St. Matthew Evangelical Lutheran School
- Style
- Renaissance Revival
- City
- Chicago, IL
St. Matthew Evangelical Lutheran School at 2101-2107 W. 21st Street was built in 1882 as one of the only Italianate school buildings in Chicago. Italianate was common for homes and storefronts in the second half of the 19th century but rarely used for institutional buildings, making this school an unusual application of the style.
the building
Italianate details. The school's tall windows carry arched lintels above a symmetrical front facade, capped by a double bracketed cornice and a cupola on the roof.
the style
Built in the Italianate style at a time when Chicago mostly reserved it for houses and commercial buildings, giving an ordinary parochial school an unusually decorative treatment.
More on Renaissance Revivalsignificance
One of the oldest surviving school buildings on the Lower West Side; only four older schools remain across the area's nine community areas, and St. Ignatius College Prep is the only older parochial school. Added to the National Register of Historic Places on January 27, 2000.
nearby
- Produce Terminal Cold Storage Company Building
- Cook County Hospital Administration Building
- Cook County Hospital Administration Building
- St. Barbara in Chicago
- Holy Family Catholic Church
- St Ignatius College Prep Building