{"nrhp_refnum":"95000486","name":"Trumbull Park","other_names":["Park #16","Irondale Park"],"category":"district","location":{"address":"2400 E. 105th St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Chicago","county":"Cook County","state":"IL","lat":41.70630103900004,"lon":-87.56459013460676,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1995-04-20","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Landscape Architecture","Architecture","Entertainment/Recreation"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"Trumbull Park is an 18.52-acre neighborhood park at 2400 E. 105th St. on Chicago's south side, planned by the South Park Commission from 1907, with permanent improvements built in 1915.","why_significant":"It is a well-preserved example of the South Park Commission's neighborhood park model, with formal landscape elements and a Beaux Arts concrete fieldhouse. It retains a high level of integrity, notably its mature ginkgo and Siberian elm plantings. It also reflects the settlement-movement ideas behind Chicago's early small parks and the Olmsted Brothers' influence.","narrative":"Trumbull Park occupies 18.52 acres on Chicago's south side, in the South Deering neighborhood once called Irondale. The South Park Commission began planning it in 1907 as one of four new neighborhood parks, and permanent improvements followed in 1915. The Olmsted Brothers prepared plans, but in-house staff designed the layout actually built: a depressed ball field on the north half, with a fieldhouse, playground, running track, swimming pool and service yard on the south. A formal promenade and concourse lined with ginkgo trees remain a defining feature. The cruciform Beaux Arts fieldhouse, built in 1915 from the same plans as the Grand Crossing Park fieldhouse, echoes the earlier Burnham-designed park buildings, though it has since been gunited and painted. A 1947 granite fountain memorializes local World War II veterans. The park is recognized as a representative, highly intact example of Chicago's South Park Commission neighborhood parks, which grew from settlement-house reform ideals.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"South Park Commission in-house staff; rendering signed by Guy Wilfrid Haylor; possibly Linn White, Chief Engineer","architectural_style":"Late 19th and 20th Century Revivals: Beaux Arts Classicism","criteria":[],"status_note":"Continues in use as a park and fieldhouse; fieldhouse retains good integrity despite alterations such as gunite and paint, asphalt roofing, and removal of the original fence and some plantings.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:37.289118-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/24/8910/28891024/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_IL/95000486.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/95000486/d2ff96874f-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/95000486/d2ff96874f-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY 2.0","author":"Zol87 from Chicago, Illinois, USA","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Trumbull_Park_Fieldhouse.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Zol87 from Chicago, Illinois, USA</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY 2.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Trumbull_Park_Fieldhouse.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/28891024","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trumbull_Park","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q49572249"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/illinois/cook-county/trumbull-park-95000486/"}