{"nrhp_refnum":"06000011","name":"Downtown Hinsdale Historic District","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Roughly Bounded by Maple St., Lincoln St., Garfield St. and Second St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Hinsdale","county":"DuPage County","state":"IL","lat":41.80223280650006,"lon":-87.92909305679058,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2006-05-30","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Commerce","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A commercial historic district of about six blocks in downtown Hinsdale, DuPage County, Illinois, roughly bounded by Maple, Lincoln, Garfield and Second Streets, with 61 contributing and 13 noncontributing resources built from the 1880s onward beside the railroad tracks.","why_significant":"The district holds the oldest commercial buildings in the village and shows more than 130 years of small-town suburban railroad downtown development. Its One-Part and Two-Part Commercial Blocks display Italianate, Queen Anne, Colonial and Georgian Revival, Renaissance Revival and Commercial styles. Government buildings and auto-related businesses show how the downtown adapted to new needs. The text in the provided pages does not state the criteria or the formal period of significance.","narrative":"Downtown Hinsdale is a compact, pedestrian-oriented business district about 21 miles west and south of Chicago's Loop, laid out beside the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad tracks. The district covers more than six blocks and includes 74 properties, of which 60 buildings and one park are contributing. Most are brick, frame or stone buildings no more than three stories tall, built up to the lot lines in One-Part or Two-Part Commercial Block forms on 25-foot-wide units. The earliest, two-story frame buildings along Washington and First Streets date from the 1880s and carry Italianate or Queen Anne details. Later buildings show Colonial, Georgian and Renaissance Revival styles, with notable terra cotta on the Hinsdale Theater and the Hinsdale State Bank. Gas stations and car dealerships reflect the automobile era, while the Village Hall and Post Office stand north of the tracks. Despite storefront changes, the character of a late-19th and 20th century suburban railroad downtown remains.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"R. Harold Zook, William Gibson Barfield, Philip Duke West, Louis A. Simon, Lorin A. Rawson, Edwin H. Clark and others (inventory lists various architects and builders)","architectural_style":"Late Victorian (Italianate, Queen Anne); Late 19th and 20th Century Revivals (Colonial Revival, Italian Renaissance); Commercial Style; Modern Movement (Art Deco)","criteria":[],"status_note":"Still an active business district with commerce, government, post office and rail functions; some storefronts and upper stories have been altered.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:37.650939-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/90/8927/28892790/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_IL/06000011.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/06000011/dff2697b57-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/06000011/dff2697b57-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Teemu08 at English Wikipedia","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hinsdale_Memorial_Building.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Teemu08 at English Wikipedia</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:Hinsdale_Memorial_Building.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/28892790","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Downtown_Hinsdale_Historic_District","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5303458"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/illinois/dupage-county/downtown-hinsdale-historic-district-06000011/"}