 Bucktown once hosted one of Chicago's largest collections of worker's cottages, compact brick A-frame structures that were a precursor to the more well known 'bungalow', both providing an affordable version of the stand alone home so many apartment dwellers craved. Now these endangered monuments to architectural modesty act as charming totems reeling in neighborhood migrants with their "oh, isn't that home cute" looks only to serve as designer landfill for their future 5400 square foot hedge fund cottage, a wall-less box of namaste nastiness.
For those doubtful of the phenomenon, we shall look at the neighborhood's most current cottage to come to market, fully habitable and shown here, with the following listing headline, "Attractive Bucktown Cottage, followed by the captivating:Property has been in same family since 19th century , which was then buttressed with this pithy remark: Prime Bucktown lot for new construction. Bucktown TAGS affordable, agent, box home, bucktown, bungalow, chicago, hedge fund, historic, listing, luxury, neighborhood, new construction, new money, realtor, renovation, tear down, vintage, Wicker Park, worker's cottage, yuppie, namaste, preservation
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