The Gage Park Bungalow Historic District is a residential historic district in the Gage Park neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois. The district includes 465 Chicago bungalows and eighteen other residential buildings. The bungalows were built between 1919 and 1931, a time in which single-family homeownership became broadly accessible in Chicago; as bungalows could be mass-built affordably, they appealed to these new homeowners. Gage Park, an underbuilt neighborhood in southwest Chicago, was one of the many outlying areas of the city in which large numbers of new bungalows were built in the early twentieth century. While the bungalows have a consistent shape and are set back evenly from the street, giving the district a uniform appearance, variations in color, brick patterns, and roof forms differentiate the individual houses.[2]
Gage Park Bungalow Historic District | |
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| Location | Roughly bounded by West 55th St., South Washtenaw Ave., West 59th St. & South Sacramento Ave., Chicago, Illinois |
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| Coordinates | 41°47′24″N 87°41′42″W / 41.79000°N 87.69500°W |
| Architectural style | Chicago Bungalow |
| MPS | Chicago Bungalows MPS |
| NRHP reference No. | 16000895[1] |
| Added to NRHP | March 13, 2020 |
The district was added to the National Register of Historic Places on March 13, 2020.[1]
References
edit- ^ a b "Weekly List of Actions Taken on Properties: 3/12/2020 Through 3/20/2020". Illinois Historic Preservation Division. Retrieved April 26, 2020.
- ^ Bruni, Carla (July 30, 2019). "National Register of Historic Places Registration Form: Gage Park Bungalow Historic District" (PDF). Illinois Historic Preservation Division. Retrieved April 26, 2020.