{"nrhp_refnum":"80001365","name":"White Hall Foundry","other_names":["Storm Boutique"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"102 S. Jacksonville St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"White Hall","county":"Greene County","state":"IL","lat":39.43484327300007,"lon":-90.40842730599996,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1980-05-28","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Industry","Engineering","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A one-story brick foundry building, about 40 by 70 feet, at 102 South Jacksonville Street in White Hall, Greene County, Illinois. It was built in 1877 for George W. and Richard B. Winn.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the building is a finer example than most small 19th-century brick industrial buildings in Illinois, with window treatment, fan lights and a cornice borrowed from domestic architecture. Its inverted Kingpost truss is rare for its age in such good condition. It was also the manufacturing and distribution point for cast iron building elements used in White Hall and the surrounding area.","narrative":"Built in 1877 for brothers George W. and Richard B. Winn, this one-story brick foundry in White Hall, Illinois, produced cast iron goods such as stove grates, iron beams and decorative columns. The Winns also ran a blacksmith shop alongside it. The walls are common-bond brick made and fired on the site, and the details are finer than usual for a modest industrial building: fan lights over the doors, six-over-six sash windows with segmental arches, and a corbelled brick cornice that hides the shed roof. Inside, an inverted Kingpost truss supports the west room, and an architecture professor described it as a rare survivor in such good condition. The building stayed in the Winn family until 1959 and later served as an auto sales and repair shop, laundry, farm equipment dealer and filling station. Restoration began in 1971, returning it largely to its appearance between 1877 and 1905. It was later used as a boutique and restaurant and was unused when nominated.","period_of_significance":"1877-1905","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":null,"criteria":[],"status_note":"Restored beginning in 1971 to its 1877-1905 appearance, with a few modifications. It was used as a boutique and restaurant from 1971 to 1979 and at the time of nomination was not in use.","vacant_flag":true,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:35.623201-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/11/8929/28892911/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_IL/80001365.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/80001365/891d14865a-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/80001365/891d14865a-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Boscophotos","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Image_The_Foundry.jpeg\" rel=\"noopener\">Boscophotos</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:Image_The_Foundry.jpeg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/28892911","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Hall_Foundry","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q18159245"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/illinois/greene-county/white-hall-foundry-80001365/"}