134 S. Park Avenue, Hinsdale, IL

The home at 134 S. Park Avenue represents architecture that I love in Hinsdale, and also the architectural influences that made it to Dallas in Munger Place a year later. This Neocolonial architectural style home has influences surviving from earlier Queen Anne architecture and moving towards a more progressive architectural style of Frank Lloyd Wright.

When I revisit Park Avenue in Hinsdale, the street that I walked or rode my bike on the most, I see why I was so attracted to Munger Place in Dallas, which was built in 1905, influenced by the Prairie style homes of Chicago. This Colonial Revival home has remnants of a Queen Anne architectural style detail, but it also has the wide overhangs, bay windows, and evenly spaced multilight double-hung windows found in Munger Place, the most prominent neighborhood in Dallas in 1905. This historic landmark home built in 1902 was one of my favorites growing up and remains one of my favorites today. Was this the home where Miss Schuman, my first grade teacher, lived in the backhouse? And maybe the house Hinsdale graduate, Nancy Landis, lived in before she went to University of Michigan where she became Homecoming Queen?

The home at 134 S. Park Avenue, built in 1902, represents architecture that I love in Hinsdale, and also the architectural influences that made it to Dallas in Munger Place a year later. This Neocolonial architectural style home has influences surviving from earlier Queen Anne architecture and moving towards a more progressive architectural style of Frank Lloyd Wright.