{"nrhp_refnum":"85003352","name":"Sheridan Park Historic District","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Roughly bounded by Lawrence, Racine, and Montrose Aves., and Clark St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Chicago","county":"Cook County","state":"IL","lat":41.96546386250003,"lon":-87.66314080961077,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1985-12-27","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Community Planning and Development","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A residential historic district in Chicago's Uptown area, bounded by Lawrence and Montrose Avenues, Clark Street and Racine Avenue, with 369 buildings: houses, walk-up apartments, and apartment hotels built between 1891 and 1929.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the district is a clearly defined neighborhood with a distinctive mix of house and apartment types, remarkably free of intrusions. The 50-foot lots laid out by subdividers shaped each wave of development, giving a consistent scale and suburban-style setbacks. Only 15 buildings are listed as intrusive, which the form cites as evidence of integrity.","narrative":"Sheridan Park is a Chicago residential neighborhood on the city's north side, lying along a sandy ridge between Graceland and St. Boniface cemeteries. Its 369 buildings were put up between 1891 and 1929 on large lots, mostly fifty feet wide, laid out by early subdividers. Large suburban-style Victorian houses came first, followed by walk-up apartments, especially six-flats, of which 103 remain. A small number of courtyard buildings and apartment hotels, including the twelve-story Norman Hotel, came in the 1910s and 1920s. Dover Street, resubdivided into narrower lots, has a smaller scale and a more English-influenced character. Consistent setbacks and building heights hold the area together despite its variety. Postwar conversions to rooming houses, resided frame houses, lost cornices and vacant land have affected some blocks. Only fifteen buildings are counted as intrusive, and the nomination treats that as evidence of the district's integrity. Local opinion on listing was divided at the time.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"Walter (corner buildings at Montrose and Clark); Steinbach & Lampe (the Montrose, 4405-09 Clark); Johnson & Johnson (Issel Building); Ira Saxe (store-and-flats row, 4600 block of Clark)","architectural_style":"Mixed Victorian-era styles (stick, shingle, Queen Anne, Colonial Revival), Tudor/Gothic elements, Prairie School, six-flats, courtyard apartments and apartment hotels","criteria":[],"status_note":"Condition varies from abandoned shells to prize-winning rehabilitations; about eight percent of the land is vacant, and many frame houses have been resided.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:34.52884-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/14/8923/28892314/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_IL/85003352.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/85003352/bd9c8723c9-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/85003352/bd9c8723c9-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Alanscottwalker","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Uptown_Victorian.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Alanscottwalker</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:Uptown_Victorian.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/28892314","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheridan_Park_Historic_District","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q85800807"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/illinois/cook-county/sheridan-park-historic-district-85003352/"}