{"nrhp_refnum":"02001752","name":"Women's Residence Hall-West Residence Hall, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"1111W Nevada St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Urbana","county":"Champaign County","state":"IL","lat":40.107530831000076,"lon":-88.22460741199995,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2003-02-05","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Social History","Community Planning and Development","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"Two connected Georgian Revival residence halls for women, Women's Residence Hall (Mary E. Busey Hall) and West Residence Hall (Laura B. Evans Hall), at 1111 West Nevada Street on the University of Illinois campus in Urbana. Busey Hall construction began in 1916; Evans Hall was designed in 1924 and finished in 1926.","why_significant":"The visible text does not include the Statement of Significance, so the argument for significance is only partly shown. The buildings are listed as part of a multiple property group of University of Illinois buildings designed by Charles A. Platt. Busey Hall is described as older than any neighboring university building and as setting the tone for the surrounding buildings, including Evans Hall.","narrative":"Two linked women's residence halls stand at 1111 West Nevada Street on the University of Illinois campus in Urbana. Women's Residence Hall, also called Mary E. Busey Hall, was designed by James M. White and C. L. Gustafson, with construction beginning in 1916. West Residence Hall, also called Laura B. Evans Hall, was designed in 1924 by Charles Platt and James M. White and completed in 1926. A one-story connecting wing, built with Evans Hall, serves as the shared main entrance, with a front desk and mailroom. Both halls are three-and-one-half-story Flemish bond brick buildings with limestone foundations and hipped slate roofs, detailed in the Georgian Revival style. Busey Hall has a projecting center section with Corinthian pilasters, pediments over its entrances and a U-shaped rear. A 1987 addition is considered non-contributing. The buildings are listed as part of the group of University of Illinois buildings designed by Charles A. Platt, and Busey Hall is noted as the oldest building in its neighborhood on campus. Both halls remain in use as student housing.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"Women's Residence Hall: James M. White and C. L. Gustafson; West Residence Hall and connecting wing: Charles Platt and James M. White","architectural_style":"Georgian Revival","criteria":[],"status_note":"Historic and current function is education-related housing; a non-contributing addition was made in 1987.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:37.236428-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/85/8907/28890785/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_IL/02001752.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/02001752/4fb8a8c563-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/02001752/4fb8a8c563-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0 us","author":"Dori","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:BuseyHall_Urbana_Illinois_4543.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Dori</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/us/deed.en\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 3.0 us</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:BuseyHall_Urbana_Illinois_4543.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/28890785","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Busey%E2%80%93Evans_Residence_Halls","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q19871754"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/illinois/champaign-county/womens-residence-hall-west-residence-hall-university-of-illinois-at-urbana-champ-02001752/"}