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AN ORDINANCE
Granting Evanston Landmark Status to the Building and Lot of
Record at 2010 Dewey Avenue
WHEREAS, the City has enacted a Historic Preservation
Ordinance ("Ordinance"), Title 2, Chapter 8 of the Evanston City Code of 2012,
as amended; and
WHEREAS, Section 2-8-5 of the Ordinance sets forth the process x
whereby the Preservation Commission ("Commission") shall nominate and
consider applications for landmark designation and designate landmarks and
historic districts; and
WHEREAS, the building at 2010 Dewey Avenue (the "Subject
Property") was constructed in 1905 as Foster School (later known as Dr. Martin
Luther King, Jr. Experimental School and the Weissbourd-Holmes Family Focus
Building), and operated as a school during its period of significance between
1905 and 1979, where many individuals who attended and/or worked at the
school became prominent Black Evanston citizens that made their positive mark
at the local, national and international level, including: Junior Mance, Dorothy
(Hadley) Bayen, Fred Hutcherson, William Logan, Sanders Hicks, Iva Caruthers,
Joseph Hill, Tina Lifford, Leon Robinson Jr., and Lorraine H. Morton ; and
WHEREAS, the Subject Property operated as a public school during an
era of de facto and de jure racial segregation and thereby illustrates important
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cultural and social aspects and events in the history of the City of Evanston as it
interacted with racial equity; and
WHEREAS, the Subject Property has experienced architectural changes,
but it maintains integrity of feeling and association with the events that occurred
during its period of significance from 1905 to 1979; and
WHEREAS, Morris Robinson, Jr. (the "Applicant"), of Shorefront
with offices at 2214 Ridge Avenue, Evanston, Illinois, submitted an application on
December 27, 2017, and a modified application on June 28, 2018, for the
designation of the building on the Subject Property as an Evanston Landmark;
and
WHEREAS, the Commission conducted public hearings, pursuant
to proper notice, on February 13, 2018, March 13, 2018, July 10, 2018, and
September 11, 2018, to consider the application pursuant to Section 285 of the
Ordinance; and
WHEREAS, due notice of said hearings was given in accordance
with the requirements of the Evanston Preservation Commission Ordinance and
all persons desiring to !be heard were given opportunity to be heard; and
WHEREAS, the Commission, after having heard and reviewed the
nomination testimony, receiving other evidence and making a written record,
found that the aforesaid lot of record and building on the Subject Property, with
the original 1905 building designed by Ernest Woodyatt and with additions by
architects Childs & Smith (1926) and Ganster & Hennighausen (1961), met the
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criteria in City Code Sections 2-8-4(A)(2), 2-8-4(A)(6), and 2-8-4 (B) of the
Ordinance for designation as an Evanston Landmark; and
WHEREAS, at its July 10, 2018 meeting, the Commission voted to
recommend that the City Council grant Evanston Landmark designation to said
building on the Subject Property; and
WHEREAS, at its September 11, 2018 meeting, the Commission
adopted a Resolution "Requesting the City Manager to Transmit the Evanston
Preservation Commission's Report and Recommendation that the City Council
Designate the Building at 2010 Dewey Avenue as an Evanston Landmark" to the
City Council; and
WHEREAS, the Planning and Development Committee of the City
Council considered and adopted the record and recommendation of the
Preservation Commission at its October 8, 2018 meeting and recommended that
the City Council designate the building on the Subject Property, as an Evanston
Landmark; and
WHEREAS, the City Council considered and adopted the
respective records and recommendations of the Preservation Commission and
the Planning and Development Committee at its October 8, 2018 and October
22, 2018 meetings, and
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL
OF THE CITY OF EVANSTON, COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS:
part hereof.
SECTION 1: The above recitals are found as fact and made a
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SECTION 2: Pursuant to City Code Section 2-8-5(G) of the
Ordinance, the City Council hereby designates the building at 2010 Dewey
Avenue as an Evanston Landmark.
SECTION 3: If any provision of this ordinance or the application
thereof to any person or circumstance is held invalid, the invalidity shall not affect
other provisions or applications of this ordinance which can be given effect
without the invalid provisions or applications thereof.
SECTION 4: All ordinances or parts of ordinances in conflict
herewith are hereby repealed.
SECTION 5: This ordinance shall be in full force and effect from
and after its passage, approval, and publication in the manner provided by law.
Introduced: OC-k �3bef , 2018 Approved:
Adopted: ��-�o�pe( �a , 2018 N0V- 42 , 2018
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Attest®Rei,
Approved as to
form:
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DevonClerk Michelle L. Masoncup, Corporation
Counsel
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