{"nrhp_refnum":"83000316","name":"Villa Historic District (Boundary Increase)","other_names":["The Villa Apartments","See Also:Villa Historic District,091179"],"category":"district","location":{"address":"3948-3952 and 3949-3953 W. Waveland Ave.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Chicago","county":"Cook County","state":"IL","lat":41.949427957500035,"lon":-87.72711299639809,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1983-03-10","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Community Planning and Development","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A boundary increase to the Villa Historic District in the Irving Park neighborhood of Chicago, adding a matched pair of three-and-one-half-story brick apartment buildings at 3948-52 West Waveland Street and 3949-53 West Waveland Avenue, built 1913-14.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the buildings are an innovative Craftsman solution for multi-unit housing, scaled to blend with the neighboring Villa houses. It also argues they form a paired gateway into the Villa, echoing ideas from a 1913 Chicago land-development competition. They are credited to architect Clarence Hatzfeld, who designed most of the Villa's Craftsman houses.","narrative":"Two matched brick apartment buildings flank West Waveland at the edge of the Villa, a residential enclave in Chicago's Irving Park neighborhood. Designed by Clarence Hatzfeld of Hatzfeld & Knox for developers Haentze and Wheeler, they were finished in December 1914. Each building has nine units, sun porch bays, peaked roofs with exposed wood framing and stucco infill, red tile roofing, and pergola-covered entries. Oak trim, built-in cabinets and brick fireplaces inside reflect Craftsman ideals of honest materials. The nomination argues the pair serves as a gateway into the Villa from busy Pulaski Avenue, balancing monumental form with the domestic scale of nearby bungalows. It links this idea to a 1913 Chicago competition for neighborhood planning, where entry groupings of flats were common. The buildings lie within the original 1902 plat but were left out of the first district listing, partly because the Villa's covenants barred apartment buildings. The boundary increase adds about half an acre.","period_of_significance":"1900-","architect_builder":"Architects Clarence Hatzfeld (Hatzfeld & Knox) and Arthur Knox; builder J.A. Ross & Co.","architectural_style":"Craftsman (Arts and Crafts)","criteria":[],"status_note":"Listed as occupied, in good condition, unaltered and on its original site; used as apartment blocks.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:35.341147-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/18/8923/28892318/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_IL/83000316.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/83000316/11f28e6a4d-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/83000316/11f28e6a4d-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Thshriver","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Villa_Historic_District_3.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Thshriver</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:Villa_Historic_District_3.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/28892318","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Villa_District","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7930303"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/illinois/cook-county/villa-historic-district-boundary-increase-83000316/"}