{"nrhp_refnum":"94001269","name":"Hotel Waukegan","other_names":["Chateau Waukegan"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"102 Washington St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Waukegan","county":"Lake County","state":"IL","lat":42.35977654900006,"lon":-87.82992259999997,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1994-10-28","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Commerce"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A twelve-story hotel at 102 Washington Street, at the northwest corner of Washington Street and Sheridan Road in Waukegan, Illinois, built 1927-29 with reinforced concrete framing, brown brick and terra cotta.","why_significant":"The nomination presents it as one of only two pre-1960 hotels in Waukegan and the only one retaining enough integrity to show the role hotels played in the city's social and commercial life. It was part of the 1920s building boom in the business district and keeps its Renaissance Revival exterior and ornate lobby.","narrative":"Rising twelve stories on a bluff at the corner of Washington Street and Sheridan Road, this hotel was built between 1927 and 1929 as a major lodging for Waukegan, a lakeside city north of Chicago. Its reinforced concrete frame is clad in a two-story base of cream-colored terra cotta, an eight-story brown brick shaft, and a two-story top with elaborate terra cotta ornament and a molded cornice. Renaissance Revival details include pedimented corner windows, bracketed cornices and quoin-like banding. Inside, a two-story lobby features a grand staircase, an illusionistic wall painting, ornamental plasterwork and terrazzo floors. A 1973 brick addition covers part of the west side, and the storefronts have been altered. The hotel is considered significant as one of only two pre-1960 hotels in the city and the one that best reflects the era when hotels shaped local social and commercial life. It is vacant, with rehabilitation under way.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Classical Revival (Renaissance Revival ornament on a Commercial Style three-part vertical block)","criteria":[],"status_note":"Listed as vacant/not in use, but described as undergoing rehabilitation following the Secretary of the Interior's Standards.","vacant_flag":true,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:37.191001-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/68/8933/28893368/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_IL/94001269.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/94001269/59815c3c68-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/94001269/59815c3c68-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Nyttend","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hotel_Waukegan.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Nyttend</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hotel_Waukegan.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/28893368","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hotel_Waukegan","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q55757555"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/illinois/lake-county/hotel-waukegan-94001269/"}