{"nrhp_refnum":"92001537","name":"Stevens House","other_names":["Springer's Folly"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"140 E. Main St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Tiskilwa","county":"Bureau County","state":"IL","lat":41.29195111300004,"lon":-89.50608970099995,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1992-11-05","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A brick, roughly 18-room house at 140 East Main in Tiskilwa, Bureau County, Illinois, begun in 1842 by John Stevens and enlarged through 1910. It sits with a carriage house, ice house, fish pond and hitching post on a double lot.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the house meets Criterion C as a fine example of Classical Revival architecture that keeps earlier 1840s Greek Revival features. It is described as one of the best Tiskilwa-area examples of Greek Revival blended with a later Classical Revival overlay. It also reflects the changing ideas of successive generations of the Stevens family, who held it for 125 years.","narrative":"Built in 1842 for John Stevens, this brick house at the east end of Tiskilwa's business district began as a Greek Revival home and grew with the family's fortunes. Bricks came from the Stevens brick yard south of town. A west wing and second-floor additions in 1900 brought a hipped roof, a large front porch with classical columns, and a Classical Revival look, followed by a solarium in 1910. Today it holds about 18 rooms and 6,320 square feet, with a carriage house, a 1907 ice house, a fish pond and a hitching post. Inside, cherry and oak woodwork, leaded glass windows and a grand oak staircase survive, alongside simpler early Greek Revival trim in the older rooms. The Stevens family owned it from 1842 to 1967. It was listed as a fine local blend of two revival styles, with its interior and structure largely unchanged since the early twentieth century.","period_of_significance":"1842-1910","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Classical Revival; Greek Revival","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"Being restored toward its circa 1900 appearance in 1992; the form says the house was never divided into apartments or left vacant.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:37.188291-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/36/8917/28891736/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_IL/92001537.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/92001537/e5d424d83d-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/92001537/e5d424d83d-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Boscophotos","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Image_The_Stevens_House.jpeg\" 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:Image_The_Stevens_House.jpeg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/28891736","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stevens_House_(Tiskilwa,_Illinois)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q25209435"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/illinois/bureau-county/stevens-house-92001537/"}