MAXWELL STREET ARCHITECTURE TOUR

This site preserves the documentary record of the historic architecture on the streets south of Roosevelt Road (12th St.), an area razed, rehabbed, and rebuilt as the south campus extension of the University of Illinois at Chicago.  bjb

• See Maxwell Street Market
• See Russian Hebrews Maxwell Street

INTRODUCTION

• Jewish Architects in the Maxwell Street Area by Sniderman, Keene, Ryckbosch, Johnson (1994)
• National Register of Historic Places: Maxwell Street Market Historic District by Eliot Zaschin and Lori Grove (1993-1994)

TOURING THE ARCHITECTURE OF THE MAXWELL STREET DISTRICT

Images of structures accompanied with documentary descriptions. Click on image and description to center each page on screen.

• Part 1
• Part 2
• Part 3
• Part 4
• Part 5