Overton Hygienic Building

CTL-E-0872 · Address · site · 1922/23-present; Chicago Landmark 1998

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Anthony Overton's corporate headquarters building, housing his cosmetics company, insurance company, and Douglass National Bank; landmarked and renovated in 2007.

Notes

Merged into canonical KG 2026-10-03 from BVM-005; source entity IDs: CTL-DR-BVM-005:bldg-overton-hygienic; source research type(s): place.

Sources

NPS Black Metropolis Thematic Nomination (1985); Next City (2019)
NPS (1985); City of Chicago landmark list; NextCity (2019)

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