Gold Coast Historic District (Chicago, Illinois)

Infobox_nrhp | name =Gold Coast Historic District
nrhp_type = hd


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location= Roughly bounded by North Ave., Lake Shore Dr., Clark and Oak Sts., Chicago, Illinois
lat_degrees = 41
lat_minutes = 54
lat_seconds = 21
lat_direction = N
long_degrees = 87
long_minutes = 37
long_seconds = 41
long_direction = W
locmapin = Illinois
area =
architect= McKim,Mead & White; multiple
architecture= Moderne, Italianate, Queen Anne
added = January 30, 1978cite web|url=http://www.nr.nps.gov/|title=National Register Information System|date=2008-04-15|work=National Register of Historic Places|publisher=National Park Service]
governing_body = Private
refnum=78001121The 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 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 Streeterville comprised the second most-affluent neighborhood in the United States, behind Manhattan's Upper East Side. [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.] Today, the neighborhood is a mixture of mansions, row houses, and high-rise apartments. Highlights include the Astor Street District and the James Charnley House.

The district was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1978. [ [http://www.nationalregisterofhistoricplaces.com/IL/Cook/state4.html National Register of Historic Places in Cook County] . Retrieved on June 12,2008.]

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* [http://www.goldcoastneighbors.org Gold Coast Neighbors Association]