{"nrhp_refnum":"02000462","name":"Roosevelt Junior High School","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"701 W. Grand Ave.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Decatur","county":"Macon County","state":"IL","lat":39.85630741600005,"lon":-88.96521531099995,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2002-05-09","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-story red brick junior high school at 701 West Grand Avenue in Decatur, Macon County, Illinois, completed in 1921 and enlarged with two additions in 1986. It was designed by the Decatur firm Brooks, Bramhall and Dague.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the school is an outstanding local example of Collegiate Gothic design, with twin entrance turrets, crenellated parapets and extensive terra cotta trim. It describes the building as the most emphatic Late Gothic Revival building in Decatur and as a model for the architects' later schools.","narrative":"Roosevelt Junior High School, at 701 West Grand Avenue in Decatur, Illinois, was completed in 1921 in a neighborhood of small single-family homes. The Decatur firm Brooks, Bramhall and Dague designed it in the Collegiate Gothic manner. The two-story building rises from a raised basement and is faced in rough red brick with cream-colored terra cotta trim made to resemble stone. Its H-shaped plan places classrooms along the north front, gymnasiums in the rear leg and an auditorium seating about 1,000 between them. The north entrance is flanked by octagonal turrets, and crenellated parapets give the roofline a castle-keep effect. Two 1986 additions, a filled-in courtyard and a new gymnasium, are plain brick and match the original masonry. The windows were replaced with aluminum sash in the mid-1960s. The nomination places the school among Collegiate Gothic buildings influenced by university campuses and calls it the most emphatic Late Gothic Revival building in Decatur. The form lists the building as vacant.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"Brooks, Bramhall and Dague (architects)","architectural_style":"Late Gothic Revival (Collegiate Gothic)","criteria":[],"status_note":"Listed as vacant/not in use, with work in progress noted on the form.","vacant_flag":true,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:37.004666-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/97/8934/28893497/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_IL/02000462.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/02000462/e6743b04d1-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/02000462/e6743b04d1-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Nyttend","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Roosevelt_Junior_High_School_entrance,_Decatur.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Nyttend</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Roosevelt_Junior_High_School_entrance,_Decatur.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/28893497","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roosevelt_Junior_High_School_(Decatur,_Illinois)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q20710823"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/illinois/macon-county/roosevelt-junior-high-school-02000462/"}