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Jenson Building

Posted by Rav Ens Wood on March 27, 2013
Posted in: A Walking Tour of Old Ravenswood. Tagged: +41.96562° Latitude, -87.672635° Longitude, 4604 N Hermitage, apartment architect, architecture, Chicago, IL 60613, Jens A Jenson.

4606 North Hermitage Avenue

Fanciful quarter–turret, bay parapet, console, round–arched dormer surround, balcony grilles, weathervane, shaped brick chimney and carved stone door surround. Highly picturesque.

HISTORICAL FEATURES

Jens Jensen, a building architect with the same name as the more famous landscape architect, specialized in apartment buildings. He built a number of them in the 1920’s.

4604 N Hermitage. Credit: Cook County Assessor

4604 N Hermitage. Credit: Cook County Assessor

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