John Morris/Chicago Patterns

These twin Italianate three-flats are located on Carptenter near Hubbard.

John Morris/Chicago Patterns

Near the corner of 36th and Western in Brighton Park is a boarded up Italianate mansion, known as the DuPont-Whitehouse house. Financing and motivation to build the house came from DuPont de Nemours & Company, an explosives company dating to the early 1800s.

The house’s stark symmetry, boarded up windows, and tall stature command attention. The home also represents one of the largest turning points in prosperity for the Brighton Park neighborhood.

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Man carrying a guitar on his back while riding his back in front of a Second Empire and Italianate styled commercial/residential building at Throop and 18th in Pilsen.

Colorful Italianate corner building at Cullerton, Laflin, and Blue Island in Pilsen.