Sheffield Historic District (Boundary Increase III)

Three additions to a North Side Chicago neighborhood district bring in roughly 490 more buildings, mostly built between the late 1860s and about 1920. One area runs along N. Lakewood Avenue on the west. A second lies to the southwest and south around N. Maud and W. Willow. A third extends east and south along N. Halsted, Burling, Orchard and Howe streets. The buildings are narrow-lot frame and brick Chicago cottages, flats, developer-built apartments, small storefronts and the 1898 James A. Mulligan School by Flanders and Zimmermann. Many went up quickly after the 1871 fire, before frame construction was restricted in 1875. Few are architecturally important individually, but together they show how the neighborhood grew and how ordinary middle and working class housing looked. Many cottages have been re-sided with synthetic material, though original window frames, cornices and massing remain. Boundaries were drawn to follow surviving historic building stock and to exclude industrial and modern redevelopment.