Carl Schurz High School is an architectural marvel: An absolute Prairie School beauty at Milwaukee Avenue and Addison Street that rightfully earned city landmark status and a listing on the National Register of Historic Places.
Built in 1910, the building is among architect Dwight Perkins’ finest work.
Meanwhile, its architectural doppelgänger, James H. Bowen High School in South Chicago, also designed by Perkins and opened the same year as its North Side counterpart, has received no such love — until now…