{"nrhp_refnum":"10000310","name":"Sauganash Historic District","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Roughly bounded by Lemont and Keating Aves, Chicago and Northwestern Railway and the alley to the east of Kilbourn Ave","address_restricted":false,"city":"Chicago","county":"Cook County","state":"IL","lat":41.99071556250007,"lon":-87.74337421972639,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2010-06-07","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Community Planning and Development"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A roughly 160-acre, almost entirely residential historic district in the northwestern part of Chicago, Cook County, Illinois, developed as a planned suburb-within-the-city, mainly in the 1920s and 1930s by developers Koester and Zander.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the district is significant as a planned, automobile-oriented suburban community inside Chicago, with a layout of diagonal streets, large lots and deep setbacks that sets it apart from the surrounding grid. It also stresses the variety of early twentieth-century revival and modern housing styles, led by Tudor Revival, and its community-built amenities such as the park, school and memorials.","narrative":"Sauganash is a planned residential district of about 160 acres in northwestern Chicago. It contains 609 resources, of which 468 contribute: 465 buildings, one site (Sauganash Park) and two commemorative objects. Developers Koester and Zander laid it out in the 1920s with diagonal streets, wide lots, deep setbacks and paved roads, designing it around the automobile while also using the nearby railroad station. The houses are almost all single-family and eclectic, with Tudor Revival the most common style, followed by Colonial Revival, French, Classical, Italian Renaissance and Spanish revivals, bungalows, Cape Cods, and some Art Deco and Art Moderne examples. Public features include Sauganash Park, a 1936 WPA-built Art Deco elementary school, a plaque marking the Treaty Elm site, and a World War II memorial. The district is considered significant for its suburban character within the city and its architectural diversity during the 1912-1950 period.","period_of_significance":"1912-1950","architect_builder":"Developers Koester and Zander; Sauganash Elementary School designed by John C. Christensen (built by the WPA, 1936)","architectural_style":"Late 19th and 20th Century Revivals; Late 19th and Early 20th Century American Movements; Modern Movement","criteria":[],"status_note":"Still primarily single-family residential, with the park, elementary school and two commemorative objects still in their historic uses.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:37.022011-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/96/8922/28892296/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_IL/10000310.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/10000310/70747c5d5c-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/10000310/70747c5d5c-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Thshriver","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sauganash_Historic_District_2.1.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:Sauganash_Historic_District_2.1.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/28892296","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sauganash_Historic_District","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7427192"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/illinois/cook-county/sauganash-historic-district-10000310/"}