{"nrhp_refnum":"00000945","name":"Bretz, John F., House and Warehouse","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"113 N. Fifth St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Springfield","county":"Sangamon County","state":"IL","lat":39.81411816600007,"lon":-89.64956063099999,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2000-08-10","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Community Planning and Development","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-story frame Queen Anne house at 1113 North Fifth Street in Springfield, Illinois, built about 1886 for building contractor John F. Bretz, together with a brick warehouse behind it dating to roughly 1896-1900.","why_significant":"The nomination argues significance under Criteria B and C, with areas of Community Planning and Development and Architecture. It is tied to John F. Bretz, a prominent contractor, and to Springfield's street paving and sewer improvements of the period. The house is a well-preserved example of Queen Anne design in the Enos Park neighborhood.","narrative":"Built around 1886 at 1113 North Fifth Street in Springfield, this two-story frame house was the residence of John F. Bretz, a prominent building contractor. It sits in the Enos Park neighborhood, once one of the city's most prestigious residential areas. The house is Queen Anne in style, with a hipped roof and lower cross gables, spindlework, ornamental wall shingles, metal roof cresting, bay windows, and a wraparound front porch with Tuscan columns on rock-faced stone piers. Behind it, next to the alley, stands a two-story flat-roofed brick warehouse, probably built about 1896-1900 and used in the family contracting business. The house was divided into multiple-family housing around 1916, then restored in 1998-9 using an 1898 published photograph as the guide. It was recognized for its link to Bretz, for its architecture, and for its connection to Springfield's growth and public works between 1886 and 1905, including street paving and sewers.","period_of_significance":"1886-1905","architect_builder":"Unknown","architectural_style":"Queen Anne","criteria":["B","C"],"status_note":"Exterior restored to its ca. 1898 appearance and interior renovated in 1998-9; historically converted to multiple-family housing around 1916 and now a single dwelling.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:37.651939-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/74/8940/28894074/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_IL/00000945.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/00000945/1e424a7bd5-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/00000945/1e424a7bd5-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Jdbrannon69","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bretz_house.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Jdbrannon69</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:Bretz_house.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/28894074","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_F._Bretz_House_and_Warehouse","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q19460656"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/illinois/sangamon-county/bretz-john-f-house-and-warehouse-00000945/"}