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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.
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2015 Field School
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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.
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Francis O'Neill's home from 1880-1889
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What Francis O'Neill's home looked like when he lived in it
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…

"This property shall not be sold or leased to nor occupied by any other than a Caucasian" (Source: Plat #10515995, Platbook 279, Page 47. Approved: October 1, 1929. Recorded: October 25, 1929. Expired: January 1, 1980)
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Drawing from Prize Home Book

Prize Home #10. Four houses were built from this design. (Others include 12020 Maple Ave in Blue Island; 2900 W. Pratt; 1542 Woodbine Ct. in Deerfield.) With three bedrooms, one bathroom and a dining alcove rather than full dining room, it is…
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