{"nrhp_refnum":"00000476","name":"Childs, Robert A. and Mary, House","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"318 S. Garfield Ave.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Hinsdale","county":"DuPage County","state":"IL","lat":41.79891884400007,"lon":-87.92771413999998,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2000-05-11","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A large 2-1/2-story Queen Anne style single-family house at 318 South Garfield Avenue in Hinsdale, Du Page County, Illinois, built in 1888 and still in its original location.","why_significant":"The house is significant under Criterion C for its architecture. It is described as the only large Queen Anne house in Hinsdale with a hipped roof and cross gables that keeps its original porch spindlework. No other house in the village has so many bull's-eye moldings on its exterior. It retains most of its original massing and details.","narrative":"Built in 1888 on one of Hinsdale's main residential streets, three blocks south of the train station, this Queen Anne house is among the largest 19th-century homes in the village. It measures about 43 by 65 feet and has a steeply pitched hipped roof, large gabled dormers, a wrap-around porch and a massive tower at the southeast corner. Hundreds of wooden bull's-eye moldings decorate the cornices and gables, and their round shape is echoed in porch balustrade cutouts, leaded glass transoms and curved-edge wood shingles. Eastlake-style incised carving appears on the trim, and the interior has oak woodwork, plaster ceiling medallions and an ornate staircase. Alterations are modest: a kitchen addition and a greenhouse at the rear, a 1954 garage, one replaced window and new cedar roof shingles. It was recognized for its architecture, as the only large Queen Anne house in Hinsdale of its roof type to keep its original porch spindlework.","period_of_significance":"1888","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Queen Anne","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"Still used as a single dwelling; the roof was re-shingled in cedar in the 1990s and a kitchen addition, a circa 1930 greenhouse and a 1954 garage were added.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:37.271837-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/38/8927/28892738/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_IL/00000476.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/00000476/ba0d01f6eb-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/00000476/ba0d01f6eb-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Teemu08 (talk)","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Robert_A._and_Mary_Childs_House.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Teemu08 (talk)</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 3.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Robert_A._and_Mary_Childs_House.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/28892738","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_A._and_Mary_Childs_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7341315"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/illinois/dupage-county/childs-robert-a-and-mary-house-00000476/"}