Westover Road Non-Commissioned Officers' Housing Historic District

Fifteen two-story blond brick duplexes line Westover Road at Fort Sheridan, north of Chicago. Built in 1939 from standardized Type NCO-9 plans prepared by the Office of the Quartermaster General, they housed non-commissioned officers, with two three-bedroom units in each building. Two Colonial Revival variations, Type A with a side-gabled roof and Type B with a hipped roof, alternate in an A-B-A-B pattern along both sides of the street. Each building has a copper-roofed front vestibule, side sun porches above below-grade single-car garages, and brick end chimneys. Originally the main facades faced away from Westover Road, which served as a service alley. Later changes include sealing the original entrances and converting them to half bathrooms, relocating entries to the sun porches, and replacing most windows in 1988. The district is considered locally significant as an example of standardized army housing from 1936 to 1945 and for its association with building activity before World War II. The buildings remain in housing use.