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The half-timbering-to-mouchette-wheel-to-Deco-fern-to-gold-terra-cotta-to-greystone-to-glass-block-to-mosaic-tile appreciating pipeline.
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3420 Grove Ave., part of English Village, listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Designed by Bascom J. Rowlett and opened in 1927.
catalog.archives.gov/id/41683021
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So stucco on first floor would be anomalous. A high-quality home like this would probably also be more asymmetrical, have a fancy chimney, and/or jettying on half-timbered section if Tudor from birth.
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Outside some massive estates, 1904 would be early for the style in these parts and way early for the extent of half-timbering. I think it's a frame, while vast majority original Tudor Revivals are clad in red brick or stone.
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With great power comes great responsibility
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After you replace your alder, can you please replace Silverstein too? Pretty please?
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Nice! I bet the half-timbering was added some time in the 20s.
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Two from my "sidewalk stuff" folder
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Please stay on the Internet! I have a really good permastoned building in Rogers Park I need to get a good pic of (cursing cars, bad light) and show you.
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I think that might be a legit chimney. A Ye Olde Dining Establishment might have a fireplace for ambience. Can't find any interiors unfortunately. I also love those arcs; not traditional half-timbering but they look great.
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Yes, mid-century! Around 1960.
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😆 Every time I go by this florist shop near me, I do wonder if they know what their name evokes among puerile neighbors like moi.
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Love to see an Italian cousin to what we call breeze blocks in these parts, like this circle and diamond pattern. I will be on the hunt for a quatrefoil pattern to match your example.
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I like how the former Ye Old Towne Inn in Gurnee evokes only one specific earlier era, the late 1970s. Went up ca. 1978.
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I think that's a good guess for why that's the default photo. The lot listed in the ALT text is near Milwaukee/Damen/North Ave. But on assessor's site lists no associated address.
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Whenever I see that green on a roof or, more likely here, gutters or a light fixture, I assume it's copper. Is that a fair assumption? Or are there imposter metals?
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Didn't think so but wasn't 100%. Thx for confirming!
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😂
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For two-flats, not SFHs. But still, yup, most of West Ridge has been car-centric from the get-go.
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One of 11 two-flats, the rest with nice though not divine brick, built on the 7200 north block of Bell (then Pingree) in 1921.
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Great Googly Moogly, as a sage friend I knew used to say
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Absolutely. I also offered a poem of praise, which began, "Steeds of snow, ye Titan Tobbogans ..."
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Aw, thanks!
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I bet that crusty administrator never knew young love 😢
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Boo! Another reason to hate the prison industrial complex.
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I mean, at least a 95%-ass effort, no?
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I'm also going to let the mystery be
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