Sherwin Avenue

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Sherwin Avenue Soundex Code S650

7332 N. from 1204 W. to 7728 W.

Named for Ezra B. Sherwin, an early resident and trustee in 1881 of the Village of Norwood Park, now a Chicago neighborhood. He lived in a house at Newcastle Avenue near Ardmore Avenue.

The Chicago City Council passed a lengthy ordinance January 14, 1895, rationalizing the street naming system. Sherwin Avenue runs west from 1127-1227 to 802-1648. This happens because Sherwin Avenue passes through several street numbering systems.

1897 Chicago Blue Book, page 39: Sherwin Avenue (Rogers Park) from 4510 Forest east to Lake Michigan. Residents start on page 296.

1898 Chicago Blue Book, page 45: Sherwin Avenue (Rogers Park) from 4510 Forest east to Lake Michigan. Residents start on page 288.

1901 Chicago Blue Book, page 42: Sherwin Avenue (Rogers Park) from 4510 Forest east to Lake Michigan. Residents start on page 276.

1902 Chicago Blue Book, page 43: Sherwin Avenue (Rogers Park) from Lake Michigan west to Sheffield Avenue. thence north to city limits. Residents start on page 267.

1903 Chicago Blue Book, page 43: Sherwin Avenue (Rogers Park) from Lake Michigan west to Sheffield Avenue. thence north to city limits. Residents start on page 268.

1904 Chicago Blue Book, page 44: Sherwin Avenue (North Division) from 4510 N. Paulina Street east to Lake Michigan page 269

Photos

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RPWRHS photo A006-85042 shows the Wilson School (private) on Sherwin Avenue near Greenview Avenue in 1919.

Rogers Park Addresses

800 Block

802 Sherwin Avenue, Dr. & Mrs. Daniel C. Bartlett, 1902, 1904.

802 Sherwin Avenue, Mrs. Marion B. Stevenson, 1902, 1904.

808 Sherwin Avenue, Mr. & Mrs. Joseph A. Christoph, 1895, 1904.

811 Sherwin Avenue Mr. & Mrs. W.H. Christoph, 1901, 1902.

822 Sherwin Avenue, Mr. & Mrs. Harry T. Grundt, 1895.

822 Sherwin Avenue, Mr. & Mrs. William H. Hess, 1901, 1902, 1904.

822 Sherwin Avenue, Robert H. Given, 1901, 1902, 1904.

822 Sherwin Avenue, Mrs. Ethelynd Given Little, 1901, 1902, 1904.

822 Sherwin Avenue, Edward T. Newton, 1904.

832 Sherwin Avenue, Mr. & Mrs. Charles H. Johnson, 1895, 1897, 1901, 1902.

832 Sherwin Avenue, Miss Jennie Johnson, 1895.

844 Sherwin Avenue, Miss Kate Gallaher, 1895.

844 Sherwin Avenue, Mr. & Mrs. Charles Higgins, 1895, 1897.

900 Block

903 Sherwin Avenue, Mr. & Mrs. John F. Bruckner, 1895, 1897, 1901, 1902s, 1904.

910 Sherwin Avenue, Mr. & Mrs. Calvin B. Cady, 1897, 1901.

910 Sherwin Avenue, Mr. & Mrs. J.S. Huey, 1902.

910 Sherwin Avenue, Walter B. Huey, 1902.

910 Sherwin Avenue, Ray Huey, 1902.

935 Sherwin Avenue, Mr. & Mrs. Schuyler F. Smead, 1895.

1000 Block

1033 Sherwin Avenue, Mrs. Frank S. Hine, 1897.

1039 Sherwin Avenue, Mr. & Mrs. W.N. VandeWerker, 1897.

1039 W. Sherwin Avenue, John Barron Waldo, 1905.

1043 Sherwin Avenue, Mr. & Mrs. J.M. Glenn, 1901.

1044 Sherwin Street now 1526 W. Sherwin Avenue.

1062 Sherwin Avenue, Miss Sarah Allison, 1904.

1062 Sherwin Avenue, Mr. & Mrs. Charles E. Catlin, 1901, 1902, 1904.

1065 Sherwin Avenue, Mr. & Mrs. Charles H. Reeves, 1897.

1100 Block

1127 Sherwin Avenue, DeWitt W. Chamberlin, 1897.

1127 Sherwin Avenue, Mr. & Mrs. Walter Howard Chamberlin, 1897, 1901, 1902.

1127 Sherwin Avenue, Mr. & Mrs. Edward H. Ailing, 1901

1194 W. Sherwin Avenue was the Jarvinen/Haag apartment building in 1991.

1200 Block

1200 W. Sherwin Avenue Apartments are also known as "The Breakers."

1205 W. Sherwin Avenue was the Sherwin-On-The-Lake Apartment Building in November 1995.

1205 W Sherwin Avenue, Suite 803, Rogers Park Chamber of Commerce - Old

1209 W. Sherwin Avenue

1211 W. Sherwin Avenue, Robert A. Ilg, 1919.

1214 W. Sherwin Avenue, Edward A. Linn, 1919.

1216 W. Sherwin Avenue, Michael A. Flannagan, 1919.

1216 W. Sherwin Avenue, Mrs. C.W. Gindele, 1919.

1218 W. Sherwin Avenue, William Walley Davis.

1219 W. Sherwin Avenue Arthur Kroeck, 1919.

1221 W. Sherwin Avenue, Clark Diversey Currency Exchange

1226 W. Sherwin Avenue, Frank Wilber Crandall, 1917, 1919.

1226 W. Sherwin Avenue, C.G. Austin, 1919.

1226 W. Sherwin Avenue, Edward T. Coleman, 1919.

1227 Sherwin Avenue, Walter Howard Chamberlin, 1911, 1917.

1232 W. Sherwin Avenue, Ella McCullough, 1919.

1300 Block

1318 W. Sherwin Avenue, Anton George Zulper, 1917.

1318 W. Sherwin Avenue, Albert H. Hoffman, 1919.

1321 W. Sherwin Avenue, Dr. Thomas Francis Conroy, 1917.

1322 W. Sherwin Avenue, Robert E. Abbott, 1919.

1322 W. Sherwin Avenue, H.S. Huncke, 1919.

1324 W. Sherwin Avenue, Thomas J. Hickey, 1919.

1324 W. Sherwin Avenue, Paul Jarvis, 1919.

1324 W. Sherwin Avenue, F.W. Lucke, 1919.

1328 W. Sherwin Avenue was the Jules N. Raymond residence, circa 1910.

1328 W. Sherwin Avenue, was the Jones/Downs House in 2000.

1329 W. Sherwin Avenue, J.H. Howentein, 1919.

1331 W. Sherwin Avenue, C.O. Hilton, 1919.

1331 W. Sherwin Avenue, Samuel Horner, 1919.

1331 W. Sherwin Avenue, the LK Horner House, was designed by Frank Lloyd Wright.

1358 W. Sherwin Avenue, Currency exchange under “L” station, Monday, September 30, 1996.

1400 Block

1400 W. Sherwin Avenue, Thomas W. Dudman, 1919.

1403 W. Sherwin Avenue, E.J. Knaust, 1919.

1404 W. Sherwin Avenue, Oscar Armin Kropf, 1917.

1409 W. Sherwin Avenue, John Sargon Saul, 1917.

1420 W. Sherwin Avenue, James M. Hurst, 1919.

1426 W. Sherwin Avenue, Philip and Gwen Nordgren, August 1975.

1427 W. Sherwin Avenue, Esther Ek, 1919.

1427 W. Sherwin Avenue, I.L. Jochim, 1919.

1428 W. Sherwin Avenue, Alex J. Klein, 1919.

1429 W. Sherwin Avenue, G.E. Ayrscott, 1919.

1429 W. Sherwin Avenue, C. Knap Creiger, 1919.

1429 W. Sherwin Avenue, Miss A.B. Martin, 1919.

1431 W. Sherwin Avenue, Mrs. H.H. Carter, 1919.

1431 W. Sherwin Avenue, Juliet T. Graves, 1919.

1432 W. Sherwin Avenue, George W. Finch, 1919.

1437 W. Sherwin Avenue, Max Klapper, 1919.

1439 W. Sherwin Avenue, I.B. Aylesworth, 1919.

1439 W. Sherwin Avenue, E.M. Humphries, 1919.

1500 Block

1508 W. Sherwin Avenue, H. Teller Archibald, 1919.

1512 W. Sherwin Avenue, Edward O. Krauss, 1919.

1512 W. Sherwin Avenue is a house, circa October 1980. No owner name given.

1516 W. Sherwin Avenue, John D. Erickson, 1919.

1516 W. Sherwin Avenue was a house. No owner name given, circa September 1975.

1517 W. Sherwin Avenue, C.B. Bogue, 1919.

1517 W. Sherwin Avenue, William E. Conner D.O., 1919.

1521 W. Sherwin Avenue

1522 W. Sherwin Avenue, George Hesse, 1919.

1522 W. Sherwin Avenue is a house. No owner name given, circa September 1976.

1526 W. Sherwin Avenue (was originally 1044 Sherwin Street) is the Colovos family residence. No date given.

1527 W. Sherwin Avenue, Louis J. Kempf, 1919.

1527 W. Sherwin Avenue, James N. Litsey, 1919.

1533 W. Sherwin Avenue, Reverend P.A. Kittilsby, 1919.

1539 W. Sherwin Avenue, Richard H. Mather, 1910.

1539 W. Sherwin Avenue, Andrew L. Johnson, 1919.

1542 W. Sherwin Avenue, Edward Fred Hamm, 1917.

1542 W. Sherwin Avenue, JellyNeck Solutions, Inc., 2016.

1543 W. Sherwin Avenue, Miss Anna Harden, 1919.

1547 W. Sherwin Avenue, Patrick J. Kelly, 1919.

1580 W. Sherwin Avenue, Joseph C. Breese, 1919.

1600 Block

1600 W. Sherwin Avenue, Earl F. Burdick, 1919.

1600 W. Sherwin Avenue, Gordon Granger Burdick, 1917.

1609 W. Sherwin Avenue, W.J. Grotenhuis, 1919.

1614 W. Sherwin Avenue, Irvin Briggs, 1919.

1615 W. Sherwin Avenue, Herbert Green, 1919.

1615 W. Sherwin Avenue was a house in October 1979. No owner name given.

1618 W. Sherwin Avenue, Charles H. Johnson, 1919.

1621 W. Sherwin Avenue, Robert Massie Johnson, 1917.

1622 W. Sherwin Avenue, E. Theodore Behr, 1919.

1625 W. Sherwin Avenue, Arthur W. Goetz, 1919.

1627 W. Sherwin Avenue, H.C. Castor, 1919.

1628 W. Sherwin Avenue, Allen J. Cline, 1919.

1634 W. Sherwin Avenue, J.E. Douglass, 1919.

1635 W. Sherwin Avenue, Edward J. Doyle, 1919.

1639 W. Sherwin Avenue, W.H. Christoph, 1919.

1644 W. Sherwin Avenue, Joseph A. Christoph, 1919.

1647 W. Sherwin Avenue, T.B. Harned, Jr., 1919.

1647 W. Sherwin Avenue, Anna S. Marker, 1919.

1649 W. Sherwin Avenue, J.A. Cavanagh, 1919.

West Ridge Addresses

2800 Block

2800 W. Sherwin Avenue Ner Tamid Ezra Habonim Egalitarian Minyan