Detail: 211 Clinton Ave Oak Park Illinois: RuskinARC™

Basics

Resource Category:

Building

Resource Type:

Single-family residence

Location

Address:

211 Clinton Ave

City:

Oak Park

County:

Cook

State/Province/Region:

Illinois

Zip/Postal Code:

60302

Country:

USA

Other Address or Location Information:

Parcel/Tax number or land unit:

Local place name:

Setting/Landscape/Site Features:

Acreage, parcel, land unit size:

Quad/Map name and date:

Date

Township/Range/Section:

/ /

Visible from Public Road?

Yes

Historical Information

Historic name:

Current name:

Construction Date (range/estimated):

1870-1879

Construction Date Certainty:

approximate

Known Construction Date:

1873

Source for Known Construction Date:

Historical Society of Oak Park & River Forest

Architect/Designer:

Developer:

Builder:

Significant Owner(s):

Historical Summary:

Depicted on an 1873 map of Oak Park, this Italianate residence originally was a modest-sized house with a rooftop cupola. The enclosed porch and rear section of the house are additions. The Lemont limestone foundation was carefully matched in the remodelling process.

The low hipped roof, bracketed eaves, and tall, narrow windows are typical Italianate features. When built, the house probably had a front and back parlor, dining room, and lean-to kitchen on the first floor, with four bedrooms on the second floor. Most of the interior woodwork is pine with the exception of a mahogany bannister on the front stairs (Ridgeland Revealed p31).

Extant Status:

Not Demolished

Architectural Style and Form

Plan/Footprint Shape:

rectangular

Building Form or Plan Type (core plan):

Italianate

Style, Primary:

Italianate

Style, Secondary:

Notes on architectural style, form, distinguishing features:

Paired brackets in the cornice; two-story box bays on north and south; one-story enclosed side porch on south with paired columns.

Architectural Elements and Features

Number of Stories:

Bays:

Structural System:

frame

Foundation:

Stone

Basement:

Building Size:

Square footage/meters:

Roof Configuration:

Low hip

Roof Material

replacement asphalt shingles

Roof remarks/description:

Eave Type:

Eave Ornamentation:

paired brackets

Dormer Count:

Dormer Configuration:

Exterior Wall Material (primary):

original Wood Clapboard

Exterior Wall Material (secondary):

Notes on exterior materials:

Heavy decorative wood window surrounds.

Principal Windows::

original wood

Window Panes/Lights:

2 over 2

Window Type:

double-hung sashes

Window remarks:

Also 1-over-1 double-hung windows.

Chimney remarks/description:

Chimney Count (first):

one

Chimney Placement 1:

center straddle ridge brick

Chimney Count (second):

Chimney Placement 2:

Porch description, characteristics, details:

Porch Height, Stories:

Porch Configuration:

single-bay

Porch Type:

platform/stoop

Porch Roof Shape:

Gabled Canopy with bracket supports

Porch Roof Material:

asphalt shingles

Porch Columns/Posts (upper or only):

Porch Piers (lower):

Primary entryway:

Double entry doors.

Function and Use

Historic Function:

Domestic: Single Dwelling

Present Function:

Domestic: Single Dwelling

Function remarks:

Listed, Designated, or Protected Status

Status Code:

Listed at the national level?

Individually Listed: No
Contributes to a District: Yes
Landmark: No

Date, name, remarks:

Ridgeland/Oak Park National Register District 1983

Designated at State/Province level?

Individually Listed: No
Contributes to a District: No
Landmark: No

Date, name, remarks:

Designated Locally?

Individually Listed: No
Contributes to a District: Yes
Landmark: No

Date, name, remarks:

Ridgeland/Oak Park Historic District 1994

Protected by ordinance or regulation?:

Yes

Protection status, remarks:

Historic Preservation Ordinance

Evaluation of Potential Eligibility

Potentially eligible for historic/heritage designation?

Contributes to potential district

Level of potential eligibility

National
Local

Rating or Rank

Contributing

Recommended as a potential landmark?

Local level landmark

Criteria:

C. Embodies distinctive physical characteristics of design, construction, or form.

Significance and Context

Theme(s)

Period of significance

Significance/Context Remarks

Area(s) of Significance

Ancillary Structures / Outbuildings

Number of ancillary structures / outbuildings:

Secondary structure type

garage

Contributing to primary property?

Ancillary structures remarks or description:

Condition and Alterations

Character of modifications:

Compatible with character

General Condition:

Excellent

Moved or Relocated?:

Date moved or relocated:

Relocation remarks:

Alterations?

Yes

Date of major alterations:

Nature of alterations:

Missing front porch

Additions?:

Date of major additions:

Addition Height:

Addition Placement:

Addition Type:

Nature of additions:

Endangered / Threatened

Endangered by:

Endangered/Threatened remarks:

Recommendations:

Contact:

Tourism / Featured Destination

Open to the public:

Contact information, Hours, and Amenities:

For Sale, Rent, or Lease

Property Classification:

Sale status:

Sale remarks:

Owner

Ownership type:

Name of Owner:

Owner Mailing Address:

Legal Description of Property/Comments:

Survey and Recorder

Authorized Resource Number or ID :

Optional Tracking or Sequence Number:

Alternate Resource ID or Key:

Survey Date:

April 17, 2014

Surveyed By:

Douglas Kaarre, AICP
Village of Oak Park

Report Name, or Reason for Survey:

Survey and Planning

Level of Survey:

intensive

Sources, References, Bibliography

Previously Surveyed?

Yes

Name of Previous Survey:

Second District Survey 1978

Additional Research Recommended?

Yes

Other Sources of Information:

Building permit records.

General Remarks:

Latitude:	41.8849890031316700
Longitude:	-87.7988769594898000
UTM:	Zone 16T 433719.6710 mE, 4637315.3229 mN
Datum	WGS84

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211 Clinton Ave Oak Park, Illinois USA

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