Tri-Taylor Historic District

Tri-Taylor is a compact residential neighborhood on Chicago's Near West Side, about three miles from the Loop. It covers roughly 65 acres and holds nearly 400 buildings, most of them two- and three-story brick or frame row houses, apartments and cottages. Development moved from east to west between about 1870 and 1910. Streets differ in character: West Bowler has rare Joliet limestone row houses from the 1870s, South Oakley Boulevard has larger three-story homes from the 1880s, and South Claremont has a distinctive cluster of gabled houses with two-story bays. Local developers, including Alderman Campbell, built much of the housing, and the Campbell Flats row houses were designed by C.A. Weary. The neighborhood housed skilled German, Irish, Jewish and later Italian families who moved out from the crowded streets nearby. Its abundant applied ornament and consistent streetscape make it a record of late nineteenth-century Chicago building trades and immigrant social history.