Armitage-Halsted District

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Images above and below: Street view of Armitage Avenue..





Image above: Halsted street view ...

Armitage-Halsted District ..
Addresses: Armitage Avenue between Halsted Street and Racine Avenue ... and ... Halsted Street between Armitage Avenue and Webster Street ...
Year Built: circa 1870 to 1930
Architects: Various
Date Designated a Chicago Landmark: February 5, 2003 ..

These two streets in the Lincoln Park community area form one of the finest nineteenth-century neighborhood commercial streetscapes remaining in Chicago. The district contains an excellent cross-section of residential and commercial building types significant in the development of such streets, including small residential buildings and larger, multi-story mixed-use buildings.

The area is especially noteworthy for the profusion of pressed-metal decoration, including bays, cornices, and corner turrets, on many of the buildings. Together, the district's buildings form an important streetscape that exemplifies the importance of neighborhood shopping streets to the history of Chicago.

REF: Chicago Landmarks: Armitage-Halsted District ....



Image above: Armitage Avenue view ...

While looking for information on this landmark district, I came across a very interesting website ... Actually it's a Public Notice by the The Armitage Halsted Landmark Committee ... and it enlists guidelines for the district's facade and signages ... click here ..
Like one of the guideline reads .. Signs should be viewed as part of an overall graphics system for the building ... They do not have to do all the “work” by themselves ... .. and then there's an example of sign with Traditional Appearance: Old Town School of Folk Music on Armitage ... below is the image of this ...



Image above: Armitage Avenue view .. with the signage "Old Town School of Folk Music" ... which follows the Armitage Halsted Landmark Committee guidelines ...

# For more on Armitage Halsted district.. click here..