{"nrhp_refnum":"85002402","name":"Black Hawk Museum and Lodge","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"1510 46th Ave.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Rock Island","county":"Rock Island County","state":"IL","lat":41.46431092600005,"lon":-90.57275900599996,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1985-03-04","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A limestone lodge and museum complex on a bluff above the Rock River at Black Hawk State Park, near Rock Island, Illinois. The lodge was built 1934-1941 and the museum in 1938, designed by Joseph F. Booten.","why_significant":"It is nominated as part of a thematic group of Illinois state park lodges and cabins, for its architecture and its association with state park recreation. Booten's design was inspired by French Colonial military forms from his Fort Chartres restoration work. The museum was built to house a collection of Indian, African and Mexican artifacts, and the park developed from an earlier amusement park site.","narrative":"Perched on a bluff overlooking the Rock River, this limestone complex at Black Hawk State Park near Rock Island combines a museum, a central lounge and a dining room, all linked by an enclosed gallery. Built between 1934 and 1941, with the museum dating to 1938, it was designed by Joseph F. Booten. The walls are locally quarried stone laid in random courses, with buttressed museum walls, steep gable roofs and dormers. Inside, the lounge has a cathedral ceiling, stone fireplaces, knotty pine siding, rough-hewn log trusses and two murals of Indian life. Booten compared the design to French Colonial military architecture, influenced by his work at Fort Chartres. The site was acquired by the state in 1927 after serving as a streetcar-terminal amusement park. The museum was built to display John H. Hauburg's collection of artifacts. The complex was listed as part of a group of Illinois state park lodges, recognized for its architecture and its role in recreation.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"Joseph F. Booten","architectural_style":null,"criteria":["C"],"status_note":"Owned by the Illinois Department of Conservation; the museum, lounge and dining room remain in use, with a snack bar added in the lounge.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:35.609526-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/24/8914/28891424/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_IL/85002402.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/85002402/8fc08fdb68-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/85002402/8fc08fdb68-1600.webp","licence":"CC0","author":"Smallbones","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hauberg_Museum_RI_IL.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Smallbones</a>, <a href=\"http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/deed.en\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hauberg_Museum_RI_IL.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/28891424","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Hawk_Museum_and_Lodge","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4920882"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/illinois/rock-island-county/black-hawk-museum-and-lodge-85002402/"}