{"nrhp_refnum":"74000753","name":"Lathrop, Bryan, House","other_names":["Fortnightly Club"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"120 E. Bellevue Pl.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Chicago","county":"Cook County","state":"IL","lat":41.901572833000046,"lon":-87.62526659199995,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1974-02-15","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Social History"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A three-and-a-half-story brick and limestone town house at 120 East Bellevue Place in Chicago, designed by Charles Follen McKim of McKim, Mead & White and built in 1892 for Bryan Lathrop.","why_significant":"The nomination calls it \"the most perfect piece of Georgian architecture in Chicago\" and credits its design to Charles Follen McKim, a leading neo-classicist. It is also tied to Bryan Lathrop, a real estate trustee and civic leader who backed the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, the Art Institute and the Newberry Library.","narrative":"Built in 1892 at 120 East Bellevue Place in Chicago, this town house was designed by Charles Follen McKim of McKim, Mead & White for real estate trustee Bryan Lathrop and his wife, Helen Aldis Lathrop. It rises three and a half stories over a raised basement, with a limestone base and terrace and upper walls of dark red Flemish bond \"Harvard brick.\" Detailing includes stone lintels with keystones, low-relief wreaths and a low hipped roof with dormers. The original billiard room was replaced by a larger ballroom, and a kitchen was added. Architect Alfred Hoyt Granger called it the most perfect piece of Georgian architecture in Chicago. Its symmetry is described as clear, open and urbane compared with more ostentatious houses of its day. Lathrop was a civic leader who served the Art Institute, the Newberry Library and Graceland Cemetery, and he did much to bring about Orchestra Hall. The house is now a private club.","period_of_significance":"19th Century (specific date 1892)","architect_builder":"Charles Follen McKim of McKim, Mead & White","architectural_style":"Georgian (neo-classical)","criteria":[],"status_note":"Excellent condition, altered, on its original site; occupied and used as a private club. The cornice collapsed in 1972 and was replaced with a fibre-glass reproduction.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:35.978565-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/93/8924/28892493/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_IL/74000753.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/74000753/3d3b3b9a60-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/74000753/3d3b3b9a60-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Harold Allen, Photographer","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bryan_Lathrop_House,_120_East_Bellevue_Place,_Chicago_(Cook_County,_Illinois)_-_correct_version.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Harold Allen, Photographer</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bryan_Lathrop_House,_120_East_Bellevue_Place,_Chicago_(Cook_County,_Illinois)_-_correct_version.jpg"},"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"78001121","name":"Gold Coast Historic District","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/illinois/gold-coast-historic-district-78001121/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/28892493","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bryan_Lathrop_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6495964"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/illinois/cook-county/lathrop-bryan-house-74000753/"}