Hyde Park – Kenwood Historic District

Hyde Park - Kenwood Historic District is the name of the National Register of Historic Places ( NRHP) listed historical monument ensemble in the South Side of Chicago in Illinois, United States, to the parts of the neighborhoods of Hyde Park and Kenwood are. The northern part of the Historic District overlaps with the earlier than Chicago Landmark designated Kenwood District. Here is the Chicago home of Barack Obama.

The historic district was added to the NRHP on February 14, 1979. A slight enlargement occurred twice, on 16 August 1984, on 16 May 1986. The District is roughly bounded by 47th Street, 59th Street, Lake Park Avenue and Cottage Grove Avenue. Although a large part of the lying therein contributing properties belong to the University of Chicago, the Hyde Park - Kenwood Historic District largely a residential area. Its historical significance is based on the architecture and its connection with education.

Among the amount forming structures within the district there are numerous independent registered on the National Register property, including the Frank R. Lillie House, the Isidore H. Heller House, Amos Jerome Snell Hall and Charles Hitchcock Hall, Arthur H. Compton House, the reactor Chicago Pile -1, St. Thomas Church and Convent, the Frederick C. Robie House, the George Herbert Jones Laboratory and the Robert A. Millikan House. You are all in Hide Park, from the recorded in Kenwood to NRHP property is none within the boundary of Hyde Park - Kenwood Historic District. The University Apartments are located within the district boundary. Chicago Pile - 1, and the Robie House are also two of the four included in the NRHP already on October 15, 1966 buildings.