{"nrhp_refnum":"12000028","name":"Fisher-Chapman Farmstead","other_names":["The Homeridge"],"category":"district","location":{"address":"24818 Homeridge Dr.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Jerseyville","county":"Jersey County","state":"IL","lat":39.143617098500044,"lon":-90.34452629878135,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2012-02-15","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Agriculture","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A 17.80-acre farmstead one mile north of Jerseyville, Jersey County, Illinois, with an Italianate brick residence topped by a belvedere, plus outbuildings, tenant houses and grounds. The farmstead was established by Cornelius B. Fisher and later owned by the Chapman family.","why_significant":"The nomination presents the property as a large working general farm typical of Jersey County, with livestock, orchards and grain. The house is a well-preserved Italianate residence with bricks made on the property, and the outbuildings show how hired help and families lived and worked. The Chapman family's early twentieth-century changes are also part of its story.","narrative":"Just north of Jerseyville, Illinois, this 17.80-acre farmstead centers on a large brick Italianate house with a belvedere, built on land first settled by Cornelius B. Fisher. The bricks were made on the property, and no original architect is recorded, though carpenter William Embley, who designed similar houses in the area, is linked to the work. The house has a symmetrical front, low hipped roofs with wide overhangs, hooded two-over-two windows and a front porch with slender columnettes. The Chapman family added a porte cochere around 1910 and later updated interiors. Behind the house stand tenant houses that sheltered farm workers and their families. Once a large working general farm, mixing livestock, orchards and grain, it reflects the typical agriculture of Jersey County. It is listed as a district of fourteen contributing resources, preserving both the residence and the layout of the working farm.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"No original architect recorded; William Embley, a Jerseyville carpenter and architect of similar houses, is associated, with apprentice Joe Page doing inside work","architectural_style":"Late Victorian/Italianate","criteria":[],"status_note":"Still used as a single dwelling with secondary structures and animal facilities; a garage and bathroom were added in 2000. The overseer's house was demolished in the early 1960s.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:37.540967-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/43/8930/28893043/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_IL/12000028.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/12000028/1b4dd2d5dd-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/12000028/1b4dd2d5dd-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Boscophotos","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Image_Fisher-Chapman_Farmstead.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Boscophotos</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:Image_Fisher-Chapman_Farmstead.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/28893043","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fisher%E2%80%93Chapman_Farmstead","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q18150774"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/illinois/jersey-county/fisher-chapman-farmstead-12000028/"}