{"nrhp_refnum":"01000870","name":"Building at 5510 North Sheridan","other_names":["The Renaissance"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"5510 N. Sheridan Rd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Chicago","county":"Cook County","state":"IL","lat":41.98246401200004,"lon":-87.65563451799994,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2001-08-08","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Community Planning and Development"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A seventeen-story luxury apartment high-rise at 5510 North Sheridan Road in Chicago's Edgewater neighborhood, built in 1927 and designed by Quinn & Christiansen, with an attached three-story garage.","why_significant":"The nomination argues that the building is an excellent example of the 1920s luxury residential high-rise, with Renaissance Revival ornament concentrated at the base and top. It is also an important, large-scale work of the firm Quinn & Christiansen. Its attached garage with an automobile elevator reflects the integration of the automobile into the urban landscape in the late 1920s.","narrative":"Rising seventeen stories near Lake Michigan in Chicago's Edgewater neighborhood, this apartment building at 5510 North Sheridan Road was completed in 1927 to designs by the firm Quinn & Christiansen. Its steel-frame and concrete structure is faced in rusticated red brick with limestone ornament concentrated at the lower and upper floors, and it is topped by a slate mansard roof with dormers. Setbacks at the fourteenth and seventeenth floors create rooftop gardens. Two porte cochere entrances lead to an attached three-story garage with an original automobile elevator. Inside, a lobby with faux wood graining and plaster detail leads to thirty-two apartments with vaulted entry halls, formal dining rooms and pantries. The building is considered an excellent example of the luxury lakefront high-rise, a type that borrowed French-influenced design, and a major work of an architectural firm that specialized in residential high-rises. Its integrated garage also reflects the growing role of the automobile in city living during the late 1920s.","period_of_significance":"1927-1951","architect_builder":"Quinn & Christiansen","architectural_style":"Renaissance Revival","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Still used as a multiple dwelling (thirty-two apartments); retains a high degree of integrity, with alterations including a late-1980s canopy and early-1990s replacement windows.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:37.767442-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/2/8923/28892302/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_IL/01000870.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/01000870/f2093d2b27-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/01000870/f2093d2b27-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"Zol87 from Chicago, Illinois, USA","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_Renaissance_(5510_N_Sheridan).jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Zol87 from Chicago, Illinois, USA</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 4.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_Renaissance_(5510_N_Sheridan).jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/28892302","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Building_at_5510_North_Sheridan","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q59687239"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/illinois/cook-county/building-at-5510-north-sheridan-01000870/"}