{"nrhp_refnum":"80001381","name":"Vine-Oakwood-Green Bay Road Historic District","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Green Bay Rd., E. Vine and N. Oakwood Aves.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Lake Forest","county":"Lake County","state":"IL","lat":42.24986733150004,"lon":-87.84137787414858,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1980-03-28","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Community Planning and Development","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A small residential historic district of twenty houses along East Vine Avenue, North Oakwood Avenue and North Green Bay Road in Lake Forest, Lake County, Illinois, built between the 1850s-1860s and 1926.","why_significant":"The nomination argues that this modest, grid-plan neighborhood is unique in Lake Forest, a city otherwise known for curving streets and large estates. It preserved a middle-class enclave where people who served the community lived, and it keeps a turn-of-the-century appearance. Several houses are noted for their architects, early settlers or notable residents.","narrative":"Twenty modest houses on East Vine Avenue, North Oakwood Avenue and North Green Bay Road make up this Lake Forest neighborhood, laid out on a simple grid west of the railroad tracks. Homes date from the 1860s to 1926 and show a progression from Italianate to Queen Anne, early modern stucco, and classical and medieval revival styles. Most are two stories, set back about twenty-five feet on half-acre lots, along narrow streets with grassy parkways, large trees and gas streetlamps. Notable works include a Medieval Revival house by Hugh Garden and the 1913 Clow House by David Adler, an early product of the Adler-Dangler partnership. The district matters because Lake Forest is otherwise known for large estates and curving streets. This neighborhood housed the tradespeople, clerks, postmasters and estate workers who served the community, along with several early settler families. Commercial and apartment development had reduced the original residential area to less than a third of its nineteenth-century size.","period_of_significance":"1857-1926","architect_builder":"Various; including Hugh Garden (185 Vine), David Adler (461 North Green Bay Road), and builders John Dean, Lars Nielson and Robert Bell","architectural_style":"Italianate, Queen Anne, Medieval Revival, Tudor and late Georgian houses","criteria":[],"status_note":"Houses are mostly owner-occupied; the district is described as a quiet neighborhood retaining its turn-of-the-century appearance, with no intrusions, though commercial expansion threatens the surrounding area.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:34.380421-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/40/8933/28893340/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_IL/80001381.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/80001381/6821ad97db-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/80001381/6821ad97db-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY 3.0","author":"Teemu08 (talk) (Transferred by Bill william compton/Originally uploaded by Teemu08)","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Oakwood_Ave_Houses.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Teemu08 (talk) (Transferred by Bill william compton/Originally uploaded by Teemu08)</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY 3.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Oakwood_Ave_Houses.JPG"},"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"78001161","name":"Lake Forest Historic District","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/illinois/lake-forest-historic-district-78001161/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/28893340","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vine%E2%80%93Oakwood%E2%80%93Green_Bay_Road_Historic_District","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7932369"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/illinois/lake-county/vine-oakwood-green-bay-road-historic-district-80001381/"}