The Alta Vista Terrace District is a
historic district in the
Lake View community of
Chicago, Illinois
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. The district was built in 1904 in imitation of the
rowhouse
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style of
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The development was the work of
Samuel Gross, who was responsible for several other real estate developments in Chicago. He was inspired to build Alta Vista Terrace after a trip to Europe, in which he looked at the row houses of London. The street is one block long and contains 40 small, single-family rowhouses, each on a lot about 24 feet wide and 40 feet deep. There were 20 different exterior styles based on various adaptations of architectural styles. Some of the features included
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and
Ionic wood
pilasters,
Gothic arches,
Palladian
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windows, stained and leaded-glass
fanlights,
bay and
bow windows, and various decorative woodwork.
Alta Vista Terrace is found at 1050 West on the Chicago street grid, running north from Grace Street (3800 North) to Byron Street (3900 North).
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Chicago Landmarks
Historic districts in Chicago
Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Chicago
Historic districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Illinois
Chicago Landmarks
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