Detail: 3 Erie Ct Oak Park Illinois: RuskinARC™

Basics

Resource Category:

Building

Resource Type:

Hospital

Location

Address:

3 Erie Ct

City:

Oak Park

County:

Cook

State/Province/Region:

Illinois

Zip/Postal Code:

60302

Country:

USA

Other Address or Location Information:

Parcel/Tax number or land unit:

Local place name:

Setting/Landscape/Site Features:

Acreage, parcel, land unit size:

Quad/Map name and date:

Date

Township/Range/Section:

/ /

Visible from Public Road?

Yes

Historical Information

Historic name:

West Suburban Hospital

Current name:

West Suburban Medical Center

Construction Date (range/estimated):

1910-1919

Construction Date Certainty:

documented

Known Construction Date:

1911

Source for Known Construction Date:

Village of Oak Park building permit archives.

Architect/Designer:

Eben E. Roberts

Developer:

Builder:

Guy & McClintock

Significant Owner(s):

West Suburban Hospital

Historical Summary:

The original hospital building was constructed on the NW corner of Ontario and Austin, gradually expanding west and north in 1922 and 1927. The College of Nursing was constructed on Erie in 1924-1925, and the two buildings were connected in 1957. Later additions in 1967 expanded westward. The medical office building was constructed in 1982 and the south pavilion in 1996. The emergency room was added in 2009, creating its present configuration.

Extant Status:

Not Demolished

Architectural Style and Form

Plan/Footprint Shape:

irregular

Building Form or Plan Type (core plan):

stacked vertical block

Style, Primary:

Beaux Arts/Neo-Classical

Style, Secondary:

Notes on architectural style, form, distinguishing features:

Architectural Elements and Features

Number of Stories:

Bays:

Structural System:

masonry

Foundation:

Basement:

Building Size:

Square footage/meters:

Roof Configuration:

Flat with parapet

Roof Material

Roof remarks/description:

Various roof levels and forms. Central hipped roof clad in green clay tiles.

Eave Type:

Eave Ornamentation:

Dormer Count:

multiple

Dormer Configuration:

hip-roofed

Exterior Wall Material (primary):

original brick

Exterior Wall Material (secondary):

original stone

Notes on exterior materials:

Principal Windows::

replacement aluminum

Window Panes/Lights:

Window Type:

fixed

Window remarks:

College of Nursing building retains its original 1-over-1 and 2-over-2 wood double-hung windows.

Chimney remarks/description:

Multiple brick chimneys

Chimney Count (first):

Chimney Placement 1:

Chimney Count (second):

Chimney Placement 2:

Porch description, characteristics, details:

Historic limestone entrance enclosures along Austin have been enclosed. Brick and stone entry porch with clay tile roof on College of Nursing building faces Erie. Entrance canopy at ER building.

Porch Height, Stories:

Porch Configuration:

Porch Type:

Porch Roof Shape:

Porch Roof Material:

Porch Columns/Posts (upper or only):

Porch Piers (lower):

Primary entryway:

Primary entrance through the 1982 medical office building.

Function and Use

Historic Function:

Health Care: Hospital

Present Function:

Health Care: Hospital

Function remarks:

Listed, Designated, or Protected Status

Status Code:

Listed at the national level?

Individually Listed: No
Contributes to a District: Yes
Landmark: No

Date, name, remarks:

Ridgeland/Oak Park Historic District 1983

Designated at State/Province level?

Individually Listed: No
Contributes to a District: No
Landmark: No

Date, name, remarks:

Designated Locally?

Individually Listed: No
Contributes to a District: Yes
Landmark: No

Date, name, remarks:

Ridgeland/Oak Park Historic District 1994

Protected by ordinance or regulation?:

Yes

Protection status, remarks:

Historic Preservation Ordinance

Evaluation of Potential Eligibility

Potentially eligible for historic/heritage designation?

Contributes to potential district

Level of potential eligibility

National
Local

Rating or Rank

Contributing

Recommended as a potential landmark?

Criteria:

Significance and Context

Theme(s)

Period of significance

Significance/Context Remarks

Area(s) of Significance

Ancillary Structures / Outbuildings

Number of ancillary structures / outbuildings:

Secondary structure type

Contributing to primary property?

Ancillary structures remarks or description:

Condition and Alterations

Character of modifications:

Moderate alteration

General Condition:

Good

Moved or Relocated?:

Date moved or relocated:

Relocation remarks:

Alterations?

Yes

Date of major alterations:

Nature of alterations:

Windows, entrances, parapets

Additions?:

Yes

Date of major additions:

Numerous

Addition Height:

Addition Placement:

Addition Type:

Nature of additions:

Endangered / Threatened

Endangered by:

Endangered/Threatened remarks:

Recommendations:

Contact:

Tourism / Featured Destination

Open to the public:

Contact information, Hours, and Amenities:

For Sale, Rent, or Lease

Property Classification:

Sale status:

Sale remarks:

Owner

Ownership type:

Name of Owner:

Owner Mailing Address:

Legal Description of Property/Comments:

Survey and Recorder

Authorized Resource Number or ID :

Optional Tracking or Sequence Number:

Alternate Resource ID or Key:

Survey Date:

April 24, 2014

Surveyed By:

Douglas Kaarre, AICP
Village of Oak Park

Report Name, or Reason for Survey:

Survey and Planning

Level of Survey:

intensive

Sources, References, Bibliography

Previously Surveyed?

Yes

Name of Previous Survey:

Second District Survey 1978

Additional Research Recommended?

Other Sources of Information:

Building permit records.

General Remarks:

Latitude:	41.8911229792106500
Longitude:	-87.7758354772461200
UTM:	Zone 16T 435637.5217 mE, 4637978.8246 mN
Datum	WGS84

South addition (1922) and Pavilion (1996) on Ontario

North addition (1957) at Austin and Erie

Architectural remnant of 209 N. Humphrey

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3 Erie Ct Oak Park, Illinois USA

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