{"nrhp_refnum":"09001122","name":"Mandel, Mr. Fred L., Jr., House","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"2479 Woodbridge La.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Highland Park","county":"Lake County","state":"IL","lat":42.19964658600003,"lon":-87.79448648899995,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2009-12-22","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A single-family brick residence at 2479 Woodbridge Lane in Highland Park, Lake County, Illinois, completed in 1938 on over three acres of Lake Michigan frontage, with a detached garage and a newly added link between them.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the house embodies the distinguishing characteristics of French Eclectic architecture, an unusual high-style example for the North Shore. It displays nearly all of the style's visual identifiers and retains remarkable integrity, appearing almost as originally designed by architect David Saul Klafter.","narrative":"This 2.5-story residence at 2479 Woodbridge Lane in Highland Park, Illinois, was completed in 1938 from plans by architect David Saul Klafter, father-in-law of owner Fred L. Mandel Jr. It sits on more than three acres of Lake Michigan frontage, reached by a private drive over a wooden bridge spanning a ravine. The house is built of pink/beige brick laid in English bond, with a steeply pitched hipped roof of green Ludowici clay tile, a conical-roofed tower, through-the-eaves dormers, shuttered French doors and areas of half-timbering. A detached four-car garage with a mansard roof sits nearby, joined to the house by a link added during a recent rehabilitation. The house holds about 21,000 square feet and thirty rooms. It is considered significant as an uncommon, high-style example of French Eclectic architecture on the North Shore, retaining nearly all its original character. Highland Park designated it a local landmark in 2008.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"David Saul Klafter (architect)","architectural_style":"Late 19th and 20th Century Revivals/French Eclectic","criteria":[],"status_note":"Currently a single dwelling; a recent substantial rehabilitation by the current owners removed non-historic alterations and followed the Secretary of the Interior's Standards for Rehabilitation.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:37.690229-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/2/8933/28893302/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_IL/09001122.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/09001122/999bdf32b3-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/09001122/999bdf32b3-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Teemu08","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mr._Fred_L._Mandel_Jr._House.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:Mr._Fred_L._Mandel_Jr._House.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/28893302","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mr._Fred_L._Mandel_Jr._House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16894574"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/illinois/lake-county/mandel-mr-fred-l-jr-house-09001122/"}