{"nrhp_refnum":"86001018","name":"Wright, Dr. Charles M., House","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"3 W. Jackson St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Altamont","county":"Effingham County","state":"IL","lat":39.06598158600008,"lon":-88.74816440899997,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1986-05-08","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Social History"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-story brick Italianate residence at 3 West Jackson Street in Altamont, Effingham County, Illinois, built in 1889 for Charles Montague Wright I, with four original outbuildings on the lot.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the house is the prime example of Italianate architecture in Effingham County (criterion C). It also meets criterion A because it has stayed in the Wright family since 1889, a family that helped settle Altamont and served it in medicine, banking, schools, church and music.","narrative":"This two-story brick house at 3 West Jackson Street in Altamont was completed in 1889 for Charles Montague Wright I, a physician who had moved his family to the new village in 1870. Architect Charles Spilman, a former doctor from Edwardsville, supplied a 28-page handwritten specification, and contractor Charles Hanker of Cumberland County built it. Materials, labor and furnishings cost $35,000. The Italianate design has American-bond brick walls, stone quoins, a bracketed cornice, pedimented dormers, original multicolored slate roofing and twin two-story bay windows. Inside are eighteen rooms, cherry and oak woodwork, and four working fireplaces. Four oak outbuildings survive: a barn, summer kitchen, smoke house and coal house. The nomination calls it the finest Italianate building in Effingham County and notes that it has passed down through the Wright family, who practiced medicine, ran a bank and opera house, and served local schools and churches in Altamont.","period_of_significance":"1800-1899","architect_builder":"Charles Hanker, contractor from Cumberland County, Illinois; Charles H. Spilman, architect from Edwardsville, Illinois","architectural_style":"Italianate","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Occupied as a private residence, in excellent condition, on its original site and described as unaltered.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:34.94534-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/31/8928/28892831/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_IL/86001018.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/86001018/16be194a2d-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/86001018/16be194a2d-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Nyttend","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Dr._Charles_M._Wright_House.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Nyttend</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Dr._Charles_M._Wright_House.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/28892831","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dr._Charles_M._Wright_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5304023"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/illinois/effingham-county/wright-dr-charles-m-house-86001018/"}