{"nrhp_refnum":"90000156","name":"Grubbs, Samuel Moody, House","other_names":["Davis House","Morrison House","Brubaker House"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"805 E. Union","address_restricted":false,"city":"Litchfield","county":"Montgomery County","state":"IL","lat":39.17783309300006,"lon":-89.65280734199996,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1990-02-21","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-story, nine-room red brick Second Empire house at 805 East Union in Litchfield, Montgomery County, Illinois, built around 1875 (designed 1873-74) for banker and civic leader Samuel Moody Grubbs.","why_significant":"The house is nominated under Criterion C for architecture as the only known surviving Illinois work of St. Louis architect George Ingham Barnett, who designed roughly 2,500 buildings between 1840 and 1893. It is described as a fine example of his later French-Italian (Second Empire) work, with a Mansard roof of the kind he used on several Italianate houses after the Civil War.","narrative":"Built around 1875 at the corner of Union and Montgomery Streets in Litchfield, Illinois, this red brick house was made for Samuel Moody Grubbs, a prominent local banker and civic leader. It has a slate Mansard roof with a suggested central tower, bracketed eaves, corner quoins, arched windows with heavy carved hoods, and a white columned porch wrapping the front and west side. Inside, a curved walnut staircase, carved woodwork, pocket doors, plaster ceiling medallions and marble fireplaces survive. Grubbs's family lived there until 1888, when title passed to his daughter; banker Michael Morrison and his family owned it from 1902 to 1945. The house was designed by St. Louis architect George Ingham Barnett, whose long career produced about 2,500 buildings, mostly in St. Louis. It is the only known surviving example of his work in Illinois, and it shows how he applied a French Mansard roof to an Italianate-based design.","period_of_significance":"1873-74","architect_builder":"Barnett, George Ingham","architectural_style":"Late Victorian: Second Empire","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"Used as a single dwelling historically; the current function is listed as work in progress. The exterior and interior are described as largely intact, with a rear brick addition and carport.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:35.8687-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/59/8937/28893759/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_IL/90000156.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/90000156/545d653578-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/90000156/545d653578-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Boscophotos","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Damuel_Moody_Grubbs_House.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Boscophotos</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:Damuel_Moody_Grubbs_House.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/28893759","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Moody_Grubbs_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q17299881"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/illinois/montgomery-county/grubbs-samuel-moody-house-90000156/"}