{"nrhp_refnum":"09000590","name":"Episcopal Church of the Atonement and Parish House, The","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"5751 N. Kenmore Ave.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Chicago","county":"Cook County","state":"IL","lat":41.98705300800003,"lon":-87.65640605999994,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2009-07-30","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"An Episcopal church with an attached parish house at 5751 North Kenmore Avenue in Chicago's Edgewater neighborhood. Henry Ives Cobb designed the church in 1889-1890, and it was later enlarged by J.E.O. Pridmore.","why_significant":"The nomination presents the church as a notable Gothic Revival work by Henry Ives Cobb, whose church was one of only two illustrated in a 1895 Architectural Record review of his work. It also argues that J.E.O. Pridmore, a congregation member, reworked the building in 1910 and 1919-1920, reusing Cobb's stone and roof trusses to keep continuity with the original design.","narrative":"Located in Chicago's Edgewater neighborhood, one block west of Lake Michigan, this Episcopal church and its attached parish house grew through several building campaigns. Architect Henry Ives Cobb designed the original single-nave church with a corner bell tower, built in 1889-1890. In 1910 and again in 1919-1920, congregation member and architect J.E.O. Pridmore extended the chancel, added transepts and side aisles, raised the roof for clerestory windows, and replaced the tower with a new west entry. By reusing Cobb's red-brown sandstone and interior roof trusses, he produced a coherent Gothic Revival building. The parish house, begun in 1901 to designs by Myron H. Church, was enlarged by Pridmore in 1924 with a new Gothic-styled west facade. Inside, windows by Arthur Michaudel from the 1940s and communion rails dating from 1891 are among the notable furnishings. The church is valued for Cobb's design and Pridmore's sensitive expansion.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"Henry Ives Cobb (original church, 1889-1890); J.E.O. Pridmore (alterations 1910, 1919, parish house enlargement 1924); Myron H. Church (original parish house, 1901)","architectural_style":"Gothic Revival","criteria":[],"status_note":"Still used for religious purposes; the church remains largely as it was in 1920, with minor later alterations.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:37.466797-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/96/8919/28891996/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_IL/09000590.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/09000590/12d7e97ed7-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/09000590/12d7e97ed7-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY 2.5","author":"Gerald Farinas at English Wikipedia","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Gerald_Farinas_Church_of_the_Atonement.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Gerald Farinas at English Wikipedia</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY 2.5</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Gerald_Farinas_Church_of_the_Atonement.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/28891996","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Episcopal_Church_of_the_Atonement_and_Parish_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5383301"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/illinois/cook-county/episcopal-church-of-the-atonement-and-parish-house-the-09000590/"}