In addition to providing a brief history of each style, ALSO has prints of the hand drawn houses available in their webstore. If you've been in Chicago long enough, you've probably lived in at least one of these types of houses. Here's a look at just a few of the houses featured in the series. The Chicago Houses series from ALSO Design With more than 100,000 bungalows in the Chicago metro area, this structure was the Windy City's new workers cottage for the 20th century.
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#Purple wallpaper chicago 1930 fullĬonstructed between 19, the bungalow was originally built for working-class owners and is characterized by it's one-and-a-half stories, brick construction, street facing verandas, and full basements. The Chicago bungalow was commonly built with limestone accents, dormered roof, and concrete entry stairs. The typical interior layout consisted of a living room, dining room, and kitchen on one side of the building, while the other side contained a series of bedrooms and a bathroom. The attic had ample storage and many homes featured a back porch, all of which was decorated in Arts and Crafts style woodwork. This truly was a new way life in the 20th century. The two-flat has been called the workhorse of Chicago housing.
Typically built from 1900 to 1920, these homes were a bridge for the working class between apartment life and the single family bungalows that were to follow.
Commonly, the first floor housed the owner, while the second floor was a rental unit. The layout of both units was almost always the same. Two-flats were made of wood, brick, or stone and found in a variety of architectural styles.
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