{"nrhp_refnum":"80001351","name":"Story-Camp Rowhouses","other_names":["Hampton Story/Isaac Camp Rowhouses"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"1526--1528 W. Monroe St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Chicago","county":"Cook County","state":"IL","lat":41.87999856400006,"lon":-87.66579182399994,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1980-05-08","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Community Planning and Development","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"Two identical three-and-one-half story brick Italianate rowhouses with raised basements at 1526 and 1528 W. Monroe Street in the Union Park area on Chicago's west side, built around 1870.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the pair is architecturally significant as a rare surviving example of the standard Italianate rowhouse type built in Chicago's early-1870s neighborhoods. It is also historically significant as one of the few remnants of early Union Park development, an area that lost almost all of its pre-1900 architecture. The houses were bought by partners in a piano and organ business, Isaac Camp and Hampton Story.","narrative":"Two matching brick rowhouses at 1526 and 1528 West Monroe Street in Chicago preserve the look of the city's early-1870s residential growth. Each is three and one-half stories over a raised basement, faced in smooth Joliet limestone, with round-headed windows, a low-pitched roof and broad eaves trimmed in wood scroll brackets and a paneled frieze. Inside, features include elliptical openings, wooden cornices, round-arched fireplaces and extensive ceiling moldings. Some changes occurred, including a removed balcony, shortened windows and interior walls added to create seven apartments. The houses were bought in 1870 by Isaac Camp and Hampton Story, partners in a successful piano and organ firm. They stand in the Union Park area, once a fashionable district that declined from the 1890s and lost nearly all its pre-1900 architecture by the 1960s. The rowhouses are among the few survivors, which is why they were recognized for both architectural and historical value.","period_of_significance":"1870","architect_builder":"Unknown","architectural_style":"Italianate","criteria":[],"status_note":"Altered little overall; No. 1526 is divided into apartments and its carriage house is demolished. Restoration of No. 1528 was in process at the time of nomination.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:35.840218-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/28/8922/28892228/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_IL/80001351.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/80001351/8d609d5780-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/80001351/8d609d5780-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Andrew Jameson","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Story-Camp_Rowhouses_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:Story-Camp_Rowhouses_Chicago_IL.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/28892228","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Story-Camp_Rowhouses","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q54952745"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/illinois/cook-county/story-camp-rowhouses-80001351/"}