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Chicago Building Types: Coach House

November 6, 2018

By: Cynthia Cook

Once housing horses, carriages, and their respective staff, coach houses are now often used as apartments. Still seen all around Chicago, here’s why they’re important.

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The Great Chicago Fire Changed Building Code Forever

October 12, 2017

By: Emily Torem

The Great Chicago Fire changed our building code and helped brick gain its local popularity.

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Chicago Building Types: Fire Cottage

August 25, 2015

By: Della Hansmann

The Chicago Fire Cottage s were built from $100 kits, and originally featured pretty much just exterior walls and a roof. This one still stands today.

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Chicago Building Types: Bungalows

May 28, 2015

By: Della Hansmann

Chicago is home to 80,000 bungalows, which define the so called “Bungalow Belt,” constructed between the 1910’s and 1930. Here’s what defines this classic Chicago Building Type.

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Chicago Building Types: the Greystone

February 19, 2015

By: Della Hansmann

The Greystone is one of Chicago’s most lovely building types. Learn how Chicago created this classic urban residential form.

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A Tale of Two Cities: Sharing the Road in Amsterdam and Istanbul

September 23, 2014

By: Della Hansmann

While the idea of an official “Shared Street” may be new and somewhat unsettling to Chicagoans today, the idea is anything but new or untested.  We only need to look back to the pre-car dominated city to see how the streets used to be much more public territory than they are today.  The image below of…

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