{"nrhp_refnum":"12001236","name":"42nd Precinct Police Station","other_names":["Town Hall Police Station"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"3600 N. Halstead St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Chicago","county":"Cook County","state":"IL","lat":41.94940551900004,"lon":-87.64978667699995,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2013-01-29","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-story brick and limestone police station at 3600 N. Halsted Street in the Lakeview area of Chicago, completed in 1907 in the Classical Revival style. It sits on the site of the former Lake View Town Hall and is also called the Town Hall Police Station.","why_significant":"The nomination presents the building as a locally significant example of a Classical Revival government building. It reflects the early 1900s practice of using Classical styles for public buildings such as police stations and firehouses in Chicago after the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition. It also marks the former municipal center of the township of Lake View, annexed to Chicago in 1889.","narrative":"Completed in 1907 at the northwest corner of Halsted and Addison streets in Chicago's Lakeview community area, this two-story police station is built of reddish-brown face brick with buff limestone trim. Its east and south facades are organized into bays by brick pilasters with Tuscan capitals, topped by a heavy denticulated copper cornice. The Halsted Street entrance has an ornate limestone surround carved with \"Police Station\" and \"42nd Precinct.\" Inside, the entry vestibule and parts of the first floor keep glazed brick, pressed metal ceilings, ceramic tile and wood trim. The site was the location of the Lake View Town Hall before the township was annexed to Chicago in 1889, which explains the building's nickname. Its Classical Revival design reflects the early twentieth-century taste for classical forms in public buildings. Windows have been replaced and interior spaces altered, but the exterior massing and main entrance remain intact. The police department left the building in 2010, and it is now vacant.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Late 19th and 20th Century Revivals / Classical Revival","criteria":[],"status_note":"The Chicago Police Department ceased operations at the station in 2010 and moved to a new police station built immediately to the west; the form lists the current function as vacant/not in use.","vacant_flag":true,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:37.363335-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/61/8919/28891961/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_IL/12001236.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/12001236/8c360bc9dd-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/12001236/8c360bc9dd-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Thshriver","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:42nd_Precinct_Police_Station_8.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:42nd_Precinct_Police_Station_8.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/28891961","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/42nd_Precinct_/_Town_Hall_Police_Station","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q23302564"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/illinois/cook-county/42nd-precinct-police-station-12001236/"}