Austin Historic District (Chicago, Illinois)

United States historic place


Austin Historic District
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
U.S. Historic district

Houses along the 5700 block of West Lake Street
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Location	Roughly bounded by W. Ohio St., N. Waller, Parkside, W. West End & N. Mayfield Aves. & W. Corcoran Pl., Chicago, Illinois
Coordinates	41°53′12″N 87°46′12″W / 41.88667°N 87.77000°W / 41.88667; -87.77000
Area	95 acres (38 ha)
NRHP reference No.	85001741
Added to NRHP	August 8, 1985

The Austin Historic District is a residential historic district in central Austin, Chicago, Illinois. The district, which includes 336 buildings, has a large number of Victorian homes, with many examples of the Queen Anne, Stick, and Shingle styles. Henry Austin, for whom Austin is named, began development in the district in the late 1860s. While the Panic of 1873 halted the area's early development, a construction boom in the 1880s spurred its growth; most of the homes in the district were built in the 1880s and 1890s. By the time Chicago annexed it in 1899, Austin had become one of the city's more significant middle-class suburbs. Future development in the neighborhood, including the construction of multi-family housing, changed its character, leaving the district to represent Austin's original plans.

References

"National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. November 2, 2013.
Barton, Tim; Slaton, Deborah (April 1985). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory - Nomination Form: Austin Historic District" (PDF). Illinois Historic Preservation Agency. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2019-02-18. Retrieved February 17, 2019.

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