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]
Theodore Rozek House | |
 | |
    | |
| Location | 6337 N. Hermitage Ave., Chicago, Illinois |
|---|---|
| Coordinates | 41°59′54″N 87°40′23″W / 41.99833°N 87.67306°W |
| Area | less than one acre |
| Built | 1908, c. 1925 |
| Architect | Clarence Hatzfeld; Andrew E. Norman |
| Architectural style | American Foursquare |
| NRHP reference No. | 11000779[1] |
| Added to NRHP | November 2, 2011 |
The house was added to the National Register of Historic Places on November 2, 2011.[1]
References edit
- ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. November 2, 2013.
- ^ 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.
External links edit
Media related to Theodore Rozek House at Wikimedia Commons