A three-story masonry building, the last-standing building of the Jane Addams Homes, is being converted into the National Public Housing Museum on Taylor Street in Little Italy. A joint effort by Related Midwest and the Chicago Housing Authority, the renovation is part of Roosevelt Square Phase 3B which we featured last week.
Site of the new National Public Housing Museum, 1322 W Taylor Street. Photo by Daniel Schell
Photo by Daniel Schell
Photo by Daniel Schell
Photo by Daniel Schell
A pair of renovation permits were issued by the City of Chicago on November 16, 2022, both addressing the development as 919 S Ada Street. One permits allows for the conversion of the south wing of the existing structure to the museum. The other permit allows 15 residential units to be built in the north wing, as well as adding 37 surface parking spaces to the north of that wing.
Photo by Daniel Schell
Photo by Daniel Schell
Photo by Daniel Schell
Photo by Daniel Schell
GMA Construction is the general contractor for the re-build. Interior progress is, of course, hidden from view, but visible exterior work includes lots of new windows all around, and steel stairways on the south wing and the façade facing Ada Street.
The design team includes Landon Bone Baker Architects on building design, Amy Reichart Design as the exhibition architect for the museum, and Site Design as the landscape architect.
Photo by Daniel Schell
Photo by Daniel Schell
Photo by Daniel Schell
Photo by Daniel Schell
Residents of the 15 new apartments, as well as visitors to the National Public Housing Museum, will be able to access stops for the Route 157 bus on the same block. The 60 bus stops two blocks to the east, the 9 bus three blocks west, and the 12 bus stops three blocks south. The Polk Pink Line station is about a five-block walk northwest.
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Is there a timeline for completion?
At this time, there is not.
This area is just so poised for more resi development to fill some of the empty lots in the area. There was much consternation about selling CHA land to the Chicago fire for their training facility near by, but if you treat that as a neighborhood amenity and believe that the CHA will utilize the proceeds to building more affordable housing effectively (a tall task bc the CHA is a mess) there is still plenty of land in the area to build mid rise housing.
The CHA has so much land still available for housing construction, leasing the site to the Chicago Fire didn’t reduce the number of units they have the internal capacity to construct. I agree – the training facility is probably better than what would have otherwise been a long-vacant lot.