{"nrhp_refnum":"86001743","name":"Buildings at 1104-1110 Seward","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"1104--1110 Seward","address_restricted":false,"city":"Evanston","county":"Cook County","state":"IL","lat":42.02892890100003,"lon":-87.68788379899996,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1986-09-02","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Community Planning and Development","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"Two red brick Tudor-style four-flat apartment buildings at 1104-06 and 1108-10 Seward Street in Evanston, Cook County, Illinois, built in 1927 by Van Gunten and Van Gunten for Alvin E. Nelson, along with a shared brick garage.","why_significant":"The buildings were added to Evanston's thematic group of suburban apartment buildings because they keep a high degree of integrity and design quality. Each looks like a large Tudor house, and together they surround a common landscaped yard. The nomination calls this arrangement unique in Evanston and a new variation on the suburban apartment type.","narrative":"Two matching four-flat apartment buildings at 1104-06 and 1108-10 Seward Street in Evanston were built in 1927 to designs by Van Gunten and Van Gunten for Alvin E. Nelson. Both are two-story red brick buildings with Tudor-arched doorways framed by stone quoining, carved spandrels, stone trim and picturesque massing that makes each resemble a large single-family house. Inside, the apartments offer fireplaces, hardwood floors, built-ins and decorative plaster detail, including a foliate frieze forming a coved ceiling in one front parlor. A brick garage with blind-arch windows links the two buildings and encloses a shared landscaped yard, an arrangement described as unique in Evanston. The buildings were overlooked in the original survey of the city's suburban apartments because they sit in a single-family zone. They were later added to the thematic group for their high integrity, design quality and distinct variation on the suburban apartment type. Alterations are limited to aluminum storm windows and a replacement roof on 1104-06.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"Van Gunten and Van Gunten","architectural_style":"Tudor","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Exterior is largely unaltered apart from aluminum storm windows and a replaced roof on 1104-06; the nomination describes integrity as excellent.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:34.525727-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/16/8909/28890916/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_IL/86001743.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/86001743/d241d1062e-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/86001743/d241d1062e-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Andrew Jameson","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:1106SewardEvanstonIL.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:1106SewardEvanstonIL.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/28890916","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buildings_at_1104%E2%80%931110_Seward","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q96374091"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/illinois/cook-county/buildings-at-1104-1110-seward-86001743/"}