{"nrhp_refnum":"92000495","name":"Sullivan, Joseph P. O., House","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"142 S. 17th Ave.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Maywood","county":"Cook County","state":"IL","lat":41.887123331000055,"lon":-87.84244861499997,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1992-05-22","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A 2-1/2 story wood-frame Foursquare house at 142 South 17th Avenue in Maywood, Cook County, Illinois, built about 1895 by the Proviso Land Association. A one-story barn at the rear, used as a garage, is also counted.","why_significant":"The house is argued to be Maywood's best surviving example of a Proviso Land Association house, since the others have been demolished or substantially altered. It retains excellent exterior integrity and largely unaltered interior detailing. Its simplified Foursquare form and Palladian window reflect the classical influence that followed the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition.","narrative":"Built around 1895 at 142 South 17th Avenue in Maywood, this 2-1/2 story frame house rests on a limestone foundation and is sheathed in narrow clapboards under a hip roof. A broad front porch, enclosed probably in the 1920s, spans the facade, and a gabled dormer holds a low Palladian window, the only exterior nod to classical design. Inside, a simple Foursquare plan includes a geometric stair balustrade, wide ceiling moldings and an unusual ribbon-pattern parquet floor in the front hall. A rear barn serves as a garage. The house was built by the Proviso Land Association, a developer that ranked second only to the Maywood Company in shaping the village and built many similar homes. Nearly all of those have since been demolished or altered. This one is regarded as the best remaining example, because only modest changes were made by a single family, which owned it from the time it was built.","period_of_significance":"ca1895","architect_builder":"Proviso Land Association","architectural_style":"Late 19th Century and Early 20th Century American Movements: Foursquare","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"Still used as a single dwelling; the form describes the house as having excellent integrity and being kept up through constant repair.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:35.228721-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/17/8908/28890817/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_IL/92000495.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/92000495/4d60fe524e-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/92000495/4d60fe524e-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Boscophotos","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:ImageSullivan_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:ImageSullivan_House.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/28890817","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_P._O._Sullivan_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q104849305"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/illinois/cook-county/sullivan-joseph-p-o-house-92000495/"}