{"nrhp_refnum":"84000204","name":"Glen Ellyn Main Street Historic District","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Main St. between Cottage Ave. and Hawthorne St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Glen Ellyn","county":"DuPage County","state":"IL","lat":41.88002786700005,"lon":-88.06670513661068,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1984-10-29","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A residential historic district along Main Street in Glen Ellyn, DuPage County, Illinois, running between Cottage Avenue and Hawthorne Street in the final form. It holds houses dating from the 1860s to 1930, set well back from tree-lined streets.","why_significant":"The district keeps a fine collection of homes from before the turn of the century despite suburban growth around it. It shows Glen Ellyn's architectural development from a rural farming community to a resort and retirement village. Its hilly, tree-lined streetscapes blend Italianate, Gothic Revival and Queen Anne styles, with Queen Anne the most numerous.","narrative":"Main Street in Glen Ellyn, Illinois, is lined with houses that record how the village grew from a farming settlement into a railroad town, a summer resort and a quiet residential suburb. The district runs along Main Street between Cottage Avenue and Hawthorne Street and contains homes from the 1860s to 1930, though its stated period of significance is 1874 to 1905. Most are set well back from the road beneath mature trees. Queen Anne houses are the most common, and no two are alike. Italianate, Gothic Revival and Greek Revival examples also appear. Individual houses are tied to local figures, including the Stacy family, whose Queen Anne mansion is called the village's finest, ornithologist Benjamin Gault, and village president Edgar McChesney. Buildings were rated as significant, contributing, non-contributing or intrusive according to age, style and integrity. The area was recognized for keeping an unusually intact record of the village's pre-1900 architecture despite suburban growth around it.","period_of_significance":"1874-1905","architect_builder":"Various; local builders the Boyd brothers and local architects Perkins and Norris are named for individual houses","architectural_style":"Italianate, Gothic Revival and Queen Anne, with some Greek Revival alterations","criteria":[],"status_note":"Marked occupied, in private ownership, used mainly as private residences; condition listed as good and altered.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:35.141872-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/62/8927/28892762/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_IL/84000204.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/84000204/ad42960711-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/84000204/ad42960711-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Teemu08 (talk)","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Glen_Ellyn_Main_Street_Historic_District.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Teemu08 (talk)</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:Glen_Ellyn_Main_Street_Historic_District.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/28892762","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glen_Ellyn_Main_Street_Historic_District","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5567732"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/illinois/dupage-county/glen-ellyn-main-street-historic-district-84000204/"}