{"nrhp_refnum":"82002567","name":"James, Jean Butz, Museum of the Highland Park Historical Society","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"326 Central Ave.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Highland Park","county":"Lake County","state":"IL","lat":42.187111833000074,"lon":-87.79423235199994,"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 ten-room, two-story Italianate brick house at 326 Central Avenue in Highland Park, Lake County, Illinois, built in 1871 by the Highland Park Building Company. It now serves as a house museum.","why_significant":"It is one of the community's oldest houses, built two years after Highland Park was incorporated. The Highland Park Building Company built it on speculation to attract well-to-do Chicagoans to the new northern suburb. It is a handsome Italianate building with some interior rooms restored to the period. Reviewers recommended acceptance under criteria A and C.","narrative":"Built in 1871 by the Highland Park Building Company, this ten-room, two-story house at 326 Central Avenue is an Italianate residence made of locally produced yellow brick. Tall, narrow paired windows with brick hoodmolds and paired ornamental brackets beneath a gabled and hipped roof define its look, and a widow's walk once offered views of Lake Michigan two blocks east. The company, which owned most of what was then Highland Park, built the house on speculation, hoping to draw well-to-do Chicagoans to the new northern suburb. It went up just two years after the town's incorporation, making it one of the community's oldest houses. Changes came in 1910, when the front porch was removed and a Colonial entrance and sunroom were added, and in 1976, when the side porch was enclosed. A 1910 garage on the property serves as a tool museum. Some interior rooms have been restored to the period, and the house is open to the public as a museum.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"Highland Park Building Company","architectural_style":"Italianate","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Condition rated good; altered (1910 front porch removed, Colonial entrance and sunroom added; 1976 side porch enclosed). Used as a historical society house museum open to the public.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:35.233756-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/31/8912/28891231/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_IL/82002567.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/82002567/5b3e5db335-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/82002567/5b3e5db335-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Teemu08","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Jean_Butz_James_Museum_of_the_Highland_Park_Historical_Society.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:Jean_Butz_James_Museum_of_the_Highland_Park_Historical_Society.JPG"},"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"83003580","name":"Linden Park Place-Belle Avenue Historic District","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/illinois/linden-park-place-belle-avenue-historic-district-83003580/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/28891231","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Butz_James_Museum","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q85771008"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/illinois/lake-county/james-jean-butz-museum-of-the-highland-park-historical-society-82002567/"}