James Charnley House
James Charnley House | |
Chicago Landmark | |
Chicago, Illinois | |
Coordinates | 41°54′27.54″N 87°37′39.67″W / 41.9076500°N 87.6276861°W |
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Built | 1892[2] |
Architect | Louis Sullivan |
NRHP reference No. | 70000232[1] |
Significant dates | |
Added to NRHP | April 17, 1970[1] |
Designated NHL | August 6, 1998[4] |
Designated CL | August 20, 1972[3] |
The James Charnley Residence, also known as the Charnley-Persky House, is a
The house is owned and operated as a museum and headquarters of the Society of Architectural Historians (SAH).[5] It was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1998,[4] and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
Description
The Charnley Residence is located in Chicago's
History
The house was completed in 1892 for Charnley, a Chicago lumberman who lived in the house with his family for about a decade.[5] It is a distinctive and original design by Sullivan, in which a modern aesthetic was brought to an essentially Classical symmetrical form. Charnley and Sullivan were friends prior to the commission, and Sullivan had previously designed neighboring vacation homes for Charnley and himself in Ocean Springs, Mississippi.
Following several years as a rental property, the house was purchased in 1918 by real estate investor James B. Waller, Jr., for his personal residence. Waller extended the house to the south with a porch addition that was later removed during restoration. Following Waller's death in 1949, the house was owned by his son James B. Waller III.
See also
- List of National Historic Landmarks in Illinois
- National Register of Historic Places listings in Central Chicago
References
- ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. March 15, 2006.
- ^ ISBN 0-07-071390-1.
- ^ "Charnley House". City of Chicago Dept. of Pl. and Devpmt., Landmarks Div. 2003. Archived from the original on June 13, 2008. Retrieved August 4, 2007.
- ^ a b "James Charnley House". National Historic Landmark summary listing. National Park Service. Archived from the original on January 3, 2008. Retrieved October 13, 2007.
- ^ a b c "Charnley–Persky House History". Charnley–Persky House Museum Website. Charnley–Persky House Museum Foundation. June 14, 2004. Retrieved June 3, 2012.
- ^ a b "NHL nomination for James Charnley House". National Park Service. Retrieved April 18, 2017.
- ^ Megan McKinney, "The Charnley House Wallers," Classic Chicago Magazine. Retrieved December 31, 2023.
- Historic American Buildings SurveyHABS ILL,16-CHIG,12-
- Richard Longstreth (ed.) 2004. The Charnley House: Louis Sullivan, Frank Lloyd Wright, and the Making of Chicago's Gold Coast, University of Chicago Press, 249 pages
- Storrer, William Allin. The Frank Lloyd Wright Companion. University Of Chicago Press, 2006, ISBN 0-226-77621-2(S.009)
External links
- Charnley House Website
- A site about the James Charnley House
- High-resolution 360° Panoramas and Images of James Charnley House | Art Atlas