{"nrhp_refnum":"04001299","name":"Bassett, Orland P., House","other_names":["American Beauty House"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"329 E. Sixth St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Hinsdale","county":"DuPage County","state":"IL","lat":41.79876901200004,"lon":-87.92171766399997,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2004-12-07","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Commerce","Agriculture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-and-a-half story frame Colonial Revival house with a matching coach house, built in 1899 at 329 East Sixth Street in the Robbins Park subdivision of Hinsdale, Du Page County, Illinois.","why_significant":"The nomination presents the house as a fine local example of early Colonial Revival architecture in Hinsdale. It sits in the exclusive Robbins Park subdivision laid out by Horace W. S. Cleveland and developed by William Robbins. It was built for Orland P. Bassett, a horticulturist and florist, and a 2002 restoration recovered much of its 1899 character.","narrative":"This two-and-a-half story frame house at 329 East Sixth Street in Hinsdale, Illinois, was built in 1899 in the Colonial Revival style for Orland P. Bassett, a horticulturist. It stands with its original coach house on an over-one-acre corner lot in Robbins Park, a subdivision designed by landscape gardener Horace W. S. Cleveland and developed by William Robbins in 1871. The house has a side gable roof, a projecting center bay, three dormers, paired Ionic columns on the front porch, an octagonal sun porch and a porte-cochere. A 1942 remodeling by architect Harry J. Harman altered several features. In 2002 the owners rebuilt the full front porch, terrace, porte-cochere and hall fireplace from original plans and photographs. Earlier surveys rated the house as potentially significant and later significant, and it is regarded as a fine local example of early Colonial Revival design. The original architect has not been identified, though Enoch Hill Turnock is suggested as a possibility.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"Architect of the original 1899 house not found (Enoch Hill Turnock suggested as possible); 1942 remodeling by architect Harry J. Harman","architectural_style":"Colonial Revival","criteria":[],"status_note":"Remains in use as a single dwelling; 1942 alterations were partly reversed in a 2002 restoration of the front porch, porte-cochere and hall fireplace, and the rear was rebuilt.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:37.152935-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/68/8927/28892768/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_IL/04001299.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/04001299/6e6f0f1a93-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/04001299/6e6f0f1a93-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Teemu08 (talk)","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Orland_P._Bassett_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:Orland_P._Bassett_House.JPG"},"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"08001098","name":"Robbins Park Historic District","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/illinois/robbins-park-historic-district-08001098/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/28892768","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orland_P._Bassett_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7103007"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/illinois/dupage-county/bassett-orland-p-house-04001299/"}