{"nrhp_refnum":"78001125","name":"Montgomery Ward Company Complex","other_names":["Montgomery Ward and Company Administration Building and Mail"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"619 W. Chicago Ave.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Chicago","county":"Cook County","state":"IL","lat":41.89723783200003,"lon":-87.64366889699994,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1978-06-02","is_nhl":true,"nhl_designated_date":"1978-06-02","areas_of_significance":["Commerce","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["national"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A complex of buildings in Chicago, Cook County, Illinois, associated with the Montgomery Ward Company, including a Catalog House and an Administration Building along the North Branch of the Chicago River and Canal.","why_significant":"The supplied document contains only a corrected boundary description and administrative correspondence, not the significance statement. It does show that the complex was listed because it was designated a National Historic Landmark on June 2, 1978.","narrative":"The Montgomery Ward Company Complex is a group of buildings in Chicago, Illinois, bounded by Kingsbury Street, Larrabee Street, West Chicago Avenue and the North Branch Canal and Chicago River. The surviving papers name two buildings within the boundary: the Catalog House at the northern end and the Administration Building at the southern end. The boundary runs roughly 1,100 feet along the east bank of the canal and river and about 825 feet along Larrabee Street. A corrected verbal boundary description was submitted by the Illinois state preservation office in 1985 and referred to the National Park Service history office, which administers the landmark program. The complex entered the national listing in 1978 as a result of its designation as a National Historic Landmark. The available pages contain no description of the architecture, builders, dates of construction or the specific reasons for landmark status.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":null,"criteria":[],"status_note":null,"vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:35.701621-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/81/8926/28892681/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_IL/78001125.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/78001125/0ee9d8499f-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/78001125/0ee9d8499f-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"User:TonyTheTiger","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Montgomery_Ward_Catalogue_House.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">User:TonyTheTiger</a>, <a href=\"http://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:Montgomery_Ward_Catalogue_House.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/28892681","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montgomery_Ward_Company_Complex","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6905828"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/illinois/cook-county/montgomery-ward-company-complex-78001125/"}