{"nrhp_refnum":"06000678","name":"Grand Crossing Park","other_names":["Park #15"],"category":"district","location":{"address":"7655 S. Ingleside Ave.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Chicago","county":"Cook County","state":"IL","lat":41.756887692500044,"lon":-87.60045665161823,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2006-08-08","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Landscape Architecture","Entertainment/Recreation"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A 17.16-acre neighborhood park on Chicago's south side at 7655 South Ingleside Avenue, planned by the South Park Commission from 1907 and improved with a field house and landscape beginning in 1915. It has nine contributing and four noncontributing resources.","why_significant":"The park is a representative example of the South Park Commission's formally planned neighborhood parks, with classically inspired Beaux Arts architecture and a zoned layout of ball field, field house, pool and playground. It retains a high level of integrity and shows the influence of the Olmsted Brothers and the Burnham firm's earlier park buildings. Its field house also contains a mural, An Allegory of Recreation.","narrative":"Grand Crossing Park is a 17.16-acre neighborhood park on Chicago's south side, bounded by East 76th and 78th Streets, South Dobson Avenue and South Ingleside Avenue. The South Park Commission began planning it in 1907 as one of four new parks, and the Olmsted Brothers prepared plans that were not carried out. Commission staff designed the park instead, with a depressed ball field on the south, and the field house, pool, playground, running track and service yard on the north. The two-story, cruciform field house was built in 1915 of exposed aggregate concrete with classical details, and it matches the one at Trumbull Park. Its design echoes the earlier Burnham-designed park buildings and the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition. Inside, original woodwork and a five-panel mural, An Allegory of Recreation, survive. Changes include a replaced roof, a painted exterior, a modern pool and lost trees and fencing. The park is listed for its representative design and integrity.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"South Park Commission in-house staff under Chief Engineer Linn White; rendering signed by Guy Wilfrid Haylor; mural by Chester Dryan","architectural_style":"Beaux Arts Classicism","criteria":[],"status_note":"Park remains in use as a park; the field house retains good integrity, though the original south entrance is no longer used and the exterior has been painted.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:37.749944-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/34/8909/28890934/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_IL/06000678.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/06000678/2eaf814022-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/06000678/2eaf814022-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Thshriver","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Grand_Crossing_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:Grand_Crossing_Park_3.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/28890934","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Crossing_Park","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q34883962"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/illinois/cook-county/grand-crossing-park-06000678/"}