Lakeview Historic District (Boundary Increase)

This boundary extension adds a short stretch of Belmont Avenue in Chicago's Lakeview neighborhood to an existing historic district. The block, on the south side between Orchard and Halsted Streets, holds nine contributing buildings. They include an 18-unit corner apartment building from 1915, three apartment hotels from the 1920s, two half-courtyard apartment buildings designed by Otto Zippwald in 1916, and a corner commercial building from 1912. Two survivors of the 1890s stand among them: a Richardsonian Romanesque house at 705 Belmont with a red granite exterior, and a townhouse at 737 Belmont. Most buildings are brick, human in scale and three to four stories tall. Together they illustrate how larger multi-unit buildings replaced smaller homes as Lakeview's population grew from about 60,000 to nearly 115,000 between 1910 and 1930. The extension was approved because the block resembles the neighboring district blocks in character and fixes an earlier boundary error.