Henry Gerber House
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The Henry Gerber House is located on North Crilly Court in the Old Town neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois, United States. It is a single-family brick row house built in 1885 in the Queen Anne style, mostly intact from that time. In the 1920s it housed the apartment occupied by German-born Henry Gerber, founder of the short-lived Society for Human Rights, which was incorporated in Illinois as the first American organization working for gay rights. Inspired by nascent gay-rights organizations he had seen in Germany, Gerber held meetings here and published newsletters, the first known gay civil rights periodicals in the country, for a year until the Chicago police raided the house in 1925.
Henry Gerber House | |
Location | 1704 N Crilly Court, Chicago, Illinois, United States |
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Coordinates | 41°54′47″N 87°38′9″W |
Built | 1885 |
Architectural style | Queen Anne[1] |
Part of | Old Town Triangle Historic District (ID8400034) |
NRHP reference No. | 15000584 |
Significant dates | |
Added to NRHP | July 21, 2015[2] |
Designated NHL | July 21, 2015 |
Designated CP | November 8, 1984 |
Designated CL | June 6, 2001[3] |
The Gerber House was recognized as a contributing property to the Old Town Triangle Chicago Landmark District when that was established by the city in 1977, and then when it was listed as a historic district on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984. The building was designated a Chicago Landmark in 2001.[3] In June 2015 it was named a National Historic Landmark.[4]