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Muddy Waters House

CTL-PL-0019 · Place

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Combined Graph record U-00286 · provenance: canonical master store (CSV), record CTL-PL-0019. Master record source: CTL seed 2026-10-16 — UNVERIFIED, verify before public citation.

The Muddy Waters House is a historic house at 4339 South Lake Park Avenue, Chicago (North Kenwood), the former home of McKinley Morganfield (Muddy Waters) and the first house he purchased; it is a designated Chicago Landmark (designation earned fall 2021) and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places, per the Muddy Waters MOJO Museum, the institution now stewarding the house (tier 2). (fetched in full 2026-10-17)

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The Muddy Waters House is a historic house at 4339 South Lake Park Avenue, Chicago (North Kenwood), the former home of McKinley Morganfield (Muddy Waters) and the first house he purchased; it is a designated Chicago Landmark (designation earned fall 2021) and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places, per the Muddy Waters MOJO Museum, the institution now stewarding the house (tier 2). (fetched in full 2026-10-17)

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The Muddy Waters House is a historic house at 4339 South Lake Park Avenue, Chicago (North Kenwood), the former home of McKinley Morganfield (Muddy Waters) and the first house he purchased; it is a designated Chicago Landmark (designation earned fall 2021) and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places, per the Muddy Waters MOJO Museum, the institution now stewarding the house (tier 2). (fetched in full 2026-10-17)

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