{"nrhp_refnum":"92000049","name":"Gray, William W., House","other_names":["Carey,Abner,House"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"119 N. Court St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Grayville","county":"White County","state":"IL","lat":38.25855166500003,"lon":-87.99601526599997,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1992-02-13","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-story Queen Anne style house at 119 North Court Street in Grayville, White County, Illinois, built around 1885 to a design by George Franklin Barber, with a coach house and attached motel at the rear of the lot.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the house meets Criterion C as a locally significant, distinctive example of Queen Anne architecture. It cites excellent exterior and interior detailing, multiple cross gables, mixed shingle and siding textures, a wraparound porch, and decorative gable ornamentation. It is described as the most intact high-style Queen Anne home in Grayville and as typical of Barber's published designs.","narrative":"Built around 1885 at 119 North Court Street in Grayville, this Queen Anne house was commissioned by W.W. Gray, Sr., a son of one of the town's founders. It follows a design by mail-order architect George F. Barber, published in his pattern books. The wood-framed house has a steep hip roof, four cross gables, an eight-sided tower, a curving veranda with Tuscan columns, stained glass windows, and a carved stair in the reception hall. Original chandeliers, speaking tubes, and an iron fence survive. A matching coach house stands at the rear, though a 1950s motel addition and apartment conversion are counted as noncontributing. Gray family members lived here until 1947, when it was sold to Abner Carey. The house was listed as the most intact high-style Queen Anne home in Grayville and as a locally significant example of Barber's work. It has since been adapted as a bed and breakfast inn.","period_of_significance":"1885","architect_builder":"Barber, George Franklin","architectural_style":"Queen Anne","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"Converted by the current owner to a bed and breakfast inn; the coach house was converted to apartments in the 1950s and the attached eight-unit motel is used for storage.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:35.087948-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/74/8942/28894274/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_IL/92000049.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/92000049/2f5d00d553-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/92000049/2f5d00d553-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Nyttend","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:William_W._Gray_House.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Nyttend</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:William_W._Gray_House.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/28894274","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_W._Gray_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16840200"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/illinois/white-county/gray-william-w-house-92000049/"}