{"nrhp_refnum":"89001113","name":"Bohlander, Jacob, House","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"316 N. 4th Ave.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Maywood","county":"Cook County","state":"IL","lat":41.89075661600003,"lon":-87.83827753199995,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1989-08-21","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A three-story Queen Anne single-family house of red brick and stone at 316 North 4th Avenue, Maywood, Illinois, built about 1894 for Jacob Bohlander, a local merchant and village president.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the house is a locally significant, distinctive example of Late Victorian Queen Anne architecture in its \"free classic\" form, combining classical details with towers and bays. It has a well-preserved interior with good detailing. It is described as the only masonry free classic Queen Anne house in Maywood.","narrative":"Built around 1894 on a corner lot in Maywood, Illinois, this red brick house was the home of Jacob Bohlander, a dry goods merchant who served as village president during its construction. Its design is Queen Anne with classical touches: a wraparound porch with Ionic columns and a pediment, a hexagonal tower, a semicircular turret, three dormers, and a slate roof over a limestone and sandstone base. Inside, a 30-foot stairhall with oak Ionic columns and a circular staircase survives with unpainted original woodwork, along with original lincrusta, hardware, and patterned radiators. The house served as a rooming house in the 1940s and 1950s and has been a single-family home since the 1960s. It was listed for its architecture, as a locally distinctive example of the free classic Queen Anne style and the only masonry example in Maywood.","period_of_significance":"ca 1894","architect_builder":"Unknown","architectural_style":"Late Victorian/Queen Anne","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"In use as a single-family residence since the 1960s; earlier used as a rooming house in the 1940s and 1950s. Some deterioration noted, including rotted rear porch gutters, roof and third-floor porch woodwork.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:35.900674-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/48/8920/28892048/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_IL/89001113.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/89001113/f4c9174298-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/89001113/f4c9174298-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Thshriver","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bohlander,_Jacob_House.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Thshriver</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:Bohlander,_Jacob_House.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/28892048","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob_Bohlander_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q104846816"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/illinois/cook-county/bohlander-jacob-house-89001113/"}