Gold Coast Historic District
The 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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Quarter
- Description: human settlement in Chicago, Illinois, United States of America
- Also known as: “Gold Coast”
Places of Interest
Highlights include James Charnley House and Newberry Library.
James Charnley House
Museum
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The James Charnley House is a learned society headquarters and historic house museum at 1365 North Astor Street, along the Gold Coast, in the Near North Side of Chicago in Illinois, United States.
Newberry Library
Library
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The Newberry Library is an independent research library specializing in the humanities, located in the Near North Side community area of Chicago, Illinois, United States. It has been free and open to the public since 1887.
900 North Michigan
Shopping center
900 North Michigan is a skyscraper in Chicago, Illinois, U.S, completed in 1989. At 871 feet tall, it is the eleventh tallest building in Chicago as of 2023 and the 59th-tallest in the United States.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Near North and Old Town.
Near North
The Near North is the shop-and-awe center of Chicago. It's bounded by North Avenue to the north, the Chicago River to the west and south, and Lake Michigan to the east.
Old Town
Quarter
Photo: Victorgrigas, CC BY-SA 2.5.
Old Town is a neighborhood and historic district in Near North Side and Lincoln Park, Chicago, Illinois. It contains many of Chicago's older, Victorian-era buildings, including St. Michael's Church, one of seven buildings to survive the Great Chicago Fire.
Along the Magnificent Mile
Neighborhood
Photo: Bert Kaufmann, CC BY 2.0.
The Magnificent Mile is the approximately one-mile-long stretch of Michigan Avenue from the Chicago River to Oak Street on the Near North Side of Chicago, Illinois.
Gold Coast Historic District
- Categories: neighborhood, historic district, and locality
- Location: Chicago, Cook, Chicagoland, Illinois, Midwest, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
41.90486° or 41° 54′ 18″ northLongitude
-87.62871° or 87° 37′ 43″ westElevation
584 feet (178 metres)Open location code
86HJW93C+WGOpenStreetMap ID
node 153361299OpenStreetMap feature
place=quarter
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In Other Languages
From Chinese to Spanish—“Gold Coast Historic District” goes by many names.
- Chinese: “黄金海岸历史地区 (芝加哥)”
- Chinese: “黄金湖岸历史地区”
- Dutch: “Gold Coast Historic District”
- French: “Gold Coast Historic District”
- Japanese: “ゴールド・コースト歴史地区 (シカゴ)”
- Japanese: “ゴールド・コースト歴史地区”
- Spanish: “Distrito histórico de Gold Coast”
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Localities in the Area
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Fisher Studio Houses and Chabad of the Gold Coast.
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Gold Coast Historic District”. Photo: Bonfire2k4, CC BY 2.5.