{"nrhp_refnum":"11000906","name":"Wee Haven","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"1509 W. Park Ave.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Champaign","county":"Champaign County","state":"IL","lat":40.119307165000066,"lon":-88.27132605399999,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2011-12-15","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"Wee Haven is a one-story Prairie School house with a matching single-car garage at 1509 West Park Avenue, Champaign, Illinois. It was built in 1925 from a design by architect Charles Saxby Elwood published in 1924.","why_significant":"The nomination presents Wee Haven as a rare and quintessential example of Prairie School architecture in Champaign. It shows the style's horizontality, wide eaves, stucco and wood materials, and tile prairie flower decoration. The house and garage retain exceptional integrity, including original interior finishes, kitchen and bathroom features.","narrative":"Wee Haven is a small Prairie School house at 1509 West Park Avenue in Champaign, Illinois, built in 1925 with a matching single-car garage. It follows a design by architect Charles Saxby Elwood that appeared in the February 1924 issue of Fruit, Garden and Home. The one-story stucco house has a very low hip roof, broad overhanging eaves, a wood-shingled skirt, built-in flower boxes and casement windows. Stylized prairie daisies made of colored tile decorate the exterior and the living room fireplace. Inside, the original floors, woodwork, kitchen cabinetry and bathroom fixtures survive, and changes since construction have been minor. The house sits among bungalows and other modest frame dwellings, which makes its style unusual locally. It was listed because it is a rare and especially intact example of Prairie School residential design in Champaign, expressing the style's emphasis on horizontal lines, natural materials and integration of indoor and outdoor space.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"Charles Saxby Elwood (architect)","architectural_style":"Late 19th and Early 20th Century American Movements - Prairie School","criteria":[],"status_note":"Both buildings remain in residential use as a single dwelling and garage; the form describes the architectural integrity as exceptional.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:37.593709-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/10/8918/28891810/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_IL/11000906.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/11000906/15849a2a2b-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/11000906/15849a2a2b-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Esvobod2","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wee_Haven_Front_View.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Esvobod2</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:Wee_Haven_Front_View.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/28891810","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wee_Haven","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q20710219"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/illinois/champaign-county/wee-haven-11000906/"}