{"nrhp_refnum":"98000978","name":"Illinois Industrial School for Girls","other_names":["Park Ridge School for Girls","Park Ridge Youth Campus","The Yout"],"category":"district","location":{"address":"733 N. Prospect Ave.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Park Ridge","county":"Cook County","state":"IL","lat":42.02160827150004,"lon":-87.82791957241861,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1998-08-06","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Social History","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A campus historic district at 733 North Prospect Avenue in Park Ridge, Cook County, Illinois, built from 1908 to 1914 as the Illinois Industrial School for Girls. It has nine contributing buildings, mostly Colonial Revival, on 14 remaining acres of an original 40.","why_significant":"The nomination points to the school's role in caring for dependent and neglected girls and its place among Illinois industrial schools that received state subsidy. It also stresses the intact circular campus plan, with six of nine contributing buildings designed by Holabird & Roche and grounds work attributed to landscape architect Ossian Cole Simonds.","narrative":"Set on 14 acres on North Prospect Avenue in Park Ridge, this campus began as the Illinois Industrial School for Girls, a home and training school for dependent and neglected girls. The school had operated from Evanston since 1877 and used the Park Ridge farm, bought in 1884, to support its work. Buildings went up between 1908 and 1914, arranged in a circle around an open center with a circular drive and mature trees attributed to landscape architect Ossian Cole Simonds. Holabird & Roche designed six of the nine contributing buildings, which are brick Colonial Revival cottages and the larger Straut School of Domestic Economy, with its limestone Ionic portico. Donors such as Julius Rosenwald and James A. Patten funded individual cottages. Later additions in the 1960s and 1970s were placed to complement the layout. The property remains in use serving youth, and its historic buildings have seen only minimal alteration.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"Holabird & Roche of Chicago (six of nine contributing buildings); contractors James Shedden & Company and Morrice & Barron; landscape architect Ossian Cole Simonds","architectural_style":"Colonial Revival; Classical Revival","criteria":[],"status_note":"Still owned and operated as an agency assisting needy youth, consistent with its original mission; the Straut Building has been unheated for about 20 years and renovation is planned for 1998-99.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:37.587433-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/61/8926/28892661/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_IL/98000978.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/98000978/8a6b9e7c72-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/98000978/8a6b9e7c72-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Teemu08 at en.wikipedia","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Maine_Youth_Campus.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Teemu08 at en.wikipedia</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 3.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Maine_Youth_Campus.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/28892661","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Park_Ridge_Youth_Campus","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q62088390"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/illinois/cook-county/illinois-industrial-school-for-girls-98000978/"}