{"nrhp_refnum":"80001346","name":"Waller, William, House","other_names":["Palette and Chisel Academy of Fine Arts"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"1012 N. Dearborn St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Chicago","county":"Cook County","state":"IL","lat":41.90100473800004,"lon":-87.63032458599997,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1980-11-21","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Art","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A three-story Italianate (\"Tuscan\") villa at 1012 N. Dearborn Street in Chicago, built in 1872 just after the Great Fire, originally listed as the Dunlap Mansion and later renamed for William Waller, who built it.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the house is architecturally significant as a fine city villa with exceptional materials and woodwork, and was originally also credited with historical and cultural importance. Later National Park Service correspondence found that George Dunlap neither built nor lived in the house, so the name was changed to William Waller House and the significance rests on architecture. It also housed the Palette and Chisel Academy of Fine Arts from 1921.","narrative":"Built in 1872, shortly after the Great Fire of 1871, this Italianate villa at the corner of Dearborn and Oak Streets in Chicago was designed as a city house meant to sit among a line of grand residences. Its front is faced in rock-cut limestone, with a grand stair to the entrance, arched openings and a deeply bracketed cornice. Inside, a central hall plan leads to double parlors, a music room and a dining room, each with carved marble fireplaces, while black walnut and rosewood woodwork and ten-foot sliding doors add richness. The building was first known as the Dunlap Mansion, but later research showed that William Waller built it and that George Dunlap was never associated with it. The name was changed accordingly, and the case for listing rests on its architecture. Since 1921 the Palette and Chisel Academy of Fine Arts has used the house for galleries and artists' studios, helping preserve its original features.","period_of_significance":"1800-1899","architect_builder":"Unknown in the original form; later records say William Waller built the house. Campbell Brothers Manufacturing Company is suggested as a likely builder.","architectural_style":"Italianate (\"Tuscan\" villa)","criteria":[],"status_note":"Occupied since 1921 by the Palette and Chisel Academy of Fine Arts, an art club, with the building described as in excellent condition at the time of nomination.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:35.229935-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/18/8920/28892018/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_IL/80001346.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/80001346/09bd7869d9-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/80001346/09bd7869d9-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Alanscottwalker","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Waller_House.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Alanscottwalker</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:Waller_House.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/28892018","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Waller_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q17066336"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/illinois/cook-county/waller-william-house-80001346/"}