Tri-Taylor Historic District (Boundary Increase)

This boundary increase enlarges the Tri-Taylor Historic District on Chicago's West Side by two areas. The northern extension takes in the 500 blocks of Oakley and Claremont and the north side of Harrison Street, with 14 contributing and 5 non-contributing buildings. The Taylor-Oakley extension adds parts of South Oakley and West Taylor Street, with 10 contributing and 3 non-contributing buildings. Most were built in the 1880s and 1890s as brick or stone rowhouses, flats and mixed commercial buildings, with Italianate, Classical Revival and Richardsonian Romanesque detailing. They had been omitted from the 1983 listing through professional oversight. Their inclusion shows the same late nineteenth-century second-settlement growth seen across the neighborhood. It completes streetscapes that had been cut in half. It also sets boundaries at visible barriers: the Eisenhower Expressway, the Medical Center, Ogden Avenue and Western Avenue. The result is a more coherent historic neighborhood of tree-lined, modest-scale residential blocks.