{"nrhp_refnum":"08001098","name":"Robbins Park Historic District","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Bounded by Chicago Ave., 8th St., County Line Rd., and Garfield St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Hinsdale","county":"DuPage County","state":"IL","lat":41.81099469900005,"lon":-87.91982353924547,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2008-11-26","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Community Planning and Development"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A residential historic district in the southeast part of Hinsdale, DuPage County, Illinois, covering 28 blocks and about 275 acres, with buildings dating from 1863 to 1958 platted by William Robbins.","why_significant":"The district is described as an outstanding collection of American suburban residential architecture in one of Chicago's elite railroad suburbs. It shows the evolution of 19th-century subdivision design, from a standard grid in the north to a picturesque curving plan by landscape gardener Horace W. S. Cleveland in the south. Many houses are high-style, architect-designed homes built for successful Chicago-area entrepreneurs.","narrative":"Robbins Park Historic District occupies 28 blocks and roughly 275 acres in southeast Hinsdale, Illinois, south of the Burlington railroad line. It includes two subdivisions laid out by village founder William Robbins: the Robbins Addition of 1866 and the Robbins Park Addition of 1871. The northern part follows a conventional street grid, while the southern part has gently curving streets, small parks and parkways designed by Chicago landscape gardener Horace W. S. Cleveland to follow the rolling terrain. The district holds 368 properties, of which 232 contribute to its character. Most were built as single-family homes between 1863 and 1958, in styles including Gothic Revival, Italianate, Queen Anne, Shingle, Prairie, Tudor and Colonial Revival. Four churches, a church school and a few former residences used as offices are also present. Teardowns and large additions have altered parts of the area, but enough historic fabric remains to convey its development as an affluent suburban neighborhood.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"Horace W. S. Cleveland (landscape designer of the Robbins Park Addition); William Robbins (developer); various architects and builders listed in the inventory","architectural_style":"Late Victorian, Gothic, Italianate, Queen Anne, Shingle Style, Romanesque, Colonial Revival, Classical Revival, Italian Renaissance, Bungalow/Craftsman","criteria":[],"status_note":"Almost wholly residential; 12 properties were vacant or under construction at the time of nomination, and 40 buildings were demolished in the nine years before it.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:37.613842-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/70/8927/28892770/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_IL/08001098.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/08001098/76b3a430ee-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/08001098/76b3a430ee-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Teemu08 (talk)","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Robbins_Park_Historic_District.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Teemu08 (talk)</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:Robbins_Park_Historic_District.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/28892770","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robbins_Park_Historic_District","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7341062"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/illinois/dupage-county/robbins-park-historic-district-08001098/"}