Hamilton Park (Chicago)


Hamilton Park
U.S. National Register of Historic Places


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Location	513 W. 72nd St., Chicago, Illinois
Coordinates	41°45′42″N 87°38′14″W / 41.76167°N 87.63722°W / 41.76167; -87.63722
Area	30 acres (12 ha)
Architect	Olmsted Brothers, D. H. Burnham and Company
Architectural style	Beaux Arts, Art Deco
MPS	Chicago Park District MPS
NRHP reference No.	95000487^[1]
Added to NRHP	April 20, 1995

Hamilton Park is a public park at 513 W. 72nd Street in the Englewood neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois. The park opened in 1904 as part of a plan led by the South Park Commission to add small neighborhood parks on Chicago's South Side. It was the first public park in Englewood. Landscape designers the Olmsted Brothers and architecture firm D. H. Burnham & Company collaborated on the park's design. The park opened with a fieldhouse, baseball field, wading pool, and walkways; within the decade, the designers added gymnasiums, a playground, and tennis courts. The fieldhouse has a Beaux-Arts design, and its inside features several murals of prominent figures in American history. The park was heavily used after it opened, and the fieldhouse in particular was booked so consistently that it was expanded in the 1920s.^[2]

The park was added to the National Register of Historic Places on April 20, 1995.^[1]

References

^ ^a ^b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. November 2, 2013.
^ Carusi, Corina; Garofalo, J. T. (November 23, 1994). "National Register of Historic Places Registration Form: Hamilton Park" (PDF). Illinois Historic Preservation Division. Retrieved September 25, 2019.^{[dead link]}

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