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The depot was built to be fireproof and cost $3,400, which was donated by ten residents. [1] The depot was designed in the Italianate style and was a brick building with a gabled roof and columns in front. [2] In the 1890s, Wilmette's growing number of commuters wanted a new depot to be built on the inbound side of the tracks. The Chicago and ...
The Frank J. Baker House is a 4,800-square-foot Prairie School style house located at 507 Lake Avenue in Wilmette, Illinois. The house, which was designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, was built in 1909, and features five bedrooms, three and a half bathrooms, and three fireplaces. At this point in his career, Wright was experimenting with two-story ...
[3] [5] The mansion's Spanish Colonial Revival exterior was somewhat simple, but the interior spaces and furnishings were immensely elaborate. [6] The construction utilized concrete and steel . The mansion's interior featured hollow concrete columns which were polished in a manner to extremely convincingly mimic the appearance of marble . [ 7 ]
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[1] In 1942, after decades of disputed ownership and legal wrangling, the area was annexed by the village of Wilmette. [2] [3] The club burned down shortly thereafter. The area is now the home of the Plaza del Lago shopping center on the west side of Sheridan Road and a small number of anomalous high-rise residential buildings east of Sheridan.
The front porch and terrace, extending 10 feet (3.0 m) from the house, stretch 30 feet (9.1 m) along the front of the house. To the west of the porch and terrace is the 18-by-20-foot (5.5 m × 6.1 m) carport. The rear of the house features a 15-by-10-foot (4.6 m × 3.0 m) screened-in porch with a flat roof and a simple wooden cornice. A small ...
The Alfred Bersbach House is a John S. Van Bergen-designed house in Wilmette, Illinois. Built in 1915, it is reflective of the Prairie School approach to house architecture. Architectural historian Carl W. Condit and others considered the house to be Van Bergen's masterpiece.
Henry Horner Homes was a Chicago Housing Authority (CHA) public housing project located in the Near West Side community area on the West Side of Chicago, Illinois, United States. The original section of Henry Horner Homes was bordered by Oakley Boulevard to the west, Washington Boulevard to the south, Hermitage Avenue to the east, and Lake ...