Fremont Row Houses now Chicago Landmarks
The City Council has declared that the Fremont Row Houses, a group of post-Chicago Fire attached residences, be designated as Chicago Landmarks.
The row houses, located on the 2100 block of N. Fremont St., represent one of the earliest surviving groups of brick row houses built following an 1874 ordinance that required “fireproof” masonry construction in most of the city’s neighborhoods.
“These buildings exemplify the high-quality residential architecture constructed as the city rebuilt after the Fire of 1871,” said Mayor Richard M. Daley. “They are rare, ‘first-generation’ row houses built in many communities following the Fire."
The houses, designed by Edward J. Burling, one of Chicago’s earliest architects, were built in 1875. Twenty attached brick houses with common party walls were constructed in three groups, two end groups with seven houses each and a middle group with six. |
