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Section 106 Historic Properties Identification Report North Lake Shore Drive Phase I Study E. Grand Avenue to W. Hollywood Avenue Job No. P-88-004-07 MFT Section No. 07-B6151-00-PV Cook County, Illinois Prepared For: Illinois Department of Transportation Chicago Department of Transportation Prepared By: Quigg Engineering, Inc. Julia S. Bachrach Jean A. Follett Lisa Napoles Elizabeth A. Patterson Adam G. Rubin Christine Whims Matthew M. Wicklund Civiltech Engineering, Inc. Jennifer Hyman March 2021 North Lake Shore Drive Phase I Study Table of Contents Executive Summary ....................................................................................................................................... v 1.0 Introduction and Description of Undertaking .............................................................................. 1 1.1 Project Overview ........................................................................................................................... 1 1.2 NLSD Area of Potential Effects (NLSD APE) ................................................................................... 1 2.0 Historic Resource Survey Methodologies ..................................................................................... 3 2.1 Lincoln Park and the National Register of Historic Places ............................................................ 3 2.2 Historic Properties in APE Contiguous to Lincoln Park/NLSD ....................................................... 4 3.0 Historic Context Statements ......................................................................................................... 8 3.1 History of Lincoln Park/NLSD and Development of Surrounding Neighborhoods ....................... 8 3.1.1 Early History of Lincoln Park — 1837 to Late 1860s ............................................................. 8 3.1.2 Lincoln Park Commission and North Lake Shore Drive — 1869 to Mid-1880s ................... 10 3.1.3 Near North Side Develops After Great Fire — Mid 1870s to Late 1880s ............................ 12 3.1.4 Lincoln Park: Lakefront Development and Park Expansion — 1885 to Late 1890s ............ 15 3.1.5 Residential Development along the North Lakefront — 1890s to 1910 ............................. 18 3.1.6 Mismanagement, Reform, and Improvements in Lincoln Park — Late 1890s through Mid-1910s ........................................................................................................................... 20 3.1.7 Various Residential Building Types Develop Along Lakefront — 1910 to 1920 .................. 24 3.1.8 Proposals and Improvements in and around Lincoln Park — Mid-1910s to Early 1930s ... 28 3.1.9 Residential Development Accelerates and Declines — 1920 to Mid-1940s ....................... 31 3.1.10 Lincoln Park and Lake Shore Drive Improvements Under CPD — 1934 through Late 1950s ........................................................................................................................... 37 3.1.11 Post WWII Residential Development Along the Lakefront — Late 1940s to Early 1960s ......................................................................................................................... 41 3.1.12 Four-Plus-Ones: A New Apartment Type Rises Near Lake Shore Drive — Mid- to Late- 1960s .................................................................................................................................. 49 3.1.13 Lake Shore Drive and Lincoln Park — 1960s through the Early 1980s ............................... 50 3.1.14 Next Wave of Residential High-rise Development Along the Lakefront — Mid-1960s to 1981 ................................................................................................................................ 53 3.1.15 Recent Changes to Lincoln Park and Lake Shore Drive — Late 1980s through 2010s ........ 59 3.2 Community Areas ........................................................................................................................ 62 3.2.1 Near North Side Community Area ...................................................................................... 62 3.2.1.1 History of Near North Side .............................................................................................. 63 Historic Properties Identification i March 2021 Report North Lake Shore Drive Phase I Study 3.2.2 Lincoln Park Community Area ............................................................................................. 86 3.2.2.1 History of Lincoln Park .................................................................................................... 86 3.2.3 Lakeview Community Area ................................................................................................. 92 3.2.3.1 History of Lakeview ......................................................................................................... 93 3.2.4 Uptown Community Area ................................................................................................. 102 3.2.4.1 History of Uptown ......................................................................................................... 103 3.2.5 Edgewater Community Area ............................................................................................. 111 3.2.5.1 History of Edgewater .................................................................................................... 111 3.3 Biographies of Key Architects and Firms ................................................................................... 120 3.3.1 Barancik Conte & Associates ............................................................................................. 120 3.3.2 Thomas R. Bishop .............................................................................................................. 122 3.3.3 Childs & Smith ................................................................................................................... 124 3.3.4 Robert Seeley DeGolyer .................................................................................................... 125 3.3.5 Dubin & Dubin/ Dubin, Dubin, Black & Moutoussamy ..................................................... 126 3.3.6 Fugard & Knapp/ Eckland, Fugard & Knapp/ Thielbar & Fugard/Fugard, Burt, Wilkinson, & Orth ............................................................................................................. 128 3.3.7 Harald M. Hansen ............................................................................................................. 130 3.3.8 Holabird & Roche/ Holabird & Root ................................................................................. 131 3.3.9 Hooper & Janusch ............................................................................................................. 134 3.3.10 William Le Baron Jenney/ Jenney & Mundie/ Jenney, Mundie, & Jensen ........................ 136 3.3.11 David Saul Klafter .............................................................................................................. 139 3.3.12 Loebl, Schlossman & DeMuth/ Loebl & Schlossman/ Loebl, Schlossman & Bennett/ Loebl, Schlossman, Bennett & Dart/ Loebl, Schlossman, Dart & Hackl/ Loebl, Schlossman & Hackl ............................................................................................... 140 3.3.13 Loewenberg & Loewenberg .............................................................................................. 143 3.3.14 John Macsai: Hausner & Macsai/ Campbell & Macsai/ Macsai & Associates .................. 144 3.3.15 Marshall & Fox/ Benjamin H. Marshall ............................................................................. 145 3.3.16 McNally & Quinn/ Frank McNally & Associates ................................................................ 148 3.3.17 Ludwig Mies van der Rohe ................................................................................................ 150 3.3.18 Paul F. Olsen ...................................................................................................................... 152 3.3.19 Charles M. Palmer ............................................................................................................. 153 3.3.20 Raggi & Schoenbrod/ Richard Raggi & Associates ............................................................ 155 3.3.21 Rissman & Hirschfeld/ Leo S. Hirschfeld/ Hirschfeld, Pawlan & Reinheimer ................... 156 Historic Properties Identification ii March 2021 Report North Lake Shore Drive Phase I Study 3.3.22 James Gamble Rogers ....................................................................................................... 158 3.3.23 Andrew Sandegren ............................................................................................................ 160 3.3.24 Howard Van Doren Shaw .................................................................................................. 161 3.3.25 Shaw, Metz, & Dolio/ Shaw, Metz & Associates ............................................................... 162 3.3.26 Solomon, Cordwell, Buenz & Associates ........................................................................... 164 3.3.27 Axel V. Teisen .................................................................................................................... 165 3.3.28 Treat & Foltz ...................................................................................................................... 167 3.3.29 Harry Weese & Associates ...............................................................................................