Jennie Foley Building
- Style
- Chicago School
- City
- Chicago, IL
- Collection
- the chicago school
The Jennie Foley Building, also known as the Jennie Foley–Victor A. Arrigo Building, is a four-story brick commercial and residential building at 626-628 S. Racine Avenue, built in 1889 with a ground-floor storefront and six apartments above. It stood at the center of Chicago's Sicilian community in the early twentieth century, one of many hybrid commercial-residential buildings there, most of which have since been demolished.
the building
East facade details. Hexagonal bay windows, belt courses between floors, and a metal cornice decorated with scrolls and dentils mark the building's east facade.
the style
The building is cataloged in the Chicago School idiom, seen here in its plain brick mass punctuated by hexagonal bay windows and a decorative metal cornice on the street-facing facade.
More on Chicago Schoolsignificance
Purchased in 1910 by the parents of Victor A. Arrigo, the prominent Chicago lawyer and politician who lived in the building until his death in 1973; listed on the National Register of Historic Places on June 19, 1985.
nearby
- Holy Family Catholic Church
- St Ignatius College Prep Building
- International Tailoring Company Building
- Hull House
- Church of the Epiphany
- Abraham Groesbeck House