{"nrhp_refnum":"83000315","name":"Tri-Taylor Historic District","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Roughly bounded by Claremont, Harrison, Oakley, Polk, Ogden, and Roosevelt Rds.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Chicago","county":"Cook County","state":"IL","lat":41.87058002450004,"lon":-87.68128611045944,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1983-03-03","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Social History"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"An approximately 65-acre residential district about three miles west of Chicago's Loop, on the Near West Side, containing nearly 400 structures, mostly brick and frame row houses and cottages built between about 1870 and 1910.","why_significant":"The district is argued to be a distinct urban and architectural ensemble and a distinct unit in Chicago's social history. It grew along the route taken by skilled immigrant families moving out of the crowded Near West Side after the 1871 fire. Its strength lies in the overall character of its masonry row houses and rich applied ornament rather than in a few standout buildings.","narrative":"Tri-Taylor is a compact residential neighborhood on Chicago's Near West Side, about three miles from the Loop. It covers roughly 65 acres and holds nearly 400 buildings, most of them two- and three-story brick or frame row houses, apartments and cottages. Development moved from east to west between about 1870 and 1910. Streets differ in character: West Bowler has rare Joliet limestone row houses from the 1870s, South Oakley Boulevard has larger three-story homes from the 1880s, and South Claremont has a distinctive cluster of gabled houses with two-story bays. Local developers, including Alderman Campbell, built much of the housing, and the Campbell Flats row houses were designed by C.A. Weary. The neighborhood housed skilled German, Irish, Jewish and later Italian families who moved out from the crowded streets nearby. Its abundant applied ornament and consistent streetscape make it a record of late nineteenth-century Chicago building trades and immigrant social history.","period_of_significance":"1870-1910","architect_builder":"Various; Campbell Brothers, Builders, with designs by C.A. Weary and Edbrooke & Burnham noted for the Campbell Flats","architectural_style":null,"criteria":[],"status_note":"Described as sound within its boundaries but frayed at the edges; the surrounding area has vacant land and intrusive medical center structures, and the form marks the condition as deteriorated and altered.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:35.119336-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/97/8924/28892497/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_IL/83000315.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/83000315/fbe47dbfd3-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/83000315/fbe47dbfd3-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Andrew Jameson","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tri-Taylor_HD_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:Tri-Taylor_HD_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/28892497","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tri-Taylor_Historic_District","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q60745039"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/illinois/cook-county/tri-taylor-historic-district-83000315/"}