{"nrhp_refnum":"87002540","name":"Tri-Taylor Historic District (Boundary Increase)","other_names":["See Also:Tri-Taylor Historic District"],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Roughly bounded on the N by Oakley, Harrison and Claremont Sts. and on the SE by Taylor and Oakley Sts.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Chicago","county":"Cook County","state":"IL","lat":41.87151994250004,"lon":-87.68303240044266,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1988-02-03","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Social History"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A boundary increase to the Tri-Taylor Historic District on Chicago's Near West Side, adding two areas: a northern extension along Oakley, Claremont and Harrison Streets and a Taylor-Oakley extension along Taylor and South Oakley Streets. Most buildings date from the 1880s and 1890s.","why_significant":"The added buildings were left out of the original 1983 listing through professional oversight. They show the same late nineteenth-century 'second-settlement' pattern of rowhouses, flats and mixed commercial streets found in the rest of the district. Adding them completes broken streetscapes and gives the district clearer boundaries against the Eisenhower Expressway, the Medical Center and Western and Ogden Avenues.","narrative":"This boundary increase enlarges the Tri-Taylor Historic District on Chicago's West Side by two areas. The northern extension takes in the 500 blocks of Oakley and Claremont and the north side of Harrison Street, with 14 contributing and 5 non-contributing buildings. The Taylor-Oakley extension adds parts of South Oakley and West Taylor Street, with 10 contributing and 3 non-contributing buildings. Most were built in the 1880s and 1890s as brick or stone rowhouses, flats and mixed commercial buildings, with Italianate, Classical Revival and Richardsonian Romanesque detailing. They had been omitted from the 1983 listing through professional oversight. Their inclusion shows the same late nineteenth-century second-settlement growth seen across the neighborhood. It completes streetscapes that had been cut in half. It also sets boundaries at visible barriers: the Eisenhower Expressway, the Medical Center, Ogden Avenue and Western Avenue. The result is a more coherent historic neighborhood of tree-lined, modest-scale residential blocks.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Italianate, Classical Revival, Richardsonian Romanesque, Romanesque and High Victorian rowhouses, flats and commercial buildings","criteria":[],"status_note":"Most buildings retain good integrity; some have alterations, and a few parcels on Taylor Street are vacant. One 2227 W. Taylor building has boarded windows.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:35.312109-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/3/8925/28892503/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_IL/87002540.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/87002540/fbe47dbfd3-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/87002540/fbe47dbfd3-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Andrew Jameson","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tri-Taylor_HD_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:Tri-Taylor_HD_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/28892503","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tri-Taylor_Historic_District","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q60745039"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/illinois/cook-county/tri-taylor-historic-district-boundary-increase-87002540/"}