A block of Victorian brick and greystone houses on Dickens Avenue at Sheffield, bare trees overhead and the elevated tracks beyond

Chicago Historic
Plaque Program

Helping homeowners recognize and celebrate the architectural and historical significance of their home.

Request a Plaque How it works

Dickens Avenue at Sheffield Avenue. Photo credit: Chris Cullen

Chicago Historic Plaque Homes

63 Lincoln Park homeowners have requested a plaque as of September 24, 2026.

The first plaques are in production. Researched histories appear here as homeowners approve them.

The Housing Stock

Lincoln Park homes.

Peter Millen photographed these Lincoln Park houses around the neighborhood. His record of what the neighborhood has been losing prompted this program. They show the building stock the pilot covers, ahead of the first plaques going up.

A red brick Victorian house with a bay window on North Dayton Street, a redbud in bloom in front of it — North Dayton Street.Photo credit: Peter Millen

2119 N. Racine Avenue: a gabled cottage, brick below and white clapboard above, behind a white picket fence — 2119 N. Racine Avenue.Photo credit: Peter Millen

2146 N. Magnolia Avenue: a red brick two-flat with a bracketed cornice, stone lintels and an iron stoop rail — 2146 N. Magnolia Avenue.Photo credit: Peter Millen

2114 N. Lincoln Avenue: a brick building with segmental-arched windows, seen through bare branches — 2114 N. Lincoln Avenue.Photo credit: Peter Millen

1838 N. Bissell Street: a dark green frame cottage with a bay window and carved brackets under the eaves, its paint weathered, standing between two newer buildings — 1838 N. Bissell Street.Photo credit: Peter Millen

2027 N. Bissell Street: a cream frame house with a gabled roof and a round-arched entry, forsythia in bloom at the iron fence — 2027 N. Bissell Street.Photo credit: Peter Millen

2029 N. Dayton Street: a three-storey red brick house with a round-arched window, stone trim and an exterior metal stair — 2029 N. Dayton Street, since demolished.Photo credit: Peter Millen

2049 N. Bissell Street: a pale grey frame house with a front porch and a gabled roof behind an iron fence — 2049 N. Bissell Street, since demolished.Photo credit: Peter Millen

2108 N. Dayton Street: a pale frame cottage with an arched doorway, a dark red door and white steps — 2108 N. Dayton Street.Photo credit: Peter Millen

2218 N. Dayton Street: a yellow brick Victorian house with a conical-roofed corner turret and an arcaded porch with carved spandrels — 2218 N. Dayton Street.Photo credit: Peter Millen

2230 N. Dayton Street: a red brick house with tall arched windows, carved panels and a recessed arched entry — 2230 N. Dayton Street.Photo credit: Peter Millen

2238 N. Dayton Street: a red brick house with a slate mansard roof and dormers, seen from across the street — 2238 N. Dayton Street.Photo credit: Peter Millen

826 W. Armitage Avenue: a red brick building with a carved stone panel at the roofline and a shopfront at street level — 826 W. Armitage Avenue.Photo credit: Peter Millen

960 W. Dickens Avenue: a red brick rowhouse with a painted bay window, a blue door and a stone stoop — 960 W. Dickens Avenue.Photo credit: Peter Millen

A red brick Victorian house on the corner of Cleveland Avenue and Belden Avenue in Lincoln Park — Cleveland Avenue at Belden Avenue.Photo credit: Chris Cullen