{"nrhp_refnum":"84000953","name":"Building at 923-925 Michigan Avenue","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"923-925 Michigan Ave.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Evanston","county":"Cook County","state":"IL","lat":42.03478007700005,"lon":-87.67320781199999,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1984-03-15","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Community Planning and Development","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"An L-shaped, three-story red brick apartment building with an English basement at 923-925 Michigan Avenue in Evanston, Cook County, Illinois, built in 1916 and designed by Robert De Golyer.","why_significant":"The nomination presents it as a distinguished Evanston apartment house with a refined Federal Revival facade, luxurious amenities and homelike interiors. It was one of five Evanston apartment buildings featured in Baird and Warner's 1928 book, A Portfolio of Fine Homes. Its architect, Robert DeGolyer, also designed many Near North Side and Evanston apartments and the Ambassador East Hotel, and he lived in one of its apartments.","narrative":"Built in 1916, this L-shaped red brick apartment building on Michigan Avenue in Evanston rises three stories over an English basement. Architect Robert De Golyer gave it Federal Revival detailing, including bowed windows, a simple cornice, recessed blind arches, slender windows and a doorway with pilasters and a fanlight that echoes a Federal-style home. The design is described as an expanded version of the party-wall Federal buildings found on Boston's Beacon Hill. Inside are six apartments, three with five rooms and two baths and three with seven rooms and three baths. Each has a wood-burning fireplace and a maid's room, and the larger units have tiled solariums. Colonial motifs appear in paneled dining rooms, corner cabinets and fireplace trim. Baird and Warner featured the building in its 1928 book A Portfolio of Fine Homes, praising its location, construction, sun rooms, vacuum system and heated garages. De Golyer later lived in one of the apartments. No exterior alterations have been made.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"Robert De Golyer","architectural_style":"Federal Revival","criteria":[],"status_note":"No exterior alterations; common brick tuckpointed in 1975. Two garage buildings on the property, one for eight cars and one for three.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:35.129649-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/51/8908/28890851/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_IL/84000953.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/84000953/91192bf440-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/84000953/91192bf440-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Thshriver","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Building_at_923-925_Michigan_1.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:Building_at_923-925_Michigan_1.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/28890851","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Building_at_923%E2%80%93925_Michigan_Avenue","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q96374089"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/illinois/cook-county/building-at-923-925-michigan-avenue-84000953/"}