{"nrhp_refnum":"85000264","name":"Burlingham Building","other_names":["Henrotin Hospital Professional Building"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"104 W. Oak St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Chicago","county":"Cook County","state":"IL","lat":41.90117690500006,"lon":-87.63177301699994,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1985-02-14","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A six-story masonry corner building at the northwest corner of Oak and Clark Streets in Chicago's Near North area, with storefronts on the ground floor and apartments above. The first four stories were built in 1883 and two more were added in 1897.","why_significant":"The nomination calls it the finest and most intact remaining Victorian corner building in the Near North area of Chicago. It is one of the earliest examples of the storefront-and-flats type in the city and displays the type's characteristics in finely detailed form. It was also listed in F.A. Randall's 1949 history of Chicago building construction and helped set Clark Street's commercial character.","narrative":"Standing at Oak and Clark Streets in Chicago's Near North area, this six-story building combines ground-floor storefronts with apartments above, a type common in late nineteenth century American cities. Dentist Dr. Luke Burlingham developed it in 1883 as both his professional office and a rental venture, with a pharmacy on the ground floor and six apartments upstairs. He added two more floors and four apartments in 1897, and the join is barely visible. Architect Alfred Smith, a Toronto native who settled in Chicago in 1868, designed it. The street facades use dark red pressed brick with red sandstone trim, and cast iron appears in a five-story corner turret, three hanging bays and a bracketed cornice. Slate shingles and colored glass add further detail. The nomination describes it as the finest and most intact Victorian corner building in the Near North and one of the earliest of its kind in the city. It also helped establish Clark Street's commercial character.","period_of_significance":"1800-1899","architect_builder":"Alfred Smith","architectural_style":"Late nineteenth century \"Victorian\" corner building","criteria":[],"status_note":"The form lists the property as unoccupied and vacant, with the exterior basically intact and the first-floor storefronts altered slightly.","vacant_flag":true,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:35.678435-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/50/8921/28892150/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_IL/85000264.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/85000264/4fb495d81e-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/85000264/4fb495d81e-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Smallbones","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:104_W_Oak_Chicago.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Smallbones</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:104_W_Oak_Chicago.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/28892150","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burlingham_Building","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q46996808"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/illinois/cook-county/burlingham-building-85000264/"}