4742 Martin Luther King, Jr. Dr., Chicago, Illinois. County/parish: Cook.
Added to the National Register of Historic Places December 08, 1976. NRIS 76000686.
2 contributing buildings.
The Robert S. Abbott House is a historic house in the Grand Boulevard community area of Chicago, Illinois.
Built in 1900, it was the home of Robert S. Abbott, founder and publisher of the Chicago Defender, the most-circulated African-American newspaper in the nation, from 1926 up until his death in 1940. His home was designated a National Historic Landmark status in 1976.
(read more...)National Park Service documentation: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/28891566