Foreword Introduction Chapter 1: Early Inhabitants, Early Homes 1780 to 1837  Introduction Little Home on the River Homes of the French Colonial/Creoles The DuSable Home Homes of the Native Americans in the Region Early American Settlers: The Log Cabin The Making of the Chicago Grid New Town, New Gables Abound  From Timber to Balloon Frame The Greek Revival Home The Clarke-Ford Home A City by 1837 Chapter 2: From Founding to Fire 1837 to 1871  Introduction Homes for a Booming Metropolis Building Materials The Pre-Fire Homes Still with Us Interior Spaces in the mid-1800s Heating and Cooling, Lighting, Plumbing The Pre-Eminent Workers Cottage House Moving | House Raising The Ornate Cottages and Rowhouses of Chicago (pre-1871) Italianate Second Empire Pre-Fire Homes in the Former “Suburbs” Chapter 3: Rising and Rebuilding 1871 to 1882  Introduction Fire Limits and Regulation Decline of Pine, Uptick of Brick Joliet Limestone, “Athens Marble” Post-Fire Patterns of Population Growth The Post-Fire Limits, Pre-Annexation Homes of the “Suburbs” Architecture as a Profession The Dominant Style of the Era The Brick Workers Cottage The Rise of “Flats” Buildings Two-Story and Wood-frame Italianates Chapter 4: Annexation and Elevation 1882 to 1893 Introduction Bold New Architecture in Chicago Raging Styles New Heights The Apartment Hotels and the First Courtyard Building Terra Cotta Finds Its Moment The Real Estate Developers Company Towns, Company Housing Annexation and the Changing Fire Limits City Lights, City Heats Italianate, continued Chateauesque  Stick Style | Shingle Style Chapter 5: White City, Blight City 1893 to 1900  Introduction The World’s Columbian Exposition Sidebar: Clarifying Windows Beaux Arts/Classical Revival  Romanesque Revival (and Interment) Chateauesque Farewell to the Queen (Anne) Colonial Revival Greystones + Brick Flats  Workers Cottages Just Keep on Working Sidebar: Working Class Domestic Life Courtyard Apartment Buildings Prairie Style American Foursquares  Tudor Revival Sidebar: Coach Houses Chapter 6: New Century, New Chicago 1900 to 1917  Introduction Adapting The Workers Cottage Burnham’s 1909 Plan of Chicago  Frame and Stucco Bungalows Chicago Bungalows Sears Home Catalogs  Tudor Revivals Colonial Revivals Greystones Prairie Style Homes American Foursquares Bleak Housing Conditions and Tenement Reform Courtyard Apartment Buildings Brick Two-Flats and Variations on a Theme The Back Porch Chapter 7: Death, Speed, and a Bit of Whimsy 1917 to 1929 Introduction Chicago Bungalows Brick Two-Flats and Variations on a Theme Courtyard Apartment Buildings The “Own Your Own Home” Movement Tudor Revivals Colonial Revivals Spanish Revivals Foursquares Homes for Cars Art Deco Chapter 8: Hard Times, New Deals, and a Century of Progress 1929 to 1941  Introduction The National Mortgage Crisis Redlining Lingering Chicago Bungalows Tudor Revivals World’s Fair 1933  West Burton Place and the Creative Response to the Depression Art Deco and Moderne Chapter 9: Common Modifications to Homes: How We Really Live Introduction Dormer and Second Story Additions Enclosed Porches Metal Awnings Perma-Stone / Formstone Removing + Hiding Fireplaces and Stained Glass Vinyl Siding Glass Block + PIcture Windows Raised Workers Cottages Metal Hand and Porch Rails Street- or Courtyard- Facing Metal Balconies Overlord Additions Epilogue

• Residential buildings, domestic buildings

• History of architecture

• History of the Americas

• Art & design styles: Modernist design & Bauhaus

• General (US: Trade)

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