Want to learn more about the history of the Chicago bungalow? Or learn how to troubleshoot a home repair or tackle a DIY project? What about how to research the history of your home?
In this post, you’ll find a basic list of books to get you started. Links provided below each section.
Restoration reference Guides








- The Chicago Bungalow
- Shellac, Linseed Oil & Paint
- Restoring Your Historic House: The Comprehensive Guide for Homeowners (this book includes a Chicago Bungalow as a case study)
- Get Your House Right: Architectural Elements to Use and Avoid
- The Window Sash Bible
- Save America’s Windows
- A Field Guide to American Houses: The Definitive Guide to Identifying and Understanding America’s Domestic Architecture (this book is considered the Bible of Preservationists and includes a section on Prairie Style with a very small subsection identifying Chicago Bungalows as a vernacular style of bungalow)
Home History Research


- Discovering the History of Your House and Your Neighborhood
- Nearby History: Exploring the Past Around You
Chicago History







- From Cottage to Bungalow: Houses and the Working Class in Metropolitan Chicago 1869-1929
- Chicago: A Biography
- Historic Photos of the Chicago World’s Fair
- The Devil in the White City
- Redlined: A Memoir of Race, Change, and Fractured Community in 1960s Chicago
- Challenging Chicago: Coping with Everyday Life, 1837-1920
- Chicago Then and Now

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