{"nrhp_refnum":"95000482","name":"Bryn Mawr Avenue Historic District (Additional Documentation)","other_names":["See Also:Edgewater Beach Apartments","Manor House"],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Bryn Mawr Ave. from Sheridan Rd. to Broadway","address_restricted":false,"city":"Chicago","county":"Cook County","state":"IL","lat":41.98346296050005,"lon":-87.65511366074796,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1995-04-20","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Community Planning and Development"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A commercial and residential historic district along Bryn Mawr Avenue from Sheridan Road to Broadway in the Edgewater area of Chicago, Illinois, about seven miles north of the Loop. It has twenty-three buildings and an elevated rail bridge, built mainly between the late 1890s and 1935.","why_significant":"The district is argued to be significant for its architecture and for community planning and development. Architects and builders created a monumental streetscape that mixed retail and residential uses, from walk-up store-and-flat buildings to 1920s elevator apartment hotels with ground-floor shops. It is distinguished from surrounding areas by this hybrid building type and by its scale.","narrative":"Bryn Mawr Avenue, between Sheridan Road and Broadway in Chicago's Edgewater neighborhood, forms a dense streetscape of twenty-three buildings and a four-track elevated railway bridge. Most are brick and terra cotta, rising from one to nineteen stories, and nearly all have shops at street level. Many combine stores with apartments, a hybrid form that became unusual in Chicago as commercial and residential districts were separated. Early walk-up store-and-flat buildings from the late 1890s sit alongside 1920s elevator apartment hotels. Styles include Tudor Revival, Late Gothic, Italian Renaissance, Art Deco and Moderne. Notable examples include the 1908 Manor House by J. E. O. Pridmore and the nineteen-story Edgewater Beach Apartments by Benjamin Marshall. Zoning in the 1920s allowed mixed uses on only a few streets, encouraging this development near Lake Michigan and the elevated line. The district was recognized for its architecture and its role in community planning, with a period of significance from 1897 to 1935.","period_of_significance":"1897-1935","architect_builder":"Marshall, Benjamin H.; Pridmore, J. E. O.","architectural_style":"Late 19th and 20th Century Revivals (Tudor, Late Gothic, Italian Renaissance); Modern Movement (Art Deco, Moderne); Commercial Style","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"Buildings retain a high degree of integrity and the character they had in the 1920s; ground-floor storefronts have been altered most. Six buildings are noncontributing because of alterations or post-World War II construction. Retail, apartment and church uses continue.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:37.679381-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/4/8923/28892304/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_IL/95000482.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/95000482/dba14e845e-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/95000482/dba14e845e-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 2.5","author":"User:JeremyA","credit_html":"User:JeremyA, CC BY-SA 2.5, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Edgewater_Beach_Apartments_060325.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/28892304","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bryn_Mawr_Historic_District","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4980896"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/illinois/cook-county/bryn-mawr-avenue-historic-district-additional-documentation-95000482/"}