Rogers Park Manor Bungalow Historic District

Rogers Park Manor is a Chicago neighborhood of brick bungalows on the city's north side, laid out between West Lunt and West Farwell avenues. Built between 1920 and 1929, it contains 329 contributing primary buildings, including 247 Chicago bungalows, along with two- and three-flats, Tudor and Mediterranean Revival homes, and 235 original rear garages. Dozens of architects and builders worked here, yet strictly kept setbacks and a consistent one-and-one-half-story scale give the streets a cohesive look. Early bungalows were simple, with modest limestone trim. After 1925 they grew larger, with rounded bays, art glass windows and carved limestone, as the area drew white-collar buyers. Developer Edward Zeches and architect Benedict J. Bruns shaped much of this growth. The district was listed for its role in promoting single-family homeownership for middle-class Chicagoans and for its well-preserved examples of the bungalow type. Only nineteen buildings have been altered enough to lose contributing status.