{"nrhp_refnum":"86001041","name":"Hyde Park-Kenwood Historic District (Boundary Increase II)","other_names":["See Also:Hyde Park-Kenwood Historic District","Hyde Park-Kenwo"],"category":"district","location":{"address":"825--833 and 837--849 E. Fifty-second St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Chicago","county":"Cook County","state":"IL","lat":41.76554329900006,"lon":-87.57678023599999,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1986-05-16","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Education","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"Two three-story brick courtyard apartment buildings at 825-33 and 837-49 East 52nd Street in Chicago, both built in 1924 and added to the Hyde Park-Kenwood Historic District through a boundary extension covering about one acre.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the two buildings match the district's other courtyard apartment buildings in type, scale, materials, integrity and design quality. Although they lack special architectural distinction, they are called contributing, and including them gives the 52nd Street block a consistent character and a more logical boundary edge. The reviewer accepted them under criteria A and C, treating their omission from the original boundary as a professional error.","narrative":"Two courtyard apartment buildings on East 52nd Street in Chicago were added to the Hyde Park-Kenwood Historic District when its boundary was extended by about one acre. Both were built in 1924 for Matt E. Holpuch, probably by his family's firm, the Joseph A. Holpuch Company. The larger building at 825-33 holds 61 studio apartments in a U-shaped plan, with reddish brown face brick, limestone quoins, swags, rondels and heavy stone door surrounds in a Baroque-derived manner. The smaller building at 837-49 has 22 units, red brick with limestone trim, and brickwork banding that suggests quoins. Both rise three stories over an English basement. The nomination describes them as similar in type, scale, materials and design quality to many apartment buildings in the district, especially in the blocks between 50th and 55th Streets. They were built with the adjacent building already in the district, so leaving them out was treated as an error. Including them gives the block a consistent character.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"Builder: Joseph A. Holpuch Company (original owner Matt E. Holpuch)","architectural_style":"Courtyard apartment buildings with Baroque-derived stone ornament","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"The 825-33 building has excellent exterior integrity. The 837-49 building is largely unaltered but has poor tuckpointing, missing window panels, some boarded windows and fire damage from 1969, 1977 and 1980.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:34.58348-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/32/8922/28892232/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_IL/86001041.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/86001041/3ad77b8990-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/86001041/3ad77b8990-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 2.0","author":"Teemu008 from Palatine, Illinois","credit_html":"Teemu008 from Palatine, Illinois, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Quadrangle_Club_(7376760896).jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/28892232","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyde_Park%E2%80%93Kenwood_Historic_District","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1640023"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/illinois/cook-county/hyde-park-kenwood-historic-district-boundary-increase-ii-86001041/"}