{"nrhp_refnum":"79000831","name":"Wicker Park Historic District","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Roughly bounded by Wood, Crystal and N. Caton Sts., Claremont and North Aves.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Chicago","county":"Cook County","state":"IL","lat":41.90914268700004,"lon":-87.67227794488551,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1979-06-20","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A historic urban residential and commercial district in Chicago, about three miles northwest of the central business district, centered just west of Milwaukee Avenue. It includes roughly 853 structures built mainly in the late 19th century.","why_significant":"The district preserves a densely built, largely unbroken streetscape of masonry buildings, most of them Italianate or Queen Anne in inspiration. It offers a broad range of housing types, from row houses to mansions, along with a commercial corridor on Milwaukee Avenue. The nomination notes that 388 structures make a major architectural or historical contribution, and that continuing demolition threatens the district.","narrative":"Wicker Park is an inner-city Chicago neighborhood about three miles northwest of the downtown business district, centered just west of Milwaukee Avenue. Its flat, tree-lined streets hold roughly 853 structures, mostly masonry buildings dating from the late nineteenth century. Most show Italianate or Queen Anne influence, often blended rather than pure, with some later revival styles. The housing mix is unusually wide, ranging from row houses and modest two-flats to large single-family mansions with yards on streets such as Hoyne, Caton and Pierce. Milwaukee Avenue forms a nearly continuous three-story commercial wall, and a small skyscraper marks the six-corners intersection of Damen, North and Milwaukee. The district was drawn around Charles Wicker's subdivision and nearby land still unplatted in 1869. The nomination stresses the value of the unbroken streetscape, where even plain background buildings link the more notable ones. It also warns that demolition, siding and public housing intrusions threaten that continuity.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Predominantly Italianate and Queen Anne, with a scattering of revival styles after about 1890","criteria":[],"status_note":"Described as in good condition and occupied, but with a growing number of vacant parcels. 22 architecturally significant structures were razed between late winter 1975 and the time of the nomination.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:35.389658-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/82/8921/28892182/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_IL/79000831.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/79000831/5833826641-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/79000831/5833826641-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Andrew Jameson","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wicker_Park_Historic_District_B_Chicago_IL.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Andrew Jameson</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:Wicker_Park_Historic_District_B_Chicago_IL.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/28892182","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wicker_Park_Historic_District","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7998338"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/illinois/cook-county/wicker-park-historic-district-79000831/"}