Armitage-Halsted District

Click for Larger View     Addresses: Predominately Armitage Avenue between Halsted Street and Racine Avenue, and Halsted Street between Armitage Avenue and Webster Street
Year Built: circa 1870 to 1930
Architects: Various
Date Designated a Chicago Landmark:
February 5, 2003

Click for Larger View These two streets in the Lincoln Park community area form one of the finest nineteenth-century neighborhood commercial streetscapes remaining in Chicago. The district contains an excellent cross-section of residential and commercial building types significant in the development of such streets, including small residential buildings and larger, multi-story mixed-use buildings, and is especially noteworthy for the profusion of pressed-metal decoration, including bays, cornices, and corner turrets, on many of the buildings. Together, the district's buildings form an important streetscape that exemplifies the importance of neighborhood shopping streets to the history of Chicago.

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1.Streetscape, 900-block W. Armitage Ave., photo by Terry Tatum, 2001
1.Streetscape, 2000-block N. Halsted St., photo by Terry Tatum, 2001
2.Streetscape looking east from Armitage "el" station towards Halsted, photo by Terry Tatum, 2001
3.Turret detail, 1024 W. Armitage Ave., photo by Terry Tatum, 2001