{"nrhp_refnum":"02001756","name":"Deere, John, House","other_names":["Red Cliff"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"1217 11th Ave.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Moline","county":"Rock Island County","state":"IL","lat":41.501779018000036,"lon":-90.51961615499994,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2003-02-05","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Industry"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A three-story frame Second Empire style house known as Red Cliff, at 1217 11th Avenue in Moline, Rock Island County, Illinois, built circa 1875 to 1880 on a bluff overlooking the Mississippi River and the city's factory district.","why_significant":"The house is significant under Criterion B for its association with John Deere, inventor of the self-polishing steel plow and a leading 19th-century industrialist. It is the only surviving structure in Moline, residential or commercial, connected to his productive life. Deere lived there until his death in 1886.","narrative":"Red Cliff is a three-story frame house in Moline, Illinois, built around 1875 to 1880 in the Second Empire style on a bluff above the Mississippi River. John Deere, founder of the plow company that became Deere & Company, lived here from 1880 until his death in 1886, with a view down to his factories along the river. The house has a mansard roof with dormers, three turrets, paired eave brackets, narrow clapboard siding and tall two-over-two windows with wooden hoods. Inside, a central hall, a walnut-trimmed grand staircase, parquetry floors and a third-floor billiard room survive. It later served as a sixteen-unit apartment building from 1936 to 1993, and restoration has removed stucco and additions to recover its original appearance. The house is listed for its association with Deere, who moved his plow business to Moline in 1847 and helped build the city's industrial standing. It is the only remaining Moline structure tied to his working life.","period_of_significance":"1875-1886","architect_builder":"Salisbury, J.G., Builder","architectural_style":"Second Empire","criteria":["B"],"status_note":"Undergoing restoration, with materials and additions from its years as a sixteen-unit apartment building (1936-1993) being removed to return it to its appearance during Deere's residence.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:37.554416-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/89/8939/28893989/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_IL/02001756.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/02001756/765e70de81-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/02001756/765e70de81-1600.webp","licence":"CC0","author":"Smallbones","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:John_Deere_Mansion_Moline.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Smallbones</a>, <a href=\"http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/deed.en\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:John_Deere_Mansion_Moline.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/28893989","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Deere_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6229071"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/illinois/rock-island-county/deere-john-house-02001756/"}