Sheridan Park, between Lawrence and Montrose west of Broadway, holds 1890s-1920s houses and three-storey six-flats on 50-foot lots, with 369 buildings in its National Register district: 103 six-flats, 62 single-family houses, and 50 two-flats, and only six buildings over four storeys. The whole pocket sits on the Graceland Spit, a sandy ridge about 20 feet above the surrounding plain. Homes of this era typically split by form: pitched eave gutters on houses, and parapet, scupper, and internal-leader drainage with shared leaders on six-flats and courtyards, so gutter repair here begins by naming the system on each building.
Fifty-foot lots make for wider houses, longer eave runs, and deeper discharge yards than the 25-foot norm, which changes both run length and where downspouts can send water. Buena Park adds Prairie mansions on Hutchinson Street and walk-up buildings, and the wide, low-pitched eaves of a Prairie mansion can hide built-in gutter details that must be checked rather than assumed. Former apartment hotels in the middle zone, now condos and co-ops, share flat-roof drainage across many units, and downspout repair on those buildings starts with who owns the shared leader.
Three designations touch this scope, each block-specific: the Hutchinson Street District, a Chicago Landmark since 31 August 1977, covering 600-900 W Hutchinson with Maher Prairie houses; the Dover Street District, a Chicago Landmark since December 2007, covering the three northern blocks of Dover Street plus four houses west of Beacon south of Lawrence; and the Sheridan Park Historic District on the National Register since 1985. Uptown Square and West Argyle are commercial designations and sit outside residential scope. Check the designation details for the specific address before work.
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