Current National Register Chicago Bungalow Historic Districts
A National Register Historic District is a concentration of historic buildings, structures, sites or objects united historically or aesthetically by plan or physical development. Any one property in the district may not be particularly significant individually, but as a collection they are significant. Most Chicago bungalows nominated for listing on the National Register will be nominated as part of a district.
Historic Chicago Bungalow Thematic
District
Between 1910 and 1930 Chicago developers built tens of thousands of one
and one-and-one-half-story brick bungalows on large tracts of land previously
occupied by farms and prairie fields. PDF
Rogers Park Manor District
Local bungalow architects Benedict J. Bruns, Ernest Braucher, Lyman Allison, and dozens of others experimented with form and stylistic detailing to create bungalows that were truly unique to Chicago. PDF
Schorsch Irving Park
Garden District
Albert Schorsch developed the Irving Park Garden Historic District in
the Portage Park neighborhood from 1917 to 1926. PDF
South Park Manor District
The South Park Manor Historic District in Chatham, built between 1915
and 1927, features a great cluster of diverse bungalow designs due to
the involvement of a myriad of developers and architects. PDF
Wrightwood Bungalow District
The Wrightwood District, developed between 1916 and 1925, is one of the few bungalow communities to be built on a boulevard. PDF
North Mayfair Bungalow District
The bungalows that emerged in North Mayfair between 1913 and 1930 allowed working and middle-class, blue and white collar families to also share in the American dream of homeownership. PDF
More than anything else, what distinguishes this bungalow neighborhood in Belmont Cragin is the fact that it was not segregated from the industrial and manufacturing districts where many of its residents worked - it was in the thick of it. PDF