{"nrhp_refnum":"70000241","name":"Drummond, William E., House","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"559 Edgewood Pl.","address_restricted":false,"city":"River Forest","county":"Cook County","state":"IL","lat":41.88966635400004,"lon":-87.82717368399994,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1970-03-05","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Art","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["national"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A private house at 559 Edgewood Place in River Forest, Cook County, Illinois, built in 1909 and designed by William E. Drummond in the Prairie Style.","why_significant":"The nomination calls it an excellent example of the 'economy Prairie House' and perhaps one of the best Prairie Style houses by an architect other than Frank Lloyd Wright. Drummond was a devoted follower of Wright, and his work helped popularize the Prairie School. The house also shows good architecture made available to middle-income families.","narrative":"This house at 559 Edgewood Place in River Forest, Illinois, dates from 1909 and was designed by William E. Drummond. It is an example of the 'economy Prairie House,' a basic design Frank Lloyd Wright proposed in a 1907 Ladies Home Journal article. Wright built a few of these houses, while more were built by men who worked in his office between 1905 and 1910. The nomination calls Drummond the best exponent of the style and this house the best example. Its character is Wrightian, but the detail and workmanship are described as better than in most Wright buildings of the period, because Drummond was a meticulous draftsman who closely supervised the work. Drummond's clients were less affluent than Wright's, and the house shows good architecture reaching middle-income families. The form lists it as unaltered, in excellent condition, on its original site and still a private residence.","period_of_significance":"20th Century (specific date 1909)","architect_builder":"William E. Drummond","architectural_style":"Prairie Style (economy Prairie House)","criteria":[],"status_note":"Described as in excellent condition, unaltered, on its original site, occupied and used as a private residence; the form says it has been well maintained.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:35.992464-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/2/8922/28892202/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_IL/70000241.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/70000241/e87a07290d-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/70000241/e87a07290d-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Teemu08 at en.wikipedia","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:William_Drummond_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_Drummond_House.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/28892202","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_E._Drummond_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q14688255"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/illinois/cook-county/drummond-william-e-house-70000241/"}