{"nrhp_refnum":"94001598","name":"Dorhmann-Buckman House","other_names":["8455 West Grand Avenue"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"8455 W. Grand Ave.","address_restricted":false,"city":"River Grove","county":"Cook County","state":"IL","lat":41.929308082000034,"lon":-87.83793888099996,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1995-01-24","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-story wood balloon-frame Italianate front-gabled house with a 1 1/2 story barn, at 8455 West Grand Avenue in River Grove, Cook County, Illinois. The house was first built around 1875 and enlarged with two additions between about 1891 and 1909.","why_significant":"The nomination argues it is locally significant in architecture as a good representative example of a front-gabled house with Italianate details in River Grove. The later additions are largely intact and do not detract from the original design. The additions and the barn convey how the property functioned during the Buckman family's ownership.","narrative":"Located at 8455 West Grand Avenue in River Grove, about 12 miles northwest of Chicago, this property includes a two-story wood-frame house and a 1 1/2 story barn on a half-acre lot. Frederick Dohrmann bought the lot in 1874, and the first part of the house went up around 1875. Henry Buckman, a carpenter and early village official, acquired the house in 1890, and his family owned it until 1992, when it was deeded to the Village for use as a house museum. Two additions, dated to about 1891 and 1895-1909, match the original house in design and materials. The house follows a side-hall plan with a stone foundation, clapboard siding, segmental arched upper windows, and an Italianate newel post. The barn is the only surviving outbuilding. The property was listed for its architecture as a representative front-gabled Italianate house. Its period of significance runs from 1875 to about 1909.","period_of_significance":"1875 - ca. 1909","architect_builder":"unknown","architectural_style":"Italianate (front gable house)","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"Deeded to the Village of River Grove in 1992 for future use as a house museum; the barn needs extensive repair.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:37.366241-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/28/8920/28892028/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_IL/94001598.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/94001598/e2c6eab736-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/94001598/e2c6eab736-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Thshriver","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Dorhmann-Buckman_House_4.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Thshriver</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:Dorhmann-Buckman_House_4.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/28892028","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dohrmann-Buckman_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q104854030"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/illinois/cook-county/dorhmann-buckman-house-94001598/"}