Chicago Style

As my mother was from Chicago I spent quite a bit of time there. I noticed the  significant difference in architectural style. In Grand Rapids, houses tended to be square or the old farmhouse style. In Chicago, houses tended to be long and narrow. There were only three neighborhoods in Grand Rapids that had those long narrow Chicago-style houses:

Lexington Avenue SW

Clancy Ave NE

Crescent Street

Most of those homes have been torn down but can be seen quite clearly in the Sanborn Fire Maps.

From Heading Architecture

From Website MyGrandRapids.info

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