Place
Store & Flats
1895
NA
Jas. Zimmer
Contributine
1331 W. ISthPlace
Single Family Residence
circa 2000
NA
NA
Non-Contiibutine
1332 W ISthPlace
Tliree Flat
18S0
NA
Vaclav Lastovka
Contribuline
1333 W. ISthPlace
Single Family Residence
circa 2000
NA
NA
Non-Contributing
1334 W. ISthPlace
Tliree Flat
circa 1890
NA
NA
Contributine
1335 W. ISthPlace
Single Family Residence
circa 2000
NA .
NA
Non-0 ontributine
1336 W. ISthPlace
Single Family Residence
circa 2000
NA
NA
Non-Gomributing
1337-1345 W. ISth Place
Vacant Lot
NA
NA
NA
Non-Contributing
133S W. ISthPlace
Two Flat
circa 1880
NA
NA
Contributine -
1340 W. ISthPlace
Tliree Flat
circa 1895
NA
NA
Contribiitine
1344 W. ISthPlace
Store & Flats
1893
NA
James Rovzda
Contributing
1514 W ISthPlace
Store & Flats
1889
NA.
ErankTileps
Contributine
1515 W. ISthPlace
Store & Flats
1881. HOOTS added 1908
F. Klucina
NA
Contributine
* Building is Contributing due to mural. 88
Address
Building Type :
Date
Architect
:--c:s??;':
Original 'Owner
Contributing Non-Contributing : Potentially Contributine
1516 W. ISthPlace
Oottaee
circa 1872
NA
NA
Contributing
1517 W. ISthPlace
Vacant Lot.
circa 1900
NA
NA
Non-Contributing
1518 W. ISthPlace
Two-Hat
1SS2
NA
NA
Contributing
1519 W. ISthPlace
Cottage
circa 1925
NA
NA
Contributing
1520 W. ISthPlace
Tliree Flat
1889
NA
Vaclav Mara
Contributing
1521 W. ISthPlace
Tliree Flat
1911
Anton Charvat
Mrs. K. Jeran
Contributing
1522 W 18th Place
Tliree Flat
circa 1900
NA
NA
Contributing
1523 W. 18th Place
Two Flat
1892
NA
John Oilaiski
Contributing
1526 W. 18th Place
Cottage
circa 1885
NA
NA
Contributing
1527 W. 18th Place
Two Flat
1SS9
NA '?
Anton Fara
Contributing
152S W. ISthPlace
Cottage
circa 1S85
NA
NA
Contributing
1529 W. 18th Place
Store & Flats
1S93
NA
Jolin Sirovalka
Contributing
1530 W. 18th Place
Cottage
circa 1875
NA
NA
Contributing
1532 W. 18th Place
Three Flat
1895
NA
Joseph Kernes
Contributine
1536 W. ISthPlace
Cottage
circa 1875
NA
NA
Contributing
1537W ISthPlace
Two Flat ?
1887
NA
F Ciklar
Contributing
153S W. ISthPlace
Three Flat
1894
NA
Geo. Langhor
Contributing
1539 W. 18th Place
Three Flat
1893
NA
Joseph Maly
Contributing
1540 W. 18th Place
Store & Flats
1894
NA
John Freer
Contributing
1541 W. ISthPlace
Vacant Lot
NA
NA
NA
Non-Contributine
917-925 W. 18th Street
Manufacturing
1905
Nhenry Ottenheimer
M. Schrayers & Sons
Co.
Contributing
927 W. 18th Street
Vacant Lot
NA
NA
NA
Non-Contributing
935 \V. 18th Street
Single Famity Residence
circa 2000
NA
NA
Non-Contributing
937 \V. 18th Street
Vacant Lot
NA
NA
NA
Non-Contributing
939 W. 18th Street
Store & Flat
circa 2005
NA
NA
Contributing*
943 W. 18Ui Street
Single Famity Residence
circa 1875
NA
NA
Contributing
944 W. 18lh Street
Tliree Flat
circa 1885
NA
NA
Contributing
945 W. ISth Street
Cottage
circa 1875
NA
NA
Contributing
946 W. 18th Street
Cottage
circa 1875
NA
NA
Contributing
947 W. ISth Street
Cottage
circa 1875
NA
NA
Contributing
948 W. ISth Street
Store & Flat
18S6
NA
A. Pearson
Contributing
949 W. 18th Street
Cottage
circa 1872
NA
NA
Contributing
950 W. 18th Street
Store & Flat
front facade altered circa 2000s
NA
NA
Contributing
952 W. 18th Street
Store & Flat
1S86
Edbrooke & Burnham
Andrew Pearson
Contributing
955 W. 18tli Street
Two Flat
circa 1SS0
NA
Sam Pagels
Contributing
957 W. lSUi Street
Four Flat
circa 1890, 1 -story
addition. 1892
NA
NA
Contributing
960 W. 18tli Street
Store & Flat
circa 1885
NA
NA
Contributine
961 W. 18th Street
Single Famity Residence
NA
NA
NA
Contributing
963 W. ISth Street
Cottage
circa 1875
NA
Chas Joekisck
Contributing
* Building is contributing due to mural.
89
Address
?/yl^f? ??? ? '? ?" ?? ' BuIldingVFype
Dale
Architect
Original Owner
Contributing '''.'fci'-Non-Contributing Potentially Contributing
965 W. 18th Street
Store & Flat
1S88
NA
JohnMeisler
Contributing
966 W. 18th Street
Vacant Lot
NA
NA
NA
Non-Contributing
969 W. 18th Street
Vacant Lot
NA
NA
NA
N on-C attributing
971 W. 18lh Street
Store & Flat
1906
L. Novy
Frank Hagner
Contributing
972 W. 18U1 Street
Store & Flat
1894
NA
F. Stubs
Contributing
974 W. IStli Street
Store
circa 1905
NA
Jas. Suf
Contributing
1002 W. ISth Street
Store & Flat
1890
NA
George Scheneberger
Contributing
1004 W. 18th Street
Store & Flat
1889
NA
Charles Libal
Contributing
1008-1012 W. 18th Street
Store & Flat
1894
NA
Wm. Stuchlik
Contributing
1013 W. 18th Street
Residence with Storefront
circa 1875; front addition circa 1920s
NA
NA
Contributing
1015 V,'. 18th Street
Cottage
1888
NA
l.Geske
Contributing
1019 W. 18th Street
Two Flat
1875
NA
NA
Contributing
1021 W. ISth Street
Store * Flat
circa 1875
NA
NA
Contributing
1023 W. 18th Street
Oarage
circa 1975
NA
NA
N on-C ontri bitting
1034 W. 18th Street
Single Famity Residence
1880. front facade circa 1930s
NA
Joint Denemark
Contributing
1036 W. 18th Street
Two Flat
circa 1880
NA
NA
Contributing
1038 W. 18th Street
Two Flat
18S1
NA
Joseph Vrichto
Contributing
1040 W. 18th Street
Store & Flat
circa 1880
NA
Vrarbad Schaptak
Contributing
1044 W. 18th Street
Store & Flat
circa 1879
NA
Vrarbad Schaptak
Contributing
1102-1104 W: 18th Street
Commercial & Residential
circa 1890; front facade rebuilt circa 2000s
NA
NA
Non-Contributing
1106-1110 18th Street
Vacant Lot
NA
NA
NA
N on-C ontributing
1112 W. IStli Street
Store & Flat
1879
NA
F. Pechota
Contributing
1113 W. ISUi Street
Store & Flat
circa 1890
NA
NA
Contributing
1114-1116 W. ISUi Street
Vacant Lot
NA
NA
NA
Non-Contributing
1115-1117 W. 18th Street
Vacant Lot
NA
NA
NA
Non-Contributing
1118 W. 18th Street
Store & Flat
1879
NA
Joseph Vydana
Contributing
1121 W. 18th Street
Garage
1923
NA
NA
Contributing
1122W. 18th Street
Store & Flat
1S79
NA
Frank Clialupra
Contributing
1125 W. 18th Street
Store & Flats
1902
Anton Charvat
Urban Brothers
Conlnbuting
1126 W. 18th Street
Vacant Lot
NA
NA
NA
N on-Contributing
1129-1137 W. ISth Street
Store & Flat
1S87
NA
Frank Mikula
Contributing
1132 W. 18th Street
Store & Flat
1S90
NA
J. J. Norton
Contributing
1134 \V. 18th Street
Store & Flat
1S90
NA
W. Butta
Contributins
1136 \V. 18th Street
Vacant Lot
NA
NA
NA
Non-Contributing
1140 W. 18th Street
Store & Flat
1S91
NA
Frank Kring
Contributing
1142 W. 18th Street
Vacant Lot
NA
NA
NA
Non-Contributing
1146 W. ISth Street
Store & Flat
1895
NA
W Wodak.
Contributing
* Building is Contributing due to mural.
90
Address
Building Type ,
Date
Architect
Original Owner ,
l*i!SZ . ? ?
Contributing ; Non Contributing : Potentially Contributing
1147-1149 W. ISth Street
Store & Flat
1880; changes to 1149 circa 1900
NA
NA
Contnbuting
114S W. 18th Street
Vacant Lot
NA
NA
NA
Non-Contributing
1151 W. ISth Street
Store & Flat
1895
NA
Jos. Krali
Contnbuting
1152 W. 18th Street
Store & Flat
1904
A. Lonek
V. Trinka
Contnbuting
1153 W. 18th Street
Store & Flat
1883
NA
Joseph Karl
Contnbuting
1154 W. 18th Street
Two Flat
circa 18S0
NA
NA
Contributine
1156 \V. 18th Street
Store & Flat
circa 1885
NA
P.J Hertt.
Contributine
1157 W 18th Street
Store & Flat
18S4
NA
Jos. Novobney
Contributine
1158 W. 18th Street
Commercial
circa 1950s
NA
NA
Potentially Contributing
1159-1163 W. IStli Street
Commercial
circa 2000s
NA
NA
N on-Contributing
1165 W. 18th Street
Store & Flat
front facade 1909
NA
Jos. Koucnik
Contributine
1167W. 18th Street
Store & Flat
circa 1890
NA
NA
Contributine
1208 W. 18th Street
Store & Flat
circa 1925
NA
NA
Contributine
1214-1218 W. 18th St.
Chapel (Lourdes Chapel)
1908
NA
Archbishop of Cliicago
Contributing
1222-1226 W. 18th Street
Church (St. Procopius Church)
1882-1883
J.PaulHuber
Archbishop of Clucago
Contributing
1314 W. ISth Street
Cottage
frame portion circa 1872; brick portion circa 1880
NA
J acob Zaremba (1880)
Contributing
1315 W. 18th Street
Store & Flat
1880
NA
M. Tupa
Contributing
1316 W. ISth Street
Store & Flat
circa 1880
NA
Joseph Klima
Coiilributing
1317 W. 18th Street
Store & Flat
circa 1900
NA
E; Rohusek
Contributing
1320 W. 18th Street
Store & Flat
circa 1900
NA
O. Kohat
Contributing
1321 W. ISth Street
Store & Flat
1905
Frank Randak
J. Jrram
Coiilributing
1322 W. ISth Street
Store & Flat
circa 1S85
NA
NA.
Contributing
1323 W. 1801 Street
Store & Flat
18S8
NA
J. Novack
Contributing
1324 W. 18th Street
Store & Flat
1894
NA
Vaclav Polka
Contributing
1325 W. 18Ui Street
Store & Flat
1S90
NA
V. Kolau
Contributing
1326 W. ISUi Street
Store & Flat
1890
NA
Chas. Uher
Contributing
1327 W. 18th Street
Store & Flat
1916
M. Mrayas
L Koenig
Contributing
1328 W. 18Ui Street
Store & Flat
1907
.Anton Charvat
Jos. Liska
Contributing.
1329 W. ISth Street
Store &. Flat
circa 1885
NA
NA
Contributing
1332 W-. ISth.Strect
Store & Flat ?
1892
Frank C Layer & Co.
Anthony Kozel
Contnbuting
1333 W. 18th Street
Store & Flat
circa 1895
NA
NA
Contributing
1335 W. 18th Street
Store
1909
John Klucina
Jos. Jiran
Contnbutina
1337 W 18th Street
Store &. Flat
1S91
NA
James Buazka
Contributine
1339 W. 18th Street
Store & Flat
1912
Now & Sons
Tilsen Electric Supply Co.
Contributine
* Building is Contributing due to mural.
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Address
Building Type
Date.; '-V-H
Architect
Original Owner
'.'.:> -
Opntribtiling ' . Non-Contributing Potentially Contributing:
?1343 W. 18th Street
Residence with Storefront
original building 1883: front addition circa 1920
NA
Frank Conrad
Contributing
1345 W. 18th Street
Store & Flat
circa 1910
NA
NA
Contributing
1350 W. ISUi Street
Store
circa 19S5
NA
NA
Non-Contributing
1400-1408 W. 18th Street
Store & Flat
rebuilt circa 1990
NA
NA
Non-Contributing
1412 W. 18th Street
Store & Flat
front facade 1916
NA
J.Norah(1916)
Contributing
1414 W. ISUi Street
Store & Flat
front facade circa 1930s; storefront circa 1970s
NA
NA
Potentially Contributing
1415-1421 W. ISth Street
Store & Flat
1886
NA
Frank Zajecek
Contributing
1416 W. IStli Street
Vacant Lot
NA
NA
NA
Non-Contributing
1418 W. 18th Street
Store & Flat
circa 1890
NA
J. Bidlas(1888)
Contributing
1420 W. 18th Street
front facade circa 2000
NA
NA
Contributing*
1423 W: 18th Street
Store & Flat
frame building circa 1875
NA
NA
Contributing
1424-28 W. 18th Street
Vacant Lot
NA
NA
NA
Non-Contributing
1425 W. IStli Street
Store & Flat
1892 -
NA
Anna Frank
Contributing
1429 W. ISth Street
Store & Flat
circa 1900
NA
NA
Contributing
1430 W 18th Street
Store & Flat
front facade circa 1924
NA
NA
Contributing*
1434 W. 18th Street
Store
circa 1960s
NA
NA
Contributing
1431 W. 18th Street
Vacant Lot
NA
NA
NA
Non-Contributing
1436-1440 W. 18th Street
Ethnic Athletic Club (Czesky Slavonsky Americky Sokol [C.S.A.S.], after 1982 Association Pro-Drenches Borers IA.P.O])
1893-1902
Frank Randak
Czesky Slavonsky Amencky Sokol (C.S.A.S)
Contributing
1439 W. 18th Street
Store & Flat . (Francis D. Nemecek Photo Studio)
1907
F. Randak
Francis D. Nemecek
Contributing
1441 W. 18th Street
Store & Flat
1907
NA
Francis D Nemecek
Contributing
1443 W- 18th Street
Bank
circa 1910 '
NA
Frank Petry
Contributing
1441 W. ISth Street
Store & Flat
circa 1880
NA
NA
Contributing
* Building is Contributing due to mural.
Address*
Building Type
11 " ?'r > Date
Architect ?
Original Owner
Contributing Non-Contributing Potentially Contributing .
1445 W. 18lh Street
Two Flat
circa 1S80
NA
NA
Contributing
1446 W. I8U1 Street
Store
circa 1910
NA.
Joseph Tipiier
Contributing
1447 W. ISth Street
Store & Flat
circa.1875
NA
John Vanderboal
Contributing
1448 W. 18Ut Street
Store & Fiat
1894
NA
Albert Martinic
Contributing
1450 W 18th Street
Three Flat with storefront addition
original building 1883: front addition circa 1920s
NA-
Jos. Valsak
Contributing
1454 W. 18th Street
Store & Flat
1894
NA
Jno. Hula
Contributing
1456 W. IStli Street
Store & Flat
circa 1890
NA
NA
Contributing
1500 W. 18th Street
Store & Flat
circa 1880 1892. one-story addition
NA
V. Koutnik(1892)
Contributing
1501-1503 W. 18th Street
Store & Flat
1887
NA
John Novak
Contributing
1502 W. 18th Street
Store & Flat
1902
John Hula
Fred.Furst
Contributing
1504 W. 18th Street
Store & Flat
1894
NA
John Zelezny
Contributing
1508 W. 18th Street
Store & Flat
1913
L Novy & Son
Anton AJavanfy
Contributing
1510 W. 18th Street
Store
front facade circa 2010
NA
NA
N on-Contributing
1511 W. 18th Street
PostOffice
1912
Frank Parisak
Aritori Novack
Contributing
1512 W; ISth Street
Store & Flat
front facade circa :1960s
NA
NA
Potentially Contributing
1514 W. 18th Street.
Store
front facade circa 1960s
NA
NA
Potentially Contributing
1515 W. 18th Street
Vacant Lot
NA
NA
NA
N on-Contributing
1517 W. 181h Street
Store & Flat
1912
Jos. S. Fhzikowzki
Joseph Plyrosczyk
Contributing
1518 W. IStli Street
Store & Flat
front facade circa 1910 '
NA
NA
Contributing
151? W. 18th Street
Store & Flat
circa 1882
NA
Jno. Andrvs
Contributing
1520 W. IStli Street
Vacant Lot
NA
NA
NA
N on-C ontributing
1521 W. 18th Street
Store & Flat
1907
Anton Charvat
J as . Liska
Contributing
1522 W. 18th Street
Store & Flat
front facade circa 1920s
NA
NA
Contributing
1523 W, 18th Street
Two Flat
1886
NA
Albert Mazance
Contributing
1524 W. 18th Street
Store & Flat
front facade 1915
NA
A Barnard
Contributing
1527 W. 18th Street
Store & Flat
refronted circa 2000
NA
NA
Non-Contributing
1528 W. 18th Street
Theater
1912. facade circa 1960
Hall & Winderlind
Dr. Wm. Kaniin
Potentially Contributing
1529 W 18th Street
Store & Flat
1887
NA
Frank Sula
Contributing
1530 W. 18th Street
Store & Flat
1886
NA
Frank Paspiekor
Contributing
1531 W. ISth Street
Store & Flat
1S89. top floor addition 1889
NA
F. J. Kvashicka
Contributing
* Building is Contributing due to mural.
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Address j.-r'oS1^;^-;?.-- :
Building Type
Date
Architect. ' ":''?;'>'},
Original Owner
Contributing Non-Contributing Potentially; Contributing
1532 W 18lh Slreet
Single Family Residence
1881
NA
V. Mourzek
Contributing
1535 W. 18th Street
Store & Flat
front facade 1902
NA
F. Karsuicka(1902)
Contributing
1536 W. 18th Street
Store & Flat
1894
NA
V. Pine as
Contributing
1537 w. 18th Street
Two Flat
NA
NA
NA
Contributing
1538 W 18th Street
Store & Hal
circa 1908
NA
NA
Contributing
1539 W. 18th Street
Vacant Lot
NA
NA '
NA
N on-Contributing
1540 W 18th Street
Store & Flat
circa 1910
NA
NA
Contributing
1541 W 18th Street
Three Flat
1S86
NA
Jno. Blalia
Contributing
1M4-1550 W. 18th Street,
Store
1913, front facade circa 1990
J.Rocha
Paul Remmla
Contributing*
1545 W 18lh Street
Commercial (paily Herald newspaper, 1904)
circa 1910
NA
NA
Contributing
1616-1618 W. 18th Street
Vacant Lot
NA
NA
NA
N on-Contributing
1617 W. 18th Street
Bank
circa 2016
NA
NA
N on-Contributine
1620 W. 18th Street
Store & Flat
circa 1900
NA
NA
Contributing
1624 W. 18th Slreet
Store & Flat
1926 new front facade
NA
NA
Contributine
1626 W. 18th Street
Single Fanuty Residence
1880
NA
John Brvsh
Contributine
1627 W. 1 Stli Street
Two Flat
circa 1896
M. Benish (builder)
M. Chak
Contributine
1628 W. 18th Street
Tliree Flat
circa 1885
NA
NA
Contributine
1629 W. 18th Street
Two Flat
1883
NA.
V Levora
Contributing
1630 W. 18th Slreet
Store & Flat
circa 1907
NA
NA
Contributing
1631 W. 18th Slreet
Two Flat
1890
V Kesl
Jos. Alexa
Conlributine
1634 W. IStli Street
Store & Flat
1916
C. L. Piontek
John Joskolski
Coiilributing
1635 W. 18th Street
Two Flat
1S85
NA
F. Becrarek
Contributine
1636 W. IStli Slreet
Store & Flat
circa 18S2
NA
NA
Contributine
1637 W. ISth Street
Store & Flat
1887; refronted circa 1920s
NA
V. Kledzrnski (1887)
Contributing
1638 W. ISth Street
Vacant Lot
NA
NA
NA
N on-Contnbutmg
1639 W. 18th Street
Store & Flat
1890
NA
G. Hollenboch
Contributing
1640 W: 18th Street
Store & Flat
1894
NA
JolinKniola
Contributing
1641 W. ISth Street
Store & Flat
188S; refronted and store added circa 1910
N'A
JohnKarz (1888)
Contributing
1644 \V. 18th Street
Store 1886
NA
J. Glyiske
Contributing
1645 W. IStli Street
Commercial
circa 2000
NA
NA
Non-Contributing
1646 W. 18th Street
Store & Flat (Soukup School of English)
1S95
NA
NA
Contributing
* Building is Contributing due to mural.
94
Address v
Building type - "//
Date
Architect'^"' v7:'
Original Owner
' . . ? ! :'?? .'i '**..., v,
Contributing . . Non-Contributing Potentially Contributing ;
1647 W. 18th Street
Store & Flat
1S86
NA
Jno. Vlasak
Contributing
1648 W. ISth Street
Store & Hat
1S91
NA
Frank Petkaski
Contributing
1649 W. ISth Street
Slore & Flats
1889
NA
NA
Contributing
1650 W. ISth Street
Store & Flats
front facade circa 1930s
NA
NA
Potentially Contributing
1653 W. ISth Street
Slore & Flats
1S96
NA
Jno. Daunal
Contributing
1654 W. 18th Street
Gas Station
circa 1995
NA
NA
NonTContributing
1655 W. 18th Street
Cottage
circa 1880
NA
NA
Contributine
1657-1659 W. 18th Street
Student Dormitory
circa 2017
NA
NA
Non-Contributing
1700-1704 W. 18th Street
Store & Flat
circa 1911-1925
S. Milton Eichberg
Herman Minsch (1911)
Contributine
1703-1709 W. ISth Street
Commercial
circa 2010
NA
NA
Non-Contributing
1710 W. ISUi Slreet
CTA Pink Line "El" Station
Circa 1995
NA
NA
Non-Contributing
1711-1713 W. 18th Street
Store
1928
NA.
NA
Contributing
1714 W. IStli Street
Store
cuca 1960s
NA
NA
Potentially Contributing
1716 W. IStli Street
Store & Flat
1917
J: J. Cemy
Joseph Kubik
Contributine
1719 W. 18th Street
Store & Flat
1S86
NA
M. Schultz
Contributine
1720 W. 18th Street
Store,& Flat
1901
NA
F. I.yzirokowski
Contributine
1721 Wi 18th Street
Store & Flat
circa 1910
NA
NA
Contributing
1722 W 18th Street
Store & Flat
circa 1890
NA
NA
Contributine
1723 W 18th Street
Store & Flat
1896'
NA
A. Baley
Contributine
1724 W. 18th Street
Store & Flat
circa 1875
NA
NA
Contributing
1725 W. 18th Street
Store & Flat
1891
NA
Joe Fislowski
Contributing
1726 W. 18th Street
Store & Flat
circa 1920
NA
NA
Contributing
1727 W. 18th Street
Store & Flat
1908
J. S. Flizikowski
L. Rutkowski
Contributing
1730 W. 18th Street
Store & Flat
circa 1920
NA
NA
Contributing
1731 W. ISth Street
Store & Flat
1916
J. S. Flizikowski'
Mrs. P. Parzatka
Contributing
1732 W. ISUi Street
Store & Flat
1913
Emcsl Braucher ^
S. Kovier
Contributing
1733 W. ISth Street
Vacant Lot
NA
NA
NA
N onrC ontributing
1734 W. 18th Street
Store & Flat
front addition 1920
NA-
NA
Contributing
1735 W. 18th Street
Store & Flat
1910
Anton Charvat
Jos. Vokval
Contributuig
1736 W. 1 Sth Street.
Store & Flat
facade circa 2010
NA
NA
Non-Contributing
1737 W. 18th Street
Funeral Home
1940
J. Klafter
M.V. Kowalski
Contributine
1738 W. ISth Street
Store &.Flal
circa 1890
NA
Martin Blazek
Contributine
1739 W. ISth Street
Single Family Residence
1903
Ludwig Novy
J acob Uhlir
Contributine
1740 W. ISth Street
Store & Flat
circa 1912
Ludwig Novy
R Ruiner
Contributine
1742 W. 18th Street
Store & Flat
1909
Perley Hale
Paul Lenik
Contributine
1743 W. 18th Street .
Store & Flat
front facade 1940
NA
NA
Potentially Contributing
1745 W 18th Street
Store
circa 1930s
NA
NA
Potentially Contributing
1746 W 18th Street
Two Flat
18S3
NA
Jno. Vacholka
Contributine
1747 W. ISth Street
Two Flat
circa 1S85
NA
NA
Contributing
* Building is Contributing due to mural.
95
Address
Building Type
Date s
.' .!f'":,'-,v-'
Architect
Original Owner
Contributing,. Non-Contributing Potentially Contributing
1748 W. ISth Street
Cottage
circa 1880
NA
M. Parilea
Contributing
1749 W. ISth Street
Store & Flat
1891
NA
J. Ronoulniki
Contributing
1750 W. 18th Slreet
Store & Flat
circa 1909
C. Koski (builder)
Jolin Kroot
Contributing
1751 W. ISth Street
Store & Flat
circa 1887
NA
Jolin Sherman
Contributing
1754 \V. ISth Street
Vacant Lot
NA
NA
NA
N on-C ontributing
1755 W. ISth Street
Store & Flat
1887
NA
Jos. Szarmach
Contributine
1756 W. 18th Street
Store & Flat
1896
V. Kiohl (builder)
J. Sherpam
Contributine
1757 W. 18th Street
Store
circa 1960s
NA
NA
Contributing*
1758 W. 18th Street
Store & Flat
circa 1910
NA
NA
Contributine
1800 W. 18th Street
Store & Flat
facades circa 1930s
Owner (builder)
A. Polzez
Potentially Contributing
1802 W. ISUi Street
Store & Flat
1896
Thos Sonka (builder)
Jolin Diwoovsky
Contributing
1806 W. 18tli Street
Store
circa 1893
NA
Frank Zodek
Potentially Contributing
180S W. 18th Street
Store
1910
W. Peltzau (builder)
Stephen Mikolzczaw
Potentially Contributing
1810 W. IStli Street
Store & Flat
circa.1910
F. Sedloe (builder)
F Wolin
Contributing
1812 W. IStli Street
Store
circa 1920s
NA
NA
Contributine
1814 W. 18th Street
Cottage
1887
NA
Joe Wishtine
Contributing
1818 W: ISth Street
Store & Flat
circa 1891
NA
Simon Bruclia
Contributine
1820 W. ISth Street
Store & Flat
circa 1894
NA
J. Tracey
Contributine
1822 W. ISth Street
Two Flat
circa 1890
NA
NA
Contributine
1S24 W. ISth Street
Two Flat
1887
NA
Jacob Uhlir
Coiilributing
1828 W. 18th Street
Two Flat
circa 1920s
NA.
NA
Contributmg
1830 W. 18th Street
Single Famity Residence
1885; facade circa 1980s
NA
Joe Brown (1885)
Non-Contributing
1832 W. ISth Street
Single Famity Residence
1890
NA
John Adams
Contributine
1834 W. 18th Street
Two Flat
circa 1887
NA
Jos. Roghan
Contributine
1836 W. 18th Street
Two F'lat
1888
NA
A. Laule
Contributine
1840 W. 18Ui Street
Single Family Residence
circa 1875
NA
NA
Contributing
1842 W. IStli Street
Store
circa 1980s
NA
NA
N on-Contributing
1844 W. 18th Street
Three Flat
1916
M. F. Staueh
Anton Bedus
Contributing
1S46 W. 18th Street
Tliree Flat
1891
NA
Jos. Kukuska
Contributing
1848 W. 18th Street
Three Flat
circa 1893
NA
JohnHdmolka
Contributing
1852 W. ISth Street
Two Flat
1890
NA
Jos: Hora
Contributing
1854 W. ISth Street
Store & Flat
189-t
NA
JosMora
Contributmg
1856 W 18th Street
Vacant Lot
NA
NA
NA
N on-C ontributing
1858 W. 18th Street
Store & Flat
1912 '
J. S. Fhzekoski
S. Welesklinski
Contributing
2000 W. 18th Street
Store & Flat.
circa 1S80
NA
NA
Contributing
2001 W. 18th Street
Store & Flat
1900
Gus Schartz (builder)
Henrv Gioth
Contributing
2002 W. ISth Street
Garage
1929
W. H. Sammons
John Las Contributing
2003 W. ISth Street
Vacant Lot
NA
NA
NA
Non-Contributing
2007 W. ISth Street
Single Famity Residence
circa 1920s
NA
NA
Contributing
* Building is Contributing due to mural.
96
i
Address
Building Type
Date
Architect
Original Owner
Contributing Non-Contributing Potentially;Gontributing -A
2008 W. 18th Street
Cottage
circa 1875
NA
NA
Contributine
2009 W. 18th Street
Vacant Lot
NA
NA
NA
N onrC ontributing
2010 W. IStli Street
Single Family Residence
1881
NA
F. A Kouig
Contributing
2011 W. ISth Street
Three Flat.
circa 1893
NA
Frank Rovsurika
Contributmg
2012 W. ISth Street
Cottage
circa 1875
NA
NA
Contributmg
2014 W. ISth Street
Three Flat
1897
NA
A Neaumaun
Contributmg
2015-2031 W. 18th Street
Store
circa 1913
W. D. Cowles
American Coconut Butter. Co
Contnbuting
2016 W. ISth Street
Two Flat
1888
NA
F. Krejice
Contributing
2020 W. 18th Street
Two Flat
circa 1890
NA
Jolm.Slrycek
Contributing
2022 W! 18th Stieet
Cottage
circa 1875
NA
Henry & Jolin Notlke
Contributing
2024 W ISth Street
Slore & Flat
1892
NA
John Sanfl
Contnbuting
2026 W. 18th Street
Cottage
circa 1875
NA
NA
Contributmg
2028 W. 18th Street
Two Flat
circa 1892
NA
Fred Sudwig
Contributmg
2032 W. 18Ct Stieet
Store & Flat
1897
H. Nirterinktlo (braider)
Josephine Kohn -
Contributine
2033-2037 W. 18th Street
Garage
circa 1960s
NA
NA
Potentially Contributing
2034 W. 18th Street
Store
circa 1910
Jos. Thomas (builder)
Mrs. Frances Topuska
Contributing
2036 W. 18th Street
Vacant Lot
NA
NA
NA
N on-C ontributing
2038 W. 18th Street
Store & Flat
circa 1910
NA
NA
Contributing
2039 W. 18th Street
Cottage
circa 1880
NA
NA
Contributing
204 0 W. 18th Street
Two Flat
1903
Theo. Duessing
J. Icespaiuer
Contnbuting
2041 W. 18th Street
Cottage
circa 1880s
NA
le Witt
Contributing
2042 W. ISth Street
Single Famity Residence
1906
Jos. Petra (builder)
Michluichi
Contributing
2043 W. 18th Street
Cottage
1881
NA
J. Kuppii
Contributine
2046 W. 18th Street
Cottage
circa 1880
NA
NA
Contributine
2047 W. 18th Street
Single Famity Residence
front facade circa 1990s
NA
NA
Potentially Contributing
2048 W. 18th Street
Cottage
circa 1875
NA
NA
Contributing
2019 W. 18th Street
Single Famity Residence
front facade circa 1920s
NA
NA
Contributing
2050 W. 18th Street
Commercial
1934
NA
NA
Potentially Contribiuing
2051 W. 18th Street
Single Family Residence
circa 1930s
NA
NA
Contributing
2053 W. 18th Street
Store & Flat
circa IS79
NA
JoluiBradfish(1879)
Contributing
2057 W. ISUi Stieet,
Store
circa 1960
NA
NA
Potentially Contributing
2056 W. 18th Street
Store
circa 1920s
NA
NA .
Contributing
2058 W. ISUi Stieet
Store circa 1885
NA
NA
Contributine
2059 W. 18th Stieet
Store &, Flat
1884, facade circa 1930s
NA
Albert Benis(lSS4)
Potentially Contributing
2100-0.6 W. 18Ui Street
Vacant Lot
NA
NA
NA
N on-C ontributing
* Building is Contributing due to mural.
97
Address.'.,
Building Type
ft?'' '1-Date * * '- =
Architect
Original Owner,,* J,, ?
Contributing Non-Contributing Potentially ,:Oonliibutlng;
2101 W. 18th Street
Store & Flat
1887; front facade circa 1950s
NA
NA
Contributing
2103 W. 18th Street
Two Flat
circa 1875
NA
NA
Contributing
2105 W. 18th Street
Store,& flat
circa 1875; storefront circa 1925
NA
NA
Contributing
2108 W. ISth Street
Single Fanuty Residence
1887; facade circa 1925
NA
Jos. Mikulaski
Contributing
2109 W. 18th Street
Two Flat
1888
NA
Vaelar Soma
Contributing
2110 W. 18th Street
Cottage
front facade circa 1960s
NA
NA
Potentially Contributing
2111 W. 18th Street
Cottage
1886
NA.
Jno. Riedt
Contributing
2112 W. ISth Street
Cottage
facade, circa 1930s
NA
NA
Potentially Contributing
2113 W. 18th Street
Cottage
circa'1880
NA
NA
Contributing
2114 W. 18th Street
Cottage
1886; facade circa 1930s
NA
F. Kiebal(1886)
Potentially Contnbuting
2115 W. 18th Street
Vacant Lot
NA
NA
NA
Non-Contributing
2117 W. 18th Street
Two Flat
1890
NA
John Bochozko
Contributing
21 IS W. 18th Street
Cottage
1S86
NA
Joseph Mora
Contributing
2120 W. ISth Street
Cottage
circa 1887
NA
F. Kubc
Contributing
2121 W. 18th Street.
Single Fanuty Residence
NA
NA
NA
N on-Contributing
2122 W. 18th Street
Vacant Lot
NA
NA
NA
N on-Contributing
2123 W. 18th Street
Cottage
1886
NA
J. Pokinzay
Potentially Contributing
2124 W. 18th Street
Store & Flat
1895
NA
John Dlouhy
Contributing
2125 W. 18th Street
Cottage
1886, facade 2018
NA
V. Zabraw
Non-Contributing
2127 W. 18th Street
Two Flat
1889
NA
V Kaspar
Contributing
2131 W. 18th Street
Single Famity Residence
1886
NA
Joseph Vucha
Contributing
2133 W. 18th Street
Store
circa 1928
G. E. Pearson
Anna Brozzouski
Contributing
2134 W. 18th Street
Store & Flat
1887; from facade circa 1990s
DSO Properties LLC
J.Kasker(1887)
N on-C ontributing
2135 W. 18th Street
Store & Flat
1890
NA
Frank Hqibestes
Contributing
2136 W. ISth Street
Cottage
1887
NA
Jos Kasper
Contributing
2137 W. 18th Street
Cottage
1887
NA
M. Waetaroski
Contributing
213S W. 18th Street .
Cottage
1907
NA
JoluiJ Stomski
Contributing .
2139 W. 18th Street
Cottage
1887
NA
J. Manin
Contributing
2140-2142 W. 18th Street
Cottage
1887
NA
Jos. Czeszka
Contributing
2144 W. 18th Stieet
Cottage
circa 1875
NA
NA
Contributing
2145 W. IStli Street
Cottage
1S87
NA
C. R. Walker
Contributing
2146 W. 18th Street
Cottage
circa 1875
NA
NA
Contributing
* Building is Contributing due to mural.
98
' '"' 'f"i' ? Address'
*'
Building Type '"
Date
.-'>'t.' : -M"'
Architect
Original Owner
Contributing- ? Noii-Gontrlbutirigs Potentially Contributing
2147 W. 18lh Street
Cottage
1886
NA
C. Jenkow
Contributine
2148 W. 18th Street
Cottage
1886
NA
Peter Olson
Contributine
2149 W 18th Street
Cottage
1887
NA
Karl Fresliski
Contributine
2150 W. 18th Street
Store & Flat
1S86: facade circa 1920s
NA
Jno. Foel(18S6 )
Contributing
2151 W. 18th Street
Cottage
circa 1880
NA
NA
Contributing
2152 W. ISth Street
Two Flat
circa 1891
NA
Jos. Pondelick
Contributing
2153 W. ISth Street
Cottage
facade circa 1930s
NA
NA
Potentially Contributing
2156 W. 18th Street
Two Flat
1893
NA
Vaclar Illick
Contributing
2159 W. 18th Street
Store & Flat
circa 1913
Martin Schultz
JolmJ Slomski
Contributing
1241 W. 19Ut Street
School (Manuel Perez, Jr, Elementary)
circa 1970s
NA
NA
Contributing*
1313 W. 19th Street
Undertaker & Flats
1893
NA
Jolm Zajiek
Contnbuting
1314 W. 19th Street
Three Flat
1905
Anton Charvat
F. F. Meydrech
Contributing
1316 W. 19tlt Street
Three Flat
circa 1890
NA
J . Hyhal
Contributing
1317 W. 19th Street
Single Family Residence
circa 1880
NA
G. Hlava
Contnbuting
1319 W. 19th Street
Store & Flats
1881. front facade 1929
NA
NA
Contributing
1320 W. 19Ut Street
Three Flat
circa 1885
NA
NA
Contnbuting
1321 W. 19th Street
Cottage
1880
NA
Franz Braz
Contributing
1322 W. 19th Street
Cottage
1880
NA
P Swobotta
Contnbuting
1323 W. 19th Street
Cottage
1S81
NA
Jno Meuitz
Contnbuting
1324 W. 19th Street
Cottage
1881
NA
Jolm Praka
Contnbutina
1326 W. 19th Street
Two Flat
1889
NA
J. Jeowzal
Contnbuting
1327 W. 19th Street
Cottage
circa 1880
NA
NA
Contnbutihg
1328 W. 19th Street
Store & Flats
1S80 .
NA
Jolm Scnfl
Contnbuting
1329 W. 19th Street
Two Flat
circa 1880
NA
NA
Contributine
1331 W. 19th Street
Cottage-
1S82
NA
Frank Leorv
Contributine
1332 W. 19th Street
Two Flat
1886
NA
J. Nejal
Contributine
1333 W. 19th Street
Two Flat
1886
NA
Jno Namskia
Contributine
1334 W. 19th Street
Vacant Lot
NA
NA
NA
Non-C attributing
1336 W. 19th Street
Single Family Residence
circa 1875
NA
NA
Contributine
1337 W. 19th Street
Cottage
1S82
NA
Jno. Zececk
Contributine
1338 W. 19th Street
Vacant Lot
NA
NA
NA
Non-Contributing
1339 W. 19th Street
Two Flat
circa 18S6
NA
Mab. Chemilk
Contributine
1340 W. 19lh Street
Cottage
1880
NA
Jolm Kris
Contributine
1341 W. 19th Street
Cottage
1880
NA
M. Keora
Contributing
1343-1345 W. 19Ut Street
Funeral Home
1938
NA
NA
Contributine
* Building is Contributing due to mural.
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- ' "5R'V: .-
Address:?':?;-
Building Type :r-"
Date . i ^,
Archltecti:::-.'.;:j.'-.-r".
Original Owner
Contributing , ' -N'on^oniuibudng'V/'V'-'' :" Potentially Contributing
1344 W. 19th Street
Store & Flats
1S80, front addition 1883
NA
J. Chwadal
Contributine
1402 W 19th Street
Multi-Family Residential
circa 2016
NA
NA
N on-Contributing
1415 W 19th Street.
Three Flat
1883
NA
V. Maver
Contributing
1417 W 19th Street
Three Flat
circa 1890
NA.
NA
Contributing
1419 W. 19th Street
Two Flat
1883
NA
Jno: Hallrock
Contributing
1423 W. 19th Street
Four Flat
1S90. front facade circa 1930s
NA
Ravkop Kunik
Potentially Contributing
1450 W. 19lh Street
Church
circa 1910-1925
NA
NA
Contributing
1500 W. 19lh Street
Store & Flats
circa 1890
NA
NA
Contributing
1502 W. 19th Street
Vacant Lot
NA
NA
NA
N on-C ontributing
1503 W. 19th Street
Store
front facade 1901
NA
NA
Contributing
1504 W. 19th Street
Cottage
facade circa 2000
NA
NA
Non-Contributing
1505 W. 19th Street
Three Flat
1912
A Charvat,
Frank Bachasky
Contributing
1508 W. 19th Street
Three Flat
1889
NA
NA
Contributing
1509 W. 19th Street
Cottage
circa 1875
NA
NA
Contributing
1510 W. 19th Street
Vacant Lot
NA
NA
NA
Non-Contributing
1511 W. 19th Street
Three Flat
1911
NA
B. L. Sedgley
Contributing
1512 W. 19th Street
Tliree Flat
1891
NA
M Schumberger
Contributing
1513 W. 19tli Street
Cottaae
1883
NA
Fred. Rutzle
Contributing
1517 W. 19tli Street
Cottage
1881
NA
M. Stack
Contributing
1518 W. 19Ui Street
Cottage-
1887. facade circa 1930s
NA
Louis Brosel
Potentially Contributing
1519 W. 19tlt Street
Vacant Lot
NA
NA
NA
Non-Contributing
1520 W. 19th Street
Cottage
1882, facade circa 1970
NA
J. Steonnct
N on-Contribuung
1521 W. 19th Street
Two Flat
1S89
NA
Albert Jauda
Contributing
1522 W. 19lh Street
Cottage
circa 1883
NA
Joe Milke
Contributing
1523 W. 19th Street
Two Flat
circa 1885
NA
NA
Contributing
1525 W, 19th Street
Store & Flats
1889
NA
JoluiRuzek
Contributing
1526 W. 19ih Street
Cottage
front addition 1909
NA,
NA
Contributing
1528 W. 19lh Street
Cottage
circa 1880s. front facade circa 1970s
NA
NA
Non-Contributing
1530 W. 19th Street
Cottaae
circa 1SS1, facade circa 1920s
NA.
V. Begdckovsky
Contributing
* Building is Contributing due to mural.
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Address
Building Type
Date '
1 V">'
Architect'
? - "3? ' , ? >'v.....
Original Owner
Contributing * 'oi Non-Contributing :f Potentially Gontributirig 'a
1531 W 19th Street
Two Flat
1887
NA
Jolin Kucera
Contributing
1532 W 19th Street
Store & Flats
front facade circa 1970s
NA
NA
Non-Contributing
1533 W 19th Street
Cottage
1887
NA
Vaclar Liska
Contributing
1536 W 19th Street
Two Flat
1889
NA
F Drasel
Contributing
1537 W 19th Street
Cottage
1886
NA
Jno. Stonkol
Contributing
1538 W 19th Street
Two Flat
circa 1887: from facade circa 1942
NA
Mab. Kristufck
Contributing
1539 W 19th Street
Three Flat
1891
NA
Frank Tupa
Contributing
1540 W. 19tlt Street
Two Flat
circa 1S82
NA
M. Cliristopher
Contributing
1906 W. 19th Street
Vacant Lot
NA
NA
NA
Non-Contributing ?
1314 W. 21st Street
Storage
circa 1990s
NA
NA
Non-Contributing
1424 W. 21st Street
Manufacturing
NA
NA.
NA
Non-Contributing
1424-1444 W. 21st Street
Manufacturing
1946
NA
NA
Coiilributing
1526 W. 21st Street
Store & Flats
1893
NA
Mat Rolenec
Contributing
1528 W. 21st Street
Cottage
circa 1875
NA
NA
Contributing
1530 W: 21st Street
Blacksmith Shop & Flats
1900
Ludwig Now
F. Ludwig
Contributing
1532 W. 21st Street
Cottage
circa 1875
NA
NA
Contributing
1536 W. 21st Street
Single Family Residence
circa 2000
NA
NA
Non-Contributing
1538 W 21st Street
Single Family Residence
2018
NA
NA
Non-Contributing
1658 S. AlliKirt Street
Building and Loan Association
circa 1880
NA
William Kaspar
Contributing
1637 S. AUporl Street
Benedictine Press
1905
Lonek & Houda
Rev. F. M. Jaeger
Contributing
1639 S. Allport Street
Three-Flat
1S81, 1891 Two-Story Addition
NA
Martin Hobel
Contributing
1641 S. Airport Street
St. Procqjius Rectory
1886
Lonek & Houda
Rev. F. M. Jaeger
Contributing
1800 S. Airport Street
Store & Flats
circa 1911
NA
NA
Contributing
1802 S. Allport Street
Store
circa 1930
NA
NA
Potentially Contributing
1805 S. AJIport Street
Thalia Hall
1892
Faber-& Pagels
J ohn Dusek
Contributing
1806 S. Airport Street
Store & Flats
circa 1890
NA
NA
Contributing
1808 S. Allport Street
Store & Flats
circa 2000
NA
NA
Kon-C ontributing
1810 S. Allport Street
Store & Flats
1891
NA
Valcan Kralschost
Contributing
1811 S Allport Street
Vacant Lot
NA
NA.
NA
N on-Contributing
1812 S. Allport Street
Cottage
circa 1875
NA
NA
Contributing
IS 13 S. Allport Street
Two-Flat
1887
NA- ?
Jas. Sazima
Contributing
1816 S. AUpon Street
Cottage
circa 1875
NA
NA
Contributing
1817 S. Allport Street
Two Flat
1887
NA
NA
Contributing
1818 S. Allport Street
Collage
circa 1875
NA
NA
Conl'ributing
1819 S. Allport Street
Two-Hat
1883
NA
J esse Kragaci
Coiilributing
1S20 S. AUpon Street
Three-Flat
1889
NA
P. David
Contributing
1S21 S. Allport Street
Cottage
circa 1875
NA.
NA
Contributing
1S22 S. Allport Street
Collage
circa 1875
NA
NA
Contributing
1S23 S. Allport Street
Collage
circa 1875
NA
NA
Contributing
* Building is Contributing due to mural.
101
Address j ,* *' . ?
Building Type
Date "^.v
Architect .'
Original Owner
Contributing . * i\on-G6nri ibiitlng;;;: ' Potehtially.Gpntributing:-;"?
1826 S. Allport Street
Cottage
1901
Ant Charvat
Chas. Raispies
Contributing
1'827 S. Ailport Street
Cottage
circa 1875; front facade circa 1930
NA
NA
Contributing
1828 S. Allport Stieet
Cottage
citca 1875
NA ?
NA
Contributing
1829 S. Allpoit Stieet
Store & Flats
NA
NA .
NA
Contributing
1830 S Allport Street
Cottage
circa 1875
NA
NA
Contributing
1831 S Allpoit Street
Cottage
circa 1875
NA
NA
Coiilributing
1832 S. Allport Street
Cottage
circa 1875
NA
NA
Contributing
1833 S. Allport Street
Two Flat
1889
NA
J.Beske
Contributing
1836 S. Allport Street
Store & Flats
1879
NA
Joseph Kisl
Contributing
1837 S. Allport Street
Three-Flat
1890
NA
J acob Smaha
Contributing
1838 S. Allport Street
Two-Hat
1880
NA
Rudolph Pospisie
Contributing
183? S. Allport Street
Single Family Residence
circa 2000
NA
NA
Non-Contributing
1840 S. Allport Street
Single Family Residence
circa 1879
NA-
NA
Contributing
1841 S. Allport Street
Three-Hat
circa 1880
NA
NA
Contributing
1842 S. Allport Street
Cottage
circa 1880
NA
NA
Contributing
1843 S. .Allport Street
Cottage
1891
NA
Frank Rqjek
Contributing
1844 S. Allport Street
Single Family Residence
1879
NA
A. Zelieka
Contributing
1847 S. Allport Street
Multi-Family Residence
circa 2010
NA
NA
Non-Contributing
1848 S. Ailport Street
Cottage
circa 1875
NA
NA.
Contributing
1849 S. .Allport Street
Cottage
circa 1879
NA
NA
Contributing
1850 S. Allport Street
Multi-Family Residence
cuca2010
NA
NA
Non-Contributing
1851 S. Allport. Street
Two Flat
1887
NA
Mrs. A.- Sibera
Contributing
1852 S. Allport Street
Three-Hat
1902
J. B. Dibelka
John Benicek
Contributine
1853 S. Allport Street
Cottage
front facade 1938
NA
NA
Contributing
1854 S. Ailport Street
Cottage
front facade circa 1930s
NA
NA
Potentially Contributing
1857 S, Airport Stieet
Two Flat
circa 1875
NA
NA
Contributing
IS58 S .Allport Street
Store & Flats
1883
NA
Kubin Vaclav
Contributing
1S59 S .Allpoit Street
Store & Flats
NA
NA
NA
Potentially Contributing
1901 S Allport Street
Store & Flats
circa 1886
NA
NA
Contributing
1903 S. Airport Street
Two Flat
circa 1896
NA
NA
Contnbuting
1907-1909 S. Allport Street
Multi-Family Residence
circa 2015
NA
NA
N on-Contributing
1911 S Allpoit Street
Cottage
circa 1875
NA
NA
Coiilributing
1913 S Allport Street
Single Family Residence
circa 2000
NA
NA
Non-Contributing
1915 S. Allport Street
Multi-Fanulv Residence
circa 2015
NA
NA
Non-Contributing
1919 S. Allport Street
Multi-Fanuly Residence
circa 2015
NA
NA
Non-Contributing
1921 S .Allport Street
Cottage
circa 1875
NA
NA
Contributing
* Building is Contributing due to mural.
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Address
Building Type
Date
Architect
Original Owner
Contributing ? '???Xf Non-Contributing Potentially Contributing
1923 S. Allport Street
Multi-Faniilv Residence
circa 2015
NA
NA
Noii-Coutnbutmg
1927 S. Allpoit Street
Tliree-Hat
circa 1890
NA.
NA ,
Contributine
1931 S. Allpoit Street
MultirFamilv Residence
2018
NA
NA
Non-Contributine
2001 S. Allporl Street
Store & Flats
circa 1891
NA
NA
Contributing
2003 S. AJiport Street
Store & Flats
1892
NA
Sukas Macek
Contributing
2005 S. Allpoit Street
Three-Flat
1892
NA
NA
Contributing
2006 S. Allport Street
Vacant Lot
NA
NA
NA
N wi-C ontributing
2007 S. Allport Street
Store & Flats
1892
NA
B. Benda
Contributing
2008 S. Allporl Slreet
Cottage
circa 1875
NA
NA
Contributing
2011 S. Allpori Street
Multi-Fanulv Residence
circa 2000
NA
NA
Non-Contributing
2012 S. Ailport Stieet
Two Flat
circa 1885
NA
NA
Contributing
2013 S. .Allport Street
Cottage
18S3
NA
F. Charat
Contributing
2014 S. Allpoit Street
Cottage
1883
NA
J ohn Sladik
Contributing
2015 S. AJiport Street
Three-Flat
circa 1885
NA
NA
Contributing
2016 S. .Allporl Street
Cottage
1883
NA
Albert Bilz
Contributing
2017 S. AJiport Streel
Vacant Lot,
NA
NA
NA
N on-C ontributing
201S S. Allport Street
Two Flat.
circa 1885
NA.
NA
Contributing
2019 S. Allport Street
Single Family Residence
1888
NA
NA
Contributine
2020 S. Allport Street
Three-Flat
1890
NA
John Zoland
Contributing
2021 S. Allport Streel
Two Flat
1S89
NA
Vaclav Havel
Contributing
2024 S. AJiport Street
Store & Flats
1894
NA
M Kalal
Contnbuting
2025 S. .Allport Street
Store & Flats
circa 1885
NA
NA
Contributing
1700 S. Ashland Avenue
Garage
circa 1950s
NA
NA-
N on-C ontributing
170S S. Asliland Avenue
Salesroom & Apartments
1928
NA .
NA
Contributing
1710 S. Asliland Avenue
Store & Flats
1893
NA
Frank Krasnicka
Contributing
1712 S. Ashland Avenue
Store & Hals
1925
NA
NA
Contributing
1714 S. Ashland Avenue
Store & Flats
circa 1900
NA
NA
Contributing
1718 S. Ashland Avenue
Store & Flats
1911
NA
NA
Contributing
1720 S. Ashland Avenue
Vacant Lot
NA
NA
NA
N on-C ontributing
1722-1724 S. Ashland Avenue
Store & Flats
1894
NA
Vac. Lusk
Contributing
1723-1725 S. Ashland Avenue
Store & Flats
circa 1885
NA
NA
Contributing
1800 S: Ashland Avenue
Store & Flats
circa 1920s
NA
NA
Contributing
1801-1803 S. Ashland Avenue
Store & Flats
circa 1920s
NA
NA
Contributing
1804 S. Ashland Avenue
Store & Flats
1891
NA '
V. F.nda
Contributing
1805 S. Asliland Avenue
Store & Flats
1914
NA
NA
Contributing
1807 S. Asliland Avenue
Store & Flats
circa 1885
NA,
NA
Contributing
1808 S. Asliland Avenue
Store & Flats
front facade circa 1930s
NA
NA
Potentially Contributmg
1811 S. Asliland Avenue
Slore & Hats
circa 1890
NA
NA
Contributing
* Building is Contributing due to mural.
103
Address?.-1-;-.:-' ?*',' ?
Building Type - >-
Date'}'- ?
Architect ?
Original Owner
Contributing NonrContributing Potentially Contributing '"
1812 S. Asliland Avenue
Ethnic Athletic Club (Plzensky Sokol)
1892, one story-hall
1895. three
additional
floors
NA
Plzensky Sokol
Coiilributing
1813 S! Asliland Avenue
Store & Flats
circa 1890
NA
NA
Contributine
1815 S Asliland Avenue
Tliree Flat
1883
NA
Frank Halas
Contributine
1817 S Asliland Avenue
Two Flat
1883
NA
NA
Contributing
1818 S. Asliland Avenue
Slore & Flats
1895
NA
NA
Contributing
1819 S Asliland Avenue
Three Flat
1904
NA
J. Pcniina
Contributing
1820 S. Asliland Avenue
Store & Flats
1896
NA
Joseph Tlapa
Contributing
1822 S. Asliland Avenue
Store & Flats
1911
NA
NA
Contributing
1823 S. Asliland Avenue
Three Flat
1888
NA
NA
Contributing
1824 S. Ashland.Avenue
Store & Flats
1905
NA
NA.
Contributing
1825 S. Asliland Avenue
Store
circa 1970s
NA
NA
Non-Contributing
1827 S. Ashland Avenue
Vacant Lot
NA
NA
NA
N on-Contributing
1859 S. Ashland Avenue
U.S. Post Office
1935
J ohn B ollenbacher
U.S. Post Office
Contributing
1901-1907 S. Asliland Avenue
St. Pius V Roman Catholic Church
1892
James J. Egan. Burling & Wliiiehouse
Archdiocese of Chicago
Contributing
1909 S. Ashland Avenue
St. Pius V Rectory
1947
NA
Midwestern Province of the Doniinican Order
Contributmg
1919 S. Ashland Avenue
St Pius V School
circa 1990
NA
NA
Contributing"
2003-2005 S. Ashland Avenue
Flats
circa 1883
NA
NA
Contributing
2007 S. Ashland Avenue
Tliree Flat
1892
NA
NA
Contributine
2011 s: Asliland Avenue
Two Flat
circa 1880
NA
NA
Contributing
2013-2017 S. Ashland Avenue
Flats
1SS6.
NA
NA
Contributing
2019 S. Asliland Avenue
Two Flat
cuca:1890
NA
NA
Contributing
2021 S. Asliland Avenue
Two Flat
circa 1880
NA
NA
Contributing
2023 S. Asliland Avenue
Vacant Lot
NA
NA.
NA
Non-C ontributing
1812 S. Bishop Street
Cottage
Circa 1875
NA
NA
Contributing
1813-1817 S. Bishop Slreet
Garage
circa 1920s, 1937
NA-
NA
Contributing*
1814 S. Bishqi Street
CoUage
Circa 1875
NA
NA
Contributing
1816 S. Bishop Street
Cottage
circa 1875
NA
NA
Contributing
1818 S. Bishop Street
Cottage
circa 1875
NA
NA
Contributing
1820 S. Bishop Street
Garage
circa 1950
NA
NA
Potentially Contributing
1822-24 S. Bishop Street
Manufacturing
circa 1900
NA
NA
Contributmg
1647 S. Blue Island Avenue
Garage (Fuluman & Foster Co.)
1924
W. Sevic
Fuhrman & Foster Co.
Contributing
1657 S. Blue Island Avenue
Commercial
circa 1910; faijade
alterations circa 1950
NA
NA
Potentially Contributing
1663 S. Blue Island Avenue
Store & Flats
1893
NA
W Menee
Contributing
1806 S. Blue Island Avenue
Commercial
circa 1890
NA
NA
Contributing
* Building is Contributing due to mural.
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Address
Building Type
Date
Architect "
Original Owner
Contributing Non Contributing Potentially Contributing
1803-1824 S. Blue Island Avenue
Commercial
circa 1925
NA
NA
Contributing
1825 S. Blue Island Avenue
Slore
circa 1990
NA
NA
Non-Contributing
182S-1832 S.Blue Island Avenue
Vacant Lot
NA
NA
NA
Non-Contributing
1834 S. Blue Island Avenue
Store 1887
NA
Lotus Sinck
Contributing
1835 S. Blue Island Avenue
Vacant Lot
NA
NA
NA
Non-Contributing
1836 S. Blue Island Avenue
Store & Flats
circa 1S87
NA
NA
Contributing
1840 S. Blue Island Avenue
Store & Flats
1887
NA
A Williamsoki
Contributina
1842 S. Blue Island Avenue
Store &. Flats
circa 1887
NA
NA
Contributing
1844 S. Blue Island Avenue
Store & Flats
front facade circa 19S0s
NA
NA
Non-Contributme
1S47 S. Blue Island Avenue
Restaurant
circa 1970s
NA
NA
N6n-C ontributing
18-48 S. Blue Island Avenue
Store & Flats
circa 1885
NA
NA
Contributing
1850 S. Blue Island Avenue
Commercial
front facade circa 1990s
NA
NA
Non-Contributmg
1852 S. Blue Island Avenue
Store & Flats
1894
Frank Randak
Thos. Pitte
Contributing
1854 S. Blue Island Avenue
Store & Flats
1890
NA.
John Ricliak
Contributing
1855-1859 S. Blue Island Avenue
Store
circa 1990s
NA
NA
Non-Contributing
1856 S. Blue Island Avenue
Store & Flats
1890
NA
Louis Nathan
Contributing
1860 S. Blue Island Avenue
store
circa 1890s
P. F. Nerges
Win A. Ludwig
Contributing
1862 S. Blue Island Avenue
Store & Flats
1888
NA
Geo. Kappes
Contributing
1864 S. Blue Island Avenue
Store & Flats
188S
NA
Emiva S. Wendel
Contributing
1868 S. Blue Island Avenue
Store & Flats
1889
NA
Hamie Gilman
Contributing
1870 S. Blue Island Avenue
Schlitz Brewery-Tied House
1899
(1909 1-story hall addition)
Frommann & J ebsen
li. G. Uihlein
Contributing
1900-1910 S.Blue Island Avenue
Vacant Lot
NA
NA
NA
Non-Contributing
1901 S. Blue Island Avenue
Commercial
circa 1970s
NA
NA
N on-Contributina
1903 S. Blue Island Avenue
Store & Flats
1S84
NA
S. Henbv
Contributing
1907 S. Blue Island Avenue
Store & Flats
front facade 1928
NA
NA
Contributing
1911 S. Blue Island Avenue
Store & Flats
circa 1S85
NA.
NA
Contributing
1912-1916 S. Blue Island Avenue
Vacant Lot
NA
NA
NA ?
Non-Contributing
1915 S. Blue Island Avenue
Store & Flats
1892
NA
Solomon Loeb
Contributing
1918 S. Blue Island Avenue
Commercial
circa 1920s
NA
NA
Contributing
1919 S. Blue Island Avenue
Store & Flats
circa 1885
NA
NA
Contributing
1920 S. Blue Island Avenue
Store & Flats
circa 1880s (1 -story addition 1904)
NA
NA
Contributing
1923-1929 S. Blue Island Avenue
Slore & Flats
1886
NA
Jos Krolovec
Contributing
2001 S. Blue Island Avenue
Commercial
circa 1970s
NA
NA
Non-Contributina
2002 S. Blue Island Avenue
Vacant Lot
NA
NA.
NA
N onTContributina
2005 S. Blue Island Avenue
Store & Flats
circa 1885
NA
NA
Contributing
* Building is Contributing due to mural.
105
Address
? - - * >5 Building Type
Date
Architect
Original Owner
Contributing Non-Contributing Potentially Contributing
2007 S. Blue Island Avenue
Industnal Bank Building
1891
NA
Industrial Bank
Contributine
2008-2010 S. Blue Island Avenue
Store & Flats
1S79
NA
C. Vandoler
Contributing
2012 S. Blue Island Avenue
Hats
circa .1875
NA
NA
Potentially Contributing
2014 S. Blue Island Avenue
Cottage
circa 1875
NA
NA
Potentially Contributing
2018 S. Blue Island Avenue
Store
circa 1S75
NA
NA
Contributing
2020 S. Blue Island Avenue
Conuuercial
circa 1941
NA
NA
Contributmg
2024 S. Blue Island Avenue
Vacant Lot
NA
NA
NA
Non-Contributine
2026 S. Blue Island Avenue
Hats
facade circa 1930s
NA
NA
Potentially Contributmg
2027 S. Blue Island Avenue
Commercial
circa 1950s
NA
NA
Potentially Contributmg
2030 S. Blue Island Avenue
Vacant Lot
NA
NA
NA
Non-Contributing
1714 S. Carpenter Street
Store & Flats.
1879
NA
NA
Contributing ,
1800 S. Carpenter Street
Store & Flats
1879
NA
Jno. Hoverka
Contnbuting
1801 S. Carpenter Street
Conuuercial
circa 1960s
NA
NA
Potentially Contributing
1312 W. Cullerton Street
Store & Flats
1892
NA
Martin Beick
Contributine
1313 W. Cullerton Street
Single Family-Residence
circa 1890s
NA
NA
Non-Contributing
1316 W. Cullerton Street
Two Hat
circa 1880
NA
NA
Contributing
1317 W. Cullerton Street (Parking Lot)
Vacant Lot
NA
NA
NA
Non-Contributing
1318 W. Cullerton Street
Single Family Residence
circa 2000 .
NA.
NA
N on-C ontributii le
1319 W. Cullerton Street
Three Flat
1892
NA
Frank Vosta
Contributing
1320 W: Cullerton Street
Single Family Residence
circa 2000
NA
NA
Non-Contributing
1321 W. Cullerton Street
Two Flat
circa 1880
NA
NA
Contributine
1322 W. Cullerton Street
Two Flat
1896
NA
NA
Contributing
1323 W. Cullerton Street
Single Family Residence
circa 1875
NA
NA
Contributing
1326 W Cullerton Street
Cottage
facade circa 1920s
NA
NA
Contributine
1327 W Cullerton Slreet
Cottage
circa 1S75
NA
NA
Contributing
1328 W. Cullerton Street
Store & Flats
circa 1888
NA
NA
Contnbuting
1329 W. Cullerton Stieet
Hats
circa 1875
NA
NA
Contributing
1330 W. Cullerton Street
Cottage
circa 1881
NA
NA
Contnbuting
1331 W. Cullerton Street.
Cottage
facade circa 1920s
NA
NA
Contributing
1332 W. Cullerton Street
Cottage
circa 1875
NA
NA
Contributing
1335 W. Cullerton Street
Cottage
circa 1880
NA
NA
Contributing
1336 W. Cullerton Street
Cottage
circa 1875-1880
NA
NA
Contributing
1337 W. Cullerton Street
Cottage
circa 1875
NA
NA
Contributing
1338 -1340 W. Cullerton Street
Multi-Family Residential
circa 2016
NA
NA
Non-Contribuline
1339 W. Cullerton Street
Single Family Residence
circa 18S0s
NA.
NA
Contributine
1341 W. Cullerton Stieet
Cottage
circa 1883
NA"
NA
Contributing
1342 W. Cullerton Street
Vacant Lot
NA.
NA
NA
Non-Contributine
* Building is Contributing due to mural.
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Address i
Building Type
Date
Architect ;; ,
Original Owner ; ?
Contributing . ???<*?? Non-Contributing Potentially Contributing i
1343 W. Cullerton Street
Flats
2018
NA
NA
Non-Contributing
1347 W. Cullerton Slreet
Two Flat
Circa 18S0
NA
NA
Contributine
1414 W. Cullerton Street
Store & Flats
1890
Jno. Schnoor
Jos. Moudry
Contributing
1415 W. Cullerton Street
Cottage
circa 1875
NA
NA
Contributing
1416 W Cullerton Street
Store & Flats
circa 1880
NA
NA
Contributing
1417 W. Cullerton Street
Store & Flats
1889
NA
Joseph Rund
Contributing
1413 W. Cullerton Street
Vacant Lot
NA
NA
NA
Non-Contributing
1419 W. Cullerton Street
Store
1889
NA
Joseph Stefniek
Contributing
1422 W. Cullerton Street
Store & Flats
1900
James Dibelka
Vaclav Zajoudek
Contributing
1423 W. Cullerton Street
Store & Flats
circa 1880s
NA
NA
Contributmg
1424 W. Cullerton Street
Cottage
1883
NA
F. Robinson
Contributing
1425 W. Cullerton Street
Two Flat
circa 1885
NA
NA
Contributing
1426 W. Cullerton Street
Cottage
1S83
NA
William Schwartz
Contributing
1427 W. Cullerton Street
Two Flat
circa 1885
NA
NA
(Contributing
1428 W. Cullerton Street
Eight Flat
circa 1885
NA.
NA
Coiilributing
1429 W. Cullerton Street
Collage
wood-frame portion circa 1875, first floor possibly 1383
NA
NA
Contributing
1433 W. Cullerton Street
Single Family Residence
circa 2000
NA
NA
Non-Contributine
1435 W. Cullerton Street
Two Flat
circa 1880
NA
NA
Contributing
1437 W. Cullerton Street
Three Flat
1888
NA
A. KrerruT
Contributing
1441 W. Cullerton Street
Two Flat
circa 1880
NA
NA
Contributing
1443 W. Cullerton Street
Vacant Lot
NA
NA
NA
Non-Contributine
1504 W. Cullerton Street
Store & Flats
1896
NA
Hugh Murray
Contributing
1503 W. Cullerton Street
Collage
i
wood-frame portion circa 1878; first floor probably 1887
NA
NA
Contributing
1510 W. Cullerton Stieet
Store & Fiats
circa 1875
NA
NA-
Contributing
1514 W. Cullerton Street
Single Family Residence
circa 1950s
NA
NA
Potentially Contributing
1516 W. Cullerton Street
Single Family-Residence
circa 1950s
NA
NA
Potentially Contributing
1518 W. Cullerton Street.
Three Flat
1893
NA
John H ant ok
Contributing
1520 W. Cullerton Street ?
Two Flat
1836
NA
NA
Contributing
1522 W. Cullerton Streei
Three Flat
1892
NA
Jacob Cernanka
Contributing
1523 W. Cullerton Stieet
Vacant Lot
NA
NA
NA
Non-Contributing
1526 W. Cullerton Streel
Two Flat
1836
NA
John Forest
Contributing
* Building is Contributing due to mural.
107
Address
Building Type '
Date
''"'n, - > +-Architect . '?
Original Owner
Contributing ? ?>." Non -Contributing * . Potentially Contributing
1527 W. CuUerton Street
Two Flat
1888
NA
John T. Schaar
Contnbuting
1528 W. Cullenon Street
Three Flat
1888
NA
J. Dimviski
Contributing
1529 W. Cullerton Stieet
Two Flat
1886
NA
G. Deiner
Contnbuting
1530 W. Cullerton Street
Two Flat
18S7
NA
Frank Smith
Contributmg
1531 W. CuUerton Street
Two Rat
1886
NA
Fred Buck
Contnbuting
1532 W. CuUerton Street.
Four Flat
1889
NA
Jno. Ceryanska
Contributmg
1535 W; Cullerton Street
Vacant Lot
NA
NA
NA
N on-Contributing
1536 W. CuUerton Streel
Two Flat
1886
NA
Jolm Vacha
Contributmg
1537 W. Cullerton Street
Two Flat
1883
NA
William Sclirocder
Contributine
1538 W. CuUerton Slreet
Store & Flats
circa 18S0s
NA
Jos. Marz
Contnbuline
1539 W. CuUerton Streel
Two Flat
circa 1890
NA
NA
Contnbulme
1715 S. Laflin Street
Store & Flats
circa 1880s
NA
NA
Contributing
1801 S. Laflin Street
Store & Flats
circa 18S5
NA
NA
Contributine
1803-1807 S. Laflin Street
Vacant Lot
NA
NA
NA
Non-Contributing
1809 S. Laflin Street
Cottage
circa 1875
NA
NA
Contributing
1811 S. Laflin Street
Store & Flats
1889
NA
NA
N on-Conrributine
1814 S. Laflin Street
Store & Flats
1892
NA
Jos. Plachetka
Contributing
1815 S. Laflin Street.
Tliree Flat
1908
NA
Jos. Kolar
Contributing
1816 S. Laflin Slreet ?'
Two Flat
facade circa 1920s
NA
NA
Contributing
1817 S. Laflin Street
Cottage
1884
NA
E. Van Heerikhuizen
Contributine
1S19 S. Laflin Street
Cottage
circa 1880
NA
NA
Contributine
1820 S. Laflin Street
Two Flat
circa 1881
NA
Jos. Horacek
Contributing
1821 S. Laflin Slreet
Cottage
2018
NA
NA
Non-Contributing
1822 S. Laflin Street
Two Flat
circa 1880
NA
NA
Contributine
1823 S Laflin Street
Single Fairuly Residence
circa 2017
NA
NA
Non-Contributing
1824 S Laflin Street
Store & Flats
circa 1880
NA
NA
Contributine
1825 S. Laflin Streel
Single Family Residence
circa 2017.
NA
NA
Non-Contributing
1827 S. Laflin Streel
Cottage
NA
NA
NA
Contributing
1831 S Laflin Streel
Store,& Flats
facade 1937
NA
NA
Contributing
1833 S. Laflin Street
Cottage
circa 1875
NA
NA
Contributing
1834 S. Laflin Street
Single Family Residence
circa 2000
NA
NA
Non-Contributing
1836 S. Laflin Street
Two Flat
circa 1S75
NA
NA
Contributine
1837 S: Laflin Street
Cottage
circa 1875
NA
NA
Potentially Contributing
* Building is Contributing due to mural.
108
Address
Building Type
Date '
' '-"-ty: Architect ,:: .
Original Owner
Contributing"'" Non-Cohtrlbutiiig : PotenUally Contributing '
1838 S. Lafliri Stieet
Cottage
circa 1380
NA
NA
Contributing
1839 S. Laflin Stieet.
Vacant Lot
NA
NA
NA
Non-Contributing
1840 S. Laflin Streel
Single Family Residence
1892
NA
F D. Scator
Contributing
184 1 S. Laflin Street
Cottage
facade circa 1930s
NA
NA
Potentially Contributing
1S42 S. Laflin Street
Three Flat
1891
NA
Albert Janda
Comributing
1843 S. Laflin Street.
Three Flat
circa 1890
NA
NA
Contributing
1847 S. Laflin Street
Vacant Lot
NA
NA
NA
Non-Contributing
1S49 S. Laflin Streel.
Cottage
circa 1875
NA:
NA.
("ontributing
1851-1853 S Laflin Street
Vacant Lot
NA
NA
NA
N on-Contributing'
1910 S. Laflin Street
Slore & Flats
circa 1890
NA
NA
Contributing
1914 S. Laflin Stieet
Vacant Lot
NA
NA
NA
Non-Contributing
1920-1924 S. Laflin Street
Multi-Family Residential,
circa 1990s
NA
NA i
Non-Contnbuting
2009 S. Laflin Street
Store & Flats
1391
NA
F. Panch
Contributine
2011 S Laflin Streel
Store & Flats
circa 2000
NA
NA
Non-Contributing
2019-2021 S. Laflin Street
Commercial
1932
NA
NA
Contributing
2025 S. Laflin Street
Commercial
circa 1960s
NA
NA
Potentially Contributing
1719 S. Leavitt Streel
Store & Flat
circa 1890
NA
NA
Contributing
1S03-1S05.S Loomis Street
Lozano Branch. Chicago Public Library
1989
Jay Carow Architects
Clucago Public Library
Non-Contributing
1803-1805 S. Loomis Street
Skala National Bank
1925
Leonard Gliatto
Frank J. Skala
Contributine
1821 S Loomis Street
Vacant Lot
NA
NA
NA
Non-Contnbuting
1835 S Loomis Street
Cottage
circa 1875
NA
NA
Contributine
1837 S. Loonus Street
Three Flat
188S
NA
J Chlebouh
Contributine
1839 S Loomis Streel
Cottage
1880
NA
J Fuery
Contributine
1840 S. Loomis Street
Vacant Lot
NA
NA
NA
Non-Contributing
1841 S Loonus Street
Two Flat
1S86
NA
Thos. Voscifrka
Contributing
1845 S. Loomis Street
Two Flat
1881
NA
Frank Mottec
Contributing
1846 S. Loomis Streel
Manufacturing
1922
NA
Woithmann & Stein bach
(Contributing
1847 S. Loomis Street
Two Flat
1884
NA
Frank KJima
Contributing
1S51 S. Loomis Street
Vacant Lot
NA
NA
NA
Non-Contributine
1856 S. Loomis Street
Cottaee
original cottaae 1879; fust floor circa 1885
NA
NA
Contributing
1857 S. Loonus Street
Cottaae
circa 1885
NA
NA
Contributing
1859 S. Loonus Street
Single Family Residence
circa 2000
NA
NA
Non-Contributine
* Building is Contributing due to mural.
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Address
Building Type
Date
Architect
Original Owner*
Contributing: Non-Contributing -Potentially Contributing
1901 S. Loomis Street
Store & Flats
1885
NA
V Holacek
Contributing
1904 S. Loomis Street
Tliree Flat
1886
NA
Jolm Tomasek
Contributing
1905 S. Loomis Street
Store & Flats
1892
NA
John Firsa
Contributing
1906 S. Loomis Street
Flats
facade circa 1960
NA
NA
Potentially Contributing
1907 S Loonus Streel
Vacant Lot
NA
NA
NA
Non-Contributing
1908 S. Loomis Street
Two Flat
1S90
NA
Jos. Flonesh
C attributing
1910 S. Loonus Street
Two Flat
circa 1885
NA
NA
Contributing
1911 S. Loomis Street
Tliree Flat
circa 1885
NA
NA
Contributing
1913 S. Loomis Street
Flats
1882
NA
NA
Contributing
1914 S. Loomis Street
Cottage
circa 1882
NA
F. Moreck
Contributing
1915 S. Loomis Street
Two Flat
1883
NA
Frank Hawat
Contributing
1916 S. Loomis Street
Two Flat
circa 1885
NA
NA
Contributing
1917 S Loomis Street
Single Family Residence
1883
NA
A. Chemelch
Contributing
1918 S. Loomis Street
Cottage
circa 1875
NA
NA
Contributing
1921 S. Loomis Street
two Flat
1883
NA
F. Jabareck
Contributing
1922 S. Loomis Street
Single Family Residence
circa 1880
NA
NA
Contributing
1923 S. Loomis Street
Single F amily Residence
circa 2000
NA
NA
Non-Contributing
1924 S. Loonus Street
Store & Flats
1888
T. C. Maver
NA
Contributing
1925 SI Loomis Street
Single Family ? Residence
circa 2000
NA
NA
Ncm-Contributing
2000 S. Loomis Street
Two-Flat
1882
na
F. Waucura
Contributing
2001 S Loomis Street
Store & Flats
circa 1885
NA
NA
Contributing
2003 S Loomis Street
Two Flat
circa 1880
NA
NA
Contributing
2004 S. Loomis Street
Two Flat
circa 1885
NA
NA
Contributing
2005 S. Loomis Street
Two Flat
circa 1885
NA
NA
Contributing
2006 S. Loomis Street
Two Flat
1888
NA
V. Haslaba
Contributing
2008 S. Loomis Street
Cottage
circa 1875
NA
NA
Contributing
2009 S. Loomis Street
Cottage
circa 1875
NA
NA
Contributing
2010 S. Loomis Street
Cottage
circa 1875
NA
NA
Contributing
2011 S: Loonus Street
Cottage
circa 1875
NA
NA
Contributing
2013 S Loonus Street
Tliree-Flat
circa 1890
NA
NA
Contributing
2014 S. Loonus Street
Cottaae
circa 1875
NA
NA
Contnbuting
2015 S. Loomis Street
Vacant Lot
NA
NA
NA
N on-Contributing
2016 S. Loomis Street
Cottaae
circa 1875
NA
NA
Contributine
2018 S. Loomis Street
Mulli-Fanuly Residential
circa 2005
NA
NA
Non-Contributing
2022 S. Loomis Street
Store & Flats
circa 1880
NA
NA
Contributing
2024 S. Loomis Street
Store & I'lats
facade circa 1930s
NA.
NA
Potentially Contributing
1632 S Miller Street'
Joseph Jungman Public School
1902 U913 Audotrium Addn.)
W. B. Mundie
(D. H.Perkins. 1913
Addn.)
Chicago Board of Education
Contributmg
* Building is Contributing due to mural.
no
Address
;:^:'vi.-<'.- ?
Building Type
Date ;: ?
Architect '
' 6 V; > ?' -
Original Owner
Contributing Non-'Contributing Potentially Contributing
1800 S. Morgan Streel
Store & Flats
1901
NA
Jolm Klaus
Contnbuting
1723-1725 S. Racine Avenue
Store & Flat
circa 1880
NA
NA
Contributing
1726 S. Racine Avenue
Store & Flat.
i876
NA
Frank Frick
Contributing
1800-1804 S. Racine Avenue
Store & Flat
1883
NA
Frank Novotnery
Contributing
1801 S. Racine Avenue
Store ?& Flat
circa 1833
NA
J. Soknp
Contributine
1805 S. Racine Avenue
Store & Flat
circa 1870
NA
NA
Contributing
1806 S. Racine Avenue
Store & Flat
circa 1890
NA
NA
Conttibutuig
1807 S Racine Avenue
Vacant Lot
NA
NA
NA
N on-C ontributing
1808 S. Racine Avenue
Store & Flat
circa 18S5
NA
NA
Conlributing
1809 S. Racine Avenue
Commercial
circa 1910
NA
NA
Contributing
1810 S. Racine Avenue
Multi-Family Residential
2018
NA
NA
Non-Contributmg
1812 S. Racine Avenue
Two Flat
circa.1875
NA
NA
Contributing
1813 S. Racine Avenue
Cottage
circa 1875
NA
NA
Contributing
1815 S. Racine Avenue
Single Family-Residence
circa 2000
NA
NA
Non-Contributing
1816 S. Racine Avenue
Store & Flat
1838
NA
L. Fosluovsey
Coiitributing
1817 S. Racine Avenue
Two Flat
circa 1875
NA
NA
Contributine
1818 S. Racine Avenue
Store & Flat
1886
NA
Annie Pecivac
Contributing
1819 S. Racine Avenue
Cottaae
circa 1875
NA
NA
Contributing
1S20 S. Racine Avenue
Cottage
circa 1875
NA
NA
Contributing
1821 S. Racine Avenue
Ethnic Athletic Club
1906'
NA
National Athletic Club
Contributing
1822 S'. Racine Avenue
Store & Flat
circa 1875
NA
NA
Contributing
1824 S. Racine Avenue
Cottaae
circa 1875
NA
NA
Contnbuting
1825 S. Racine Avenue
Cottaae
circa 1875
NA
NA-
Contributing
1827 S. Racine Avenue
Saloon & Flat
1838
NA
NA
Contributmg
182S S. Racine Avenue
Cottage
circa 1S75
NA
NA
Potentially Contributing
1830 S. Racirie Avenue
Multi-Family Residential
facade circa 2015
NA
NA
N on-Contributing
1831 S. Racine Avenue
Casa Aztlan / Bohemian [Settlement House
1913; addition 1939
NA
Bohemian Settlement House
Contributing
1832 S. Racine Avenue
Store & Flat
circa'1885
NA
NA-
Contributing
1834 S. Racine Avenue
Store & Flat
circa 1880
NA
NA
Contributing
183S S. Racine Avenue
Cottage
circa 1875
NA
NA
Contributing
1840 S. Racine Avenue
Store & Flat
circa 1895
NA
Valean Hodek
Contributing
1842 S. Racine Avenue
Store & Flat
circa 1875
NA
NA
Contributing
1844 S Racirie Avenue
Slore & Flat
1897
NA
Frank-Smolik
Contributing
1850 S. Racine Avenue
Vacant Lot
MA
NA
NA
Non-Contributing
1S54 S. Racine Avenue
School
circa 1960
NA
NA
Potentially (Contributing
1916 S. Racine Avenue
Store & Flat
circa 1375
NA
NA
Contributing
1918 S. Racine Avenue
Vacant Lot
NA
NA
NA
Non-Contributine
1920 S. Racine Avenue
Store & Flat
1895
NA
Jos. Deimemark
Contributine
1924 S. Racine Avenue
Single Family Residence
circa 2000
NA
NA
Non-C ontributing
* Building is Contributing due to mural.
Ill
Address'*':V ,
Building Type', 1,
Date ,'4if^y
Architect ;. ;. ? .
Origin aliOwneii
Contributing Non-Contributing .; . ;: , Potentially Contributing*^
1926 S. Racirie Avenue
Three Flat
front facade IS96
NA
NA
Contributing
1928 S. Racine Avenue
Cottaee
1883
NA
NA
Coittributina
1930 Racine Avenue
Vacant Lot
NA
NA
NA
N on -C on tributing
1934 S. Racine Avenue
Store & Flat
circa 1880
NA
NA
Contributing
1936 S. Racine Avenue
Tliree Flat
1889
NA
C. J. Hanka
Contributing
1938 S. Racine Avenue
Cottage
circa 1875
NA
NA
Contributing
1940 S. Racine Avenue
Cottage
circa 1875
NA
NA
Contributing
1942-1944 S. Racine Avenue
Store & Flat
1896
NA
A. Nabuskv
Contributing
1946 S. Racine Avenue
Store & Flat
1896
NA
Frank Rupert
Contributing
2000 S. Racine Avenue
Flats
circa 1875
NA
NA
Contributing
2002 S. Racine Avenue
Vacant Lot
NA
NA
NA
Non-C ontributing
2014-2022 S. Racine Avenue
Burton Manufacturing
1906 addition
Posile & Malier
NA
Contnbuting
1657-1659 S. Throop Street
Store & Flats
circa 1880
NA
NA
Contributing
1658 S. Throop Street
Store & Flats
1883
NA
James Wittans
Contributing
1800 S. Throop Street
Store & Flats
1882
NA
lohiiNovotne
Contributing
1801-1803 S. Tliroop Street
Store & Flats
1886
NA
Vulcav Lala
Coittributing
1802 S. ThroopSlreet
Two Flat
1882
NA
S. Bastik
Contributina
1806 S. Throop Street
Two Flat
2018
NA
NA
N on-C ontributing
1807 S. Tliroop Street
Tluoop Park
NA
NA
NA
N on-C ontributing
1808 S. Tliroop Slreet
Single Family Residence
1880
NA
J. Dusek
Contributing
1810 S. Throop Street
Cottage
circa 1880
NA
NA
Contributing
1812 S. Throop Street
Store & Flats
circa 1885
NA
NA
Contributine
1814 S: Tliroop Street
Store & Flats
circa 1920s
NA
NA
Contributing
181S S. Tliroop Street
Cottage
circa 1875
NA
NA
Contnbuting
1820 S. Tliroop Street
Two Flat
1881
NA
NA
Contributing
1822 S. Tliroop Street
Cottaae
circa 1880
NA
NA
Contnbuting
1824 S. Throop Street
Store & Flats
1880
NA
J. Navara
Contributing
1829 S. Throop Street
Single I'arnily Residence
circa 1920s
NA
NA
Contributing
1831 S. Throop Street
Store & Flats
1889
NA
V. Motycka
Contributina
1833 S. Throop Street
Flats
circa 1880s
NA
NA
Contributine
1834 S. Throop Slreet.
Store & Flats
1890
NA
Thos. Havlalka
Contributine
1835 S. ThroopSlreet
Cottage
circa 1875
NA vNA
Contributing
1836 S. Throop Slreet
Single Family Residence
1880
NA
A. Bartos
Contributing
1S38 S. Tliroop Street
Single Family Residence
1880
NA
J Kolka
Contributine
1839 S. Throop Street
Cottage
2018
NA
NA
Contributine
1841 S. Throop Street
Three Flat
1878
NA
L. P. Ruehbdanz
Coiilribiitine
1843-1851 S. Throop Street
Vacant Lot
NA
NA
NA
Non-Contributmg
1818 S. Tliroop Street
School & Church
1914
NA
Holly Trinity R.C.
Contnbuting
1850 S. ThroopSlreet
Rectory
1914
NA
Holty Trinity R.C.
Contributine
1853 S Tliroop Street
Vacant Lot
NA
NA
NA
Non-Contnbuting
* Building is Contributing due to mural.
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Address '??'?>!-:J.r?
Building Type
Date:;'- :."'.'!;.,
'* I-' ,.Architect -.'?> ? ?
Original Owner
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1856 S. Tliroop Slreet
Store & Flats
circa 1S90
NA
W. Manzarek
Contnbuting
185S S Tliroop Street
Store & Flats
18S5
NA
Joseph Babka
Contnbuting
1900-1902 S. Tliroop Streel
Store & Flats
circa 1S90
NA
NA
Contributing
1904 S: Throop Street
Tw o Flat
circa 1880
NA.
NA
Contributing
1906 S. Throop Street
Store & Hats
circa 1886
NA
NA
Contributing
1910 S. Throop Street
Store & Flats
1889
NA
J. Schrjcta
Contributing
1912 S. Throop Street
Two Flal
circa 1880
NA
NA
Contributing
1914 S. ThroopSlreet
Store & Flats
18S6
NA
Frank Hemka
Contributing
1916 S. Tliroop Street
Two Flat
circa 1S81
NA
C. Grim
Contributing
1920 S. Throop Street
Two Flat
circa 1885
NA
NA
Contributing
1922 S. Throop Street
Tluee Flat
1889
NA
Frank Jansky
Contributing
1924 S. Throop Street
Store & Flats ?
circa 1S95
NA
NA
Coittritrating
2000 S Tliroop Street
Tluee Flat
circa 1885
NA
NA
Contributing
2001 S. Tliroop Street
Komensky School
1890
August Fiedler'
Chicago Board of Education
Contnbuting
2002 S. Throop Street
Vacant Lot
NA
NA
NA
Non-Contributing
2004 S. Tliroop Street
Cottage
1887.
NA
C. V. Kanlamieck
Contributmg
2006 S. Tliroop Street
Cottage
circa 1880
NA
NA
Contributing
2010 S. Tliroop Street
Three Flat
1888
J.Reid
Vacler Rund
Contributing
2011 S. Throop Street
Two Flat
1886
NA
J. Jerfra
Contributing
2012 S. Throop Street
Single Family Residence
circa 2000
NA
NA
Non-Contributine
2013 S. Tliroop Street
Three Flat
1888
NA
[?"rank Ceck
Contributing
2014 S. Tliroop Street
Tluee Flat
circa 1887
NA
Jno. Jelinek
Contnbuting
2015 S. Tliroop Street
Vacant Lot
NA
NA
NA
Non-Contributine
2017 S. Tliroop Street
Three Flat
1893
NA
M Polence
Contributing
2018 S. Throop Street
Store & Flats
1889
NA
Jolm Hagda
Contributing
2019 S. Throop Street
Vacant Lot
NA
NA.:
NA
Non-Contributine
2020 S. Throop Street
Single Family Residence
circa 2017
NA
NA
N on-C cm tnbutine
2021 S. Thioop Street
Store
1917
J. Kouda
A. Malcak
Contributing
2022 S. Throop Street
Store & Flats
1889
NA
L. Kucera
Contributing
2023 S. Throop Street
Store & Flats
circa 1902
John Klucina
NA
Contributing
* Building is Contributing due to mural.
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MURAL INVENTORY
TITLE
ADDRESS
ARTIST
YEAR
917-925 W. 18th Street
939 W. 18th Streel
(rreen Star Movement
From Matter to Mind, From Mind to Matter
960-62 W. 18th Street
Ruben Aguirre
2016
Flyboy
972 W. 18th Stieet
Hebru Brantlev
2013
1004 W. 18th Street
TMIKEKUH
1013 W. 18th Street
Virgen de Guadalupe
1214-18 W. 18th Street
1966
Casa Indigo and No Me HagasMenos
1314 W. 18th Street
Fozzi Bear, and Others
1315 W. 18th Street
1317 W. 18th Street
Aniias or Ani or Ana Kroul (?)
2018
El Musi co
1323 W. 18th Street
Thcthirdman
1324 W. 18th Street
Virgen de Guadalupe/St Jude
1333 W. 18th Street
La Sirena
1335 W. 18th Street
fed
Sacred Heart of Mary
1337 W. 18th Street
Harbee
1345 W. 18th Street
(4 Panels)
1415-21 W. 18th Street
Yollocalli Arts Reach
1418 W. 18th Street
Act ion Street Art
Avengers
1420 W. 18th Street
Bless the Children of Pilsen
1423 W. 18th Street
Salavin (?)
2008-2017
James Wright Foley
1430-34 W. 18th Street
Friends of James Wright Foley including Suree Towfighnia, April Goble. Rosy Campanita, Rudv Avina and Antonio Ancona
2014
Greed
1430-34 W. 18th Street
Pablo Machioli
2016
Taming The Bull
1430-34 W. 18th Street
Nether 410
2016
Pilsen Heart and Others
1436-40 W. 18th Street
Jo Dufo
J Def Peace Project
2016
El Melon, Las Estrellas. El Sol, El Catrin, La Botella (Partial), La Luna (Partial)
1443 W. 18th Street .
La Dama
1447 W. 18th Street
Manuel "MATR" Macias / Brenda "KOZMO" Macias-Lopez
2016
Pilsen
1447 W. 18th Street
Raul "Rawooh" Ramirez
2016
El Corazon
1448 W. 18th Street
Manuel "MATR" Macias / Brenda "KOZMO" Macias-Lopez
2016
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TITLE
ADDRESS
ARTIST
YEAR
La Valienta
1454 W. 18th Street
Manuel "MATR" Macias / Brenda "KOZMO" Macias-Lopez
2016
El Apache, La Sirena
1458 W. 18th Street
Manuel "MATR" Macias / Brenda "KOZMO" Macias-Lopez
2016
La Dona, El Charro, El Santo
1458 W. 18th Street
Thethirdman
2016
Dia de Muertos
1458 W. 18th Street
Ashley "Michelle Slim" Mills
2016
Nuevo Leon
1517 W. 18th Street
Embarrased
1519 W. 18th Street
La Escalera
1531 W. 18th Street
'ITiethirdman
1537 W. 18th Street
Cisco Kid (sponsored by Ava Grey Designs)
2018
1540 W. 18th Street
Empathy
1541 W. 18th Street
Stefl
Reach 'for Peace
1544 W. 18th Street
Yollocalli Arts Reach
2011
Pilsen Wall of Honor
1700-04 W. 18th Street
J-Def Peace Project
2014-2017
Homage to the Women of Mexico and Others
1710 W. 18th Street
Francisco Mendoza wilh Joy Anderson, local artists and area youth
1993-95
Frida K.
1711-13 W. 18th Street
Robert Valadez with Traz Juarez
2018
1721 W. 18th Street
1726 W. 18th Street
Kitchito
Franca
1731 W. 18th Street
Kitchito
1744 W. 18th Street
All About the Women. Mariachi
1757 W. 18th Street
Alejandro Medina
2006
5 Rabanitos
1758 W. 18th Street
Scene BX. Janet Anteguz, Saicker
2016
1858 W. 18th Street
Cruzando Muros
2002 W. 18th Street
Mis Raices Son Mi Inspiracion (My Roots Are My Inspiration)
1241 W. 19th Street
Javier Chaviza
Virgen de Guadalupe
1314 W. 19th Street
Woman with Flag
1637 S. Allport Street
Alejandro Medina
2013
Hands in Unity
1637 S. Allport Street
J-Def Peace Pro ject
Popocatepell and Iztaccihuatl
1658 S. Allport Streel
1819 S. Allport Street
1712 S. Ashland Avenue
1714 S. Ashland Avenue
115
TITLE
ADDRESS
ARTIST
YEAR
MLS Soccer Mural
.1722-24 S. Ashland Avenue
Sam Kirk with Jenny Q, Eva Gancino and Karla Olvera
2017
Nuestra Sagrada Familia (Our Holy Fannly)
1919 S. Ashland Avenue
Aurelio Diaz
1989
MKiarahfreshwall
1813-17 S. Bishop Street
Graffiti Institute/3 Arts with Cecilia Chavez. Michael Chavez, Alyssa Rivera, Jade Rivera and Tailah Lazo
2015
1663 S. Blue Island Avenue
Declaration Of Immigration
1800-08 S.: Blue Island Avenue
Yollocalli Arts Reach with Salvador Jimenez-Flores
2009
1800-08 S. Blue Island Avenue
Fernando "Fedz" Caldera
La Selva (The Jungle)
.1800-08 S. Blue Island Avenue
Yollocalli Arts Reach
1923-29 S. Blue Island Avenue
2018 S. Blue Island Avenue
(Sports Panels)
1319 W. Cullerton Street
Sirvales (Serve)
1538 W. Cullerton Street
Jeff Zimmerman
2005
1801 S. Laflin Street
Manuel "MATR" Macias
2018
Wall Of Hope
1856 S. Loomis Stieet
Yollocalli Arts Reach with Jesus Chucho Rodriguez
2010-2012
1800 S. Morgan Street
Salvador Vega
Gabriel Project
1800 S. Morgan Street
Sentrock with Yollocali
2016
Educacion Para el Pueblo
1800-04 S. Racine Avenue
A) Salvador Vega
B) Sentrock with Yollocali
1980
1801 S: Racine Avenue
La Rosa
1805 S. Racine Avenue
Manuel "MA TR" Macias / Brenda "KOZMO" Macias-Lopez
Casa Aztlan
1831 S. Racine Avenue
Ray Patlan, Robert Valdez and others; design by Salvador Vega
2017
Organicemonos Para Que Haiga Paz
1657-59 S. Tliroop
Aurelio Diaz
1978
1834 S. Tliroop
Roho Garcia Arte
116
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
CTTY OF CHICAGO
Rahm Emanuel, Mayor
Department of Planning and Development
David Reifman, Commissioner
Eleanor Esser Gorski, Bureau Chief, Planning, Historic Preservation & Sustainability Bureau Project Staff
Andrea Terry, Bauer Latoza Studio (consultant), research, writing, editing, mapping
Douglas Kaarre, Bauer Latoza Studio (consultant), photography, inventory
Julia Bachrach, Julia Bachrach Consulting (consultant), research, writing, editing
Rita Arias Jiasek (consultant), research, writing
Terry Tatum (consultant), research
Cameron Zelaya (intern), photography, survey
Matt Crawford, project manager
The Commission on Chicago Landmarks, whose nine members are appointed by the Mayor and City Council, was established in 1968 by. city ordinance. The Commission is responsible for recommending to the City Council that individual building, sites, objects, or entire districts be designated as Chicago Landmarks, which protects them by law. The Commission is staffed by the Chicago Department of Planning and Development, Planning, Historic Preservation &- Sustainability Bureau, Cily Hall. 121 North LaSalle Street. Room 1006. Chicago, IL 60602; (312-744-3200) phone; (312-744-9140) fax, web site: www. cityofchicago. org/landmarks
This Preliminary Summary of Information is subject to possible revision and amendment during the designation process. Only language contained within the final landmark designation ordinance as approved by City Council should be regarded as final.
COMMISSION ON CHICAGO LANDMARKS EXHIBIT D
W. 17th Street W. 18th Place
W. 18th Street W. 19lh Street W. 21st Street S. Allport Street S. Ashland Avenue S. Bishop Street S. Blue Island Avenue S. Carpenter Street S. Cullerton Street S. Damen Avenue S. Hamilton Avenue S. Hoyne Avenue S. Laflin Street Leavitt Street South Loomis Street South S. Marshfield Avenue S. May Street S. Miller Street S. Morgan Street S. Paulina Street S. Racine Avenue
940-2158 (evens), 9 1200-1556 (evens 1200-1556 (evens 1658-2024 (evens 1708-1824 (evens 1800-1852 (evens 1800-2030 (evens 1714-1800 (evens 1300-1556 (evens 1714-1810 (evens 1714-1724 (evens 1714-1810 (evens
1714- 2024 (evens
1715- 1811 (odds) 1724-2026 (evens 1714-1810 (evens 1800-1804 (evens 1624-1658 (evens 1800-1802 (evens 1714-1812 (evens 1724-2024 (evens
7-2159 (odds) 201-1557 (odds) 201-1557 (odds) 637-2025 (odds) 723-2025 (odds) 801-1855 (odds) 647-2031 (odds) 715-1801 (odds) 301-1557 (odds)
715-1725 (odds) 715-1811 (odds) 715-2025 (odds)
801-2025 (odds) 701-1827 (odds) 801-1805 (odds) 655-1659 (odds) 801-1809 (odds) 713-1811 (odds) 723-1843 (odds)
S. Sangamon Street S. Throop Street
S. Wolcott Avenue
1800-1808 (evens), 1801-1809 (odds) 1656-2024 (evens), 1655-2025 (odds) 1713-1725(odds)
1714-1724 (evens), 1713-1811 (odds)
Whereas, on December 6, 2018, the Commission on Chicago Landmarks (hereinafter the "Commission") adopted a resolution making the following preliminary findings (the "Preliminary Findings"):
? The Pilsen Historic District (hereinafter the "District"), located at the addresses noted above, meets four (4) criteria for landmark designation as set forth in Section 2-120-620 (1), (4), (6) and (7) of the Municipal Code of Chicago (the "Municipal Code"), as specifically described in the Preliminary Building Catalog submitted to the Commission on this 6th day of December, 2018, by the Department of Planning and Development; and
? The District satisfies the historic integrity requirement set forth in Section 2-120-630 ofthe Municipal Code; and
Whereas, the Commission wishes to reaffirm its Preliminary Findings, and further wishes to adopt the Preliminary Summary of Information submitted to the Commission on this 7lh day of February, 2019; now therefore
Be it resolved by the Commission on Chicago Landmarks:
Section 1. The above recitals arc expressly incorporated in and made part of this resolution as though fully set forth herein.
Section 2. The Commission hereby reaffirms its Preliminary Findings, adopts the Preliminary Summary of Information, and reaffirms its preliminary landmark recommendation concerning the District in accordance with Section 2-120-630 of the Municipal Code.
Section 3. For purposes of Section 2-120-740 of the Municipal Code governing permit review, the significant historical and architectural features of the District are preliminarily identified as:
? All exterior elevations, including rooflines, ofthe buildings visible from public rights of way.
? Murals on exterior facades ofthe buildings visible from public rights of way. This resolution was adopted ^^yu^-^vi^<>*^rt--Rafael M. Leon, Chairman Commission on Chicago Landmarks