Sheridan Park Historic District

Sheridan Park is a Chicago residential neighborhood on the city's north side, lying along a sandy ridge between Graceland and St. Boniface cemeteries. Its 369 buildings were put up between 1891 and 1929 on large lots, mostly fifty feet wide, laid out by early subdividers. Large suburban-style Victorian houses came first, followed by walk-up apartments, especially six-flats, of which 103 remain. A small number of courtyard buildings and apartment hotels, including the twelve-story Norman Hotel, came in the 1910s and 1920s. Dover Street, resubdivided into narrower lots, has a smaller scale and a more English-influenced character. Consistent setbacks and building heights hold the area together despite its variety. Postwar conversions to rooming houses, resided frame houses, lost cornices and vacant land have affected some blocks. Only fifteen buildings are counted as intrusive, and the nomination treats that as evidence of the district's integrity. Local opinion on listing was divided at the time.