National Register of Historic Places listings in Central Chicago
Currently there are 124 properties listed on the National Register of Historic Places in Central Chicago, out of 374 listings in the City of Chicago. Central Chicago includes 3 of the 77 well-defined community areas of Chicago: the historic business and cultural center of Chicago known as the Loop, as well as the Near North Side and the Near South Side. The combined area is bounded by Lake Michigan on the east, the Chicago River on the west, North Avenue (1600 N.) on the north, and 26th Street (2600 S.) on the south. This area runs five and one-quarter miles from north to south and about one and one-half miles from east to west.
The Chicago central city area includes many early classic skyscrapers of the Chicago School of Architecture, such as Burnham and Root's Monadnock and the Reliance Buildings, as well as buildings from the early Modernist period, such as Ludwig Mies van der Rohe's IBM Building and 860–880 Lake Shore Drive Apartments. Chicago's earliest surviving building, the Henry B. Clarke House is on the Near South Side, close to the Prairie Avenue District, which many critics view as the jewel of residential Chicago architecture. Architect Louis Sullivan's work is represented by the Carson, Pirie, Scott and Company Building, and Auditorium Building. Though Frank Lloyd Wright worked downtown early in his career as an assistant to Sullivan - including work on the James Charnley House - his own work in the central city is represented only by a renovation of the lobby of Daniel Burnham's and John Wellborn Root's Rookery Building.
At least three sites relate to the city's role in nationwide retailing.[1] Included also are several religious buildings, six hotels,[2] and four theaters.[3]
- This National Park Service list is complete through NPS recent listings posted February 5, 2021.[4]
| NRHP-listed | |
| ∞ | NRHP-listed Historic district |
| * | National Historic Landmark and NRHP-listed |
| ∞ | National Historic Landmark and NRHP-listed Historic district |
Current listings
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Former listing
| [5] | Name on the Register | Image | Date listed | Date removed | Location | Summary |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Chicago Stock Exchange Building |  Chicago Stock Exchange Building |
1970 (#70000911) | December 7, 1971 | 30 N. LaSalle St. |
Demolished in 1972.[8] |
| 2 | Grand Central Passenger Station |  Grand Central Passenger Station |
Unknown (#71001084) | 1971 | S. Wells and Harrison |
Demolished in 1971. |
| 3 | Leiter I Building | Leiter I Building |
Unknown (#70000910) | 1972 | 200–208 W. Monroe St. |
Demolished in 1972 |
| 4 | McCarthy Building | June 16, 1976 (#76000698) | December 8, 1995 | Washington and Dearborn Sts. |
Demolished | |
| 5 | New Michigan Hotel | .tif.jpg.webp) New Michigan Hotel |
Unavailable (#83003562) | March 14, 2002 | 2135 S. Michigan Avenue |
Originally the Lexington Hotel; the building was demolished in 1996.[9] |
| 6 | Soldier Field |  Soldier Field |
August 9, 1984 (#84001052) | February 17, 2006 | 425 E. 14th Street 41°51′45″N 87°36′59″W |
Near South Side. Designation removed due to extensive renovations. |
| 7 | Unity Building |  Unity Building |
September 6, 1979 (#79000829) | December 8, 1995 | 127 N. Dearborn St. |
Demolished in 1989 |
| 8 | Western Methodist Book Concern Building | September 11, 1975 (#75000654) | December 8, 1995 | 12 W. Washington St. |
See also
- List of Chicago Landmarks (the historic places listed as Chicago Landmarks are protected by city ordinance)
- National Register of Historic Places listings in Cook County, Illinois
- List of National Historic Landmarks in Illinois
References
- The retailing sites are: Montgomery Ward Company Complex, Marshall Field Company Store, and Carson, Pirie, Scott and Company Building
- Hotels: 6 sites have "hotel" in their name.
- The four NRHP sites that are theaters are: the Auditorium Building, Balaban and Katz Chicago Theatre, the New Masonic Building and Oriental Theater and Orchestra Hall,
- "National Register of Historic Places: Weekly List Actions". National Park Service, United States Department of the Interior. Retrieved on February 5, 2021.
- Numbers represent an alphabetical ordering by significant words. Various colorings, defined here, differentiate National Historic Landmarks and historic districts from other NRHP buildings, structures, sites or objects.
- "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. April 24, 2008.
- The eight-digit number below each date is the number assigned to each location in the National Register Information System database, which can be viewed by clicking the number.
- 36 FR 23258
- "The Lexington Hotel". Buildings. The South Loop Historical Society. Archived from the original on 11 December 2011. Retrieved 15 September 2012.
External links
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- Chicago Listing on the National Register of Historic Places, August 5, 2011, City of Chicago, Rahm Emanuel, Mayor.
- NPS Focus database, National Park Service.
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