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Restoring existing urban housing.(Editorial)(Editorial)

Publication: Home Energy
Publication Date: 01-JUL-04
Format: Online - approximately 751 words
Delivery: Immediate Online Access

Article Excerpt
To many Home Energy readers, the phrase "affordable comfort" evokes a stimulating and essential conference. While this association is accurate, the phrase could equally justifiably be applied to a Midwest cultural icon: the Chicago Bungalow. After decades of grand homes built in the Queen and...

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...Anne Victorian styles--the McMansions of the late nineteenth century--the functional Chicago Bungalow provided families of moderate income with solid homes that balanced the subtle individualism of the Arts and Crafts movement with the conformity needed to lower production costs.

Many of these homes are now nearly a century old, but they could last another 100 years if they were properly maintained and adapted to the comfort...

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