{"nrhp_refnum":"96000093","name":"Quigley Preparatory Seminary","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"103 E. Chestnut St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Chicago","county":"Cook County","state":"IL","lat":41.89787694800003,"lon":-87.62583321599999,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1996-02-16","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"Quigley Preparatory Seminary is a French Gothic Revival academic building at 103 East Chestnut Street on Chicago's Near North Side. It was built in 1917 as a U-shaped building with a courtyard, and a classroom wing was added in 1925.","why_significant":"The nomination presents the seminary as an important example of French Gothic Revival architecture, designed by Gustave Steinback of New York for Archbishop George Mundelein. It also tells of the Archdiocese of Chicago's effort to establish a lasting preparatory seminary honoring Archbishop James Quigley and to give clergy a common education.","narrative":"Quigley Preparatory Seminary occupies half a city block at Chestnut and Rush Streets on Chicago's Near North Side, a few blocks from Holy Name Cathedral. Built in 1917 as a U-shaped building around a courtyard, it was extended in 1925 with a classroom wing along Rush Street that enclosed the courtyard. Gustave Steinback of New York designed it in the French Gothic Revival style, with Zachary T. Davis supervising construction in Chicago. The walls are Indiana limestone, with steep slate roofs, leaded windows, buttresses, a rose window, statues of saints in canopied niches, and an octagonal tower topped by a copper statue of St. George. Archbishop George Mundelein had the seminary built as a memorial to his predecessor, James Quigley, and wanted a beautiful building that would inspire students. He also hoped a shared education would unite a diverse, ethnically divided clergy. Surrounded today by much taller buildings, the seminary remains visually distinct and is still used as a church school.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"Gustave Steinback (design architect, New York); Zachary T. Davis (supervising Chicago architect); Joseph McCarthy (Rush Street addition)","architectural_style":"Late 19th and 20th Century Revivals/French Gothic Revival","criteria":[],"status_note":"Historic and current function are both listed as a church school; some windows have been replaced with glass block or frosted glass.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:37.340401-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/87/8919/28891987/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_IL/96000093.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/96000093/1d06e564f4-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/96000093/1d06e564f4-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 2.5","author":"Kim Scarborough","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Quigley_Seminary.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Kim Scarborough</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 2.5</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Quigley_Seminary.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/28891987","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archbishop_Quigley_Preparatory_Seminary","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2860020"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/illinois/cook-county/quigley-preparatory-seminary-96000093/"}