Gold Coast Historic District (other)
Gold Coast Historic District can refer to: * Gold Coast Historic District (Chicago) * Gold Coast Historic District (Omaha, Nebraska) * Gold Coast Historic District (Richland, Washington) The Gold Coast Historic District is a residential area in Richland, Washington, the town that was built during the World War II Manhattan Project to house workers at the Hanford atomic plant. The homes within the district date from 1948–49 ...

Gold Coast Historic District (Chicago)
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. 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 Sumner 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. Today, the neighborhood is a mixture of mansions, row houses, and high-rise apartments. Highlights include the A ...
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Gold Coast Historic District (Omaha, Nebraska)
The Gold Coast Historic District is located in Midtown Omaha, Midtown Omaha, Nebraska. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1997, this Historic districts in the United States, historic district covers approximately a 30 block area roughly bounded by 36th, 40th, Jones, and Cuming Streets. The neighborhood housed many of Omaha's Culture in Omaha, Nebraska, cultural and financial leaders between 1900 and 1920, taking over from Omaha's Old Gold Coast, original Gold Coast in prominence. After the area was developed in the late 1800s and early 1900s the area had mostly middle and upper class residents, and it included mansions as well as single family homes, and also some apartment buildings and duplexes. The West Farnam neighborhood, later called the Blackstone, was distinct from the Cathedral neighborhood at the time; both are included in the larger Gold Coast. With About This historic district was a trendy social hotspot in the 1920s, and was called the "Gold Coa ...
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