{"nrhp_refnum":"73000720","name":"Robinson-Stewart House","other_names":["General Robinson House"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"110 S. Main Cross St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Carmi","county":"White County","state":"IL","lat":38.090040256000066,"lon":-88.15865174899994,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1973-08-17","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Landscape Architecture","Politics/Government"],"significance_levels":["national","state","local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A historic house at 110 South Main Cross Street in Carmi, White County, Illinois, begun in 1814 as John Craw's two-room log house. It was later enlarged and weatherboarded by Senator Robinson and now serves as a museum.","why_significant":"The nomination calls it one of the oldest houses in Illinois. Carmi's settlers met there on April 16, 1816 to organize and name the town, and the house served as the county courthouse before 1828. It later housed Senator Robinson and his family, and political leaders including Abraham Lincoln's associates were entertained there.","narrative":"Begun in 1814 as John Craw's two-room log house with a loft and a breezeway between the rooms, this Carmi, Illinois, residence rests on a sandstone foundation. Senator Robinson bought it in 1835, covered the log walls with weatherboarding and added a dining room wing at the south end, along with a kitchen and a small law office behind the house facing a formal English garden. Today it appears as a white weatherboarded building with green shutters and a small columned porch. Its importance comes from civic history as well as age. Settlers gathered here on April 16, 1816, to organize the town and vote to name it Carmi, and before the county built a courthouse in 1828 the north room was rented for court use. Political figures were entertained here in the 1830s and 1840s. Only three generations of one family lived here after 1835. Miss Mary Jane Stewart left the house and furnishings to the White County Historical Society on her death in 1966, and it is now a museum.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"John Craw (original builder, 1814)","architectural_style":null,"criteria":[],"status_note":"Owned by the White County Historical Society and used as a museum; condition is marked good, with the house described as looking almost exactly as it did in the 1830s.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:35.317986-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/82/8942/28894282/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_IL/73000720.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/73000720/b93b63f1d7-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/73000720/b93b63f1d7-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Nyttend","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Robinson-Stewart_House.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Nyttend</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Robinson-Stewart_House.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/28894282","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robinson-Stewart_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16899385"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/illinois/white-county/robinson-stewart-house-73000720/"}