#OtD 21 Apr 1855 a Chicago Beer Riot began after police arrested over 200 German beer drinkers following the increase of license fees and the banning of alcohol sales on Sundays. Germans were targeted by the Mayor for forming their own neighbourhoods
Crane taking a lunch break from demolition of walls of circa 1891 brick workers cottage
Farewell to this Logan Square brick cottage built around 1891
This is the only surviving worker’s cottage on Lake Street in Chicago
Yard show display of childrens cars and tricycles in grass in front of woodframe cottage in West Pullman
Little house, little traffic jam on Halsted Street
1880s workers cottage and brick 2-flat perched above the Dan Ryan Expressway trench
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
A loving tribute to the cottage a family called home for 116 years
Every Lot Chicago hyping Will Quam's new book
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Google Streetview of the property with PIN10 1611310059: 3860 West Washington Boulevard
3860 West Washington Boulevard
Brick Chicago workers cottage with classical columns and classical proportions of the Parthenon in Athens
The Parthenon of Pilsen
Chicago Sewer manhole cover with a typical spider-web design in the street in front of a one-story frame worker's cottage clad in faux stone and painted sea foam green.
The same cottage before it was painted green! It's covered in what looks like giant mosaic tiles of light blue, light green, brown, tan, and black.
#ManholeCoverMonday Logan Square, Chicago
If This Cottage Could Talk: workshop for learning how to research Chicago house history on April 4, 2pm at McKinley Park library community room
Hope to see you tomorrow at the McKinley Park library! www.eventbrite.com/e/1982550123...
Streetview photo of row of modified workers cottages on Pershing Rd in McKinley Park
Fire insurance map of original row of nine brick workers cottages built in 1899 on 39th St (Pershing Rd)
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
The Bridgeport castle house, a typical brick workers cottage that was once heavily adorned with towers and parapets, with most of its previous adornment stripped off
Today I learned what it means to live among ruins
Part of a set of 9 cottages built in 1909 for developer Ward Huston and likely designed by architects Paul Hyland & Herman Green
Part of a row of six cottages built in 1908 by developer Ward T. Huston
House listed in West Chicago with a construction date of 1858? That can't be right, right? www.realtor.com/realestatean...
Cottages built in 1889 (left) and 1891 (right) by developer Thomas J. Divens
Looking down an alley at a brick cottage behind a garage in Wicker Park
Two cottages built in 1885 but later moved to the alley to make room for two-flat buildings in front on Potomac Ave
Built 1876
Brick workers cottage with two dormers on the side
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?
Victorian shingled cottage at 2018 N Seminary first listed for demolition in July 2025
Closeup of shingled siding of Victorian cottage at 2018 N Seminary threatened with demolition in July 2025
Brick window arch of Victorian cottage at 2018 N Seminary first listed for demolition in July 2025
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...
Preserving existing affordable houses is an important part of making housing affordable
Before the front and back additions, this brick cottage was only about 22x20 feet in size
Night-time snapshot of a brick workers cottage and parked automobile in the middle of a snow-storm on Christmas 1951
Will today's snow be the last of the season? Probably at least next winter before we get a storm like the one at this Bucktown cottage on Christmas 1951 shared by Tanya C.
1870s Italianate residences in the original settlement of Central Park: a frame worker’s cottage with decorative verge board and a brick 2-story house with segmental window hoods & keystones, attic oculus on both.
Both Orange-rated for historic significance in the Chicago Historic Resources Survey.
A photo of a one and a half story brick building with no front setback. A sidewalk level front door has a transom window above it and is flanked by two big glass block windows that each have their own transoms. On the second floor, the roofline is comprised of three increasingly narrow rectangular sections rising up in a rudimentary pyramid shape. A central window sits above the door on the second floor.
In a more recent photo, the stepped roofline of the building has been replaced by a more typical pitched roofline, accented at each edge with a little pillar of brick capped with a stone pediment. The brick used to replace the upper part of the facade is significantly lighter and less consistent in color than the bricks on the first level of the building, and the central upper level window has been replaced with a smaller one.
I'm curious to see what the endgame will be for this building in Bridgeport. It was recently sold, and got a new roofline made from what appears to be common brick instead of face brick.
The photos from last year's sale are neat; it's an interesting building inside: www.redfin.com/IL/Chicago/3...
A unique conjoined cottage, but now one of the triplets has gone rogue
Dusk view of a Pilsen workers cottage with a rustic black & white permastone facade
Friday night sodium streetlights spotlighting today’s #FlintstonesFriday Permastone facade cottage
Developer A.J. Stone letter to the editor printed in the April 14, 1895 Chicago Tribune titled "Sly Dig at Deserters" who moved to the fashionable South Side after the Columbian Exhibition
A.J. Stone was committed to the West Side: "I have lived here twenty-seven years, and find congeniality and sociability to be the features of the West Side of the city."
Dilapidated cottage with broken window, boarded up doors, crumbling brick, and random patches of brown paint. Originally red brick, which is visible at the left, the facade is covered in tan and orange Permastone, which has been painted white on the first floor.
Pencil drawing of the building in the previous photo, done with varying degrees of success.
I drew a thing.