A Street in Wicker Park – Evergreen Avenue

Wicker Park has been a part of Chicago since it was incorporated as a city in 1837. The furthest northwest part of the city was North Avenue and Wood Street. By 1853 the heart of the Wicker Park District, North, Milwaukee and Damen was populated by homes. The homes on Evergreen Avenue were built mostly in the 1880s with a few as early as the 1870s. The following architectural styles were common on Evergreen: Italianate, Queen Anne, Workers Cottages, Victorian, Gothic, and Romanesque.

2143 Evergreen. Three-flat built in 1896 in the Queen Anne style.
2137 West Evergreen. This Queen Anne was built in the 1880s.
2133 West Evergreen. Built in 1882 in the Queen Anne style.

2115 West Evergreen. Built in 1889 in the Gothic Revival style. Known as The Widow Johnson House it has been used as a set for ABC’s The American Dream.
2109 West Evergreen. Circa 1888 in the Queen Anne Style.
2107 West Evergreen. Italianate style with flat cornice and brackets.
2053 West Evergreen. Built in 1890 in the Queen Anne style. Was totally rehabbed after it was destroyed by fire in the 1970s.
2051 West Evergreen. Built around 1894 in the Romanesque revival style for Emil A. Holmes.
2045 West Evergreen. 1870s Italianate Cottage. Served as the home of the Nicholas Jacob Pritzker Family in the 1880s.
2039 West Evergreen. Italianate design built in 1876.
Built in 1890
1880s Italianate Workers Cottage.
2017 West Evergreen. Built 1883 for Paul Stensland, a prominent local Norwegian businessman
1966 West Evergreen. Built in the 1880s.
2013 West Evergreen. Three-flat built in 1887 in the Queen Anne Style.
2009 West Evergreen. Italianate style workers cottage built in 1877 for Henry Thompson, a machinist from England.
1970 West Evergreen. Built in 1885 for Charles Lusk in the Italianate style.
1955 West Evergreen. Italianate design built between 1880 and 1885.
1959 West Evergreen. A mix of Queen Anne, Gothic and Romanesque design built in 1904.
The house on the left is 1958 West Evergreen. It was built in 1889 in the Victorian Romaneque design. It was the home of author Nelson Algren.
1937 West Evergreen. 1883 Italianate.
1945 West Evergreen. A Romanesque Revival built in 1892.
1948 West Evergreen. 1890s Victorian “painted lady” style.
1937 West Evergreen. Italianate with peaked gabled roof.
1930 West Evergreen. An original Workers Cottage with an early addition, built in 1881.
1921 West Evergreen. 1882 Italianate Style.
1919 West Evergreen. Built between 1875 and 1880 in the Italianate style.
1903 West Evergreen. 1881 Italianate style.