<Tr> <Th> Added to NRHP </Th> <Td> September 13, 1979 </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Designated CL </Th> <Td> November 14, 1977 </Td> </Tr> <P> Navy Pier is a 3,300 - foot - long (1,010 m) pier on the Chicago shoreline of Lake Michigan . It is located in the Streeterville neighborhood of the Near North Side community area . The Navy Pier currently encompasses more than fifty acres of parks, gardens, shops, restaurants, family attractions and exhibition facilities and is the top leisure destination in the Midwestern United States ("Midwest"), drawing nearly nine million visitors annually . It is one of the most visited attractions in the entire Midwest and is Chicago's number one tourist attraction . </P> <P> Navy Pier opened to the public on July 15, 1916 . Originally named "Municipal Pier," the pier was built by Charles Sumner Frost, a nationally known architect, with a design based on the Plan of Chicago (1909) by Daniel Burnham and Edward H. Bennett </P>

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