{"nrhp_refnum":"83000334","name":"Scott, Lyman, House","other_names":["Grote House"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"U.S. 54","address_restricted":false,"city":"Summer Hill","county":"Pike County","state":"IL","lat":39.54312082800004,"lon":-90.92104055599998,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1983-02-10","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Exploration/Settlement"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A clapboard-covered post-and-beam house on U.S. Route 54 in Summer Hill, Pike County, Illinois, built around 1844 as a summer home by Lyman Scott, who also served as its builder.","why_significant":"The house is the oldest known residence still standing in Summer Hill and is largely unaltered. It was built by Lyman Scott, an early Pike County pioneer who founded Summer Hill in 1845 and Rockport in 1836. Scott was also a merchant, inventor, innkeeper, Kansas legislator and delegate to a World's Peace Congress in Germany.","narrative":"Built around 1844 as a summer home for Lyman Scott, this frame house on U.S. Route 54 in Summer Hill, Pike County, Illinois, is the oldest known residence still standing in the village. Scott laid out the town of Summer Hill beside it in 1845. He had earlier founded Rockport and worked as a merchant, inventor, innkeeper and flatboat operator, later serving in the Kansas legislature and attending a World's Peace Congress in Germany in 1850. The house measures roughly 62 by 32 feet and has clapboard siding over post-and-beam framing, original bark-covered log floor joists, plaster over hand-split lath, and a porch with a carved balustrade. A dormer added in the 1870s is the main exterior change. Scott's heirs sold the property in 1867 to David Deam, and it has stayed in the same family since. The property is currently listed as vacant and in fair condition.","period_of_significance":"1800-1899 (specific dates 1844-45)","architect_builder":"Lyman Scott","architectural_style":null,"criteria":[],"status_note":"Listed as unoccupied and vacant, in fair condition. A 1950s fire damaged some second-floor joists and lath, but the structure was not seriously affected.","vacant_flag":true,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:34.484761-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/11/8939/28893911/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_IL/83000334.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/83000334/5f50dfb5dc-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/83000334/5f50dfb5dc-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"Jon Roanhaus","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lyman_Scott_House_NRHP_83000334_Pike_County,_IL.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Jon Roanhaus</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:Lyman_Scott_House_NRHP_83000334_Pike_County,_IL.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/28893911","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyman_Scott_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6708082"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/illinois/pike-county/scott-lyman-house-83000334/"}