{"nrhp_refnum":"06001018","name":"Patten, Charles H., House","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"117 N. Benton St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Palatine","county":"Cook County","state":"IL","lat":42.112447651000025,"lon":-88.04109664099997,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2006-11-08","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-and-one-half story wood-frame single-family house at 117 North Benton Street in Palatine, Cook County, Illinois, designed by Chicago architect Julius F. Wegman for Charles H. Patten and built in the 1890s.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the house is a good local example of Chateauesque and Queen Anne architecture, with ornament and workmanship inside and out that no other Palatine house matches. It also notes that Patten was a prominent local banker, mayor of Palatine, and a driver of the Palatine and Barrington water works.","narrative":"This two-and-one-half story wood-frame house at 117 North Benton Street in Palatine, Illinois, combines Chateauesque and Queen Anne design. Chicago architect Julius F. Wegman designed it for Charles H. Patten, a banker, mayor of Palatine and promoter of the Palatine and Barrington water works. The house has a steep hipped roof, wall dormers with pinnacles, a round corner tower with a conical roof, a square tower with a porte-cochere, and clapboard siding on a red granite foundation. Inside are fireplaces with mirrors and tile, built-in seating, a curved dining room and carved woodwork. The original windows, floor plan and doors survive, and only the kitchen and a bathroom were modernized. One family owned the house for 108 years. The nomination judges it a good local example of both styles, noting that no other Palatine house matches its size, ornament and craftsmanship. Its significance rests on architecture alone.","period_of_significance":"1894","architect_builder":"Wegman, Julius F., Architect","architectural_style":"Queen Anne; Other: Chateauesque","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"Still used as a single dwelling; exterior renovated in 2000, with the kitchen and bathroom modernized and part of the basement made into a garage.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:37.48579-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/4/8921/28892104/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_IL/06001018.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/06001018/628df1aa0f-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/06001018/628df1aa0f-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"G LeTourneau","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Charles_H._Patten_House_(Palatine,_IL)_02.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">G LeTourneau</a>, <a href=\"http://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:Charles_H._Patten_House_(Palatine,_IL)_02.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/28892104","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_H._Patten_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5078615"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/illinois/cook-county/patten-charles-h-house-06001018/"}