{"nrhp_refnum":"83000311","name":"King, Patrick J., House","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"3234 W. Washington Blvd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Chicago","county":"Cook County","state":"IL","lat":41.882901134000065,"lon":-87.70752421399999,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1983-02-10","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Politics/Government","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A three-story stone and brick residence at 3234 West Washington Boulevard in the East Garfield Park area of Chicago's West Side, designed in 1901 by architect George W. Maher for businessman Patrick J. King.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the house is a largely unaltered example of Maher's mature urban residential work from his Farson phase, comparable to his demolished James A. Patten House in Evanston. It is also tied to Chicago political history as the home of Patrick A. Nash, power behind the \"Kelly-Nash Machine\", from 1925 until his death in 1943.","narrative":"Designed in 1901 by George W. Maher, this three-story house on Chicago's West Side was built for businessman Patrick J. King at a cost of $18,000. Its south facade is rough-cut and finished Bedford stone, with brick on the other sides, a modified mansard roof of red tile, and an arched center dormer over Palladian windows. Thistle-decorated column capitals carry the thistle motif that Maher used as a unifying theme, repeated indoors in a carved arch, plaster ceiling trim and colorful mosaic floors. The design is compared to Maher's demolished Patten House in Evanston, built at the same time. The house also has political importance: Patrick A. Nash lived here from 1925 to 1943 and helped lead the Kelly-Nash Machine, which controlled Chicago government in the 1930s. After serving as a single-family home, it became a boarding house and then a nursing home, and later stood abandoned before restoration planning began.","period_of_significance":"1900-","architect_builder":"George W. Maher","architectural_style":"Prairie School with stylized Sullivanesque and geometric classical detail","criteria":[],"status_note":"Described as having declined and been abandoned during the disinvestment on Chicago's West Side before purchase by the present owner, who is formulating a restoration plan for the exterior and first-floor interior.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:35.29034-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/66/8924/28892466/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_IL/83000311.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/83000311/d043b69911-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/83000311/d043b69911-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"Zol87 from Chicago, IL, USA","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:King-Nash_(Patrick_J._King)_House.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Zol87 from Chicago, IL, USA</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 4.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:King-Nash_(Patrick_J._King)_House.jpg"},"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"12000040","name":"Chicago Park Boulevard System Historic District","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/illinois/chicago-park-boulevard-system-historic-district-12000040/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/28892466","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King%E2%80%93Nash_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6411176"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/illinois/cook-county/king-patrick-j-house-83000311/"}