Elgin, Illinois mansions (Chicago area) // Song is "Ny batteri" by Sigur Ros

0-4 sec: Smith Hoag designed home - Queen Anne style architecture, Eastlake Stick style
25 sec: Stick style architecture
40 sec: David C. Cook Mansion (built in 1885); Chateauesque style architecture; served as a nursing home for a time
45 sec is a funeral home currently, whose building was built in 1886-87 combining Chateauesque, Eastlake and Romanesque styles
50 sec: Queen Anne style
55 sec: Shingle style architecture
1 min 10 sec.: Shingle style, originally Italian Villa style; was a convalescent home for a while
1 min 15 sec: rebuilt in the Queen Anne style in the 1880s and then redesigned in 1929 in the Tudor style
1 min. 25 sec.: the Bosworth Mansion; designed in the Queen Anne style
1 min. 31 sec.: Stick style architecture, constructed in 1884

The final house shown, Sherwood House, is available to stay at on Airbnb: [ Ссылка ]

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Also see:
Elgin, Illinois mansions walking tour (Chicago area):
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Elgin, Illinois riverwalk in the spring | Fox River walking tour:
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Alternate tags: beautiful houses in Chicago area; historic homes Chicago area; historic homes Elgin, IL; historic mansions; Victorian home

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