{"nrhp_refnum":"84000973","name":"Building at 1401-1407 Elmwood Avenue","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"1401-1407 Elmwood Ave.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Evanston","county":"Cook County","state":"IL","lat":42.04309545500007,"lon":-87.68344539199995,"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":["national"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A yellow brick row house containing four two-and-one-half-story units at the northeast corner of Elmwood Avenue and Greenwood Street in Evanston, Illinois, built in 1890 and designed by Stephen A. Jennings.","why_significant":"The nomination calls it an early multifamily dwelling with a domestic picturesque appearance and human scale, which set the stage for the typical apartment buildings built about ten years later. It was built by a missionary who rented out the units but never lived in them. The design detailing is of high quality, equal to that of architect Stephen A. Jennings' single-family houses.","narrative":"Located at the northeast corner of Elmwood Avenue and Greenwood Street in Evanston, this yellow brick row house was built in 1890 and holds four two-and-one-half-story units. The symmetrical layout is picturesque in its massing: mirror-image units are arranged around a central projection topped by a broad gable. End units are entered through doorways recessed behind corner brick arches, while the center units have bracketed, shed-roofed wooden porches. A bracketed wooden cornice, dormers, chimneys and a gambrel roof add detail, and the north and south ends have polygonal bays with Palladian windows. Stephen A. Jennings, regarded as one of Evanston's most fashionable architects of 1885-95, designed it. A missionary built it and rented out the units without living in any of them. Its human scale anticipated the more typical apartment buildings that appeared about ten years later. Alterations include a 1967 general renovation, a 1970 dormer at 1405, interior remodeling, and a 1982 re-shingling of the south end of the roof.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"Stephen A. Jennings","architectural_style":null,"criteria":[],"status_note":null,"vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:35.745684-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/22/8909/28890922/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_IL/84000973.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/84000973/15de70035f-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/84000973/15de70035f-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Thshriver","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Building_at_1401-1407_Elmwood_2.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_1401-1407_Elmwood_2.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/28890922","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Building_at_1401%E2%80%931407_Elmwood_Avenue","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q96374083"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/illinois/cook-county/building-at-1401-1407-elmwood-avenue-84000973/"}