Garfield Park (Chicago)

For the park and conservatory in Indianapolis, see Garfield Park (Indianapolis).
Garfield Park
The Garfield Park Fieldhouse
Garfield Park (Chicago) is located in Chicago metropolitan area
Garfield Park (Chicago)
Location300 N. Central Park Ave.
Chicago, Illinois
Coordinates41°53′11″N 87°43′2″W / 41.88639°N 87.71722°W / 41.88639; -87.71722
Built1907
ArchitectWilliam LeBaron Jenney, Hitchings and Company
Architectural styleExotic Revival, Colonial Revival
NRHP reference No.93000837[1]
Significant dates
Added to NRHPAugust 31, 1993
Designated CLNovember 18, 2009

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.[2]

  1. ^ "National Register of Historical Places – Illinois (IL), Cook County". National Register of Historic Places. Nationalregisterofhistoricplaces.com. Retrieved 2008-07-25.
  2. ^ "Chicago Tours with Geoffrey Baer | Biking the Boulevards". 3 August 2023.