The maps, surveys, assessments and newspaper columns that collect around an address over a century are open records — scattered across a dozen archives, indexed inconsistently, and effectively unreachable for whoever lives there now. We assemble them into one free report about one building, with a source behind every line.
Any US address. Cook County, Illinois is indexed in depth; elsewhere we verify the address today and add records county by county.
One archive at a time, each one wired in and verified before it ships.
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Every Cook County parcel keyed to its PIN and refreshed monthly, so a typed address lands on the right building even with the unit missing or a digit wrong. Everywhere else in the United States resolves through the Census geocoder.
Where the county publishes it: the year the house went up, bedrooms, materials, roof, basement, garage in Cook County; year built, alterations, floors and landmark status in New York City.
FEMA's flood map at the point, the ground's height above sea level, every federal disaster declared for the county, and the strongest earthquakes within 100 km.
Sanborn maps drawn block by block for insurers, and catalogued photographs of the town, from the Library of Congress.
National Register listings within a mile and a half, and every place with a Wikipedia article within a few hundred metres.
Digitised newspapers to 1963 that name the street, and recent reporting that names the block.
Recorded transfers and building permits are held by each county and municipality, and arrive one jurisdiction at a time.
Three steps, and a source ID behind every line of the result.
Typed the way people actually type it — abbreviations, missing unit, a transposed digit. It resolves to a parcel anyway.
Each archive is queried on demand and the raw response is kept, so a report can always be traced back to what the source said that day.
A single report about a single building, every statement carrying the record it came from.
A report describes a structure and what the public record says happened to it. Names appear only where public deed records put them. Nothing is inferred and nothing is embellished.
Type an address and read the report now; there is nothing to buy and nothing to sign up for. Sources are queried live and every section says where it came from, or that it could not be reached. Something wrong? Ask for a correction.
