{"nrhp_refnum":"82002557","name":"Churchill, Richard, House","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"1214 Green Bay Rd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Highland Park","county":"Lake County","state":"IL","lat":42.174484188000065,"lon":-87.79697994899999,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1982-09-29","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-story grey stucco country house at 1214 Green Bay Road in Highland Park, Lake County, Illinois, built in 1908 and designed by architect Alfred S. Alschuler.","why_significant":"It is noteworthy mainly as the work of Alfred Alschuler, a nationally recognized local architect who won an A.I.A. Gold Medal for the Stone Container Corporation Building in Chicago. It is typical of the large country homes built from 1900 for new suburban residents. It also occupies the site of Highland Park's first Catholic church (1853) and cemetery, a long-standing landmark on the Green Bay Trail.","narrative":"Built in 1908 on Green Bay Road in Highland Park, this two-story grey stucco house was designed as a spacious country home with large, airy rooms opening onto terraces. Architect Alfred S. Alschuler placed it lengthwise along the highest point of the land and angled it to capture sun and views across the Skokie Valley to the west. Notable features include trelliswork carried on columns around the front entry and a Palladian window above it. The house reflects the large country homes designed after 1900 for new suburban residents. Its importance rests chiefly on Alschuler, a locally based architect of national reputation who received an A.I.A. Gold Medal for the Stone Container Corporation Building in Chicago. The site also held Highland Park's first Catholic church, built in 1853, and its cemetery, a landmark on the Green Bay Trail. A four-car garage was added in 1940, and the dining porch was enclosed in 1959. It remains a single family residence on about four acres.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"Alfred S. Alschuler","architectural_style":"English Country house","criteria":[],"status_note":"Present use is single family residence; condition is listed as good. A four-car garage was added in 1940, and the dining porch was glassed in during a 1959 interior remodeling.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:36.002019-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/21/8912/28891221/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_IL/82002557.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/82002557/e1d31395a4-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/82002557/e1d31395a4-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Teemu08","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Richard_Churchill_House.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Teemu08</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:Richard_Churchill_House.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/28891221","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Churchill_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q85797115"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/illinois/lake-county/churchill-richard-house-82002557/"}