Detail: 404 Home Ave Oak Park Illinois: RuskinARC™

Basics

Resource Category:

Building

Resource Type:

Single-family residence

Location

Address:

404 Home 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:

George W. Smith House

Current name:

Construction Date (range/estimated):

1890-1899

Construction Date Certainty:

documented

Known Construction Date:

1898

Source for Known Construction Date:

Frank Lloyd Wright Trust

Architect/Designer:

Frank Lloyd Wright

Developer:

Builder:

Significant Owner(s):

George W. Smith

Historical Summary:

Steeply pitched, double-sloped roofs and shingle siding suggest this house may have been adapted from a group of afforable houses Frank Lloyd Wright designed in 1895 for Charles Roberts. The original project was never executed.

The structure seems out of context with others Wright designed in the late 1890s, especially in the use of double-hung windows with diamond-shaped leaded glass rather than casement windows with geometric art glass patterns. The broad, overhanging eaves, hidden entrance, and board-and-batten exterior are more consistent with contemporary structures by Wright.

George Smith was a buyer for Marshall Feilds. In 1894 he lived in a Queen Anne style house at 218 S Grove (Ridgeland Revealed, p26).

Extant Status:

Not Demolished

Architectural Style and Form

Plan/Footprint Shape:

Building Form or Plan Type (core plan):

Style, Primary:

Shingle

Style, Secondary:

Prairie School

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:

Hip

Roof Material

replacement asphalt shingles

Roof remarks/description:

Eave Type:

Flared eaves

Eave Ornamentation:

Dormer Count:

three

Dormer Configuration:

hip-roofed

Exterior Wall Material (primary):

original wood shingles

Exterior Wall Material (secondary):

Notes on exterior materials:

Principal Windows::

original wood

Window Panes/Lights:

Diamond pane over 1

Window Type:

double-hung sashes

Window remarks:

Chimney remarks/description:

Chimney Count (first):

one

Chimney Placement 1:

side right exterior brick

Chimney Count (second):

one

Chimney Placement 2:

side right rear slope brick

Porch description, characteristics, details:

Porch Height, Stories:

single-story

Porch Configuration:

single-bay

Porch Type:

enclosed porch

Porch Roof Shape:

hip

Porch Roof Material:

asphalt shingles

Porch Columns/Posts (upper or only):

Porch Piers (lower):

Primary entryway:

Side entry to front porch

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:

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 1994

Evaluation of Potential Eligibility

Potentially eligible for historic/heritage designation?

Individually eligible
Contributes to potential district

Level of potential eligibility

National
Local

Rating or Rank

Contributing

Recommended as a potential 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

garage

Contributing to primary property?

Ancillary structures remarks or description:

1960s garage

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:

April 18, 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:

Oak Park Survey, 1970

Additional Research Recommended?

Other Sources of Information:

Building permit records.

General Remarks:

Latitude:	41.8812086774006200
Longitude:	-87.7995652588954800
UTM:	Zone 16T 433658.6540 mE, 4636896.1336 mN
Datum	WGS84

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404 Home Ave Oak Park, Illinois USA

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