{"nrhp_refnum":"05001258","name":"Rogers Park Manor Bungalow Historic District","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Roughly bounded by W. Lunt Ave., N. Western Ave., both sides of W. Farwell ave. and N. California Ave.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Chicago","county":"Cook County","state":"IL","lat":42.00675717000004,"lon":-87.69512043164981,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2005-11-15","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A residential historic district in the West Ridge area of Chicago's north side, bounded roughly by West Lunt, North Western, West Farwell and North California avenues. It holds 329 contributing primary buildings, mostly brick Chicago bungalows, built between 1920 and 1929.","why_significant":"The district is significant under Criterion A for its link to the promotion of single-family homeownership in Chicago, which countered the trend toward denser apartments and tenements. Under Criterion C, it embodies the Chicago bungalow as a distinctive type, with a wide range of subtypes designed by architects such as Benedict J. Bruns and developed by Edward Zeches. It keeps a high degree of original integrity and a uniform scale.","narrative":"Rogers Park Manor is a Chicago neighborhood of brick bungalows on the city's north side, laid out between West Lunt and West Farwell avenues. Built between 1920 and 1929, it contains 329 contributing primary buildings, including 247 Chicago bungalows, along with two- and three-flats, Tudor and Mediterranean Revival homes, and 235 original rear garages. Dozens of architects and builders worked here, yet strictly kept setbacks and a consistent one-and-one-half-story scale give the streets a cohesive look. Early bungalows were simple, with modest limestone trim. After 1925 they grew larger, with rounded bays, art glass windows and carved limestone, as the area drew white-collar buyers. Developer Edward Zeches and architect Benedict J. Bruns shaped much of this growth. The district was listed for its role in promoting single-family homeownership for middle-class Chicagoans and for its well-preserved examples of the bungalow type. Only nineteen buildings have been altered enough to lose contributing status.","period_of_significance":"1920-1929","architect_builder":"Allison, Lymon J.; Bruns, Benedict; Zeches, Edward, architects","architectural_style":"Other: Chicago Bungalow","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Historic and current functions are both residential (single and multiple dwellings, with garages). Thirty-two buildings postdate the period of significance, mostly on the district's edges, and nineteen altered buildings are noncontributing.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:37.460415-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/78/8909/28890978/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_IL/05001258.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/05001258/fa2104a1a0-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/05001258/fa2104a1a0-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Thshriver","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Rogers_Park_Manor_Bungalow_Historic_Ditrict_1.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:Rogers_Park_Manor_Bungalow_Historic_Ditrict_1.JPG"},"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"05001608","name":"North Mayfair Bungalow Historic District","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/illinois/north-mayfair-bungalow-historic-district-05001608/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/28890978","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rogers_Park_Manor_Bungalow_Historic_District","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q75335618"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/illinois/cook-county/rogers-park-manor-bungalow-historic-district-05001258/"}