{"nrhp_refnum":"86001474","name":"Sheffield Historic District (Boundary Increase III)","other_names":["See Also:Sheffield Historic District","Sheffield Historic Dist"],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Roughly bounded by W. Wisconsin St. and Armitage Ave., N. Howe and N. Halsted Sts., N. Willow St., and N. Kenmore Ave.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Chicago","county":"Cook County","state":"IL","lat":41.91724939750006,"lon":-87.65207082610954,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1986-08-22","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Community Planning and Development","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A third boundary increase to the Sheffield Historic District on Chicago's North Side, adding about 490 buildings in three areas: N. Lakewood Avenue to the west, a southwest/south area around N. Maud, N. Clybourn and W. Willow, and a southeast area along N. Halsted, Burling, Orchard and Howe. Buildings date mainly from the late 1860s to about 1920.","why_significant":"The extensions are argued to be significant as a collection that shows the physical development of the Sheffield neighborhood. Few of the buildings are individually notable, but together they represent middle and working class housing built after the 1871 fire. The area includes some of Chicago's earliest post-fire frame and brick cottages, apartment buildings, small commercial buildings and a school.","narrative":"Three additions to a North Side Chicago neighborhood district bring in roughly 490 more buildings, mostly built between the late 1860s and about 1920. One area runs along N. Lakewood Avenue on the west. A second lies to the southwest and south around N. Maud and W. Willow. A third extends east and south along N. Halsted, Burling, Orchard and Howe streets. The buildings are narrow-lot frame and brick Chicago cottages, flats, developer-built apartments, small storefronts and the 1898 James A. Mulligan School by Flanders and Zimmermann. Many went up quickly after the 1871 fire, before frame construction was restricted in 1875. Few are architecturally important individually, but together they show how the neighborhood grew and how ordinary middle and working class housing looked. Many cottages have been re-sided with synthetic material, though original window frames, cornices and massing remain. Boundaries were drawn to follow surviving historic building stock and to exclude industrial and modern redevelopment.","period_of_significance":"late 1860s to about 1920","architect_builder":"Flanders and Zimmermann (James A. Mulligan School, 1898)","architectural_style":"Chicago cottages with Italianate, Second Empire, Queen Anne and Romanesque Revival details","criteria":[],"status_note":"Integrity is described as fair to good: 40.4% of buildings contribute and 31.8% are technically non-contributing because of synthetic re-siding. Some areas have demolition-created vacant lots.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:34.99816-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/42/8923/28892342/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_IL/86001474.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/86001474/c4261b7f1f-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/86001474/c4261b7f1f-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Alanscottwalker","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sheffield_Historic_District.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:Sheffield_Historic_District.JPG"},"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"76000704","name":"Sheffield Historic District","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/illinois/sheffield-historic-district-76000704/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/28892342","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheffield_Historic_District","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q85800754"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/illinois/cook-county/sheffield-historic-district-boundary-increase-iii-86001474/"}