{"nrhp_refnum":"06000383","name":"Meekerville Historic District","other_names":["Lake Shore Drive West Historic District"],"category":"district","location":{"address":"303 Barry Ave., 325,303-341,344 Wellington Ave., 340 Oakdale Ave.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Chicago","county":"Cook County","state":"IL","lat":41.937069744500064,"lon":-87.63798513984608,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2006-05-12","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A residential historic district on Chicago's north side near Lake Michigan, made up of single-family mansions and carriage houses along Barry, Wellington and Oakdale Avenues between Lake Shore Drive West and Sheridan Road, built between 1913 and 1930.","why_significant":"The district preserves a group of large houses built for Chicago's business and cultural elite in the 1920s, on landfill beside an expanded Lincoln Park. The houses display Georgian Revival, Italian Renaissance Revival, Beaux Arts and Tudor Revival styles and were designed by noted architects including Charles A. Platt and Howard Van Doren Shaw. It is the surviving core of a single-family area now surrounded by high-rises.","narrative":"Meekerville is a small enclave of large early twentieth-century houses on Chicago's north side, near Lake Michigan and Lincoln Park. It occupies three one-block streets, Barry, Wellington and Oakdale Avenues, between Lake Shore Drive West and Sheridan Road. The district includes eight contributing houses, three contributing carriage houses or garages, and several non-contributing resources, built between 1913 and 1930 on landfill along the shoreline. The houses are two and a half to four stories tall and sit close together behind a uniform setback, creating a consistent street wall. Their styles include Georgian Revival, Italian Renaissance Revival, Beaux Arts and Tudor Revival. Architects include Charles A. Platt, who designed the Arthur Burr Meeker Sr. house, and Howard Van Doren Shaw. The first owners were members of Chicago's business elite, including meat-packing families such as the Armours and Mayers. High-rise buildings now surround the district on all sides, and its houses remain in residential use.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"Charles A. Platt, Howard Van Doren Shaw, Mayo & Mayo, Rissman and Hirschfeld, E.H. Frommann and Frederick Lindquist","architectural_style":"Italian Renaissance, Beaux Arts, Tudor Revival, Georgian Revival","criteria":[],"status_note":"Current function is still domestic, with single dwellings and secondary structures; some garages have been altered or rebuilt since the period of significance.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:37.730611-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/14/8920/28892014/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_IL/06000383.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"94001029","name":"Lincoln Park","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/illinois/lincoln-park-94001029/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/28892014","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meekerville_Historic_District","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6807529"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/illinois/cook-county/meekerville-historic-district-06000383/"}