A tour bike leaning on the black metal fence in front of an angled roof wooden Italianate two story home.

5 pictures from CBA’s map for Sister Carrie, Theodore Dreiser’s story of the new life in 1890s Chicago for a young Wisconsinite.

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A tour bike standing at the curb in front of massive lat 19th century red granite three story Queen Anne home.
Carl C Heisen House (Frank B Abbot, 1890) in Gold Coast.

[Sister Carrie’s friend] Mrs. Hale loved to drive in the afternoon in the sun…and to satisfy her soul with a sight of those [elegant north shore drive] mansions…which she could not afford.
A tour bike parallel parked in front of the red brick three story Italianate school building.
Ruben Salazar Elementary Bilingual Education Center – Formerly North Division High School (J.S. Ender, 1883) Also: Historic Schools Map

[Hurstwood’s daughter Jessica] was in the high school, and had notions of life that were decidedly those of a patrician.
A tour bike standing at a quiet intersection with two late nineteenth century buildings, one a red brick Italianate the other tan sided Queen Anne with shingled corner turret on each corner
Washington Boulevard and Hoyne Avenue in West Town, left (1894), right (1879)

“…Where was I?” “On Washington Boulevard” [Doctor Beale] answered, expecting her eye to light with immediate remembrance. [Mrs. Hurstwood] shook her head. “Yes, out near Hoyne Avenue. You were with your husband. “I guess you are mistaken” she answered. – Beale has mistaken Carrie for Mrs H.
A tour bike leaning on the black metal fence in front of an angled roof wooden Italianate two story home.
Home (1869) in Near West Side

At her window, [Carrie] thought [her living situation] over, rocking to and fro, and gazing out …toward the lamp lit houses on Warren…avenue.
A tour bike standing across the street from a yellow limestone Gothic Revival church.
First Baptist Congregational today – Former Union Park Congregational Church (Gurdon P Randall, 1869-71) in Near West Side

Over the bare limbs of the trees, which now swayed in the wintry wind, rose the steeple of the Union Park Congregational Church, and far off the towers of several others. – Carrie looks out her window

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