{"nrhp_refnum":"07000900","name":"West Park Neighborhood Historic District","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Roughly bounded by Green Bay Rd., Westminster, Oakwood, and Atteridge Rds.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Lake Forest","county":"Lake County","state":"IL","lat":42.257329286000044,"lon":-87.84329459093395,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2012-11-14","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Community Planning and Development"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A residential neighborhood historic district in east central Lake Forest, Illinois, on the east side of Green Bay Road around West Park, made up of houses, garages and a landscaped park, laid out in 1887 and 1907 subdivisions.","why_significant":"The nomination points to the 1907 Green Bay Road (Young Men's Club) Addition, laid out by architect Howard Van Doren Shaw around a central park, as the defining feature of the neighborhood. Its houses are mostly pre-1930 and largely unchanged, in a few simple pattern-book styles. The form lists Community Planning and Development and Architecture as areas of significance.","narrative":"West Park Neighborhood Historic District occupies a stretch of east central Lake Forest, Illinois, on three sides of West Park, just east of Green Bay Road. It combines the northern part of the 1887 Holt Subdivision with the 1907 Green Bay Road Addition, also called the Young Men's Club Addition, planned by architect Howard Van Doren Shaw. The park, its informal landscape and an Arts & Crafts clubhouse by Irving H. Pond date from 1922. Lots are narrow, about fifty feet wide, and most houses are two-story or story-and-a-half homes with rear garages, built mainly before 1930. Styles include American Foursquare, Colonial Revival, Craftsman bungalow, Tudor Revival and vernacular forms, many from local builders such as the Griffis family and architects Stanley D. Anderson and Jerome Cerny. The land was once part of an 1837 farm, and parts of the old farm lane survive in the street pattern. The district counts 190 contributing and 49 noncontributing resources.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"Howard Van Doren Shaw (subdivision plan); Irving H. Pond (1922 park clubhouse); Stanley D. Anderson and Jerome Cerny (architects); Griffis family builders; Gus Anderson (builder)","architectural_style":"Late 19th and 20th Century Revivals; Late 19th and 20th Century Movements (American Foursquare, Colonial Revival, Arts & Crafts, Tudor Revival, bungalow, vernacular)","criteria":[],"status_note":"Houses and park remain in residential and park use; 190 contributing and 49 noncontributing resources are counted.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:37.266234-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/76/8933/28893376/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_IL/07000900.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/07000900/7ded50f4ca-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/07000900/7ded50f4ca-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Teemu08","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:West_Park_Pavilion.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Teemu08</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:West_Park_Pavilion.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/28893376","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Park_Neighborhood_Historic_District","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q87772282"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/illinois/lake-county/west-park-neighborhood-historic-district-07000900/"}