{"nrhp_refnum":"83000313","name":"Sheffield Historic District (Boundary Increase)","other_names":["See Also:Sheffield Historic District"],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Montana, Altgeld Sts., and Southport Ave.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Chicago","county":"Cook County","state":"IL","lat":41.92155481900005,"lon":-87.65349881669756,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1983-02-17","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A boundary extension to the Sheffield Historic District on Chicago's North Side, adding commercial and industrial buildings along West Fullerton Avenue between Sheffield and Southport avenues, plus six 1880s houses on North Wayne Avenue. The buildings date from about 1882 to the 1930s.","why_significant":"The factories were part of the largely German, residential Sheffield neighborhood and supplied jobs to its residents, so the extension unites the labor source with the work source. The Milwaukee Road Building (1904-05) and the Dietzgen Building (1906) are early examples of reinforced concrete construction in Chicago. The buildings are visually compatible in scale and materials and retain a high degree of integrity.","narrative":"This extension to Chicago's Sheffield Historic District adds a group of factories, warehouses and a few 1880s houses along West Fullerton Avenue, between Sheffield and Southport avenues. Most of the industrial buildings went up between 1905 and 1922 and are built of red or yellow brick with limestone, terra cotta or concrete trim. The factories employed workers from the surrounding neighborhood, which was heavily German, and several were founded by German owners such as Dietzgen, Linkman and Bolter. Two buildings stand out for early reinforced concrete construction: the Milwaukee Road general office building, begun in 1904-05, and the Eugene Dietzgen Company building of 1906, which housed a major blueprint paper and drafting supply maker. Other additions include the Standard Cap and Seal Company buildings, the Williams Piano and Organ building and the Julius Bauer Piano Company building. Bringing these properties inside the boundary connects the district's workplaces with its homes and gives a fuller picture of the neighborhood.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"Charles P. Rawson (1912 Milwaukee Road addition); Lawrence G. Hallberg (1906 Dietzgen Building); Patterson and Davidson (1929 addition); Lawrence Monberg (1941 additions); Jacob Ewald (builder, Ewald buildings)","architectural_style":"Chicago School-influenced industrial and warehouse buildings, with some Gothic and Sullivanesque detailing","criteria":[],"status_note":"Most buildings are described as largely unaltered on the exterior. The Dietzgen Building was being rehabilitated at the time of the form, and some other buildings have been converted to condominiums.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:35.771833-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/38/8923/28892338/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_IL/83000313.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/83000313/c4261b7f1f-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/83000313/c4261b7f1f-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Alanscottwalker","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sheffield_Historic_District.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Alanscottwalker</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:Sheffield_Historic_District.JPG"},"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"76000704","name":"Sheffield Historic District","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/illinois/sheffield-historic-district-76000704/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/28892338","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheffield_Historic_District","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q85800754"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/illinois/cook-county/sheffield-historic-district-boundary-increase-83000313/"}