100 N. Central Park Ave., Chicago, Illinois. County/parish: Cook.
Added to the National Register of Historic Places August 31, 1993. NRIS 93000837.
9 contributing buildings. 1 contributing site. 7 contributing structures. 3 contributing objects.Also known as:
Garfield Park is a 184-acre (0.74 km2) urban park located in the East Garfield Park neighborhood on Chicago's West Side. It was designed as a pleasure ground by William LeBaron Jenney in the 1870s and is the oldest of the three original parks developed by the West Side parks commission on the Chicago park and boulevard plan (Humboldt Park, Garfield, and Douglass Park). It is home to the Garfield Park Conservatory, one of the largest plant conservatories in the United States. It is also the park furthest west in the Chicago park and boulevard system.
(read more...)National Park Service documentation: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/28891032