Jeremiah Strawn House

	Jeremiah Strawn House
	U.S. National Register of Historic Places
	Italianate
NRHP reference No.	94001601
Added to NRHP	January 24, 1995

The Jeremiah Strawn House is a historic house in the city of Ottawa, Illinois. It is a good example of a front-gabled house with Italianate detailing. The Strawn House was added to the U.S. National Register of Historic Places in 1995.

History

The Jeremiah Strawn House in Ottawa, Illinois was built in three phases from around 1855–70 for property owner Jeremiah Strawn. Strawn purchased the property in 1857 from William Osman for US$4,000.^[2]

Architecture

The Strawn House is a high-integrity example of the front-

Classical Revival period.^[2]

Historic significance

The Strawn House is a good example of a front-gabled house. The house is architecturally significant as the only example of such design in Ottawa, with most others falling into the Italianate or Greek Revival categories.^[2] The Jeremiah Strawn House was added to the U.S. National Register of Historic Places on January 24, 1995.^[3]

References

^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
^
Illinois Historic Preservation Agency
, accessed May 16, 2008.
^ National Register Information System Query - State and city name=Ottawa, IL Archived 2008-04-11 at the Wayback Machine, National Register of Historic Places, National Park Service, accessed May 16, 2008.

External links

Media related to Jeremiah Strawn House at Wikimedia Commons

Jeremiah Strawn House, Property Information Report, Illinois Historic Preservation Agency
, accessed May 16, 2008.

[1] "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.

[nrhp-2] 
Illinois Historic Preservation Agency
, accessed May 16, 2008.

[nris-3] National Register Information System Query - State and city name=Ottawa, IL Archived 2008-04-11 at the Wayback Machine, National Register of Historic Places, National Park Service, accessed May 16, 2008.

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