Tribune Homes Contest
Title
Tribune Homes Contest
Contributor
Zackary Hines
Items in the Tribune Homes Contest Collection
20 South Forest Avenue
Built using Prize Home winner #2 design. This modest design, only two bedrooms, was built twice. (The other is 2844 W. Pratt in Chicago.) The house was torn down in the mid-2000s, and remains an empty lot.
6817 North Francisco Avenue, Chicago
Built using Prize Home winner #16 design. The 6817 North Francisco version may still be a three-bedroom home, but a covered porch has been enclosed, likely enlarging the living area. (Another version, 100 W. Washington in Lombard, is substantially…
12020 Maple Avenue, Blue Island
Built using Prize Home winner #10 design. Four houses were built from this design. (Others include 2900 W. Pratt; 368 Ridge Road in Highland Park; 1542 Woodbine Ct. in Deerfield.) With three bedrooms, one bathroom and a dining alcove rather than full…
240 East Park Avenue (aka 240 Park Avenue)
Built using Prize Home winner #18 design. One of two built from this design (the other is 250 Poplar in Highland Park). Despite being a four-bedroom, two-and-a-half bathroom design, the Wheaton version was torn down in 2006 and replaced by new home.
2844 West Pratt Avenue
Built using Prize Home winner #2 design. The second of two houses built with the same plan. (The other is in Palatine.) The Deer Park home now has a second floor, which likely doubles the original square footage as well as increasing the number of…
2909 West Farwell Boulevard
Built using Prize Home winner #11 design. This two-and-a-half bathroom, three-bedroom house has been expanded. An addition over the garage added a bedroom, and the living space was extended by building a family room extension at the back of the first…
2900 West Pratt
Prize home # 10. Four houses were built from this design. (Others include 12020 Maple Ave in Blue Island; 368 Ridge Road in Highland Park; 1542 Woodbine Ct. in Deerfield.) With three bedrooms, one bath room and a dining alcove rather than full dining…
2915 West Farwell Boulevard
This house has undergone significant change. A 1947 Tribune photo of the back of the house indicates it was built as designed although in reverse. Today, the house has, instead of the protruding garage from the original, a built-in garage. The…
6820 North Francisco
Built using Prize Home winner #19 design. This large house—with four bedrooms and two and a half bathrooms, appears to be unchanged. It has a first floor study, and a large laundry room which bridges the attached garage to the rest of the house.…
2908 West Pratt
Prize Home # 9. This large house has three bedrooms, two-and-a-half bathrooms, but contains a small second-floor sewing room as a bonus. It appears from the outside to be architecturally unchanged. There is some evidence—as of yet…
2914 West Pratt
Prize home #17. Built at 2914 West Pratt Boulevard. One of the largest houses to be built, this four-bedroom house has not only a master bedroom/bath combination, but two additional full bathrooms on the second floor in addition to a half-bath on the…
2852 West Pratt Avenue
Built using Prize Home winner #12 design. A master suite, with separate bathroom and walk-in closet, makes this house distinctive. With three bedrooms and two full baths, plus a separate dining area plus breakfast nook, this house is one of the…
1426 Poplar Road
Built using Prize Home winner #18 design. One of two built from this design (the other is 240 E. Park Avenue in Wheaton). Despite being a four-bedroom, two-and-a-half bathroom design, the Highland Park version was torn down in 2005 and replaced by…
111 West Washington Boulevard
Built using Prize Home winner #5 design. Initially a two-bedroom house with a flat-roof over the garage, the garage now has a conventionally peaked roof. A two story addition expands the first floor living space and adds a third bedroom to the second…
100 West Washington Boulevard
Built using Prize Home winner #16 design. One of two built from the same design, this version has been substantially altered. (The other version is 6817 Francisco.) It now has an addition over the garage, and an expansion on the first floor. Although…
5523 Sunnyside Avenue Chicago
Built using Prize Home winner #3 design. Originally, this house had two bedrooms; today there is a third bedroom and an addition on the back. While the porch roof might have been a later edition, it is likely the house was built with more…
6821 North Francisco
Built using Prize Home winner #21 design. The designer created a completely open plan for living, dining and kitchen, separating the bedrooms along one wing. With four bedrooms and two bathrooms, this is a large house. Owners at some point converted…
Cover of Prize Homes
Cover of Prize Homes. From the title page: "The book includes 92 houses, complete with floor plans elevations, including the twenty-four prize winners in full color and sixty-eight other excellent designs submitted in the Chicago Tribune's $24,000…
1542 Woodbine Court, Deerfield
Prize Home #10. Four houses were built from this design. (Others include 12020 Maple Ave in Blue Island; 368 Ridge Road in Highland Park; 2900 W. Pratt.) With three bedrooms, one bathroom and a dining alcove rather than full dining room, it is…