{"nrhp_refnum":"07000855","name":"Palmer Park","other_names":["Park No. 13"],"category":"district","location":{"address":"201 E. 111th St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Chicago","county":"Cook County","state":"IL","lat":41.69083463800004,"lon":-87.61556775870167,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2007-08-30","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Entertainment/Recreation","Social History","Architecture","Landscape Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"Palmer Park is a 40.5-acre neighborhood park at 201 E. 111th Street in the Roseland community of Chicago, Cook County, Illinois. It was begun in 1903 as Park No. 13 and dedicated October 9, 1905, with a Beaux Arts field house complex designed by D.H. Burnham & Co. and a landscape plan by Olmsted Brothers.","why_significant":"The park is argued to be significant for its role in recreation and social history as one of the South Park Commission's innovative small parks, which became a national model for neighborhood park design and programming. It is also significant for its Beaux Arts architecture and its landscape design by Olmsted Brothers. It retains good integrity despite deterioration and alterations.","narrative":"Palmer Park is a 40.5-acre neighborhood park in Chicago's Roseland community, planned in 1903 as Park No. 13 and dedicated on October 9, 1905. It was one of fourteen small parks conceived by the South Park Commission, with landscape design by Olmsted Brothers and buildings by D.H. Burnham & Co. The Beaux Arts field house and gymnasium are built of exposed aggregate concrete and sit on a terrace beside a swimming pool, running track, formal double walkways and a sunken athletic field once flooded for ice skating. Interior murals painted in 1934 by James E. McBurney survive in the gymnasium. The park was named for merchant Potter Palmer. It drew over half a million visits in 1906 and helped establish a model for neighborhood parks across the country. Although some features have been lost or altered, the layout, walkways, sunken field and much original fabric remain, and the park has served local residents for over a century.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"D.H. Burnham & Company (architects); Olmsted Brothers (landscape architects)","architectural_style":"Beaux Arts Classicism","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Still in use as a park with field house, fitness center, swimming pool, athletic field and courts; the form notes deterioration and some insensitive repairs but good integrity.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:37.712751-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/16/8910/28891016/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_IL/07000855.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/07000855/21442d2c64-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/07000855/21442d2c64-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY 2.0","author":"Zol87 from Chicago, Illinois, USA","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Palmer_Park_Fieldhouse.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Zol87 from Chicago, Illinois, USA</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY 2.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Palmer_Park_Fieldhouse.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/28891016","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palmer_Park_(Chicago)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3361618"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/illinois/cook-county/palmer-park-07000855/"}