{"nrhp_refnum":"82002576","name":"Rosewood Park","other_names":[],"category":"site","location":{"address":"Roger Williams Ave.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Highland Park","county":"Lake County","state":"IL","lat":42.16618315200003,"lon":-87.77290505699995,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1982-09-29","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Landscape Architecture"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"Rosewood Park is an 11-acre public park, including beach, on a bluff above Lake Michigan at Roger Williams Avenue in Highland Park, Lake County, Illinois. It occupies the former Julius Rosenwald estate, with landscape work dated to about 1910 by Jens Jensen.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the site has several features distinctive of Jens Jensen's designs. These include stonework along the shaded ravine path, a stone bridge, wildflowers planted by Jensen on the hillside, and a stone pool with a curved sitting area and winding watercourse that recall his prairie river scenes in miniature.","narrative":"Rosewood Park is an 11-acre lakefront park in Highland Park, Illinois, set on a bluff above Lake Michigan and bounded by Roger Williams Avenue, the lake and a ravine. It occupies the former Julius Rosenwald estate, and its landscape dates to about 1910 and was designed by Jens Jensen. The house is gone and a parking lot now lies to the south, but mature trees with sun openings between them remain. A path slopes down the ravine toward the shore, with stonework along its edge and a stone bridge near the bottom. Near the parking area are the remains of a stone pool with a curved stone bench and a winding watercourse, though the pool no longer holds water and the stream is overgrown. The site was listed because it retains several features characteristic of Jensen's work, including hillside wildflowers he planted and a miniature version of the prairie river scenes for which he was known.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"Landscape: Jens Jensen","architectural_style":null,"criteria":[],"status_note":"Overall condition is rated good but altered: the house has been removed, a parking lot added on the south, the stone-lined pool no longer holds water and the stream is overgrown. The site is owned by the Park District of Highland Park.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:35.572916-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/82/8912/28891282/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_IL/82002576.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/82002576/2302b46f26-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/82002576/2302b46f26-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Ronincmc","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Rosewood_Beach.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Ronincmc</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:Rosewood_Beach.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/28891282","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosewood_Park","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q85797924"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/illinois/lake-county/rosewood-park-82002576/"}