Peoples Gas-Irving Park Neighborhood Store
- Architect
- George Grant Elmslie & Herman V. von Holst
- Year
- 1926
- Style
- Prairie School
- City
- Chicago, IL
The Peoples Gas-Irving Park Neighborhood Store is a 1926 commercial building at 4829 W Irving Park Road designed by George Grant Elmslie and Herman V. von Holst. Chicago designated it a landmark in 1987, marking a Prairie School architect's work on a small neighborhood retail commission for the city's gas utility.
the style
Prairie School (c. 1900–1920): Long horizontal lines: broad low roofs, deep overhangs, and continuous bands of windows hugging the ground.
More on Prairie Schoolthe architect
George Grant Elmslie was a Prairie School architect; here he worked alongside Herman V. von Holst on this neighborhood store for Peoples Gas.
significance
The building was designated Chicago Landmark L-163 on March 18, 1987.
nearby
- Portage Park Theatre Building
- Carl Schurz High School
- Charles N. Loucks House
- Henry V. Peters House
- Basilica of St. Hyacinth
- Municipal Tuberculosis Sanitarium Complex