Logan Square Boulevards Historic District

Logan Square Boulevards is a residential historic district on Chicago's northwest side, made up of Logan, Kedzie and Humboldt boulevards and the Logan and Palmer squares. It forms a 2.5 mile section of the city's 26 mile boulevard system and contains roughly 400 buildings. Builders filled the lots between 1890 and 1915 with two- and three-story masonry two-flats, three-flats, single-family houses and apartment buildings, with a few churches and fraternal buildings. The Illinois Centennial Column, designed by Henry Bacon in 1918, anchors Logan Square. The district is notable for its rock-faced Bedford sandstone graystones, whose turrets, towers and bays echo the Romanesque mansions of Chicago's wealthy. Classical, Tudor and Prairie School designs add variety. Its significance rests on the intact boulevard landscape and the architectural quality of the buildings, with few modern intrusions or commercial buildings. It is considered the best-preserved continuous stretch of the city's nineteenth-century boulevards, and it was listed for its architecture, landscape architecture and community design.