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Originally Posted by Nowhereman1280
^^^ Now that someone mentioned how those typical 2 flats seem to be influenced by Prairie style, I have noticed how this type of 2 flat seems to be fairly isolated in Chicago. Even in Milwaukee the flats look completely different from them. I wonder if the FLW/Prairie influence in the early 1900's really did generate a unique stock of prairie-flats that seems to be the signature style of Chicago flats.
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By the time the prarie flat style got popular in Chicago, the German duplex vernacular in Milwaukee was becoming less popular and becoming replaced by the new bungalow style, which bears great resemblance to the Chicago style prarie flats/duplexes, but with less brick and more wood siding. The Prarie style didn't have much influence on the mass of the housing stock (the duplex) but the bungalows are clearly influenced by it, I think.
But actually the German duplex isn't terribly far from the Chicago Prarie flat:
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