{"nrhp_refnum":"72001479","name":"Clover Lawn","other_names":["David Davis Mansion"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"1000 E. Monroe Dr.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Bloomington","county":"McLean County","state":"IL","lat":40.48232349600005,"lon":-88.97969908699997,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1972-10-18","is_nhl":true,"nhl_designated_date":"1975-05-15","areas_of_significance":["Law","Politics/Government","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["national","state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"Clover Lawn is a two-story Italianate brick mansion at 1000 East Monroe in Bloomington, McLean County, Illinois, designed in 1870 by St. Louis architect Alfred H. Piquenard and completed in 1872 as the suburban estate of Supreme Court Justice David Davis.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the property is significant for architecture and the decorative arts. Its exterior and interior are nearly original, making it a fine example for studying Victorian architectural elements, and most of the original 1872 furnishings survive. It also documents the life of one prominent family, that of Judge David Davis, a Lincoln associate and U.S. Supreme Court justice.","narrative":"Clover Lawn is a two-story Italianate brick mansion in Bloomington, Illinois, designed by St. Louis architect Alfred H. Piquenard in 1870 and finished in 1872 for David Davis, an associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court. It measures sixty-four by eighty-eight feet, with twenty rooms on two floors and a three-story tower under a mansard roof. The walls are yellow face brick from Milwaukee on an Ohio sandstone foundation, trimmed with limestone. Apart from one stair railing, the exterior is unaltered, and the interior retains eight Italian marble fireplaces and an English tile vestibule floor. Most of the original Renaissance-style furnishings bought in 1872 remain, along with a large library, paintings and period children's toys. Four original outbuildings, an oval drive and a small formal garden survive. The property was listed for its architecture and decorative arts and for its picture of Victorian life as lived by one prominent family. Davis was a close friend of Abraham Lincoln and later a U.S. senator.","period_of_significance":"1870-1872","architect_builder":"Alfred H. Piquenard (architect)","architectural_style":"Italianate (Italian villa style)","criteria":[],"status_note":"Condition listed as fair, with preservation work in progress; the exterior is largely unaltered and the property is state-owned and used as a museum, with an apartment for the building custodian.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:35.14717-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/69/8936/28893669/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_IL/72001479.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/72001479/17b18ff44f-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/72001479/17b18ff44f-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY 2.5","author":"See above.","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bloomington_Il_David_Davis_Mansion3.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">See above.</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY 2.5</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bloomington_Il_David_Davis_Mansion3.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/28893669","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Davis_Mansion","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5232864"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/illinois/mclean-county/clover-lawn-72001479/"}