Devon Avenue Car Barn

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Devon Avenue Car Barn Soundex Code D150

The Devon Avenue Car Barn, also known as the Devon Avenue Car House, was located at 6454-64 N. Clark Street. It was built by the Chicago Union Traction Company and opened on Tuesday, April 2, 1901.

A major fire in 1922 destroyed 90 streetcars. Because at that time all of the streetcar lines had been consolidated under the umbrella of the Chicago Surface Lines, and was the largest streetcar system in the world, sufficient surplus streetcars were available that the service that would normally have extended from the Devon Car Barn was fully restored the next day.

The car barn was closed in 1957. After it was torn down, the 24th District-Rogers Park police station was built on the site.

Chicago Tribune, Tuesday, April 2, 1901 page 12

New Car Barns are Opened

Chicago Union Traction Company begins storing in Clark Street and Devon Avenue structure.

The new street car barn of the Chicago Union Traction Company, situated near Clark Street and Devon Avenue, was thrown open last night (Monday April 1, 1901) and a hundred or more cars in service on the North Side lines were housed there. The new barn is the largest in the city. Many of the cars that have heretofore been housed in the Graceland Avenue and Rogers Park barns (???) will be stored in the new structure.

Photos

RPWRHS photo B042-0201 shows a flower box at the Chicago Surface Lines Devon Carbarn, 6454-64 N. Clark Street, circa 1930.

RPWRHS photo B042-0202 shows the Chicago Surface Lines, Devon Carbarn, at 6454-64 N. Clark Street. A row of plantings. circa 1930.

RPWRHS photo B042-0203 shows the Chicago Surface Lines, Devon Carbarn, at 6454-64 N. Clark Street. Plantings and fence. circa 1930.

RPWRHS photo C043-25985 shows Chicago Surface Lines, Devon Carbarn, 6454-64 N. Clark Street, Photo: June 13, 1923.

RPWRHS photo R044-0231 shows the Devon Carbarn, 6454-64 N. Clark Street. No date given.

RPWRHS photo S013-0376 shows Devon Avenue Car Barn September 1972.

RPWRHS photo S013-0377 shows Devon Avenue Car Barn September 1972.

RPWRHS photo S013-0378 shows demolished Devon Avenue Car Barn, March 1978.