Theodore Rozek House

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Theodore Rozek House
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Location6337 N. Hermitage Ave., Chicago, Illinois
Coordinates 41°59′54″N87°40′23″W / 41.99833°N 87.67306°W / 41.99833; -87.67306
Arealess than one acre
Built1908 (1908), c. 1925
ArchitectClarence Hatzfeld; Andrew E. Norman
Architectural styleAmerican Foursquare
NRHP reference No. 11000779 [1]
Added to NRHPNovember 2, 2011

The Theodore Rozek House is a historic house at 6337 N. Hermitage Avenue in the Edgewater neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois. The house was built in 1908 for Theodore Rozek, a printer and German immigrant, and his family. Architect Clarence Hatzfeld designed the original house in the American Foursquare style, a popular vernacular style of the early twentieth century. Like many other Foursquare homes, the house had a square shape and was topped by a hip roof with a dormer. In the mid-1920s, architect Andrew E. Norman designed an addition for the front of the house; this addition was inspired by the Better Homes movement, which sought to bring high-level architecture to working-class homes. The addition replaced the original front porch with a semi-circular porch supported by its original columns, distinguishing the house from its neighbors. [2]

The house was added to the National Register of Historic Places on November 2, 2011. [1]

References

  1. 1 2 "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places . National Park Service. November 2, 2013.
  2. Bachrach, Julia S. (July 8, 2011). "National Register of Historic Places Registration Form: Rozek, Theodore House" (PDF). Illinois Historic Preservation Division . Retrieved November 24, 2019.

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