{"nrhp_refnum":"84000969","name":"Building at 1316 Maple Avenue","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"1316 Maple Ave.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Evanston","county":"Cook County","state":"IL","lat":42.04191027600007,"lon":-87.68584919899996,"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":"A 1928 courtyard apartment building at 1316 Maple Avenue in Evanston, Cook County, Illinois, on the west side of Maple Avenue, designed or built by Edward M. Sieja and developed by Fred C. Stewart.","why_significant":"The nomination presents it as one of Evanston's most unusual and elegant courtyard apartment buildings, conceived by realtor Fred C. Stewart as a high-quality rental building. It is fireproof reinforced concrete with Tudor-inspired detailing and notable interiors. It is unique for providing maids' apartments on the ground floor.","narrative":"Completed in 1928 on the west side of Maple Avenue in Evanston, this apartment building was built and lived in by Fred C. Stewart, a well-known local realtor, who intended it as a rental building of the highest quality. Three floors rise above a full-story entrance level, with cream-colored smooth brick, limestone trim and quoining, and steel casement windows. Tudor-inspired details include hoodmolds, engaged moldings and a wrought-iron doorway flanked by lanterns. Inside, a 15-foot-wide lobby with a beamed ceiling and mosaic floor resembles a medieval great hall. The plan is a shallow U with bay windows and a small courtyard. The reinforced concrete construction made it fireproof and quiet, and it offered dual-pipe steam heat, cedar closets, nine indoor garages and ground-floor maids' apartments. A zoning variation allowed smaller setbacks. Conversion to condominiums began in 1982-83.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"Edward M. Sieja","architectural_style":"Tudor-inspired","criteria":[],"status_note":"Ground-floor servants' rooms and upstairs units were being converted to condominiums in 1982-83.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:35.99798-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/18/8909/28890918/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_IL/84000969.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/84000969/bb91c14d2f-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/84000969/bb91c14d2f-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 2.0","author":"Teemu008 from Palatine, Illinois","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Building_at_1316_Maple_Avenue_(7345695432).jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Teemu008 from Palatine, Illinois</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 2.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Building_at_1316_Maple_Avenue_(7345695432).jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/28890918","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Building_at_1316_Maple_Avenue","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q96374082"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/illinois/cook-county/building-at-1316-maple-avenue-84000969/"}