Chicago Historic Plaque ProgramCelebrating Spectacular Vernacular Homes

Plaqued properties

Every property that has received a plaque through the pilot, with the research behind it.

The first plaques are in production. Researched histories will be published here as homeowners approve them.

The kind of house this is about.

These are Lincoln Park houses photographed around the neighborhood by Peter Millen, whose documentation of what the neighborhood has been losing prompted this program. They are here to show the building stock the pilot covers, ahead of the first plaques going up.

A red brick Victorian house with a bay window on North Dayton Street, a redbud in bloom in front of it
North Dayton Street.Photo credit: Peter Millen.
2119 N. Racine Avenue: a gabled cottage, brick below and white clapboard above, behind a white picket fence
2119 N. Racine Avenue.Photo credit: Peter Millen.
2146 N. Magnolia Avenue: a red brick two-flat with a bracketed cornice, stone lintels and an iron stoop rail
2146 N. Magnolia Avenue.Photo credit: Peter Millen.
2114 N. Lincoln Avenue: a brick building with segmental-arched windows, seen through bare branches
2114 N. Lincoln Avenue.Photo credit: Peter Millen.
A red brick Victorian house on the corner of Cleveland Avenue and Belden Avenue in Lincoln Park
Cleveland Avenue at Belden Avenue.Photo credit: Chris Cullen.