Landscape design in Old Town
Old Town is Near North Side's wood-frame / brick row houses (1870-1910) submarket. Old Town Triangle Landmark District (designated 1977) protects 450+ buildings in the triangular area bounded by Ogden (formerly), North Ave, and Clark — much of the stock predates the Great Chicago Fire of 1871 (rare for the near-north side).
What a landscape design project looks like here
Old Town Triangle Landmark District (designated 1977) protects 450+ buildings in the triangular area bounded by Ogden (formerly), North Ave, and Clark — much of the stock predates the Great Chicago Fire of 1871 (rare for the near-north side).
Because the district escaped the Great Fire's northern edge by a few blocks, some Old Town Triangle houses are pre-Fire wood-frame construction (1860s-1870s) — a structural typology uncommon elsewhere in Chicago, and one that requires specialized restoration contractors.
The Second City theater complex at North and Wells generates concentrated evening pedestrian traffic — construction-staging permits on Wells Street north of North Ave are limited to 6am-4pm weekdays, a tighter window than the citywide 7am-7pm default.
Rear-yard design, parkway replanting, Chicago Bungalow Association-approved plantings, rain-garden / Deep Tunnel detention. In Old Town specifically, wood-frame / brick row houses (1870-1910) stock means landscape design scope is shaped by the neighborhood's dominant construction typology. Baily's Chicago scoping flow factors old town triangle landmark district and chicago historic resources survey orange-rated on 65%+ of district stock into the estimate before a contractor is involved.
Start your Old Town scope — Baily asks the right questions.
Pre-seeded for landscape design in Old Town. Mention your 1,100-2,400 sqft condo/townhouse, your timeline, and any known constraints — Baily factors the cdob standard permit + old town triangle landmark district review review queue into the scope.
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He wasn’t the first to see them. Edmond Halley saw them in 1715 and barely noticed. Baily’s contribution was clarity — describing exactly what was happening, in plain language, so vividly that the whole field of astronomy paid attention. The phenomenon is still called Baily’s beads.
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Questions LA homeowners actually ask
Old Town landscape design projects typically run $18K–$225K. Old Town's wood-frame / brick row houses (1870-1910) stock, combined with old town triangle landmark district — designated 1977, puts most mid-complexity projects in the $122K range. Baily scopes the exact band once you describe the work.
Nearest neighborhoods
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