{"nrhp_refnum":"09000232","name":"Castlewood Terrace","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"819-959 W. Castlewood Terr.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Chicago","county":"Cook County","state":"IL","lat":41.970764952000025,"lon":-87.65394522599996,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2009-09-03","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 made up of a single block of Chicago's Uptown Community Area, running east from Sheridan Road toward Lake Michigan. It holds 26 historic brick houses built between 1897 and 1927, plus ancillary structures.","why_significant":"The nomination presents the block as unusual in Chicago: wide 50-foot lots, no alleys, a preserved 25-foot building line, and single-family use since construction, despite dense high-rise and apartment surroundings. The brick houses show a wide variety of revival and Prairie-influenced styles but share materials, scale and visual interest. The case rests on the cohesive streetscape rather than famous architects.","narrative":"Castlewood Terrace is a single block in Chicago's Uptown neighborhood, running east from Sheridan Road toward Lake Michigan and Marine Drive. Its historic core holds 26 brick houses built between 1897 and 1927, along with garages and coach houses at the rear. The lots are at least 50 feet wide and 114 feet deep, there are no alleys, and a 25-foot building line has largely been kept. The houses draw on Queen Anne, Colonial and Classical revival, Tudor, Prairie and bungalow ideas, yet share brick construction and a similar scale. Architects included John Arthur Rogers, John S. Woollacott, Walter E. Perry, Robert C. Berlin and Lyman J. Allison. The block stayed single-family while the surrounding area filled with apartment buildings and commercial development. It was listed as a district because of this cohesive streetscape, with later alterations such as enclosed porches and replaced windows judged minor. Seven houses from 1988 at the east end are outside the district.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"Multiple architects including John Arthur Rogers, John S. Woollacott, Andrew Sandegren, Walter E. Perry, William D. Mann, David Mahaffey, C. H. Thompson, J. P. Hettinger, C. W. Stevens, Robert C. Berlin, August C. Wilmanns, William Bernhard, Lyman J. Allison and J. J. Schwartz","architectural_style":"Late 19th & Early 20th Century Revivals and American Movements: Colonial, Classical and Tudor revivals; Prairie, Bungalow","criteria":[],"status_note":"Houses remain in single-family residential use, except two institutional properties at the west end; many have minor alterations such as enclosed porches, additions and replaced windows.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:37.768484-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/90/8925/28892590/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_IL/09000232.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/09000232/41140d8d85-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/09000232/41140d8d85-1600.webp","licence":"CC0","author":"Alanscottwalker","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Castlewood_Terrace_Uptown_Chicago2.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Alanscottwalker</a>, <a href=\"http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/deed.en\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Castlewood_Terrace_Uptown_Chicago2.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/28892590","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castlewood_Terrace","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q85750935"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/illinois/cook-county/castlewood-terrace-09000232/"}