EASTLAKE TOWNHOUSES

Focus on Housing
"…a Chicago developer sought to provide urban starter housing by building market-rate, but relatively affordable townhouses in a marginal area of Chicago. His compromise? A willingness to give up higher profits for urban responsibility.

Eastlake Court is a privately financed nine-building row of townhouses situated in a slowly reviving area of Chicago called the Gap, a block east of Mies wan der Rohe's Illinois Institute of Technology campus. Designed by Johnson & Lee, the three story gabled-roofed houses wee developed for sale at market rates to young and middle-aged professional homebuyers attracted by the area's historic Prairie School Architecture and by its proximity to the Loop. Each house boasts a two-story living room, second-story master bedroom, a third story with either one of two bedrooms, and a detached rear garage…"

Architectural Record, July 1992