Arthur H. Compton House
- Architect
- M. Tetter
- Year
- 1916
- City
- Chicago, IL
The Arthur H. Compton House at 5637 South Woodlawn Avenue in Hyde Park was designed by Holabird & Roche and built in 1905. Physicist Arthur Compton (1892–1962) lived here from 1928 to 1945, the years surrounding his 1923 discovery of the Compton Effect — proof that light behaves as both particle and wave — which won him the 1927 Nobel Prize in Physics.
the building
An unaltered interior. Described as an architecturally undistinguished 2½-story brick house with a gabled roof, it has a flat-roofed, single-story enclosed porch across the front and a chimney rising between the porch and the main block. Inside, the central-hall plan has been little altered since Compton's period of ownership.
significance
Designated a National Historic Landmark in 1976 for its association with Compton's Nobel Prize-winning work.
nearby
- Robert A. Millikan House
- Hyde Park Union Church
- Keck-Gottschalk-Keck Apartments
- Frederick C. Robie House
- Rockefeller Memorial Chapel
- Snell–Hitchcock