National Public Housing Museum Building Envelope
- Preservation Architecture
- Cultural
- Building Envelope
- Cultural Resources
The former residential building and last remaining structure of the Jane Addams Homes complex has been adaptively reused as the National Public Housing Museum. As part of the design team, McGuire Igleski provided Construction Administration services for the rehabilitation of the historic building envelope and modifications to the exterior wall system as part of the Museum Build-Out. Repairs to the building envelope focused on improvements to address the deterioration of the exterior wythe of masonry, while ensuring all work was completed in accordance with the National Park Service Guidelines for Rehabilitating Historic Buildings.
Photos: McGuire Igleski & Associates
Chicago, Illinois
National Public Housing Museum
4,100 square feet
HED
LBBA
The National Public Housing Museum was created to preserve the voices, memories and histories of public housing nationwide. The permanent home for the museum shares the building with fifteen walk-up mixed-income residences. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places, the building was designed by John Holabird and constructed in 1938. Historically, the building was one of thirty-two multi-unit residences that provided public housing to the Chicago Near West Side neighborhood.