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…
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…
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…
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…
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.
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…
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…
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…
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.
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.…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
