{"nrhp_refnum":"84000289","name":"Lake-Side Terrace Apartments","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"7425-7427 S. Shore Dr.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Chicago","county":"Cook County","state":"IL","lat":41.762137272000075,"lon":-87.55702036099996,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1984-11-13","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A four-story, E-shaped courtyard apartment building at 7425-7427 South Shore Drive on the Lake Michigan shore in Chicago, built in 1922-1923 to a design by Eric Edwin Hall.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the building embodies the distinctive characteristics of the courtyard apartment type, which was very popular in Chicago in the early twentieth century. Its design departs from the usual layout by turning the rear wall to the street and opening raised, terraced courtyards toward Lake Michigan. This gives each courtyard an unbounded lake vista, which the form describes as an unusual and nearly ideal realization of the courtyard ideal.","narrative":"Lake-Side Terrace Apartments is a four-story, E-shaped courtyard building at 7425-7427 South Shore Drive in Chicago, built in 1922-1923 and designed by architect Eric Edwin Hall. Its reinforced concrete structure is clad in tan and brown brick with limestone trim, and Tudor-style details include crenellated parapets, towers, blind arcades, quoins, carved shields and lions' heads. It holds 103 apartments. Unlike most Chicago courtyard buildings, it turns its rear wall toward the street and opens two courtyards to Lake Michigan. Visitors climb stairs beneath arched entries to raised terraces, where the lake view opens up, and balustraded stairways lead down to the beach. The nomination values the building for its architecture, as a distinctive example of the courtyard apartment type that was popular in Chicago in the early twentieth century. Its inventive adaptation of that type to a rare private lakefront site gives it special distinction. The building remains in good condition and largely unaltered.","period_of_significance":"1922-1923","architect_builder":"Eric Edwin Hall","architectural_style":"Tudor-style decorative features on a courtyard apartment building","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"Described as in good condition with original integrity and no significant alterations; the stairways down to the waterfront have deteriorated, and a rehabilitation is anticipated.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:34.521122-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/88/8921/28892188/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_IL/84000289.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/84000289/5e4070b5a1-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/84000289/5e4070b5a1-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Pwmollica","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Southshore.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Pwmollica</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:Southshore.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/28892188","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake-Side_Terrace_Apartments","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q85775587"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/illinois/cook-county/lake-side-terrace-apartments-84000289/"}