Henry Gerber House

Year: 1885
Style: Queen Anne
City: Chicago, IL

The Henry Gerber House at 1710 N. Crilly Court in Old Town is a brick row house built in 1885, largely intact in its Queen Anne detailing. In the 1920s it held the apartment of German-born Henry Gerber, who founded the Society for Human Rights, the first gay-rights organization incorporated in the United States. Gerber held meetings and printed the country's first known gay civil-rights newsletters here until Chicago police raided the house in 1925.

the style

The house is a Queen Anne row house, one of a row of similar houses on Crilly Court, its historic facade mostly unchanged since 1885.

significance

The house became a contributing property to the Old Town Triangle Chicago Landmark District in 1977 and to the matching National Register historic district in 1984, was individually designated a Chicago Landmark in 2001, and was named a National Historic Landmark in June 2015 for its role in early American gay-rights history.

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Clark-Netsch House 0.2 mi · Mid-Century Modern · 1974
Carling Hotel 0.3 mi · Neoclassical · 1927
Marshall Field Garden Apartments 0.4 mi
Café Brauer 0.4 mi · Prairie School
Albert F. Madlener House 0.4 mi · Prairie School · 1902

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