{"nrhp_refnum":"90000101","name":"Joliet, Louis, Hotel","other_names":["St. Patrick's Residence"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"22 E. Clinton St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Joliet","county":"Will County","state":"IL","lat":41.52683231100008,"lon":-88.08010963799995,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1990-02-09","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Commerce"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"An eight-story, 225-room hotel at 22 East Clinton Street, at the corner of Clinton and Scott streets in downtown Joliet, Will County, Illinois. Built in 1927 in a Neo-classical Revival style with brick and stone trim.","why_significant":"The nomination argues significance under Criterion A for the hotel's role in Joliet's commercial development and as an example of the local hotel industry at its peak. It was the only Joliet hotel to meet all the requirements of the large, urban, luxury hotel, and it is described as the best remnant of the city's hotel industry. Its importance is traced from 1927 to 1939.","narrative":"Rising eight stories at the corner of Clinton and Scott streets, the Louis Joliet Hotel was completed in 1927 as a 225-room, fireproof luxury hotel in downtown Joliet. Its red brick facades carry stone pilasters, pediments, a dentilated cornice and a carved balustrade, and the interior retains a two-story lobby, a lounge with a Bedford stone fireplace, and the original reception desk. Construction began around March 1926 and cost roughly $750,000. The hotel grew out of local hopes of making Joliet a convention center and was part of a block that also included the Rialto Theater. Its opening was celebrated with banquets, and the Illinois American Legion convention filled it to capacity within weeks. The nomination presents it as the only Joliet hotel to match the large urban luxury type and as the best surviving example of the city's hotel industry. Later it served as a retirement center and nursing home, and the form lists it as vacant.","period_of_significance":"1927-1939","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Classical Revival (Neo-classical Revival)","criteria":["A"],"status_note":"Operated for about the last 25 years as a retirement center and nursing home (St. Patrick's Residence); the form lists current function as vacant/not in use. Structural and architectural integrity is described as preserved apart from minor street-level and lobby changes.","vacant_flag":true,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:35.729422-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/49/8943/28894349/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_IL/90000101.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/90000101/5a9dc06299-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/90000101/5a9dc06299-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"publichall","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Louis_Joliet_Hotel_1926_-_Copy.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">publichall</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:Louis_Joliet_Hotel_1926_-_Copy.jpg"},"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"100009642","name":"Downtown Joliet Historic District","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/illinois/downtown-joliet-historic-district-100009642/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/28894349","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Joliet_Hotel","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6687503"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/illinois/will-county/joliet-louis-hotel-90000101/"}