{"nrhp_refnum":"98000178","name":"Yale, The","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"6565 S. Yale Ave.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Chicago","county":"Cook County","state":"IL","lat":41.77449592800008,"lon":-87.63154770799997,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1998-03-05","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A seven-story Romanesque-style brick and limestone apartment building at 6565 South Yale Avenue in the Englewood neighborhood of Chicago, built in 1892-1893 and designed by architect John T. Long for developer Edgar M. Condit.","why_significant":"The nomination argues it is an excellent local example of Romanesque design and of its type and period of construction. Its most inventive feature is a central skylit light court atrium with hall galleries, a form borrowed from Chicago office buildings rather than from apartment plans of the time. The demolition of nearly all comparable Chicago buildings adds to its architectural importance.","narrative":"Rising seven stories at the corner of Yale Avenue and Sixty-Sixth Street in Chicago's Englewood neighborhood, this 1892-1893 apartment building towered over a district of two-story wood-frame houses. Architect John T. Long designed it for developer Edgar M. Condit, who placed 54 apartments on land that would otherwise have held perhaps two houses. The exterior combines rusticated limestone at the base, yellow brick above, rounded corner bays, arched windows and terra cotta cornices. Inside, every apartment opens onto galleries surrounding a 25-by-82-foot central court lit by a rooftop skylight, a plan drawn from downtown Chicago office buildings and tied to period concerns about light and air. The nomination holds that this enclosed space is the interior's chief distinction, and that the loss of most similar Chicago buildings heightens the building's value. The building is currently vacant, with some balustrade panels, windows and cornice sections missing.","period_of_significance":"1892-1893","architect_builder":"Long, John T., architect","architectural_style":"Romanesque","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"Currently unoccupied; some gallery balustrade panels, windows and part of the cornice are missing, though the exterior is described as in good preservation.","vacant_flag":true,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:37.611678-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/19/8921/28892119/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_IL/98000178.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/98000178/a84e6df92c-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/98000178/a84e6df92c-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"Zol87 from Chicago, IL, USA","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_Yale_Apartments.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Zol87 from Chicago, IL, USA</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 4.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_Yale_Apartments.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/28892119","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yale_Building","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q8047347"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/illinois/cook-county/yale-the-98000178/"}