Northeast Evanston Historic District

Northeast Evanston Historic District is a long, narrow residential neighborhood on Evanston's lakefront, north of the downtown. It contains 931 buildings and structures, including 546 primary buildings and hundreds of garages, barns and coach houses, most built between about 1860 and 1949. Single-family houses make up about 95% of the primary buildings, set on generous lots along wide, tree-lined streets. Colonial Revival, Craftsman and Tudor Revival houses dominate, alongside Queen Anne, Classical Revival, Prairie and other styles. Notable buildings include Orrington School, Roycemore School, Kendall College and several apartment courts. The district also contains the Grosse Point Light Station, a National Historic Landmark, the Harley B. Clarke House and public parks. Its significance rests on how fully it preserves the architecture and street pattern of an early twentieth-century suburban neighborhood, where alterations have mostly been limited to siding and porches.