{"nrhp_refnum":"74002196","name":"Stevenson House","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"1316 E. Washington St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Bloomington","county":"McLean County","state":"IL","lat":40.47159406900005,"lon":-88.96971163399996,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1974-05-24","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Politics/Government","Social History"],"significance_levels":["national"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A private residence at 1316 E. Washington Street in Bloomington, McLean County, Illinois, built in 1900 by architect Arthur Pillsbury for Lyman Graham.","why_significant":"The house was the boyhood home of Adlai E. Stevenson II, Illinois governor (1949-53), twice Democratic presidential candidate, and U.S. ambassador to the United Nations. The nomination argues that the surroundings in which he grew up shaped his personality and philosophies. It is nominated for this association rather than for architecture.","narrative":"This house at 1316 E. Washington Street in Bloomington, Illinois, was built in 1900 to a design by architect Arthur Pillsbury for Lyman Graham. Graham rented it to Lyle Funk until Helen Stevenson bought it in October 1906. It became the boyhood home of Adlai E. Stevenson II, born in 1900, who grew up there and later served as governor of Illinois from 1949 to 1953, ran unsuccessfully for President in 1952 and 1956, and was United Nations ambassador from 1961 until his death in 1965. The nomination presents the house as the place where his personality and philosophies were formed. Changes over time were modest: a partly remodeled front porch, a porch added off the dining room, two sealed attic rooms, a bathroom made from an upper porch, and pebble-dashed stucco over the clapboard around 1910. The house was used as a private residence when nominated.","period_of_significance":"1900","architect_builder":"Arthur Pillsbury (architect)","architectural_style":null,"criteria":[],"status_note":"Listed as an occupied private residence; the form lists the condition as unaltered apart from minor changes, such as a partly remodeled front porch, an added side porch and stucco applied about 1910.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:35.206414-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/91/8936/28893691/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_IL/74002196.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/74002196/d4cca550f1-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/74002196/d4cca550f1-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"IvoShandor","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bloomington_Il_Adlai_E._Stevenson_II_House5.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">IvoShandor</a>, <a href=\"http://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:Bloomington_Il_Adlai_E._Stevenson_II_House5.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/28893691","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stevenson_House_(Bloomington,_Illinois)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7615524"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/illinois/mclean-county/stevenson-house-74002196/"}