{"nrhp_refnum":"07001475","name":"Hunter-Hattenburg House","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"825 S. Chicago Ave.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Kankakee","county":"Kankakee County","state":"IL","lat":41.10902252400007,"lon":-87.85962053299994,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2008-01-31","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-story Queen Anne-style single-family house at 825 South Chicago Avenue in Kankakee, Illinois, built in 1898 for lawyer William R. Hunter on a narrow lot running down to the Kankakee River.","why_significant":"The house is argued to be an excellent, well-preserved example of the Queen Anne style, with a wide range of the style's distinctive features and high-quality workmanship. It is one of the largest and most elaborately finished Queen Anne houses in Kankakee and a stylistic benchmark for comparing other houses of the type and period locally.","narrative":"Built in 1898 on the east bank of the Kankakee River, this large Queen Anne house was commissioned by attorney William R. Hunter, who lived there until his death in 1939. The two-story frame building has wood weatherboard and shingle siding, a quarry-face limestone foundation, and a dominant twelve-sided corner tower. A deep front porch with paired round and square Ionic columns, a projecting dormer on heavy brackets, and leaded and stained-glass windows add to its detail. Inside, varnished white oak, Cuban mahogany woodwork, original fixtures and a carved fireplace survive. Local newspapers reported its cost at $6,800, more than three times the average for a Riverview house. It was later home to Albert Hattenburg, a pharmacist and longtime mayor. The house is recognized as an exceptionally intact example of the Queen Anne style and as one of the earliest fully developed examples of that style in Kankakee, after a careful recent restoration.","period_of_significance":"1898","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Queen Anne","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"Still a single dwelling; the house has been carefully and comprehensively restored, retaining nearly all original design and materials apart from the roof shingles.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:37.518366-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/43/8932/28893243/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_IL/07001475.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/07001475/427909c98a-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/07001475/427909c98a-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Teemu08","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hunter-Hattenburg_House.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Teemu08</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:Hunter-Hattenburg_House.JPG"},"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"86001488","name":"Riverview Historic District","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/illinois/riverview-historic-district-86001488/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/28893243","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hunter%E2%80%93Hattenburg_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16845690"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/illinois/kankakee-county/hunter-hattenburg-house-07001475/"}