{"nrhp_refnum":"86001042","name":"Lakeview Historic District (Boundary Increase)","other_names":["See Also:Lakeview Historic District"],"category":"district","location":{"address":"701, 705, 711, 715--717, 721, 733--735, 737, and 739 Belmont Ave., 3162 and 3164 N. Orchard, and 3171 Halsted Sts.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Chicago","county":"Cook County","state":"IL","lat":41.939725030000034,"lon":-87.6480780251236,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1986-05-16","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Community Planning and Development","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A boundary extension to the Lakeview Historic District in Chicago, Illinois, covering the south side of the 700 block of Belmont Avenue between Orchard and Halsted Streets. It adds nine contributing buildings dating from 1890 to 1926 and three non-contributing ones.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the block matches the scale, brick materials, residential character and range of building types of the existing district. Its apartment buildings, hotels and two surviving 1890s structures show how Lakeview changed between 1910 and 1930 as its population nearly doubled. The extension also corrects a professional error in the original boundary line. The reviewer accepted it under Criteria A and C.","narrative":"This boundary extension adds a short stretch of Belmont Avenue in Chicago's Lakeview neighborhood to an existing historic district. The block, on the south side between Orchard and Halsted Streets, holds nine contributing buildings. They include an 18-unit corner apartment building from 1915, three apartment hotels from the 1920s, two half-courtyard apartment buildings designed by Otto Zippwald in 1916, and a corner commercial building from 1912. Two survivors of the 1890s stand among them: a Richardsonian Romanesque house at 705 Belmont with a red granite exterior, and a townhouse at 737 Belmont. Most buildings are brick, human in scale and three to four stories tall. Together they illustrate how larger multi-unit buildings replaced smaller homes as Lakeview's population grew from about 60,000 to nearly 115,000 between 1910 and 1930. The extension was approved because the block resembles the neighboring district blocks in character and fixes an earlier boundary error.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"W. G. Whitney; Paul F. Olsen; Otto Zippwald; A. L. Himmelblau; Doerr, Lindquist and Doerr","architectural_style":"Richardsonian Romanesque, Romanesque Revival, simplified Queen Anne, Historical Revival and Prairie influences, Baroque and Tudor-inspired detailing","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Most buildings are described as largely unaltered and in excellent integrity; two vernacular cottages are altered and non-contributing. Several buildings are now divided into apartments.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:35.505073-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/21/8925/28892521/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_IL/86001042.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"77000478","name":"Lakeview Historic District","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/illinois/lakeview-historic-district-77000478/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/28892521","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lakeview_Historic_District_(Chicago)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6479254"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/illinois/cook-county/lakeview-historic-district-boundary-increase-86001042/"}