{"nrhp_refnum":"99000973","name":"Four Nineteen Building","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"419 E. 83rd St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Chicago","county":"Cook County","state":"IL","lat":41.744705331000034,"lon":-87.60221025099997,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1999-08-12","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A one-story brick gas station at 419 E. 83rd Street in Chicago's Chatham neighborhood, built in 1928 as a business venture by William D. Meyering and David L. Sutton. Architect and builder are unknown.","why_significant":"The nomination argues it is a well-preserved example of a combined \"House with Canopy and Bays\" filling station type and one of the few remaining pre-1945 stations on Chicago's South Side. It also has distinctive clinker brickwork laid in a skintled pattern, reflecting an era of individually owned neighborhood stations. It is significant locally under Criterion C for architecture.","narrative":"Four Nineteen is a one-story brick filling station at 419 E. 83rd Street in Chicago's Chatham neighborhood. It opened on December 21, 1928, built by William D. Meyering and David L. Sutton, both local real estate men and aldermen. A gabled canopy on two brick piers sits at the center of the front, flanked by two garage bays on each side. The walls are clinker brick, hard and cracked from kiln heat, laid in English bond with a skintled pattern that gives a rough texture. Mission tiles in red, yellow and green line the parapet and canopy, and the steel casement windows and wood doors are original. Inside, a central office sits between a greasing room with two full-sized grease pits and a car washing and repair room. The station is now vacant and has suffered vandalism, but it keeps its original plan and materials. It is valued as one of the few pre-1945 stations left on Chicago's South Side.","period_of_significance":"1928","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Other: house with canopy and bays / gas station","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"Now vacant; the garage bays are covered with plywood, and vandalism has damaged the roof, gutters, skylight and pumps.","vacant_flag":true,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:37.416763-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/6/8920/28892006/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_IL/99000973.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/99000973/c6416cac54-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/99000973/c6416cac54-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Thshriver","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:419_Building.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Thshriver</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:419_Building.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/28892006","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Nineteen_Building","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q15218296"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/illinois/cook-county/four-nineteen-building-99000973/"}