{"nrhp_refnum":"84001057","name":"Stoneleigh Manor","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"904-906 Michigan Ave. and 227-229 Main St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Evanston","county":"Cook County","state":"IL","lat":42.03394210400006,"lon":-87.72212761599997,"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":"Stoneleigh Manor is a three-story Prairie School apartment building at 904-06 Michigan Avenue and 227-29 Main Street in Evanston, Cook County, Illinois, built in 1913 and designed by John A. Nyden.","why_significant":"The nomination presents it as an excellent example of a Prairie School apartment house, with dignified, simple massing, strong horizontal emphasis and fine ornamental detail. Its doorways recall the domestic work of George Maher. It was also published in a 1917 guide to better apartments on Chicago's North Side, and its architect, John Nyden, later served as State Architect of Illinois.","narrative":"Stoneleigh Manor is an apartment building completed in 1913 on the northwest corner of Michigan Avenue and Main Street in Evanston. Architect John A. Nyden designed it in the Prairie School manner. It rises three stories above an English basement under a tile hipped roof and wraps around an interior court that residents used as a back yard. Limestone bands alternate with brick, broad overhangs cast deep shadows, and terra cotta squares with a foliate pattern decorate the brick beneath the roofline. Each of the two doorways has a canopied segmental porch on round columns, and the sidelights are leaded glass. Inside, each floor holds four apartments with sun rooms, and the entrance hall has mosaic floors and marble treads. The building was listed for its fine horizontal design and detailing, with doorways reminiscent of George Maher's work. A 1917 publication praised it as substantial and dignified. Nyden, an Evanston resident, became State Architect of Illinois in 1926-27.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"John A. Nyden","architectural_style":"Prairie School","criteria":[],"status_note":"The form says no additional structures stand on the property. It describes the building's original features but gives no statement of current use.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:34.54635-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/79/8908/28890879/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_IL/84001057.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/84001057/cf6b24c649-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/84001057/cf6b24c649-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Thshriver","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Stoneleigh_Manor_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:Stoneleigh_Manor_2.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/28890879","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stoneleigh_Manor","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q96406561"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/illinois/cook-county/stoneleigh-manor-84001057/"}