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Essential Architecture- Chicago
Northeast Armitage-Halsted District |
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architect |
Various |
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location |
Predominately Armitage Avenue between Halsted Street and Racine Avenue, and Halsted Street between Armitage Avenue and Webster Street |
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date |
1870 to 1930 |
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style |
Various |
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construction |
profusion of pressed-metal decoration, including bays, cornices, and corner turrets |
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type |
commercial streetscape |
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These two streets in the Lincoln Park community area form one of the
finest nineteenth-century neighborhood commercial streetscapes remaining
in Chicago. The district contains an excellent cross-section of
residential and commercial building types significant in the development
of such streets, including small residential buildings and larger,
multi-story mixed-use buildings, and is especially noteworthy for the
profusion of pressed-metal decoration, including bays, cornices, and
corner turrets, on many of the buildings. Together, the district's
buildings form an important streetscape that exemplifies the importance
of neighborhood shopping streets to the history of Chicago. |
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links |
With special thanks to the City of
Chicago website,
www.egov.cityofchicago.org , for much of the info on this page.
Photos copyright City of Chicago. |
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