{"nrhp_refnum":"86001095","name":"Wabash Avenue YMCA","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"3763 S. Wabash Ave.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Chicago","county":"Cook County","state":"IL","lat":41.82568478300004,"lon":-87.62431521699995,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1986-04-30","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Black","Social History"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"Wabash Avenue YMCA is a building at 3763 S. Wabash Avenue in Chicago, Cook County, Illinois, built between 1911 and 1913 and designed by Robert C. Berlin. It is one of the Black Metropolis Thematic Resources.","why_significant":"The surviving pages are mostly cover, map and status sheets, with no Section 7 or 8 text. They show the YMCA was nominated as one of nine properties in the Black Metropolis thematic group and was marked as locally significant under Criterion A. The folder is listed as missing, so the full argument for significance is not available.","narrative":"Wabash Avenue YMCA is a building at 3763 S. Wabash Avenue on Chicago's South Side. Records give its dates as 1911 to 1913 and name Robert C. Berlin as architect. It was nominated as part of the Black Metropolis Thematic Resources, a group of nine properties in Cook County, Illinois, that also included the Jordan Building, Overton Hygienic Building, Chicago Bee Building, Eighth Regiment Armory, Victory Sculpture, Unity Hall, the Chicago Defender Building and the Liberty Life/Supreme Life Insurance Company building. The YMCA's level of significance is marked as local, and Criterion A is checked, which relates to association with important historical events or patterns. The surviving file contains only a map key, a review listing, a data sheet and a locator card. The locator card records that the entire folder is missing, so the building's description and the detailed reasons for its listing cannot be read here. It was entered in the National Register on April 30, 1986.","period_of_significance":"1911-1913","architect_builder":"Berlin, Robert C.","architectural_style":null,"criteria":["A"],"status_note":null,"vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:35.730328-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/58/8910/28891058/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_IL/86001095.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/86001095/3bc09c06d0-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/86001095/3bc09c06d0-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Andrew Jameson","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wabash_Avenue_YMCA_Chicago_IL.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Andrew Jameson</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:Wabash_Avenue_YMCA_Chicago_IL.jpg"},"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"12000040","name":"Chicago Park Boulevard System Historic District","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/illinois/chicago-park-boulevard-system-historic-district-12000040/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/28891058","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wabash_Avenue_YMCA","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3564923"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/illinois/cook-county/wabash-avenue-ymca-86001095/"}