{"nrhp_refnum":"02001347","name":"Fuller Park","other_names":["Square No. 4"],"category":"district","location":{"address":"331 W. 45th St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Chicago","county":"Cook County","state":"IL","lat":41.81329017650006,"lon":-87.63411347800846,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2002-11-20","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Landscape Architecture","Entertainment/Recreation"],"significance_levels":["national"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"Fuller Park is a 10.5-acre public neighborhood park at 4500 South and 300 West in Chicago, planned as Square No. 4 and built by the South Park Commission. Its field house complex was completed in 1911, and the swimming pool opened that year.","why_significant":"The nomination presents Fuller Park as part of the South Park Commission's pioneering system of neighborhood parks, which became a national model for park and playground development. It has a larger field house complex than the earlier parks and keeps more original fabric than most of them. The buildings were designed by D.H. Burnham & Co. and the park's layout follows the Olmsted Brothers prototype.","narrative":"Fuller Park is a 10.5-acre neighborhood park on Chicago's South Side, first planned in 1903 as Square No. 4 in a system of fourteen parks. Land purchases delayed construction until 1908, and the commissioners then called for a larger field house than any earlier park had. D.H. Burnham & Co. produced the Beaux Arts Classical buildings, including a field house, a U-shaped gymnasium complex, a bathhouse by Edward H. Bennett, and a pergola-lined courtyard. South Park Commission staff adapted the layout from an Olmsted Brothers prototype, placing playfields on one side and the buildings and pool on the other. The complex opened in 1911 and was then the largest of its kind in the commission's system. Inside, John Warner Norton painted nine murals for the auditorium in 1913-14. Changes include the removal of fountains and the concert grove in the 1940s and a courtyard restoration in the early 1990s. The park is significant as a well-preserved example of an early Chicago neighborhood park model that was copied in other cities.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"D.H. Burnham & Co. (Edward H. Bennett designed the bathhouse); South Park Commission in-house designers; Olmsted Brothers prototype plan; murals by John Warner Norton","architectural_style":"Beaux Arts Classicism","criteria":[],"status_note":"The park is still in use as a park, with a field house, outdoor pool and recreation facilities. Parts were rehabilitated in the 1990s, including the bathhouse and the courtyard.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:37.510674-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/32/8909/28890932/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_IL/02001347.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/02001347/6545cdf023-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/02001347/6545cdf023-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Thshriver","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Fuller_Park_3.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Thshriver</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 3.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Fuller_Park_3.JPG"},"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"12000040","name":"Chicago Park Boulevard System Historic District","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/illinois/chicago-park-boulevard-system-historic-district-12000040/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/28890932","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuller_Park_(Chicago_park)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q85762271"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/illinois/cook-county/fuller-park-02001347/"}