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Francis J. Dewes House, 503 West Wrightwood Avenue, Chicago, Cook County, IL
Summary
Significance: The house was built for a wealthy Chicago brewer, Francis J. Dewes, shortly after the World's Columbian Exposition of 1893. The elaborate exterior was designed in a Central European Baroque Revival style, while the interior displays a wide range of extravagant architectural decoration, almost all of which remains original and unusually well preserved.
Survey number: HABS IL-1043
Building/structure dates: 1896 Initial Construction
Building/structure dates: 1921 Subsequent Work
Building/structure dates: 1948 Subsequent Work
Building/structure dates: 1953 Subsequent Work
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Date
1933 - 1970
Contributors
Historic American Buildings Survey, creator
Cudell, Adolph
Hercz, Arthur
Source
Library of Congress
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