Chicago Workers Cottage Initiative
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The Chicago Workers Cottage Initiative celebrates this housing style, seeking to preserve the unique features of these houses, protect them from demolition, and continue their use and reuse for the next century –
Rare cottage in the midst of a ranch house neighborhood near Midway
The contrast between the colorful flowers and dark painted bricks caught my eye as I was riding by
Cottages with wood clapboard are not so common nowadays: most are covered up by vinyl or aluminum siding
This unassuming cottage in Belmont-Cragin was once home to the Museum of Ancient Spiritual Artifacts, run by TV psychic Mark Kurban in the early 2000s
A brightly painted modern porch added to this 1902 cottage
Our Logan Square workers cottage walking tour yesterday was very lucky to meet Judi, who saw us standing outside her cottage and welcomed the entire group inside to take a look!
The only one in a row of 1903 cottages with still surviving ornament at the top. Come hear stories about these cottages on our Logan Square walking tour on Saturday afternoon: reserve a spot through our website workerscottage.org
Secret row of cottages behind storefronts on Pulaski
Come join us for a walking tour looking at the history of workers cottages in Logan Square! Reserve a ticket at: www.eventbrite.com/e/cottages-o...
Hope your house survived the storm yesterday. This Logan Square cottage was fine, the car maybe not
Another variation is the triangle protrusion only on the 1st floor. This one is at 1938 W Wellington, built by Sam Brown Jr in 1901
Here's another at 2228 W Foster. I believe the connection is that they were built by developer Sam Brown Jr., whose company built hundreds of cottages all over the city. I don't know how many of this design were built, or why they seem to appear randomly in his developments
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Stop by our table at the Chicago Preservation Expo to tell us what you love about workers cottages! www.chicago.gov/city/en/site...
It’s easy to visualize how this wooden cottage in Roscoe Village was raised up and a new brick floor was added underneath
Cottage with a train in the back yard, built around 1906 in Ravenswood
Pink flower view from the windows of this Bucktown cottage
Farewell to this Logan Square brick cottage built around 1891
Little house, little traffic jam on Halsted Street
Cottage with a view… of the Dan Ryan. For the first half of its life it looked out at a street of wood and brick 2-flats
Hope to see you tomorrow at the McKinley Park library! www.eventbrite.com/e/1982550123...
An extreme example of how houses can be changed over time: originally this was part of a row of 9 similar brick cottages built in 1899 by developer William Bowman in McKinley Park. Some cottages later got a new facade, a bungalow-like porch and dormer, or were raised and moved toward the street
Two cottages built in 1885 but later moved to the alley to make room for two-flat buildings in front on Potomac Ave
Logan Square cottage built in 1902 for $3000 (more expensive than most cottages). The first dormer on the side seems to be for a staircase, but what's inside the second dormer?
Is demolition imminent for this Victorian cottage paused on the city's demo-delay last July? An estate sale this weekend seems to be selling even the windows www.estatesales.net/IL/Chicago/6...