Ida B. Wells-Barnett House

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Ida B. Wells-Barnett House
Chicago Landmark
Chicago, IL
Coordinates41°49′47″N 87°37′3″W / 41.82972°N 87.61750°W / 41.82972; -87.61750
Built1889 (1889)
Architectural styleRenaissance Revival
NRHP reference No.74000757 [1]
Significant dates
Added to NRHPMay 30, 1974
Designated NHLMay 30, 1974
Designated CLOctober 2, 1995

The Ida B. Wells-Barnett House was the residence of

Chicago Landmark on October 2, 1995.[2] It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places and as a National Historic Landmark on May 30, 1974.[3]

Description and history

The Ida B. Wells-Barnett House is located on Chicago's South Side, on the west side of

Romanesque Revival style which was popular around 1890. The front facade is divided into a large right bay, a smaller left bay, and an angled left corner section, from which a turreted bay projects on the second and third levels. The main entrance is deeply recessed behind a segmented arch in the right bay; the other bays have windows set in round-arch openings. The right bay is topped by a gabled wall dormer with a pair of round-arch windows at its center. The interior's original layout had a side hall plan, with public rooms on the ground floor, bedrooms on the second, and a ballroom on the third. The building has been subdivided into apartments.[4]

The house was built about 1889–90 to a design by architect Joseph Thain. It was purchased in 1919 by writer and activist

Jim Crow south, particularly on the subject of lynching. In the early 1890s she met Barnett, a Chicago attorney also active in civil rights; they married in 1895. Wells continued her writing and activism, and was a founding organizer of the NAACP.[4]

Gallery

  • Tribute on front lawn
    Tribute on front lawn
  • Tribute continued
    Tribute continued

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Notes

  1. ^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. January 23, 2007.
  2. ^ "Ida B. Wells - Barnett House". City of Chicago Department of Planning and Development, Landmarks Division. 2003. Archived from the original on June 7, 2007. Retrieved May 10, 2007.
  3. ^ "Wells-Barnett, Ida B., House". National Park Service. Archived from the original on June 5, 2011. Retrieved May 10, 2007.
  4. ^ a b "NHL nomination for Ida B. Wells-Barnett House". National Park Service. Retrieved April 26, 2017.
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