Ida B. Wells-Barnett House

CTL-E-6122 · Place · site · 1889–present

VERIFIED evidence grade — master store (canonical CSV)

VERIFIED evidence grade — build store (JSON graph)

Combined Graph record U-00285 · provenance: canonical master store (CSV), record CTL-PL-0018 + build store (JSON graph), record CTL-E-6122. Master record source: CTL seed 2026-10-16 — UNVERIFIED, verify before public citation.

The Ida B. Wells-Barnett House, at 3624 S. Martin Luther King Jr. Drive in the Douglas community area of Chicago's South Side, is a three-story ashlar granite residence in the Romanesque Revival style popular around 1890. The National Park Service nomination records that it was built about 1889–90, to a design attributed to architect Joseph Thain, and that Ida B. Wells and her husband, attorney Ferdinand Lee Barnett, moved there in October 1919, raising their four children in the house. The nomination states the couple sold the building in March 1929 and moved to smaller quarters; other summaries give the residence as 1919 to 1930, a variance this record shows rather than blends. Wells, born into slavery in Mississippi in 1862, continued her writing and anti-lynching activism from Chicago and was a founding organizer of the NAACP. The house, subdivided into apartments in later years, is the best preserved of the Chicago addresses associated with her. It was designated a National Historic Landmark and listed on the National Register of Historic Places on May 30, 1974, and designated a Chicago Landmark on October 2, 1995 — two distinct designations in two distinct years.

The record

• Also known as: Ida B. Wells House, Wells-Barnett House
• City: Chicago

Notes

Staged 2026-10-16 under CTL-GOV-006 (Scan Tail Wave 4 — 747 Program, Wave 11; fourth Scan Tail packet at the founder's 40-record size). Gate A (2026-10-16): no Wells-Barnett House entity in the live graph at 3,763 entities (exact / normalized / alias match + token containment; CLEAR). ID CTL-E-6122 free. Supply: 747 Supply Ledger, Tier 4 — scan tail tranche #2051–#2700 of corpus-gap-candidates-2026-10-15.json, ranked clean survivor #2680 (beyond the #2050 point where Wave 3 screening stopped). The scan supplied the NAME STRING ONLY; no fact in this record is sourced to it (CTL-GOV-004). SCOPE GATE: PASS — Core Black Chicago record under BVM-005/INST-001; Douglas/Bronzeville, South Side. Vital status: Operating status: extant designated landmark, a private residence subdivided into apartments and not a public museum (Wikipedia description, accessed 2026-10-16, summarizing the NHL nomination). STATISTICS — STATISTICS (sourced, dated): Built 1889 (City of Chicago landmarks analysis, accessed 2026-10-16) / about 1889–90 (NPS nomination). National Register reference no. 74000757; NHL and NRHP date May 30, 1974; Chicago Landmark date October 2, 1995 (Wikipedia summary of NPS and City of Chicago sources, accessed 2026-10-16). CONFLICT SHOWN, NOT BLENDED: residence end — March 1929 sale (NPS nomination) vs. 1930 in the article's opening summary vs. 1929 in its own description section. MEDIA: photo HELD ('June 1, 2007 view' photograph of the Ida B. Wells-Barnett House illustrated on the Wikipedia article — for a later PHOTO-001 pass to verify creator, rights and credit; no license claimed. — named candidate only; file-level rights verification per CTL-PHOTO-001 still required; no license claimed); chart FILLED (charts/chart-ctl-e-6122-wells-barnett-house.svg); video HELD (no matching-entity CTL Short or verified-rights archival video staged); audio HELD (no rights-cleared matching-entity audio staged); map HELD (address specification in the media block). MEDIA LAYER (staged 2026-10-16; full per-asset PHOTO-001 records + embed specs in the packet's staged JSON, Drive packet folder): map = HELD (Chicago, Illinois — 3624 S. Martin Luther King Jr. Drive, Douglas community area (address per the City of Chic) | visual_assets = HELD: | chart = FILLED (CTL-created chart (black / deep red / gold) built only from this record's sourced statistics and timeline fact) | video = HELD (No matching-entity CTL Short or verified-rights archival video staged.) | audio = HELD (No rights-cleared matching-entity audio staged.)

Relationships

• Chicago — located in
  STRONG EVIDENCE
• Douglas — located in
  Located in the Douglas community area on Chicago's South Side (Wikipedia); King Drive address in City of Chicago landmark list

Sources

• National Park Service, National Register Inventory–Nomination Form, "Ida B. Wells-Barnett House" (accessed 2026-10-16) — address then 3624 S. Grand Boulevard, now Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Drive; moved in October 1919, resided raising four children until March 1929 sale and move to 343 E. Garfield Boulevard (as stated there); built about 1889–90; Romanesque Revival, ashlar granite facade; Wells biography and anti-lynching significance — https://npgallery.nps.gov/GetAsset/78f3bc18-5602-43ad-b9b4-d59525aee904 (primary source · build store)
• Wikipedia, "Ida B. Wells-Barnett House" (accessed 2026-10-16) — 3624 S. Martin Luther King Jr. Drive, Douglas/Bronzeville; residence 1919 to 1930 (as stated there), and in its description 'served as the couple's home until 1929'; built 1889 / about 1889–90, architect Joseph Thain; Chicago Landmark October 2, 1995; National Register and National Historic Landmark May 30, 1974; subdivided into apartments — http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ida_B._Wells-Barnett_House (build store)
• City of Chicago, Chicago Landmarks list / NPS-theme analysis (accessed 2026-10-16) — Wells-Barnett (Ida B.) House, 1889, 3624 S King Drive, Chicago, individual landmark designated 10/2/1995 — https://www.chicago.gov/content/dam/city/depts/zlup/Historic_Preservation/Publications/nps_analysis/SpreadsheetForWeb_NPS_Themes_Aug2019.pdf (primary source · build store)
• https://webapps1.chicago.gov/landmarksweb/web/landmarkdetails.htm?lanId=1453 (verification source · master store)

Evidence note (master store)

The Ida B. Wells-Barnett House is a residence at 3624 S. Martin Luther King Jr. Dr., Chicago; built 1889 (architect Joseph A. Thain); it was the home of journalist-civil rights activist Ida Bell Wells and her husband Ferdinand Lee Barnett from 1919 to 1930; designated a Chicago Landmark on October 2, 1995, per the Commission on Chicago Landmarks (tier 1). (fetched in full 2026-10-17)

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