Lee Bey: The Urban Observer

(photos by Lee Bey) 

Ah, the Chicago Bungalow...a one-and-a-half story package of beauty, taste, proportion and design. People like Charles & Ray Eames and Frank Lloyd Wright dreamed of afforable, high-quality, mass-produced housing. Turns out Chicago--as usual--was already there, having produced 80,000 bungalows from about 1910 until the late 1930s.

Anyway...interesting story over the weekend in the Sun-Times about efforts to make the homes more green. And a wealth of bungalow info can be found at the Historic Chicago Bungalow Association website.