{"nrhp_refnum":"78001136","name":"Ridgewood","other_names":["1703-1713 Ridge Apt.Bldg."],"category":"building","location":{"address":"1703--1713 Ridge Ave.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Evanston","county":"Cook County","state":"IL","lat":42.048830612000074,"lon":-87.68828015799994,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1978-10-04","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"Ridgewood is a three-story apartment building at 1703-1713 Ridge Avenue in Evanston, Cook County, Illinois, completed in 1905 and designed by the Chicago firm Atchison & Edbrooke.","why_significant":"The nomination presents it as one of the few apartment buildings designed in the Prairie School style, and as an early example given its 1905 completion. Its forms and Sullivanesque ornament are said to reflect the influence of Louis Sullivan and Frank Lloyd Wright. It also shows how a significant building can be restored and kept in its original residential use.","narrative":"Ridgewood, at 1703-1713 Ridge Avenue in Evanston, is a three-story apartment building finished in 1905. It holds six apartments per floor above a basement, and each unit has its own working fireplace, built-in cabinets, hardwood floors and Prairie School oak woodwork. The exterior combines dark red-brown brick, limestone sills and stuccoed upper walls beneath a low hip roof with a wide overhang. Half-octagonal bays give the elongated U-shaped plan its strongest features, and Sullivanesque ornament marks the entries and the arched third-floor windows. The Chicago firm Atchison & Edbrooke designed it; Harry Edbrooke, trained under William K. Fellows and Howard van Doren Shaw, was the firm's designer. The nomination describes it as one of few apartment buildings in the Prairie School manner, and an early one, influenced by Louis Sullivan and Frank Lloyd Wright. A 1977 restoration removed later intrusions such as enclosed balconies and updated the mechanical systems while keeping the original fabric, and the building remains in residential use.","period_of_significance":"1900-","architect_builder":"Atchison & Edbrooke","architectural_style":"Prairie School","criteria":[],"status_note":"Occupied and in excellent condition; thoroughly restored and renovated in 1977 with no structural changes.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:35.401056-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/84/8920/28892084/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_IL/78001136.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/78001136/49df6a24e5-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/78001136/49df6a24e5-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Thshriver","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ridgewood_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:Ridgewood_1.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/28892084","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ridgewood_(Evanston,_Illinois)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q28125972"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/illinois/cook-county/ridgewood-78001136/"}