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Great Northern Realty Company

CTL-E-1359 · Business · other · 1920s-1940s (exact founding and dissolution dates unverified)

PROVISIONAL evidence grade of this record

Anthony Overton's real estate company — the property-holding arm of the conglomerate; source naming varies ('Great Northern Realty Company' vs 'Northern Realty Company').

Notes

Merged into canonical KG 2026-10-03 from ECON-001; source entity IDs: CTL-DR-ECON-001:ECON-027; source research type(s): business.

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Record CTL-E-1359 · CultureTechLens Knowledge Graph · evidence grade: PROVISIONAL · 2 sources · CTL research: ECON-001.
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The Overton Hygienic Building, 3619–6227 S. State St., Chicago — Anthony Overton’s Black Metropolis business headquarters
The Overton Hygienic Building, 3619–6227 S. State St., Chicago — Anthony Overton’s Black Metropolis business headquartersPhoto: Andrew Jameson, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
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Ida B. Wells — portrait from ‘Women of Distinction’ (1893)
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