{"nrhp_refnum":"07000898","name":"Hatch, William H., House","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"309 Keystone Ave.","address_restricted":false,"city":"River Forest","county":"Cook County","state":"IL","lat":41.886668298000075,"lon":-87.81821547499999,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2007-09-05","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-and-a-half story single-family house at Keystone Avenue in River Forest, Cook County, Illinois, completed in 1882 for the family of William Hatch, with a early twentieth-century garage that was formerly a barn.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the house is locally significant under Criterion C as an excellent example of the Queen Anne style, with an irregular steep roofline, varied cladding, asymmetrical massing, spindlework porches and corbelled chimneys. Its interior has a formal entrance hall, grand oak staircase and stone fireplaces. It is one of few high-style Queen Anne homes south of Lake Street in River Forest and possibly the oldest example of the local spindlework subtype.","narrative":"Built in 1882, just two years after River Forest was incorporated, this house on Keystone Avenue was constructed for the family of William Hatch, who worked in the grain commission business. It is a two-and-a-half story Queen Anne residence with a steeply pitched hipped roof and cross gables, rusticated limestone at the basement, wood clapboard siding, patterned shingles in the gables, spindlework porches and corbelled brick chimneys. Inside, a formal entrance hall leads to an oak staircase, and five stone fireplaces, pocket doors and stained glass add to the character. The nomination calls it one of the few high-style Queen Anne homes south of Lake Street in the village and a rare, possibly the oldest, example of the local spindlework subtype. Later owners rehabilitated the exterior in the 1980s, re-creating porches and chimneys from an 1890s photograph. The house remains a single-family dwelling and was found to retain excellent integrity.","period_of_significance":"1882","architect_builder":"Unknown","architectural_style":"Late Victorian: Queen Anne","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"Still in use as a single dwelling; the exterior was rehabilitated in the late 1980s using a ca. 1890s photo, with the porches and chimneys re-created.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:37.807246-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/92/8920/28892092/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_IL/07000898.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/07000898/4affdea32d-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/07000898/4affdea32d-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Teemu08 at en.wikipedia","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:William_Hatch_House.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Teemu08 at en.wikipedia</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:William_Hatch_House.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/28892092","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_H._Hatch_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q104855384"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/illinois/cook-county/hatch-william-h-house-07000898/"}