{"nrhp_refnum":"74000751","name":"Hitchcock, Charles, Hall","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"1009 E. 57th St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Chicago","county":"Cook County","state":"IL","lat":41.791188774000034,"lon":-87.60084099099998,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1974-12-30","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"Charles Hitchcock Hall is a four-story men's dormitory of blue Bedford limestone on the University of Chicago campus at 1009 East 57th Street, Chicago. It was designed by Dwight Heald Perkins and built 1901-1902.","why_significant":"The nomination presents the hall as a transitional design between historic styles and a modern style, important to the evolution of the Prairie School movement. Its plan is a rare Midwest example of English college planning, and its ornament draws on local plants and the work of Louis Sullivan. It also serves as a memorial to Mrs. Hitchcock, who took an active part in its design and construction.","narrative":"Charles Hitchcock Hall is a limestone dormitory at the southeast corner of 57th Street and Ellis Avenue on the University of Chicago campus. Funded by a gift from Mrs. Charles Hitchcock in memory of her husband, a Chicago lawyer who presided over the 1869 Illinois Constitutional Convention, it was designed by Dwight Heald Perkins. Construction began with a cornerstone in June 1901, and students moved in during October 1902. Its simplified medieval look fits the surrounding Gothic campus, but the details are original, including carved ornament based on Illinois plants. The plan follows an Oxford-style arrangement: five dormitory units per floor, each reached by its own central stair and joined by a cloister-like corridor at ground level. The library, with its polygonal bay, brick fireplace and plaster ceiling reliefs, is the main common room. The hall is valued as an early work linked to the Prairie School and as a rare Midwestern example of English college planning.","period_of_significance":"1900-1902","architect_builder":"Dwight Heald Perkins, architect","architectural_style":"Transitional between historic styles and modern; Prairie School influence, with simplified medieval (Gothic-recalling) form","criteria":[],"status_note":"Occupied and in use as a residence hall; interior largely intact with minor alterations, and the exterior undisturbed except for fire escapes on the north side.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:35.308006-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/56/8923/28892356/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_IL/74000751.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/74000751/889543c9e3-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/74000751/889543c9e3-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Blanham at English Wikipedia","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Charles_Hitchcock_Hall.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Blanham at English Wikipedia</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:Charles_Hitchcock_Hall.jpg"},"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"12000040","name":"Chicago Park Boulevard System Historic District","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/illinois/chicago-park-boulevard-system-historic-district-12000040/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/28892356","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snell%E2%80%93Hitchcock","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7547660"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/illinois/cook-county/hitchcock-charles-hall-74000751/"}