Detail of 1873 Birds-Eye View of Springfield illustrating the Enos Park neighborhood. Note the presence of the horse-drawn trolley along North Fifth Street.
This map shows the location of the Enos Park neighborhood as bounded by North Grand, South Grand, West Grand (now MacArthur, renamed in 1942), and East Grand (now Eighteenth Street) Avenues. The construction of the four "Grand Avenues," which encompasses an area of four square miles, was proposed during the late 1850s and residential development generally remained within these boundaries through the 1890s. The location of additional architectural surveys which have been conducted within this community have also been noted on this figure.
The Springfield Iron Works was one of the early industries on Springfield's North End that influenced the development of the Enos Park neighborhood.
The Illinois Watch Factory, like Springfield Iron Works, was influential to the development of the Enos Park neighborhood.
The T. S. Little residence was a large Italianate structure located at the northwest corner of North Fifth Street and North Grand Avenue. Large suburban houses such as this were constructed during the middle nineteenth century along north Fifth and Sixth Streets. This house later became the home of W. O. Langdon. In April 1897, this structure became the Springfield Hospital and Training School, a 12-bed facility operated by the Evangelical Lutheran Synod. This was the beginnnings of Memorial Medical Center.
The J.T. Bretz House is a substantial Queen Anne style house constructed by a local contractor for his personal use in the Enos Park neighborhood.
The Queen Anne-style house constructed for Dr. C. M. Bowcock, located at 1058 North Sixth Street, is a good example of a small Queen Anne-style house in the Enos Park neighborhood.
