The Four Nineteen Building is a historic

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building located at 419 E. 83rd St. in the

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community area of

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. The station was built in 1928 by

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and

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, two local real estate businessmen. The station is an example of the Domestic style of gas station architecture, in which stations were designed to resemble small houses. A wooden canopy supported by brick

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s covers the building's front entrance and two garage bays extend from either side, making the station part of a subtype of the Domestic style appropriately named "House with Canopy and Bays". The station's walls are built with

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s laid in a skintled pattern, a combination of two Chicago construction innovations. Clinker bricks were heated at higher temperatures than standard bricks, making them swollen, dense, and differently colored; the bricks were generally discarded until the 1920s, when Chicago architects began to build with them. The skintled pattern of brickwork consisted of rough and irregular bricklaying in which bricks stuck out of and into the wall at different angles. The building's

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roof is tiled with multicolored Mission style clay tiles, which were thought to pair well with skintled walls by architects of the era. Gas stations constructed from the 1930s onward generally had more functional designs, and as of 1999, the Four Nineteen Building was one of only sixteen Domestic-style gas stations remaining in Chicago and one of three with both a canopy and bays. The building was added to the

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on August 12, 1999.

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{{National Register of Historic Places Commercial buildings completed in 1928 Commercial buildings on the National Register of Historic Places in Chicago 1928 establishments in Illinois Gas stations on the National Register of Historic Places in Illinois Transportation buildings and structures in Chicago