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Story-Camp Rowhouses

Coordinates: 41°52′48″N 87°39′57″W / 41.88000°N 87.66583°W / 41.88000; -87.66583 (Story-Camp Rowhouses)
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Story-Camp Rowhouses
Story-Camp Rowhouses is located in Chicago metropolitan area
Story-Camp Rowhouses
Story-Camp Rowhouses is located in Illinois
Story-Camp Rowhouses
Story-Camp Rowhouses is located in the United States
Story-Camp Rowhouses
Location1526-1528 W. Monroe St., Chicago, Illinois
Coordinates41°52′48″N 87°39′57″W / 41.88000°N 87.66583°W / 41.88000; -87.66583 (Story-Camp Rowhouses)
Arealess than one acre
Built1870 (1870)
Architectural styleItalianate
NRHP reference No.80001351[1]
Added to NRHPMay 8, 1980

The Story-Camp Rowhouses are a pair of identical rowhouses located at 1526–1528 W. Monroe Street in Chicago, Illinois. The rowhouses were built in 1870 by developers Matthew and George Laflin and Allen Loomis. At the time, the neighborhood around Union Park was being developed into an attractive residential area, and the Laflins and Loomis marketed their new houses to wealthy and prominent Chicagoans. The rowhouses have an Italianate design, a popular choice for the era, which features bracketed overhanging eaves and windows with rounded hoods. The houses' first owners were Isaac and Flora Camp and Hampton and Marion Story; Isaac and Hampton owned the Story & Camp organ and piano business.[2]

The rowhouses were added to the National Register of Historic Places on May 8, 1980.[1]

References

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  1. ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. November 2, 2013.
  2. ^ "National Register of Historic Places Inventory - Nomination Form: Hampton Story/Isaac Camp Rowhouses" (PDF). Illinois Historic Preservation Agency. Archived from the original (PDF) on April 29, 2018. Retrieved April 29, 2018.