{"nrhp_refnum":"94000019","name":"McClintock, John and Amelia, House","other_names":["Country Corner","Methodist Church Parsonage"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"321 E. Main St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Grafton","county":"Jersey County","state":"IL","lat":38.96950581500005,"lon":-90.43055330499999,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1994-02-16","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A one-and-one-half-story Queen Anne style house at 321 East Main Street in Grafton, Jersey County, Illinois, built about 1910 of rock-faced concrete block by its owner, John McClintock.","why_significant":"The house is judged an excellent and rarely fully expressed example of the Queen Anne style in Grafton. It has asymmetrical massing, multiple gables, a wrap-around porch and textured concrete block walls. It also keeps a high degree of exterior and interior integrity, and it is a visual landmark at the eastern end of the business district.","narrative":"Standing at the southwest corner of East Main and Cherry streets in Grafton, Illinois, this one-and-one-half-story house was built around 1910 by John McClintock, a boat maker by trade, who also made the rock-faced concrete blocks used for its walls. The choice of block is unusual in a town with abundant local limestone and a quarry two blocks away. The house shows the Queen Anne style through asymmetrical massing, steep jerkinhead gables, a cut-away bay, and a semi-hexagonal wrap-around porch with spindled half-wheel brackets. The textured block walls take the place of the sawn shingles seen on frame examples, and the standing seam metal roof was likely made locally. McClintock and his wife Amelia moved to Wood River around 1916. The house later served as the Methodist parsonage until about 1964 and now holds retail businesses. Its original room layout, woodwork, doors and pine staircase survive.","period_of_significance":"c. 1910","architect_builder":"McClintock, John/Builder","architectural_style":"Queen Anne","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"Now used as commercial retail space (a fudge shop, antique/gift shop and bicycle rental), placed sensitively within the original floor plan; formerly the Methodist Church parsonage until about 1964.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:37.716358-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/84/8911/28891184/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_IL/94000019.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/94000019/3cc521e1ad-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/94000019/3cc521e1ad-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Nyttend","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:John_and_Amelia_McClintock_House.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Nyttend</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:John_and_Amelia_McClintock_House.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/28891184","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_and_Amelia_McClintock_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q18154224"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/illinois/jersey-county/mcclintock-john-and-amelia-house-94000019/"}