A man named Martin Kimbelle claimed 160 acres in Chicago in what is now known as Logan Square in 1836. The Kimbelle family not only built their home but most of the homes within their neighborhood and along Kimball and Bernard Avenue.
Many of the homes along this intersection still remain intact with the large porches with homes built of wood with colorful detail that were built between 1900 through 1910.
Logan Square preservationists are now pushing to have the blocks with those original homes that have gone unchanged, to be put on the National Register of Historic Places.
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