{"nrhp_refnum":"03000788","name":"Calumet Park","other_names":["Park No. 11"],"category":"district","location":{"address":"9801 South Avenue G","address_restricted":false,"city":"Chicago","county":"Cook County","state":"IL","lat":41.716157130000056,"lon":-87.52697403285937,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2003-08-21","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Entertainment/Recreation","Social History","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"Calumet Park is a 199-acre lakefront public park on Chicago's Southeast Side along Lake Michigan, extending from East 95th Street to the Illinois-Indiana state line. Originally called Park No. 11, it was conceived in 1903 as part of a system of 14 parks and developed by the South Park Commission largely in the 1920s and 1930s.","why_significant":"The nomination presents the park as a largely intact example of South Park Commission planning, with a naturalistic landscape, athletic fields, a beach, and a classically designed field house. The field house carries bas-relief panels by sculptor Frederick C. Hibbard and murals including work by Tom Lea. The park retains strong integrity and still serves the Southeast Chicago communities as recreational space.","narrative":"Calumet Park is a 199-acre public park on Chicago's far Southeast Side, running along Lake Michigan from East 95th Street to the Illinois-Indiana line. Planned in 1903 as Park No. 11 in a system of 14 parks, it was delayed while the South Park Commissioners built out a much larger site with slag and other landfill during the 1920s and 1930s. The park's in-house 1921 plan favored a naturalistic landscape of winding drives, tree-edged play fields and a bathing beach. Its most formal element is the classically styled field house of exposed aggregate concrete, with a central pavilion and two gymnasium wings. Sculptor Frederick C. Hibbard made two bas-relief panels of playing children for the facade, and murals from the late 1920s, two by Tom Lea, decorate the auditorium. Depression-era work added a brick comfort station and a maintenance yard. The park counts nine contributing and seven noncontributing resources and keeps strong integrity as a large green space on the south lakefront.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"South Park Commission architects (field house); Frederick C. Hibbard (sculptor of bas-relief panels); Olmsted Brothers prepared early plans","architectural_style":"Beaux Arts Classicism","criteria":[],"status_note":"Still in use as a public park with athletic fields, beach, field house, gymnastics center and fitness center; the Coast Guard building is altered and noncontributing.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:37.373108-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/50/8910/28891050/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_IL/03000788.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/03000788/bb80ed958b-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/03000788/bb80ed958b-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"Zol87 from Chicago, IL, USA","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Calumet_Park_Fieldhouse.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Zol87 from Chicago, IL, 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:Calumet_Park_Fieldhouse.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/28891050","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calumet_Park","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2934413"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/illinois/cook-county/calumet-park-03000788/"}