{"nrhp_refnum":"82002580","name":"Reagan's, Ronald, Boyhood Home","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"816 S. Hennepin Ave.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Dixon","county":"Lee County","state":"IL","lat":41.83713669200006,"lon":-89.47981976599993,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1982-03-26","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Politics/Government"],"significance_levels":["national"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-story wood-frame house on a stone foundation at 816 South Hennepin Avenue in Dixon, Lee County, Illinois, built in 1891. It was the first Dixon home of the Reagan family.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the house is significant for its association with Ronald W. Reagan, 40th President of the United States, who lived there from 1920 to 1923 during his grade school years. Reagan and his brother Neil both recalled this house as their clearest boyhood association with Dixon. The nomination places it among several Reagan homes in the town.","narrative":"This two-story house at 816 South Hennepin Avenue in Dixon, Illinois, was built in 1891 and is typical of ordinary late nineteenth-century American homes in its design, materials and room layout. It has a stone foundation, a full-width front porch with spindles and railing, and double-hung windows. It matters because Ronald W. Reagan, later the 40th President, lived here with his parents, Jack and Nelle, and his brother Neil from December 1920 to 1923, during his grade school years. Reagan later wrote of Dixon as the place that shaped him, and both brothers remembered this house most clearly among the family's Dixon homes. The house was divided into two apartments in 1936 and later had its original wood siding covered with asphalt siding, which was removed in 1981. Local citizens bought it in 1980 and organized a volunteer effort to restore it to its appearance during the Reagan years. At the time of the form it stood unoccupied.","period_of_significance":"1920-1923","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":null,"criteria":["B"],"status_note":"Listed as unoccupied and vacant, in good condition but altered. The form describes a volunteer restoration under way to return it to its appearance during the Reagan years.","vacant_flag":true,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:34.651976-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/49/8934/28893449/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_IL/82002580.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/82002580/80930edcb6-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/82002580/80930edcb6-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 2.0","author":"Teemu008 from Palatine, Illinois","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ronald_Reagan_Boyhood_Home_(8030104930).jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Teemu008 from Palatine, Illinois</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 2.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ronald_Reagan_Boyhood_Home_(8030104930).jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/28893449","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald_Reagan_Boyhood_Home","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7365195"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/illinois/lee-county/reagans-ronald-boyhood-home-82002580/"}