{"nrhp_refnum":"83000301","name":"Greenwood Cottage","other_names":["Joseph Innskeep Taylor House"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"543 E. Peru St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Princeton","county":"Bureau County","state":"IL","lat":41.362799935000055,"lon":-89.45333789099999,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1983-05-09","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Landscape Architecture","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"Greenwood Cottage, also called the Joseph Innskeep Taylor House, is a one-and-a-half-story Gothic Revival frame house at 543 East Peru Street in Princeton, Bureau County, Illinois, built in 1852 by local carpenter Abel Martin.","why_significant":"The nomination cites its architectural importance as a nearly unaltered Gothic Revival cottage built directly from Design No. 3 in Andrew Jackson Downing's style book. It is also nominated for its intact picturesque landscape, designed by original owner Joseph Innskeep Taylor, which includes mature native and exotic trees and an English garden begun in 1855.","narrative":"Greenwood Cottage is a one-and-a-half-story Gothic Revival house on East Peru Street in Princeton, Illinois. Local carpenter Abel Martin built it in 1852 for Joseph Innskeep Taylor, a trial lawyer, under a contract that called for construction in accordance with Design No. 3 in Andrew Jackson Downing's book on country houses. The frame house sits on a brick foundation, with original clapboard siding, a full-width porch with gingerbread vergeboard, lancet windows and original shutters. Inside, a double parlor divided by a Gothic arch, a walnut stairway and an ash-and-walnut dining room floor survive, and many rooms hold furniture original to the house. Alterations have been few. The grounds reflect Taylor's interpretation of Downing's landscape ideals, with oaks, maples, walnuts, ginkgos and hemlocks, plus an English garden established in 1855 and entered through a Gothic arch built in 1880. Outbuildings include a smoke house, ice house and stable.","period_of_significance":"1852","architect_builder":"Abel Martin","architectural_style":"Gothic Revival","criteria":[],"status_note":"Listed as an occupied private residence in excellent condition, with few structural changes; a smoke house, an ice house and a stable remain on the grounds.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:35.876659-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/50/8917/28891750/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_IL/83000301.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/83000301/24a2bd106f-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/83000301/24a2bd106f-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"JERRYE AND ROY KLOTZ MD","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:GREENWOOD_COTTAGE,_PRINCETON,_BUREAU_COUNTY,_ILLINOIS.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">JERRYE AND ROY KLOTZ MD</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:GREENWOOD_COTTAGE,_PRINCETON,_BUREAU_COUNTY,_ILLINOIS.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/28891750","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenwood_Cottage","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q24898938"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/illinois/bureau-county/greenwood-cottage-83000301/"}