Detail: 950 Chicago Ave Oak Park Illinois: RuskinARC™

Basics

Resource Category:

Building

Resource Type:

Multi-family residence

Location

Address:

950 Chicago Ave

City:

Oak Park

County:

Cook

State/Province/Region:

Illinois

Zip/Postal Code:

60302

Country:

USA

Other Address or Location Information:

Parcel/Tax number or land unit:

Local place name:

Setting/Landscape/Site Features:

Acreage, parcel, land unit size:

Quad/Map name and date:

Date

Township/Range/Section:

/ /

Visible from Public Road?

Yes

Historical Information

Historic name:

Current name:

Construction Date (range/estimated):

1890-1899

Construction Date Certainty:

approximate

Known Construction Date:

1892

Source for Known Construction Date:

Architect/Designer:

Developer:

Builder:

Significant Owner(s):

Historical Summary:

House appears on the 1895 Sanborn Fire Insurance map.

Extant Status:

Not Demolished

Architectural Style and Form

Plan/Footprint Shape:

rectangular

Building Form or Plan Type (core plan):

Queen Anne

Style, Primary:

Queen Anne

Style, Secondary:

Notes on architectural style, form, distinguishing features:

Architectural Elements and Features

Number of Stories:

2.5

Bays:

Structural System:

box frame

Foundation:

Stone

Basement:

Building Size:

Square footage/meters:

Roof Configuration:

Hip and gable

Roof Material

replacement asphalt shingles

Roof remarks/description:

Eave Type:

Eave Ornamentation:

Dormer Count:

Dormer Configuration:

Exterior Wall Material (primary):

modern vinyl siding

Exterior Wall Material (secondary):

Notes on exterior materials:

Principal Windows::

historic wood

Window Panes/Lights:

1 over 1

Window Type:

double-hung sashes

Window remarks:

Chimney remarks/description:

Chimney Count (first):

Chimney Placement 1:

Chimney Count (second):

Chimney Placement 2:

Porch description, characteristics, details:

Porch Height, Stories:

single-story

Porch Configuration:

Partial-Width

Porch Type:

open porch

Porch Roof Shape:

gabled

Porch Roof Material:

asphalt shingles

Porch Columns/Posts (upper or only):

turned wood posts on

Porch Piers (lower):

Primary entryway:

Function and Use

Historic Function:

Domestic: Single Dwelling

Present Function:

Domestic: Multiple Dwelling

Function remarks:

Listed, Designated, or Protected Status

Status Code:

Listed at the national level?

Individually Listed: No
Contributes to a District: Yes
Landmark: No

Date, name, remarks:

Frank Lloyd Wright-Prairie School of Architecture

Designated at State/Province level?

Individually Listed: No
Contributes to a District: No
Landmark: No

Date, name, remarks:

Designated Locally?

Individually Listed: No
Contributes to a District: Yes
Landmark: No

Date, name, remarks:

Frank Lloyd Wright-Prairie School of Architecture

Protected by ordinance or regulation?:

Yes

Protection status, remarks:

Oak Park Historic Preservation Ordinance

Evaluation of Potential Eligibility

Potentially eligible for historic/heritage designation?

Contributes to potential district

Level of potential eligibility

National
Local

Rating or Rank

Contributing

Recommended as a potential landmark?

Criteria:

Significance and Context

Theme(s)

Period of significance

Significance/Context Remarks

Area(s) of Significance

Ancillary Structures / Outbuildings

Number of ancillary structures / outbuildings:

Secondary structure type

Contributing to primary property?

Ancillary structures remarks or description:

Condition and Alterations

Character of modifications:

Moderate alteration

General Condition:

Excellent

Moved or Relocated?:

Date moved or relocated:

Relocation remarks:

Alterations?

Yes

Date of major alterations:

Nature of alterations:

siding, windows

Additions?:

Date of major additions:

Addition Height:

Addition Placement:

Addition Type:

Nature of additions:

Endangered / Threatened

Endangered by:

Endangered/Threatened remarks:

Recommendations:

Contact:

Tourism / Featured Destination

Open to the public:

Contact information, Hours, and Amenities:

For Sale, Rent, or Lease

Property Classification:

Sale status:

Sale remarks:

Owner

Ownership type:

Name of Owner:

Owner Mailing Address:

Legal Description of Property/Comments:

Survey and Recorder

Authorized Resource Number or ID :

Optional Tracking or Sequence Number:

Alternate Resource ID or Key:

Survey Date:

September 16, 2014

Surveyed By:

Douglas Kaarre, AICP
Village of Oak Park

Report Name, or Reason for Survey:

Survey and Planning

Level of Survey:

intensive

Sources, References, Bibliography

Previously Surveyed?

Yes

Name of Previous Survey:

Oak Park Survey 1970

Additional Research Recommended?

Yes

Other Sources of Information:

Building permit records.

General Remarks:

The siding is vinyl. The building was converted to a two-flat. The front windows were possibly enlarged. There is wood banding on the second floor.

Latitude:	41.8946170927024600
Longitude:	-87.8000007901782700
UTM:	Zone 16T 433636.3963 mE, 4638385.1782 mN
Datum	WGS84

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950 Chicago Ave Oak Park, Illinois USA

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