{"nrhp_refnum":"07000458","name":"Rees, Harriet F., House","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"2110 S. Prairie Ave.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Chicago","county":"Cook County","state":"IL","lat":41.85387900300003,"lon":-87.62076478599994,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2007-05-22","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A three-and-a-half-story limestone and brick single-family house at 2110 South Prairie Avenue in Chicago's Near South Side, designed by Cobb and Frost and built in 1888 for Harriet F. Rees.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the house is significant under Architecture as a remarkably intact work of the Chicago firm Cobb and Frost, noted for Romanesque-derived residential design. It is also one of the last few residences surviving on Prairie Avenue, once Chicago's most fashionable residential street.","narrative":"Built in 1888 at 2110 South Prairie Avenue, this masonry house is one of the last few residences left on a street that was once Chicago's most fashionable address. Architects Cobb and Frost gave it an ashlar limestone front with a two-story bowed bay, a colonnade of five Romanesque arched windows on the third floor, and a steep gable topped by a stone finial. The side and rear walls are plain common brick because the house was built tight against its neighbors. Inside, the original room layout survives, along with nine fireplaces with ornate mantels and tile surrounds, woodwork in many wood species, an operable skylight and an early elevator. The house later served as a rooming house and a restaurant, but recent work reversed interior changes. It is listed for its architecture, as a well-preserved example of Cobb and Frost's residential work, and as a rare survivor on Prairie Avenue.","period_of_significance":"1888-1956","architect_builder":"Cobb and Frost","architectural_style":"Late Victorian; Romanesque","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"Described as remarkably intact inside and out, with interior changes from its restaurant use reversed by the present owners; the front entry transom is boarded for security. The form lists current use as a single dwelling.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:37.265071-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/50/8920/28892050/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_IL/07000458.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/07000458/98013c582f-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/07000458/98013c582f-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Andrew Jameson","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Harriet_F_Rees_House_Chicago_IL.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Andrew Jameson</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:Harriet_F_Rees_House_Chicago_IL.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/28892050","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harriet_F._Rees_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q18331491"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/illinois/cook-county/rees-harriet-f-house-07000458/"}