{"nrhp_refnum":"10000176","name":"West Chatham Bungalow Historic District","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Bounded roughly by S. Perry Ave (E), 82nd St. (S), S. Stewart Ave. (W), and W. 79th St. (N)","address_restricted":false,"city":"Chicago","county":"Cook County","state":"IL","lat":41.75043682100005,"lon":-87.62724390799997,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2010-04-19","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":[],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A discontiguous residential historic district on Chicago's South Side, roughly bounded by West 79th Street, South Perry Avenue, 82nd Street and South Stewart Avenue. It contains 347 buildings, mostly brick Chicago bungalows built between 1914 and 1930.","why_significant":"The district reflects Chicago's rapid growth in the early twentieth century and its need for affordable single-family housing for the middle class and new immigrant populations. Its bungalows share uniform scale, setbacks, brick and limestone detailing, which gives the streets a cohesive character. Architect Ernest Braucher and developer Joseph B. Serrin shaped a large share of the housing.","narrative":"West Chatham Bungalow Historic District is a quiet, tree-lined residential area on Chicago's South Side, about ten miles south of the Loop. It holds 347 buildings, most of them brick Chicago bungalows built between 1914 and 1930, along with two-flats, a school and a 1950s church. Much of the area was swampy and sparsely built until the 1920s, and about a third of the bungalows went up in 1925 alone. Ernest Braucher designed more than 80 of them, many in partnership with developer Joseph B. Serrin, while F. A. Fielder gave Yale Avenue its Art Deco facades. The houses share low hipped roofs, overhanging eaves, decorative brickwork and limestone trim, and they sit at consistent setbacks on narrow lots. Of the total, 289 buildings retain enough original character to contribute. The district is significant as an example of the affordable single-family housing that served Chicago's growing middle class and immigrant families during the early twentieth century.","period_of_significance":"1913-1930","architect_builder":"Ernest Braucher (architect, with developer Joseph B. Serrin); F. A. Fielder; 24 known architects in total","architectural_style":"Other: Chicago Bungalow/Craftsman","criteria":[],"status_note":"Most buildings are in residential use; 289 buildings contribute and 56 do not, some because of altered or post-1930 construction.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:37.430177-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/88/8909/28890988/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_IL/10000176.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/10000176/0290e0e560-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/10000176/0290e0e560-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Thshriver","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:West_Chatham_Bungalow_Historic_District_2.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Thshriver</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:West_Chatham_Bungalow_Historic_District_2.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/28890988","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Chatham_Bungalow_Historic_District","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q85815000"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/illinois/cook-county/west-chatham-bungalow-historic-district-10000176/"}