This is a common, "vernacular" residential style that was built in working-class Chicago neighborhoods in the years following the Chicago Fire of 1871. Examples can be found in the community areas of Lincoln Park, the Lower West Side, and West Town.

Common characteristics are:

• one-and-a-half stories, set atop a raised basement
• rectangular floor plan
• ornament restricted to around windows and beneath the roof line (cornice)
• front-facing gable roof

1.	Mid-North District; Bellinger Cottage, 2121 Hudson, Designed by William Boyington, photo by Barbara Crane