{"nrhp_refnum":"72000450","name":"Heller, Isadore H., House","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"5132 S. Woodland Ave.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Chicago","county":"Cook County","state":"IL","lat":41.80155553000006,"lon":-87.59310775848564,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1972-03-16","is_nhl":true,"nhl_designated_date":"2004-08-18","areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["national"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A three-story brick house with a basement at 5132 South Woodlawn Avenue in the Hyde Park area of Chicago, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright and dated to 1897.","why_significant":"The nomination calls it the finest of a group of 1897 buildings that began a transitional period in Wright's work, leading to his fully original style by 1900. It combines 19th-century eclectic elements with the geometric forms and horizontal emphasis that anticipate the Prairie style. It is also valued for its architect and its Hyde Park setting.","narrative":"Frank Lloyd Wright designed this three-story house with a basement for a narrow lot in Chicago's Hyde Park neighborhood in 1897. Its balloon-frame structure is faced in narrow Roman brick, buff below the first limestone string course and alternating buff and grey above. Elongated hipped roofs with wide overhangs emphasize horizontality. The south entrance has octagonal columns, foliate capitals and a panel of quatrefoils, while third-story arcades carry ornament in the manner of Louis Sullivan, with a plaster figure frieze by sculptor Richard Bock. The nomination treats the house as a transitional work. It retains some historically derived elements, yet its rectilinear massing, cruciform principal rooms and matching interior and exterior volumes point toward Wright's Prairie style. Renderings of the house appeared in the 1911 Wasmuth portfolio of Wright's work. The house also stands in Hyde Park, an area of substantial upper-class dwellings that later became a notable urban renewal district. A later amendment corrected the historic name's spelling to Isidore.","period_of_significance":"1897","architect_builder":"Frank Lloyd Wright (architect); Richard Bock (sculptor of plaster frieze)","architectural_style":"Transitional Wright work, classed as \"Monitor\" type, prefiguring Prairie School","criteria":[],"status_note":"In 1971 the house was occupied as a private residence, in good condition and unaltered, with the third story used as an apartment.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:34.660498-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/24/8919/28891924/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_IL/72000450.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/72000450/642da0a803-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/72000450/642da0a803-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 2.0","author":"Warren LeMay from Chicago, IL, United States","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Isidore_H._Heller_House,_Woodlawn_Avenue,_Hyde_Park,_Chicago,_IL_(54213601481).jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Warren LeMay from Chicago, IL, United States</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 2.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Isidore_H._Heller_House,_Woodlawn_Avenue,_Hyde_Park,_Chicago,_IL_(54213601481).jpg"},"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"79000824","name":"Hyde Park-Kenwood Historic District","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/illinois/hyde-park-kenwood-historic-district-79000824/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/28891924","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heller_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5707385"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/illinois/cook-county/heller-isadore-h-house-72000450/"}