{"nrhp_refnum":"09000167","name":"Ramsey, Charles N., and Herry E. Weese House","other_names":["Noel, Daniel and Rachel, House"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"141 Kenilworth Ave.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Kenilworth","county":"Cook County","state":"IL","lat":42.09165328300003,"lon":-87.71081192299994,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2009-04-01","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A single-family house at 141 Kenilworth Avenue in Kenilworth, Cook County, Illinois, built in 1908 for Charles N. and Katherine A. Ramsey. The Harry E. Weese family occupied it from 1919 to 1942.","why_significant":"The nomination presents the house as the most characteristic example of an American Foursquare in Kenilworth, with Arts & Crafts ornamental features. It is also tied to the Weese family, whose son Harry M. Weese, later an architect, grew up there. The form describes the house's integrity as excellent.","narrative":"Built in 1908 for Charles N. and Katherine A. Ramsey, this house at 141 Kenilworth Avenue is the village's most typical example of an American Foursquare. It rises two and a half stories under a broad hipped roof with wide overhangs and four dormers, one on each side. A deep front porch with square stucco columns runs across the front, and the rough-faced cream stucco walls carry simple geometric wood trim inspired by the Arts & Crafts movement. The first floor has an open plan of four rooms around a large stairhall. From 1919 to 1942 the house was home to the Harry E. Weese family, who enclosed the sun room in the 1920s and added a sleeping porch. Their son Harry M. Weese later became an architect, and the family's years here form part of the property's story. The nomination describes the house's integrity as excellent. A three-car garage was added in 1989.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Foursquare/Arts & Crafts","criteria":[],"status_note":"Still used as a single dwelling; the form describes its integrity as excellent.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:37.637963-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/85/8919/28891985/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_IL/09000167.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/09000167/64bacac139-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/09000167/64bacac139-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Dannoel","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:141KenilworthAve.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Dannoel</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:141KenilworthAve.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/28891985","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_N._Ramsey_and_Harry_E._Weese_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q15209150"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/illinois/cook-county/ramsey-charles-n-and-herry-e-weese-house-09000167/"}