{"nrhp_refnum":"96000511","name":"Emmert-Zippel House","other_names":["Old Six Mile Museum"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"3279 Maryville Rd., 2mi. N of IL 162","address_restricted":false,"city":"Granite City","county":"Madison County","state":"IL","lat":38.72212143000007,"lon":-90.10419614999995,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1996-05-02","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-story clapboard I-house at 3279 Maryville Road in Granite City, Madison County, Illinois, built c. 1837-1848 as part of a farmstead in the Six Mile community. It sits on about 1.75 acres with a summer kitchen, smokehouse and garage.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the house is significant under Criterion C as a surviving mid-19th-century I-house with later 1880s updates. It also records the farm history of William Emmert, a prominent fruit grower, and the Zippel family, who farmed the land for 100 years. Later it became a museum run by a local historical society.","narrative":"Built between about 1837 and 1848, this two-story clapboard I-house on Maryville Road in Granite City began as the home of farmer William Emmert in the rural Six Mile settlement. It has a five-bay front, a central hall, a limestone foundation and a rear kitchen wing added around 1848. Emmert became a leading fruit grower who supplied St. Louis markets, including Union Army agents during the Civil War. In 1884 the property passed to August and Elizabeth Zippel, German immigrants whose family farmed it for a century. They made changes in the late 1880s, including a smaller front porch, a new staircase, grooved window trim and decorative mantels, and added a brick smokehouse. A local historical society bought the house in 1984, opened it as a museum and in 1994 removed later siding to restore its original look. Its architecture and well-preserved farmstead buildings underpin its listing for architecture.","period_of_significance":"c. 1837 - c. 1880s","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Mid-19th Century (I-house)","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"Operated as a museum (Old Six Mile Museum); exterior restored in 1994 by removing synthetic siding.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:37.602879-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/40/8935/28893540/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_IL/96000511.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/96000511/a278f854b1-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/96000511/a278f854b1-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Nyttend","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Emmert-Zippel_House.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Nyttend</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Emmert-Zippel_House.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/28893540","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emmert-Zippel_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16891079"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/illinois/madison-county/emmert-zippel-house-96000511/"}