{"nrhp_refnum":"88002229","name":"Hotel Kaskaskia","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"217 Marquette St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"LaSalle","county":"LaSalle County","state":"IL","lat":41.32951525800007,"lon":-89.09589300099998,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1988-11-03","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Commerce","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A five-story Colonial Revival commercial hotel of brick and reinforced concrete at 217 Marquette Street in downtown LaSalle, Illinois, built in 1915 and designed by the Chicago firm Marshall & Fox.","why_significant":"The hotel is argued to be significant architecturally (Criterion C) as a good local example of Colonial Revival commercial design and a representative small-city hotel by Marshall & Fox. It is also significant under Criterion A for its role in LaSalle's commercial growth after 1900, as the region's major hotel funded by local industrialists and citizens.","narrative":"Rising five stories at the corner of Marquette and Second Streets, this 107-room hotel opened in 1915 as a centerpiece of downtown LaSalle, Illinois. Marshall & Fox, a respected Chicago architectural firm, designed it in the Colonial Revival style, with brick walls over a reinforced concrete frame, a symmetrical facade, a modillioned cornice and a portico with paired Corinthian columns. Inside, the public spaces keep their mosaic tile floors, coffered ceilings, a black marble registration desk, a Louis XVI dining room and a walnut-paneled buffet. Local industrialists and businessmen formed the LaSalle Inn Company, and townspeople subscribed over $250,000 in stock to give the community a fireproof hotel on the model of big-city establishments. The building is regarded as the region's largest and best early twentieth-century commercial hotel, an example of the small-city hotels the firm designed, and a marker of the shift of LaSalle's commercial center from First Street to Second Street. It still operates as a hotel.","period_of_significance":"1915-1938","architect_builder":"Marshall & Fox","architectural_style":"Late 19th and 20th Century Revivals: Colonial Revival, Georgian Revival","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Hotel operations continue to the present; integrity preserved apart from minor changes to the street-level facade and lobby.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:35.62733-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/11/8934/28893411/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_IL/88002229.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/88002229/591e5c28f0-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/88002229/591e5c28f0-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"User:Magicpiano","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:LaSalleIL_HotelKaskaskia.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">User:Magicpiano</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:LaSalleIL_HotelKaskaskia.jpg"},"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"100001926","name":"LaSalle Downtown Commercial District","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/illinois/lasalle-downtown-commercial-district-100001926/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/28893411","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hotel_Kaskaskia","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q14687569"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/illinois/lasalle-county/hotel-kaskaskia-88002229/"}