Tri-Taylor Historic District is a historic district in the Near West Side neighborhood of Chicago , Illinois . The district is primarily residential and includes over 400 buildings . Most of the district 's buildings are rowhouses , and almost all are from the late 19th century ; their designs are notable for the frequent use of applied decorative elements uncommon elsewhere in Chicago . The district developed in the wake of the Great Chicago Fire of 1871 and was mainly the home to middle-class residents relocating from immigrant neighborhoods . While the district 's residents were mainly Western European , particularly German and Irish , in its first decades , the area became predominantly Italian around 1900 and remained so until it entered a decline in the 1940s and 1950s
Great Chicago Fire
Great Chicago Fire
Tri-Taylor Historic District