{"nrhp_refnum":"87002510","name":"Marshall Field and Company Store (Additional Documentation)","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"1136-1150 W. Lake Street","address_restricted":false,"city":"Oak Park","county":"Cook County","state":"IL","lat":41.88928718500006,"lon":-87.80450762799995,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1988-01-21","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Commerce","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A five-story Art Deco department store at 1144 W. Lake Street in Oak Park, Cook County, Illinois, built in 1929 as Marshall Field & Company's first permanent suburban store. It was designed by Graham, Anderson, Probst and White.","why_significant":"It was the first suburban store opened by a major downtown Chicago retailer, marking a milestone in the evolution of the department store and the later suburban shopping center. Its arrival helped make Oak Park the main shopping center of the western suburbs. It is also one of the area's most expensively built, best-preserved and most prominent examples of Art Deco design, and the work of a firm with a national reputation in department store design.","narrative":"Built in 1929 at Lake Street and Harlem Avenue in Oak Park, this five-story department store was Marshall Field & Company's first permanent suburban branch and the first suburban store opened by any major downtown Chicago retailer. Graham, Anderson, Probst and White, successor to the firm that designed Field's State Street flagship, designed it in an Art Deco manner under a stepped-back French mansard roof. The facades combine black granite, Tennessee marble, limestone and bronze ornament with chevron, zigzag and palmette motifs. The store anchored a retail district that grew into the main shopping center for the western suburbs, and its tax revenue helped a village that had long restricted business uses. Its opening reflected the company's recognition of suburban growth after the First World War. The exterior remains largely intact, though windows were replaced and the interior was heavily altered over the decades. A rehabilitation for office and retail tenants planned no exterior changes.","period_of_significance":"1928-29","architect_builder":"Graham, Anderson, Probst and White","architectural_style":"Art Deco (described in original accounts as a modern adaptation of the French Renaissance)","criteria":[],"status_note":"Described as well maintained and nearly intact on the exterior; a rehabilitation was under way, with the interior being reconfigured for office and retail tenants.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:35.144712-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/30/8922/28892230/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_IL/87002510.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/87002510/b621d72234-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/87002510/b621d72234-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"Zol87 from Chicago, IL, USA","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Former_Marshall_Field_and_Company_Store_in_Oak_Park.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Zol87 from Chicago, IL, USA</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 4.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Former_Marshall_Field_and_Company_Store_in_Oak_Park.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/28892230","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marshall_Field_and_Company_Store_(Oak_Park,_Illinois)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6773574"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/illinois/cook-county/marshall-field-and-company-store-additional-documentation-87002510/"}