Gold Coast Historic District (Chicago)
Gold Coast Historic District | |
Chicago, Illinois | |
Coordinates | 41°54′21″N 87°37′41″W / 41.90583°N 87.62806°W |
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Architect | McKim, Mead & White; multiple |
Architectural style | Moderne, Italianate, Queen Anne |
NRHP reference No. | 78001121 |
Added to NRHP | January 30, 1978[1] |
The Gold Coast Historic District is a historic district in Chicago, Illinois. Part of Chicago's Near North Side community area, it is roughly bounded by North Avenue, Lake Shore Drive, Oak Street, and Clark Street.
The Gold Coast neighborhood grew in the wake of the Great Chicago Fire. In 1882, millionaire Potter Palmer moved to the area from the Prairie Avenue neighborhood on the city's south side. He filled in a swampy area which later became Lake Shore Drive, and built the Palmer Mansion, a forty-two room castle-like structure designed by Henry Ives Cobb and Charles Sumner Frost. Other wealthy Chicagoans followed Potter into the neighborhood, which became one of the richest in Chicago.
In the late 1980s, the Gold Coast and neighboring
The district was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.[1][3]
The nearby
As of 2011, Gold Coast ranks as the seventh-richest urban neighborhood in the United States with a median household income of $153,358.[5]
Photos
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Night on the Gold Coast (including East Lake Shore Drive District)
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Luxury condominiums on Dearborn Street in the Gold Coast
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Townhomes on East Division Street in the Gold Coast
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Cooperative apartments on Lake Shore Drive in the Gold Coast
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The Gold Coast is a prominent part of the skyline
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Gold Coast from Streeterville
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Palmer Mansion (demolished in 1951)
Historical images of Chicago's Gold Coast can be found in Explore Chicago Collections, a digital repository made available by Chicago Collections archives, libraries and other cultural institutions in the city.[6]
Education
Residents of the Gold Coast are zoned to Ogden School for grades K-8,
The Latin School of Chicago is also located in the Gold Coast and is one of the nation's most prestigious K-12 private schools.
Notable residents
Gold Coast has a long tradition of being home to some of the nation's wealthiest and influential residents. These include:
- J. B. Pritzker – businessman, venture capitalist, politician and current Governor of Illinois
- Lori Greiner – inventor, entrepreneur, and television personality
- Vince Vaughn – actor
- Lee Miglin – real estate developer
- Ernest Hemingway – author and journalist
References
- ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. April 15, 2008.
- ^ Don DeBat and Gary S. Meyers. "Manhattan transfer–Streeterville and the Gold Coast : Second plushest neighborhood in U.S. has it all". Chicago Sun-Times. January 13, 1989. 15.
- ^ National Register of Historic Places in Cook County. Retrieved on June 12, 2008.
- ^ "Chicago neighborhoods" (PDF). City of Chicago. Retrieved April 16, 2010.[permanent dead link]
- ^ "The Richest Urban Neighborhoods In America". Business Insider. Archived from the original on May 20, 2022.
- ^ Long, Elizabeth. "A Single Portal to Chicago's History". The University of Chicago News. Retrieved September 17, 2016.
- ^ "Map." Gold Coast Neighbors Association. Retrieved on December 21, 2016.
- ^ Home. Ogden International School of Chicago. Retrieved on October 10, 2018. "Head of Elementary: [...] Grades K-4 East Campus 24 W. Walton St. Chicago, IL 60610"
- ^ Matthews, David (November 1, 2016). "Ogden-Jenner Merger Is Best For Both Schools, New Study Says". Archived from the original on December 21, 2016. Retrieved December 21, 2016.
- ^ "Near North/West/Central Elementary Schools Archived June 12, 2009, at the Wayback Machine" (Archive). Chicago Public Schools. May 17, 2013. Retrieved on May 25, 2015.
- ^ "HS North/Near North." Chicago Public Schools. 2013. Retrieved on September 30, 2016.
- ^ "Admissions". Ogden International School. Retrieved April 4, 2020.
Graduates of 8th grade at Jenner Campus can automatically enroll in 9th grade at Ogden's West Campus. If your child graduated from a different middle school [...]