Detail: 300 N Kenilworth Ave Oak Park Illinois: RuskinARC™

Basics

Resource Category:

Building

Resource Type:

Single-family residence

Location

Address:

300 N Kenilworth 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:

William J. McDonald House

Current name:

Under the Gingko Treet Bed & Breakfast

Construction Date (range/estimated):

1890-1899

Construction Date Certainty:

documented

Known Construction Date:

1890

Source for Known Construction Date:

Village of Oak Park building permit archives.

Architect/Designer:

Wesley Arnold

Developer:

Builder:

Significant Owner(s):

William J. McDonald

Historical Summary:

Extant Status:

Not Demolished

Architectural Style and Form

Plan/Footprint Shape:

rectangular

Building Form or Plan Type (core plan):

Cross Gable

Style, Primary:

Queen Anne

Style, Secondary:

Notes on architectural style, form, distinguishing features:

Architectural Elements and Features

Number of Stories:

2.5

Bays:

Structural System:

frame

Foundation:

Stone

Basement:

Building Size:

Square footage/meters:

Roof Configuration:

Cross gable

Roof Material

replacement asphalt shingles

Roof remarks/description:

Eave Type:

Eave Ornamentation:

brackets

Dormer Count:

one

Dormer Configuration:

hip-roofed

Exterior Wall Material (primary):

original Wood Clapboard

Exterior Wall Material (secondary):

original wood shingles

Notes on exterior materials:

Principal Windows::

original wood

Window Panes/Lights:

1 over 1

Window Type:

double-hung sashes

Window remarks:

Also 10-over-1 double-hung windows and fixed/awning windows with center glazing surrounded by 20 small glass panels

Chimney remarks/description:

Decorative brick corbeling at top of chimney

Chimney Count (first):

one

Chimney Placement 1:

side right exterior brick

Chimney Count (second):

Chimney Placement 2:

Porch description, characteristics, details:

Porch gable contains Classical frieze

Porch Height, Stories:

single-story

Porch Configuration:

wrap-around

Porch Type:

open porch

Porch Roof Shape:

Shed with Gable

Porch Roof Material:

asphalt shingles

Porch Columns/Posts (upper or only):

Doric wood posts on

Porch Piers (lower):

Side Walls Field Stone piers

Primary entryway:

Function and Use

Historic Function:

Domestic: Single Dwelling

Present Function:

Domestic: Single Dwelling

Function remarks:

Was formerly a bed and breakfast.

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:

Frank Lloyd Wright-Prairie School of Architecture, 1973

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:

Frank Lloyd Wright-Prairie School of Architecture, 1972

Protected by ordinance or regulation?:

Yes

Protection status, remarks:

Historic Preservation Ordinance 1994

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:

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

Coach House

Contributing to primary property?

Yes

Ancillary structures remarks or description:

Cross gable 1-1/2 story frame coach house with wood clapboard and large eave returns and wood hayloft door

Condition and Alterations

Character of modifications:

General Condition:

Moved or Relocated?:

Date moved or relocated:

Relocation remarks:

Alterations?

Date of major alterations:

Nature of alterations:

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:

Private

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:

February 24, 2017

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:

Oak Park Survey 1970

Additional Research Recommended?

Yes

Other Sources of Information:

Building permit records.

General Remarks:

Latitude:	41.8914550017531650
Longitude:	-87.7972197375732400
UTM:	Zone 16T 433863.8365 mE, 4638031.9503 mN
Datum	WGS84

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300 N Kenilworth Ave Oak Park, Illinois USA

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