2018 Fall Tour of Homes
West Andersonville,
September 16, 2018
Welcome to the 30th Annual Edgewater Historical Society Home Tour
Editor’s note: To respect the privacy of the homeowners while making the historical information available for research, most names and street addresses have been removed from the online version of the "tour booklet." The original printed booklets are all available at the Edgewater Historical Society Museum.
Text and some images for this online “tour booklet” were copied from the printed booklet. Copyright © 2018 Edgewater Historical Society.
For individual home descriptions, select an address at the left.
West Andersonville
The community known today as West Andersonville today lies
directly north of the original 1850s settlement called Andersonville.
It encompasses an area north of Foster Avenue and west of Ashland
Avenue, extending to Bryn Mawr on the north and the Chicago and
Northwestern tracks on the west. It was subdivided and developed in
four stages.
The first development in 1859 was called Mount Pleasant. It
extended over just four blocks from Foster on the south to Berwyn on
the north. At that time, Ashland was called Eastern Avenue, Paulina
was called Wright, and Farragut was called Pine. Although created as
a subdivision of the township of Lakeview, very few people settled
there.
