{"nrhp_refnum":"84000995","name":"Hinman Apartments","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"1629-1631 Hinman Ave.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Evanston","county":"Cook County","state":"IL","lat":42.04664356400008,"lon":-87.67744171499999,"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 three-story, six-flat apartment building at 1629-31 Hinman Avenue in Evanston, Cook County, Illinois, built in 1904 and designed by Atchison and Edbrooke.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the building has a much higher quality of design than the typical \"railroad type\" apartment, with human scale, excellent proportions and carefully executed classical detailing. Its large apartments, with three family bedrooms and a maid's room each, were meant to attract a \"better class\" of tenant. It is also tied to the architectural firm that designed other notable Evanston apartment buildings.","narrative":"Built in 1904 on the east side of Hinman Avenue in Evanston, this red brick six-flat apartment building rises three stories above a limestone base. Limestone also appears in the window sills, lintels and a string course at the third-floor sill line. A wide wooden cornice with narrow brackets, egg and dart moldings and dentils sits below the brick parapet, and a portico with two-story Ionic columns anchors the symmetrical facade. The portico's placement leaves room for a second-floor porch, and bow windows run the full height of the building to bring light and views to each apartment. Atchison and Edbrooke, the firm that also designed the Ridgewood Apartments in Evanston, were the architects. The building is regarded as a better-designed example of the \"railroad type\" apartment, notable for its proportions, its classical detail and its generous layouts, which included three family bedrooms and a maid's room in every unit.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"Atchison and Edbrooke","architectural_style":"Classically derived detailing; Federal rather than Prairie in inspiration","criteria":["A","C"],"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 02:55:34.887401-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/53/8908/28890853/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_IL/84000995.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/84000995/af1cebc243-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/84000995/af1cebc243-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Thshriver","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hinman_Apartments_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:Hinman_Apartments_2.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/28890853","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hinman_Apartments","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q96381062"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/illinois/cook-county/hinman-apartments-84000995/"}