{"nrhp_refnum":"08001168","name":"South Shore Bungalow Historic District","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Bounded roughly by S. Crandon Ave. on the E., E. 78th St. on the S., S. Clyde Ave. on the W., E. 75th St. on the N.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Chicago","county":"Cook County","state":"IL","lat":41.75539889000004,"lon":-87.57037555496592,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2008-12-10","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Community Planning and Development","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A residential historic district on Chicago's southeast side in the South Shore community, roughly bounded by East 75th Street, East 78th Street, South Clyde Avenue and South Crandon Avenue. It contains Chicago bungalows and earlier antecedent bungalow forms built between 1911 and 1930.","why_significant":"The district is significant under Criterion A for its link to the promotion of single-family homeownership in Chicago, which countered the growth of apartments and tenements. Under Criterion C it embodies the distinctive type, period and method of construction of the Chicago bungalow, with a high degree of original architectural and urban integrity. It also shows the shift from frame and stucco antecedent bungalows to the brick Chicago bungalow.","narrative":"Chicago's South Shore Bungalow Historic District covers twenty block faces between East 75th and 78th Streets, about nine miles from the city center. Built between 1911 and 1930, it holds 229 Chicago bungalows, forty-one frame and stucco antecedent forms, and a few two-flats and larger houses. More than eighty architects and builders worked here, yet uniform setbacks, regular spacing and shared features such as low-pitched roofs, overhanging eaves, banded windows and limestone trim give the streets a cohesive look. Early stucco and frame bungalows gave way after about 1916 to brick, and later examples became more elaborate, especially on corner lots. Developers such as Charles Miller built dozens of homes on speculation. The district was listed for its role in promoting single-family homeownership and for its well-preserved bungalow architecture. Its residents included many immigrant families, mostly white-collar workers, and in the 1950s and 1960s it became a black middle-class community.","period_of_significance":"1911 - 1930","architect_builder":"Various","architectural_style":"Other: Chicago Bungalow","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Still used as single-family and multiple-family dwellings with garages; 293 contributing and 25 noncontributing primary buildings, with some bungalows altered by dormer additions or porch enclosures.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:37.290153-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/84/8909/28890984/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_IL/08001168.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/08001168/d6fd3487da-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/08001168/d6fd3487da-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Boscophotos","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Image_Crandon_Bungalow.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Boscophotos</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:Image_Crandon_Bungalow.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/28890984","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Shore_Bungalow_Historic_District","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q85802316"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/illinois/cook-county/south-shore-bungalow-historic-district-08001168/"}