{"nrhp_refnum":"80001405","name":"Elliott Street Historic District","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"S. Elliott St. between Chestnut St. and South Ave.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Olney","county":"Richland County","state":"IL","lat":38.72809734100005,"lon":-88.07981163589217,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1980-11-26","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Social History"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A residential historic district of 33 main structures along five blocks of South Elliott Street in Olney, Richland County, Illinois, laid out after 1855 and containing houses and churches mostly from the 1850s to the 1930s. It is split into two parts by a 1979 railroad viaduct.","why_significant":"The street, locally called the \"Silk Stocking District,\" was home to Olney's early businessmen, lawyers, judges, politicians, educators and doctors. It keeps both the physical fabric and atmosphere of its earlier history largely intact. The homes and churches form a concentration of locally significant architecture and history.","narrative":"South Elliott Street in Olney, Illinois, is a five-block residential district of 33 main structures, most of them single-family houses, along with St. Joseph Church and Convent, St. Joseph Rectory and St. Alban's Episcopal Church. The street was platted by William Elliott after the Ohio and Mississippi Railroad opened in 1855, and Olney's prominent families moved there. It became known locally as the \"Silk Stocking District.\" Early residents included Judge Aaron Shaw, attorney and horsebreeder Henry Sands, merchant John H. Gunn, and the Kurtz family of Red Top Seed. Architecture ranges from Italianate and Queen Anne houses to Georgian Revival residences built in the early twentieth century. Maple trees line the street, and the original brick paving from about 1880 remains beneath asphalt. A 1979 railroad viaduct divides the district into two sections. Two later houses, built in 1969 and about 1950, are classed as intrusions. The district was recognized for its largely intact historic character and local importance.","period_of_significance":"1800-1899, 1900-","architect_builder":"Louis N. Osterhage (proposed 1917 remodel of 402 S. Elliott, not carried out); James and Associates, Vincennes, Indiana (423 S. Elliott, 1925); Campbell and Osterhage, Vincennes, Indiana (430 S. Elliott, 1910)","architectural_style":"Italianate, Gothic Revival, Queen Anne and Georgian Revival, plus vernacular masonry and frame houses","criteria":[],"status_note":"Described as in excellent condition, with the buildings occupied and mostly private residences, plus churches. The original ca. 1880 brick street survives under asphalt.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:34.588332-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/49/8939/28893949/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_IL/80001405.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/80001405/615121cb66-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/80001405/615121cb66-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Nyttend","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Three_houses_on_Elliott_Street_in_Olney.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Nyttend</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Three_houses_on_Elliott_Street_in_Olney.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/28893949","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elliott_Street_Historic_District","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16835027"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/illinois/richland-county/elliott-street-historic-district-80001405/"}