Category Archives: Midcentury Moderne

Here’s a group of Midcentury townhouses, done in a typical Chicago Moderne style. I’ve found 4 examples around Evanston so far. 801-13 Mulford Street: 142-150 Callan, at Brummel: 143-151 Custer at Brummel, back-to-back with the building on Callan: 1413-23 Main … Continue reading →

Early modernism for the masses took the form of sleek brick boxes, with windows at the corners and raised bands of brick for ornament. 6014-6024 N. California, 1948. The Tribune indicates that this was the George Eisenberg Unit, a “child … Continue reading →