{"nrhp_refnum":"82002563","name":"Hazel Avenue Prospect Avenue Historic District","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"St. Johns, Hazel, Dale, Forest, and Prospect Aves.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Highland Park","county":"Lake County","state":"IL","lat":42.18439259300004,"lon":-87.7947809220875,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1982-09-29","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A roughly 50-acre historic district in Highland Park, Lake County, Illinois, centered on Hazel Avenue and Prospect Avenue and including some civic buildings along St. Johns and Laurel Avenues. It contains 34 keyed buildings dating from 1847 to 1941.","why_significant":"The district holds a concentration of Highland Park's oldest and most historic buildings, with fine examples of Victorian and turn-of-the-century architecture. It illustrates the types and styles of homes typically built between 1870 and 1930. It is also linked to Elisha Gray, who filed a telephone patent the same day as Alexander Graham Bell and lived and worked on Hazel Avenue.","narrative":"Hazel Avenue and Prospect Avenue in Highland Park, Illinois, form a district of about 50 acres that gathers some of the city's oldest buildings. Its houses range from the 1847 Stupey log cabin, the oldest standing structure in town, to Victorian mansard and Queen Anne homes of the 1870s to 1890s, shingle houses attributed to Howard Van Doren Shaw, and Colonial Revival and French Provincial houses of the 1920s. Inventor Elisha Gray, who filed a telephone patent on the same day as Alexander Graham Bell, lived at 461 Hazel and worked in a nearby cottage at 333 Hazel. The Wildwood compound, built as a summer residence for Hyde Park families, reflects the area's days as a resort community. Civic buildings, including the 1930 limestone City Hall and the 1931 Tudor-style public library, anchor the western edge. Together the buildings illustrate the home styles typical of the years 1870 to 1930.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"Highland Park Building Company; Howard Van Doren Shaw (attributed); S.S. Beman, Jr.; Frederick Hodgdon of Stanton and Hodgdon; William D. Mann; Robert Seyfarth; Wendt, Cedarholm and Tippins","architectural_style":"Victorian (French Mansard, Queen Anne, Carpenter Gothic), Shingle Style, Arts and Crafts, Colonial Revival, Classical Revival, Tudor, French Provincial","criteria":[],"status_note":"Most buildings remain in use as private homes; the Stupey log cabin is a museum, and City Hall and the public library are civic buildings. One mansard house was being restored at the time of writing.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:34.655563-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/18/8912/28891218/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_IL/82002563.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/82002563/f6344b8924-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/82002563/f6344b8924-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Teemu08","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hazel_Avenue_Prospect_Avenue_Historic_District.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Teemu08</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:Hazel_Avenue_Prospect_Avenue_Historic_District.JPG"},"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"83003580","name":"Linden Park Place-Belle Avenue Historic District","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/illinois/linden-park-place-belle-avenue-historic-district-83003580/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/28891218","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hazel_Avenue/Prospect_Avenue_Historic_District","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16841821"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/illinois/lake-county/hazel-avenue-prospect-avenue-historic-district-82002563/"}