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HomeMy Public PortalAbout01-09-2020 HPC Agenda PacketHistoric Preservation Commission Thursday, January 09, 2020 7:00 PM Village Boardroom 24401 W. Lockport Street Plainfield, IL 60544 Agenda CALL TO ORDER ROLL CALL PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE APPROVAL OF THE AGENDA APPROVAL OF THE MINUTES Approval of the Minutes of the Historic Preservation Commission held on November 14, 2019. 11-14-2019 HPC Minutes.pdf CHAIR'S COMMENTS COMMISSIONER'S COMMENTS PUBLIC COMMENTS (5 minutes per topic) OLD BUSINESS NEW BUSINESS CASE No: 11834-040519.HPC REQUEST: Landmark designation (Public Hearing) LOCATION: 15134 S. Fox River St. APPLICANT: Paul Jackson 15134 S. Fox River St. Staff Report, Graphics & Nomination.pdf CASE No: 1862-112219.DEMO REQUEST: Demolition (Public Hearing) LOCATION: 15024 S. Des Plaines St. 1 Historic Preservation Commission Page - 2 APPLICANT: Redhead Rentals, LLC / Brian and Michelle Smith 15024 S. Des Plaines St. Staff Report & Graphics.pdf HISTORIC PRESERVATION LOGO Seeking direction regarding updating the current HPC logo and seeking feedback regarding the draft logos. HPC New Logo Draft.pdf DISCUSSION ADJOURN REMINDERS - January 20th - Village Office Closed February 3rd - Village Board Meeting at 7:00 p.m. February 13th - Next Historic Preservation Commission Meeting at 7:00 p.m. 2 Meeting of the Historic Preservation Commission Record of Minutes Date: November 14, 2019 Location: Village Hall CALL TO ORDER, ROLL CALL, PLEDGE Chairman Bortel called the meeting to order at 7:02 p.m. Roll call was taken: Commissioners Lucas, Schmidt, Olsen, Derrick, Hendricksen, Hagen, Rapp, and Chairman Bortel were present. Commissioner Barvian was absent. Also, in attendance: Jonathan Proulx, Director of Planning; Tracey Erickson, Recording Secretary Chairman Bortel led the pledge to the flag. APPROVAL OF AGENDA Commissioner Derrick made a motion to approve the agenda. Seconded by Commissioner Lucas. Voice Vote. All in favor. 0 opposed. Motion carried 8-0. APPROVAL OF MINUTES Commissioner Derrick made a motion to approve the Minutes of the Historic Preservation Commission held on October 11, 2019 as amended, Seconded by Hendricksen. Vote by roll call: Lucas, yes; Schmidt, yes; Olsen, yes; Hagen, yes; Rapp, yes; Hendricksen, yes; Derrick, yes; Bortel, yes. Motion carried 8-0. CHAIR’S COMMENTS Chairman Bortel provided an update on the February International Building Code Workshop. Commissioner Hendericksen asked if the cost for the workshop including travel, hotel, and food. Chairman Bortel confirmed. Chairman Bortel provided information from his conservation with the Farnsworth Group for the Lockport St. Demolition. Commissioner Derrick asked if it will be a structural assessment. Chairman Bortel confirmed. Commissioner Schmidt asked if the commission can be present during the assessment. Chairman Bortel stated yes. Commissioner Schmidt asked if the Farnsworth Group take into consideration what the applicant is proposing to do with the structure. Chairman Bortel stated all the information that was provided to the Village was sent to the Farnsworth Group. Commissioner Schmidt indicated that he wants to make sure the structure is sound for the use the applicant is proposing, not the current use. Commissioner Derrick described what Farnsworth Group will be doing to complete the structural assessment. Mr. Proulx stated that the analysis will be based on the proposed use, not the current use. Commissioner Schmidt asked if the applicant has agreed to split the cost for the Farnsworth Group assessment. Chairman Bortel stated that has not been confirmed. Commissioner Olsen asked if the commission can direct what the criteria of the assessment will be. Chairman Bortel stated he will confirm what criteria the quoted assessment is. COMMISSIONERS COMMENTS Commissioner Hendericksen suggested expediting some of the minor COA request that are straight forward, so the applicant’s do not have to wait weeks for approval. Commissioner Derrick asked if he is asking for them to be reviewed by staff. Commissioner Hendricksen confirmed. Mr. Proulx indicated staff agrees and changes can be made to the code to allow staff review. PUBLIC COMMENT Chairman Bortel asked for public comment and there was no response. 3 Historic Preservation Commission Minutes November 14, 2019 Page 2 of 3 OLD BUSINESS NEW BUSINESS 1860-110419.COA 24012 W. Commercial St. Debra Olsen Mr. Proulx stated the subject residence was originally constructed circa 1855 and is a locally designated landmark known as the “Pioneer House” (Ordinance No. 2632). The applicant is seeking a Certificate of Appropriateness (COA) in order to replace the existing roof. The subject request falls into the category of “minor work” and may be approved by the Historic Preservation Commission. Mr. Proulx reviewed the staff report dated November 12, 2019. Mr. Proulx concluded subject to discussion by the Historic Preservation Commission, staff recommends approval of the Certificate of Appropriateness request. Commissioner Hendricksen made a motion to approve the requested Certificate of Appropriateness for a new roof at 24012 W. Commercial Street, subject to the applicant executing a letter of agreement with the Village and Historic Preservation Commission. Second by Commissioner Hagen. Vote by roll call: Lucas, yes; Schmidt, yes; Derrick, yes; Rapp, yes; Hagen, yes; Hendericksen, yes; Bortel, yes. Motion carried 7-0. 1861-110719.COA 14910 S. Bartlett Ave. Richard Krahn, Kurt Krahn Mr. Proulx stated the subject residence was originally constructed in 1855 and is a locally designated landmark (Ordinance No. 3266). The applicant is seeking a Certificate of Appropriateness (COA) in order to replace the existing roof. The subject request falls into the category of “minor work” and may be approved by the Historic Preservation Commission. Mr. Proulx reviewed the staff report dated November 12, 2019. Mr. Proulx concluded subject to discussion by the Historic Preservation Commission, staff recommends approval of the Certificate of Appropriateness request. Commissioner Derrick made a motion to approve the requested Certificate of Appropriateness for a new roof at 14910 S. Bartlett Avenue, subject to the applicant executing a letter of agreement with the Village and Historic Preservation Commission with conditions. Second by Commissioner Olsen. Vote by roll call: Lucas, yes; Schmidt, yes; Hendericksen, yes; Hagen, yes; Rapp, yes; Olsen, yes; Derrick, yes; Bortel, yes. Motion carried 8-0. Rehabilitation Grant Program Chairman Bortel stated there has been some changes to the Rehabilitation Grant Program Description based on suggestions from the commission and staff. Chairman Bortel stated that once approved by the commission the Rehabilitation Grant Program will be presented to the Village Board for approval. Commissioner Hendericksen stated that the changes are an improvement to the original program and is hoping the Village Board will approve it. Chairman Bortel stated one of the major changes is that the HPC will be approving the COA for the improvements and the Village Board will only be approving the reimbursement. Commissioner Derrick suggested changing “colors” to a more generic term like “work or project” on page 2 under Application Review Process “…request material samples to gain a better understanding of the proposed colors.” Commissioners Hendericksen and Schmidt agreed it should be changed to “project”. 4 Historic Preservation Commission Minutes November 14, 2019 Page 3 of 3 Commissioner Derrick made a motion to approve the proposed changes to the Village of Plainfield Rehabilitation Grant Program as outlined in the staff report, the attached redline draft document and the proposed change discussed by commission on Page 2 . Second by Commissioner Hendericksen. Vote by roll call: Lucas, yes; Schmidt, yes; Olsen, yes; Hagen, yes; Rapp, yes; Hendericksen, yes; Derrick, yes; Bortel, yes. Motion carried 8-0. DISCUSSION ADJOURN Commissioner Derrick made a motion to adjourn. Commissioner Olsen seconded the motion. Voice vote. All in favor; 0 opposed. Motion carried 8-0. Meeting adjourned at 7:41 p.m. Respectfully submitted, Tracey Erickson Recording Secretary Click on the link to view the video of the November 14, 2019 Historical Preservation Commission Meeting. https://plainfieldil.granicus.com/player/clip/606?view_id=2 5 6 REPORT TO THE HISTORIC PRESERVATION COMMISSION Page #2 of 3 CASE NUMBER 1834-040519.HPC 1/9/2020 15134 S. FOX RIVER STREET - MITCHELL-KEEN-JACKSON LANDMARK NOMINATION with his wife and children to the United States in 1848. The Mitchell family would live in the home for seven years before relocating to East Waterloo, Iowa in 1856. The Keen(e) Family (1857-1967): The Keen Family history originally begins in the Northeast, specifically New York. The family of James Clark Keen Sr. moved to Will County, Illinois from Chemung County, New York in July 1842. William Sanford Keen, the oldest child of James Clark Keen Sr., also joined the family after his apprenticeship as a blacksmith. In 1847, William S. Keen purchased the subject home and property with his wife Roxanna. William S. Keen also had a blacksmith workshop in his front yard, likely constructed by Edward Mitchell. The Keen’s would raise three children in this home – Anson, Sarah, and Florence. On April 28, 1905, William S. Keen dies at the age of 83. In his will, the house on Fox River Street is willed to his two daughters, Sarah and Florence. The home and property changes ownership between members of the Keen Family over the years. On February 28, 1967, Roxy May Olive Keen, the granddaughter of William S. and Roxanna Keen, sells the property completing a noteworthy 110-year ownership by members of the Keen(e) family. Period of Significance – The proposed period of significance is from 1840, when Chester Ingersoll first sold the Fox River Street home and lots to the Colegrove Family, to 1967, reflecting the end of ownership by the Keen family. Historic Structure Evaluation – The subject structure sustained damage from the 1990 F-5 tornado that occurred in Plainfield. The property owner, at the time, decided to rebuild the home in lieu of demolishing what remained of the structure. The survey form from the Village’s urban core survey identifies new limestone applied to the foundation, synthetic siding, modern materials on the porch wing, and other more modern replacements. A one-story addition was later added to the rear of the Wing portion of the home as well as a 3-season room. Albeit, the home has retained the same massing indicative of the Upright and Wing vernacular style. The Upright and Wing is integral part of the Greek Revival style that is significant in the Village. As well, deliberate choices were made by homeowners over time to match some of the elements of the original home with new additions such as the roof, overhangs, and trim for a cohesive look. STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE In accordance with the Historic Preservation article of the Zoning Ordinance (Article XV), Section 9-147, subsection (7), the Historic Preservation Commission shall evaluate the property’s eligibility for landmark designation based on its historic and/or architectural significance, the integrity of its design, workmanship, materials, location, setting and feeling, and the extent to which it meets one or more of the following criteria: a. Has character, interest, or value which is part of the development, heritage, or cultural character of the community, county, state or nation; b. Is suitable for preservation or restoration; c. Has yielded, or is likely to yield, information important to prehistory, history, or other areas of archaeological significance. The Mitchell-Keen-Jackson residence is nominated for designation as a local landmark in the Village of Plainfield based on its historical and architectural significance, its contribution to a historic district, and having met Criterion b identified above. As mentioned previously, the home suffered tornado damage in 1990 and was subsequently repaired. It is suitable for preservation and restoration as identified in the 2006 urban core survey conducted by ArchiSearch Consultants. 7 REPORT TO THE HISTORIC PRESERVATION COMMISSION Page #3 of 3 CASE NUMBER 1834-040519.HPC 1/9/2020 15134 S. FOX RIVER STREET - MITCHELL-KEEN-JACKSON LANDMARK NOMINATION The landmark nomination application identifies nine additional criterion that can be evaluated when considering landmark nomination. The nomination of this structure also meets the following nomination criteria: Criterion c: is identified with persons who significantly contributed to the development of the community, county, state, or nation Criterion d: embodies distinguishing characteristics of an architectural style valuable for the study of a period, type, method of construction, or use of indigenous materials This residence is a significant contribution to the early history of Plainfield having connections to Plainfield’s pioneer families. The Keen Family held the longest residency in the home and contributed to the development of the community. The home contributes to the excellent inventory of Upright and Wing homes in the Village and common during the 19th century. While the property is not currently located within a locally designated historic district, it contributes to two historic districts recommended by the 2006 core survey including the Original Town Historic District and the Plainfield Village Green Historic District. RECOMMENDATION The nomination package provides a detailed history of the residents of the Mitchell-Keen-Jackson home as well as a thorough explanation on its architectural elements. Based on the information available prior to the public hearing and discussion by the HPC, staff believes the subject property qualifies for landmark designation. Should the Commission concur, the following motion is offered for your consideration. I move that the Historic Preservation Commission recommend approval of the landmark designation for the property known as the Mitchell-Keen-Jackson residence, located at 15134 S. Fox River Street, based on the criteria outlined in the staff report and landmark nomination form. 8 15134 S. FOX RIVER ST. 9 HISTORIC URBANIZED CORE SURVEY Plainfield Historic Preservation Commission Single Family Residential History (associated events, people, dates) Original Town plat. Appears on the 1931 Sanborn map, the firsts to show this section of the block. The house is indicated to have a 2 story Upright side and a 1 story “wing” side with a full-wing reentrant angle porch. The wing side extended south/rear substantially past the rear elevation of the Upright. A 1 story garage was to the rear of the house, more toward the center of the extremely long lot. The lot extended past 705, 707, and 711 W. Ottawa Street to 507 and part of 505 James. The west/rear half of the lot, as well as the entire north half of the lot was vacant. The lot was later subdivided for 508 N. Fox River St. The property appears the same on the 1944 Sanborn. According to Plainfield Historic Preservation Commission Chair Michael A. Lambert, this house belonged to Anson Keene, who was a blacksmith. Description New limestone applied to a replaced foundation; beige synthetically sided walls; asphalt shingle gable (slight boxed return) and shed roofs. Low 2 and 1 story sections, 5 facade bays, 4 north piles, 2 south piles. Shed reentrant angle porch wing with modern materials including turned posts and balustrade in keeping with style of porch. Upright with two 1/1 double- hung sash each story. Replacement door and 2 1/1 in side gable wing facing onto porch. North elevation with 1/1 double-hung sash in gable wing, then 3 windows in rear 1 story wing extension. South elevation with 2 1/1 per story, those on 2nd shorter in typical fashion for this house type. Integrity/Major Physical changes from original construction Wall material. Replacement porch materials in keeping with style/type of house. Replacement door. Subsidiary Building(s)/Site Brick walk to front porch. Asphalt driveway blends with that of 508 to the north. 2 car garage, gable front with large shop space to south; 2 slider sash with pedestrian door. Registration & Evaluation National Register of Historic Places: Currently Listed: ___yes X no If not currently listed, recommend: Individually ___yes X no; historic district X yes ___no Contributing X or non-contributing X (garage) Significance statement: An excellent contribution to the Early Development thematic with architectural and likely historical significance, as information on King is compiled. VP; VG&Comm; OT; VG; EST. Village of Plainfield designation: Currently Listed: ___yes X no If not currently listed, recommend: Historic Landmark X yes no; Historic District X yes ___no Contributing X or non-contributing X (garage) Form prepared by: ArchiSearch Historic Preservation Consultants (Alice Novak) Date of Field Survey: 8.26.05 - 93 ADDRESS 15134 S. Fox River St. 506 N. Fox River St. PIN/Property Index Number #06-03-16-208-024-0000 Historic Property Name(s) Anson Keene House Common Name(s) Architectural Style no style Vernacular Building Type Upright and Wing Construction Date c. 1835-40 Architect/Builder Historic Use(s) Single Family Residential Present Use(s) 10 HISTORIC URBANIZED CORE SURVEY Plainfield Historic Preservation Commission ADDRESS PIN/Property Index Number #06-03-16-208-024-0000 506 N. Fox River St. 15134 S. Fox River St. 11 1 Village of Plainfield Historic Preservation Commission Nomination for Individual Landmark Listing in Register of Historic Places Mitchell-Keen-Jackson Residence – c. 1840 For the property located at: 15134 Fox River Street 06-03-16-208-024-0000 The South 40’ of Lots 1 & 2 & the South 40’ of the 20’ of Lot 3 & the East 180’ of the N ½ of the East & West vacated alley, all in Block 9 of Ingersoll’s Town of Plainfield, a subdivision of part of the W ½ of NE ¼ of Sec. 16 Plainfield, IL 60544 December 9, 2019 12 2 Table of Contents Cover 1 Part II 3 Overview Part III 4 Architectural Style Description Part IV 6 Photo Descriptions Part V 14 Photo Description Key Appendix A 15 Early Plainfield Appendix B 21 Site Appendix C 23 Calvin & Nancy Colegrove Appendix D 24 Edward & Mary Mitchell Appendix E 26 The Family of James Clark Keen Sr. Appendix F 33 Interior Appendix G 34 Summary Statement of Significance Appendix H 35 Exhibit Table of Contents Exhibit A 36 Ingersoll’s Original Plat of Planefield Exhibit B 37 Ingersoll’s Addition to Plainfield Exhibit C 38 Plat of Arnold’s Addition to Plainfield Exhibit D 39 Chittenden & Smiley’s subdivision of a part of the SE ¼ of Sec. 9 Exhibit E 40 Chain of Title for 15134 (506) S. Fox River Exhibit F 44 1850 Census- Village of Plainfield – Sept. 7 Exhibit G 45 1850 Census- Village of Plainfield – Sept. 7 Bibliography 46 13 3 Part II Overview This Upright and Wing house is comprised of two components – a taller two-story gable front section and a one-story side gable wing. Key to the definition of this house type is that the two sections are of differing heights, with gable ends in different locations. The wing portion is recessed from the façade plane of the upright making an L-plan or T-plan and provides a local opportunity for a porch along the wing portion where the entrance to the house is located. This house form is also known as the Temple and Wing House. There were 28 pre-Civil War Upright and Wing examples in Plainfield that were identified by ArchiSearch in their 2006 survey of the historic core of the Village. However since that survey three examples have been demolished and one more is possibly facing demolition. The popularity of the Upright and Wing house coincided with the occurrence of the Greek Revival period, with pilasters, cornice returns, and wide entablatures sometimes adorning this vernacular house type being found from 1830 - 1865, however many of those features probably were removed when synthetic siding was added to the exterior of this pre-Civil War house after substantial damage to the side walls and roof from the August 1990 tornado. On the interior, the wing may have originally included one or two bedrooms, and a pantry or large kitchen and the upright usually included a formal parlor, staircase, and additional bedrooms. The Upright and Wing is an integral part of the Greek Revival/early vernacular building which is so significant in Plainfield with 28 such houses in 2006 – since then two have been razed and two more are in danger. The house type generally occurs in small, shorter proportions, sometimes with very little differential in height between the two sections. 14 4 Part III General Upright & Wing Characteristics Upright and Wing 1870-1910 The “Upright-and-Wing” (sometimes referred to as Temple & Wing or Gable Front & Wing) was initially developed for the rural settings, however it enjoyed wide usage in both rural and urban settings. It consists of a one-and-a-half to two-story wing with a front-facing gable roof, and a side wing set at a right angle to it (sometimes known as the kitchen wing or ell). Such wing can be one-and-a-half to one-story tall, with a side-facing gable. [1] As a type of non-stylistic folk architecture, Upright-and-Wing houses were generally designed and built by tradesmen as opposed to the owners of the house. Upright and Wing houses were laid out in either an L-plan or T-plan. The ell usually has bedrooms and the kitchen while the wing holds a parlor, staircase, and additional bedrooms. Early East Coast examples (c.1830–50) have the main entry on the upright portion of the house. Post-1850 examples, such as those found in the Pacific Northwest usually shifted the entryway to the ell portion of the house under a covered porch. [1] The Upright-and-Wing enjoyed a lengthy and nationwide period of popularity. The building type partially coincided with the popularity of Greek Revival architecture in the United States and thus, many Upright-and- Wing houses are adorned with pilasters, cornice returns and wide entablatures. Due to their late construction date, many examples boast Queen Anne and/or Italianate style detailing such as bay windows, decorative bargeboards and cut cedar shingle siding in the gable ends. [1] Keeby House, Whitman County, Washington [1] 15 5 Nelson Farm, Vancouver[1] 1. All text and pictures: None, Historic Preservation, Historic Buildings, Architectural Style Guide, Upright and Wing, Washington State Department of Archaeology & Historic Preservation, https://dahp.wa.gov/historic-preservation/historic- buildings/architectural-style-guide/upright-and-wing, accessed August 10, 2019. For more information:  Baker, John M. American House Styles: A Concise Guide. W.W. Norton & Co., New York, N.Y. 1994.  Carley, Rachel, The Visual Dictionary of American Domestic Architecture, A Roundtable Press Book, New York, NY. 1994.  Massey, James & Shirley Maxwell, House Styles in American: The Old-House Journal Guide to the Architecture of American Homes Penguin Books, New York, NY, 1996.  McAlester, Virginia & Lee, A Field Guide to American Houses Alfred A. Knopf, New York, NY, 1992.  Schweitzer, Robert & Michael Davis, America's Favorite Homes Wayne State University Press, Detroit, MI, 1990.  Walker, Lester, American Homes: An Illustrated Encyclopedia of Domestic Architecture, The Overlook Press, New York, NY 1981.  Whiffen, Marcus. American Architecture Since 1780. MIT Press, Massachusetts. 1969. 16 6 Part IV Photo Descriptions Plate 1 – East Façade photo credit: Leif Hendrickson Plate 1 Upright and Wing front portion of the house which faces Fox River Street. Most of the outward facing decorative and trim elements are not original including the siding, shutters, trim, porch columns and railing. The exposed foundation under the Upright portion appears to be original while the exposed foundation beneath the porch and similarly under the Wing portion of the structure is significantly dissimilar, perhaps a cultured stone or mortared units that were applied to be harmonious to the original home. The windows within the Upright & Wing appear to be original wood units, one-over-one double-hung units of similar size. Note: See photo descriptions in Appendix A (p. 21) for more detail. A1, typ. A2, typ. A3, typ. B1, typ. E1, typ. E2, typ. D C 17 7 Plate 2 – Northeast Facing Corner photo credit: Leif Hendrickson Plate 2 Porch view to highlight the Upright and Wing front portion of the house which faces Fox River Street. The exposed foundation walls beneath the porch and wing portion of the house are different than the foundation under the Upright portion in the background. Note: See photo descriptions in Appendix A (p. 21) for more detail. F A1, typ. A2, typ. A3, typ. B1, typ. E1, typ. E2, typ. D C 18 8 Plate 3 – North Façade photo credit: Leif Hendrickson Plate 3 Wing portion of the structure with one-story rear addition. The foundation doesn’t appear to show a clean line of demarcation between original Wing and rear addition indicating that perhaps the stone-work was applied later to provide unity along the base and is not original. The addition portion of the structure incorporates similar windows (2 sliders & 1 double-hung), trim and shutters to appear congruent with the historic part of the house. Note: See photo descriptions in Appendix A (p. 21) for more detail. Addition Original Wing A4, typ. A5, typ. A1, typ. A2, typ. A3, typ. E2, typ. 19 9 Plate 4 – West Façade & Rear Addition photo credit: Leif Hendrickson Plate 4 Rear applied one-story rear addition with 3-season room in foreground with west façade of two-story Upright portion shown to the right. Windows of addition are slider units but otherwise similar in appearance to the original house. Roof, overhangs and trim of the addition were similarly fashioned to match the existing Upright structure. Note: See photo descriptions in Appendix A (p. 21) for more detail. Upright Addition A4, typ. B1, typ. 20 10 Plate 5 – West & South (rear) Corner Façade, Upright photo credit: Leif Hendrickson Plate 5 Two-story Upright portion of the structure. Siding, trim, shutters roofing and likely the roof overhangs are all non-original. Rear chimney also likely not original. Simple double-hung window units on Upright portion appear to be original wood components indicative of the folk vernacular architectural language of the period. Note: See photo descriptions in Appendix A (p. 21) for more detail. A1, typ. A2, typ. A3, typ. B1, typ. 21 11 Plate 6 – Roof Overhang detail photo credit: Leif Hendrickson Plate 6 Detail photo of south Upright gable end indicating non-original aluminum rake, soffit, gutter and downspout with aluminum siding and trim. Note: See photo descriptions in Appendix A (p. 21) for more detail. C1 C2 C3 B1, typ. A2, typ. 22 12 Plate 7 – Porch details photo credit: Leif Hendrickson Plate 8 – Porch details photo credit: Leif Hendrickson Plates 7 & 8 Porch details provide a cohesive overall architectural narrative however all elements including foundation, floor boards, columns, railings and balusters appear to be non-original. Note: See photo descriptions in Appendix A (p. 21) for more detail. D1 D2 D3 D4 D5 23 13 Plate 9 – Foundation Details, Upright portion photo credit: Leif Hendrickson Plate 10 – Foundation Details, Porch & Wing photo credit: Leif Hendrickson Plates 9 & 10 Plate 9 photo of original limestone foundations beneath Upright portion of residence compared to stonework shown in Plate 10 beneath the porch, wing and rear additions of different material, pattern and construction methods indicating that it was constructed separately. Note: See photo descriptions in Appendix A (p. 21) for more detail. E1 E2 24 14 Part V Photo Description Key A. TYPICAL WINDOWS A1 Simple original wood double-hung units A2 Aluminum trim, non-original A3 Aluminum shutters, non-original A4 Slider windows, non-original at time of addition construction A5 Double-hung windows, non-original at time of addition construction B. TYPICAL SIDING B1 Aluminum siding, non-original C. TYPICAL ROOF C1 12 inch wide roof overhang C2 Aluminum fascia, gutters, eave and rake C3 Three tab asphalt shingles D. FRONT PORCH D1 Limestone foundation may or may not be load- bearing, non-original D2 Wood decking, non-original D3 Wood railings and balusters, non-original D4 Columns, non-original D5 Roof structure may be original but aluminum soffit, shingles and aluminum siding cladding added later. E. FOUNDATION E1 Natural cut limestone foundation, original E2 Limestone foundation under wing, porch and additions, non-original F. CHIMNEY F1 Chimney exterior could be original construction with modern applied aluminum siding. 25 15 Appendix A Early Plainfield The Land Ordinance of 1785 was adopted on May 20, 1785 by the Continental Congress and set the stage for an organized and community-based westward expansion of the United States in the years after the American Revolution. The Land Ordinance of 1785 was the effort of a five-person committee led by Thomas Jefferson that established a systematic and ubiquitous process for surveying, planning, and selling townships on the western frontier. Each western township contained thirty-six square miles of land which was divided into thirty-six sections, each containing one square mile or 640 acres. Section 1 was located at the northeast corner of each township with subsequent sections numbered east to west; each tier had six sections and there were six rows of six sections for a total of thirty-six sections with Section 36 found in the southeast corner. This mathematical precision of planning was through the concerted efforts of surveyors which allowed these sections to be easily subdivided for re-sale by settlers and land speculators. Initially government land offices sold land to pioneers at the price of $1.25 per acre. Each township contained dedicated space for public education and other government uses, as the centermost of the 36 sections were reserved for government or public purposes - Sections 15, 16, 21 & 22, with Section 16 dedicated specifically for public education. Additionally roadways were often constructed along the north-south or east-west Township or Section division lines that comprised the Township and Range delineations. Revolutionary War land bounty land warrants were first awarded through an Act of Congress on September 16, 1776. These were grants of free land from Congress or states like Virginia who claimed lands west of the Appalachian Mountains in areas that would later become the states of Ohio and Kentucky as a reward for serving in the Continental Army during the American Revolution and the War of 1812. The grants were not automatic as veterans had to apply for them and if granted, use the warrant to apply for a land patent which granted them ownership of the land that could be transferred or sold to other individuals. Land warrants issued by Congress were usually for the newly established lands created by the Land Ordinance of 1785 and the Northwest Ordinance of 1787 in Michigan, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Wisconsin and Minnesota. Long before there were railroads, most Chicagoans’ link to civilization was primarily by schooner to and from New York City via the Great Lakes, the Erie Canal and the Hudson River. In the early 1830s, Chicago was closer to a Wild West town than a metropolis. The two principal cities of the Midwest were the river towns of Cincinnati and St. Louis, both which had good steamboat service. The closest a river steamer could get to Chicago was Ottawa, more than 90 miles from Chicago on the Illinois River. The Postal Act of 1792 established the role of the Postmaster General and made the United States’ Government responsible for creating post offices and establishing the delivery of the mail by private contractors. The first Post Office in northern Illinois opened in Galena in 1826, five years before Chicago saw one established at their settlement. With the establishment of a post office in Galena in 1826, John D. Winters began running stagecoaches between St. Louis and Galena, carrying passengers and the U.S. Mail. The stagecoach became the pre-dominant mode of overland public transport for passengers and mail. Stagecoach lines were chosen not just for the convenience of passengers but to accommodate the timely collection and distribution of the mail. Without mail contracts most stage lines would not have survived. Chicago’s first stagecoach line arrived from Detroit in 1833 after the end of the Blackhawk War of 1832 that 26 16 ended an Indian revolt over ownership of Illinois farmland which now made overland travel safe west of Chicago. In July 1833, John Taylor Temple (1804-1877) of Virginia, who had received a homeopathic medical degree in 1824 from the University of Maryland arrived in Chicago with his wife and 4 children with a contract from the U.S. Postmaster General to carry the mail from Chicago to Fort Howard at Green Bay. He soon built a two-story frame house at the corner of Wells & Lake Street and a medical office at the southwest corner of Franklin and South Water Street. In 1831, the High Prairie Trail from Chicago to Ottawa had been laid out by State officials as both northern Illinois’ newest official road that also used established Indian trails. Soon after the Chicago to Fort Howard at Green Bay route began, it was discontinued and on January 1, 1834, Temple had political connections that allowed him to secure the mail contract from Chicago to Peoria and had money to purchase a coach and set up the necessary way stations. Temple was given a contract for operating a stagecoach line and conveying the U.S. Mail from Chicago southwest to Peoria to meet the steamboats navigating the Illinois River from St. Louis and later a route to Ottawa via Walkers’ Grove. The route to Ottawa started at the shore of Lake Michigan near the banks of the Chicago River and extended almost due west following the old Pottawattamie Indian trail along the DesPlaines River which is now part of U.S. 6 to the ford across the DesPlaines River at Riverside, thence the road headed west to Captain Joseph Naper’s settlement at the DuPage River ford before turning southwest towards Walker’s Grove averaging about 10 miles each hour. Initially stage passengers stayed with settlers in Walker’s Grove, which consisted of three or four crude log huts that offered limited comforts. Later the route was moved north to the newly platted settlement at Plainfield (1834). Leaving Plainfield, the trail passed into what would become Kendall County in 1841, crossing the prairie to the tiny cluster of cabins at the southernmost point of a grove of towering black walnut trees before continuing on to Ottawa which was located at the head of navigation on the Illinois River. The area from which Plainfield developed was first inhabited by the Potawatomie Indians. The Potawatomie hunted the dense forests along the banks of the DuPage River and had some semi-permanent settlements. When Illinois achieved statehood in 1818 most of the territory was wilderness. Occasional explorers, soldiers on the marches to distant outposts, as well as Native American traders and trappers, had given glowing descriptions of the beauties of the region. The Illinois and Michigan Canal project had been conceived during the Wat of 1812 which prompted the initial purchases of Native American lands commencing in 1816. The first Europeans arriving in the area were French fur traders in the 1820s, who traded peacefully with the Potawatomie but did not establish any permanent settlements. By about 1826, American missionaries began to arrive to Christianize the Native Americans and establish permanent settlements. Along with the occasional pioneers who ventured into the lands covered by the Northwest Ordinance came several early Methodist missionaries. One of these early Methodist missionaries was The Reverend Jessie Walker who came to the area before statehood. Walker had been born in Virginia and first visited the Indiana territory in 1806 and later was appointed to the circuit in Illinois and likely introduced his son-in-law, James Walker, to the region. In 1828, James Walker led a party that established a small settlement and sawmill along the DuPage River at Walkers’ Grove just south of present-day Plainfield. This new settlement was known as Walker's Grove and the saw mill thrived in the midst of the thick forests in the area. The DuPage River also provided essential transportation between the settlements at Fort Dearborn at Lake Michigan (now Chicago) and Ottawa along the Illinois River. Walker's Grove was an important link along the water and trail route. Walker's sawmill and the area's timber also supplied the fast- growing settlement of Chicago with lumber to build their first wood-framed houses. It has been documented that the lumber used to build the first structures in Chicago were hauled by wagons built in Plainfield by John Bill and driven by Reuben Flagg and Timothy Clark from Walker's Mill – the George Washington Dole Forwarding House and the Philip Ferdinand Wheeler Peck House – a two-story frame building in which 27 17 Peck kept a store at southeast corner of South Water and LaSalle Streets that was built in the Autumn of 1832. Walker’s Grove was also reportedly the first permanent settlement in Will County. In 1828, Chester Ingersoll had traveled from his home in Vermont to northeast Illinois and settled at the Walkers’ Grove settlement and four years later, joined with others to defend Fort Beggs and later opened one of the first hotels in Chicago. In October, 1833, Chester purchased 160 acres of land in the NE ¼ of Section 16 and in December 1833, married a young actress, Phebe Wever in Chicago and together they ran the Traveler Hotel until 1834. Ingersoll platted a town in August 1834, northeast of Walkers’ Grove, naming it Planefield. Ingersoll platted his town with twelve nearly square blocks consisting of rectangular lots on a modified grid plan that would be familiar to many of those newly arriving pioneer families from New England and a rectangular Block 13 containing twenty-seven lots that stretched west from the DuPage River, east to a north-south roadway initially called West Street, that was later changed to Division. Ingersoll’s east-west streets were named for the three main towns in Northeastern Illinois at the time - Ottawa, Chicago and Lockport - while his north-south streets were named for the region’s rivers - DuPage, Kankakee, Fox River, DesPlaines, and Illinois. He envisioned a public square to become his central business district that would be centered about the northern half of Block 3 with DesPlaines Street to the east and Fox River Street to the west along a proposed east-west thoroughfare to be built on the section line where Sections 16 and 9 met. Five blocks (8, 9, 10, 11, & 12) consisted of eight lots separated by an alley with four lots north of the alley and four lots south of the alley. Block 6 had 3 lots and Block 7 had 4 lots since they were adjacent or east of the DuPage River and Block 13 stretched east from the DuPage River along Ottawa Street to West Street that later came to be known as Division and was divided into twenty-seven lots all of similar size as those in the other blocks - [Reference Exhibit A - Ingersoll’s 1834 Plat of Planefield ]. In 1834 Chester Ingersoll built a house for his family on an open tract of land that was south of Lot 26 in Block 13 of his newly platted town; this house was recently restored and designated a Village Landmark in September 2013. In October 1837, Ingersoll’s oldest daughter, Melissa married Thomas Jefferson York and soon thereafter, Ingersoll had a small cottage west of his house built for them. The location of this house was south of Lot 25 in Block 13 and was designated a Village landmark known as “Pioneer House” in 2008. In May 1837, Ingersoll recorded an addition to his original town plat comprising of twelve additional blocks – 6 blocks on either side of a new east-west street, named Juliet. Thus Ingersoll’s 1834 house came to be located on Lot 2 and the house built for his daughter came to be built on Lot 3 in Block 1 of Ingersoll’s Addition to Plainfield which would became Shreffler’s Addition in 1851 [Reference Exhibit B – Ingersoll’s Addition to Plainfield]. Research conducted by Michael Lambert, a local Plainfield architect and historian on the James Mathers family has found that Levi Arnold, a bachelor, likely traveled to the settlement around Walker’s Grove in late 1831 or 1832 in the company of the family of James and Sarah Mathers, who he had met in the area of St. Joseph, Indiana. Arnold staked claims in the area near the DuPage River and in present-day Kendall County before returning to St. Joseph, Indiana to marry Mariah Skinner on August 6, 1833. Sometime in early 1834, Levi Arnold and his wife Mariah arrived from Indiana and purchased the quarter section of land north of Ingersoll’s newly platted town – the SE ¼ of Section 9 on December 11. Arnold was particularly interested in land adjacent to the DuPage River and parcels that straddled the Chicago-Ottawa Road. Unlike Ingersoll who preferred orderly development as shown in his 1834 Plat of Planefield, Arnold laid out four streets in his addition and allowed pioneer families to build homes and businesses on his land but often chose not to sell the land to them which allowed the creation of many irregular and disorganized lots in shape and size. He did not embrace Ingersoll’s concept of a New England town square since a portion of Block 4 in 28 18 his corresponding addition would be needed to join Ingersoll’s planned segment. In May 1836, Ingersoll sold Lot 3 in Block 2 to Anson Johnson for $30. This was the first recorded sale of land fronting onto the East- West road that would eventually become Lockport Road. that took place in May 1836. Arnold likely allowed entrepreneurs to build stores along the roadway but chose not to sell them the land since the first recorded sale on his side of the roadway took place nearly four years later in March 1840 with the sale of a five acre parcel to Chester Bennett. The difference in development styles likely frustrated Ingersoll’s sense of order and Arnold’s haphazard development of the growing community likely encouraged Arnold to cultivate a new friendship with Lewis Judson. Together in 1835, they started a new town on the east bank of the Fox River called Hudson, thus Arnold lived in Plainfield but a short time, choosing to devote most of his energies toward the development of his new town. Initially the new town located 10 miles northwest of Plainfield attracted few settlers and in the Spring of 1836, Levi Arnold moved his family to Hudson renting his Plainfield home on the Chicago to Ottawa Road, that later came to be known as Main Street to Dr. Erastus G. Wight, a circuit riding physician. Chester Ingersoll abandoned his public square concept in 1836, opting instead for a public park located in Block 10, now called the Village Green, which was immediately south of his failed public square concept that was eventually surrounded by residential housing. In 1840, as the family of Chester and Phebe Ingersoll grew, they moved from the village north to a farm in Wheatland Township and within three years were living on a farm near Lockport. In 1847 Ingersoll along with members of his family and numerous families from the area left Illinois and traveled to the West to settle in California where Ingersoll died unexpectedly in September 1849. In February 1841, Arnold sold to Elihu Springer, the minister of the Methodist Episcopal Church, a 1¼ acre parcel where the congregation planned to construct their house of worship. This parcel was located in the western half of Block 6 between Chicago Street (now DesPlaines Street) on the west, Arnold Street (now Illinois Street) on the east and the diagonal Oak Street on the north. Beginning in January 1850, the Trustees of the Methodist Episcopal Church began selling their lots in the western portion of Block 6 in favor of buying the lots in the eastern portion of Block 6. By May 1850, the Trustees of the Methodist Episcopal Church had purchased the eastern half of Block 6 or that portion of the block that would become known as Chittenden & Smiley’s subdivision after the Assessor had subdivided the area in 1866. After this parcel was surveyed in 1867, the lots therein became designated as Lots 16 through 24. Arnold’s town of Hudson changed its name to Lodi for a short time and soon settled on its current name of Oswego. In 1844 Levi Arnold took sick and died in September at the age of 37. His wife Mariah, who was 32 with three young daughters had her late husband’s holdings in Plainfield surveyed which was completed by the following September (1845) and began selling the remaining lots in the area that came to be called “Arnold’s Addition to the Village of Plainfield.” ]Reference Exhibit C – Arnold’s Addition to Plainfield]. By mid-century, businesses had spread randomly throughout Ingersoll’s Plainfield with a concentration of restaurants, blacksmiths, liveries and hotels along DesPlaines Street where it intersected with the east-west roadway in which the initial contracts of lots of the first commercial buildings on the north side of the stipulated stated the “South 30 feet is reserved for a road running East-West” – these early contracts referred to the roadway as DuPage Street but would it would eventually become known as “the Lockport Road” as it was known outside of the village. As traffic increased on the east – west roadway, buildings located elsewhere in the community were moved to with side of the roadway and often were set on every other lots so that infill buildings only required front and rear walls, a floor, and a roof. 29 19 This thoroughfare separated the two communities begun by Arnold and Ingersoll branching eastward 6 miles to the canal port at Lockport which in 1848 saw the opening of the Illinois and Michigan Canal. Once this road was completed, it carried travelers going between the canal docks at Lockport and the accelerating farm settlements west of the DuPage River with the village of Plainfield growing significantly after 1850. By 1849 the only centralized commercial and industrial center in Plainfield that had formed was located about the intersection of present-day Joliet Road, Division Street, and Commercial Street. Kankakee Street was renamed James Street, in honor of James Fairbanks, who created Fairbanks’ Addition along the street bearing his name in 1853 and DuPage Street along the DuPage River had been abandoned. Unfortunately, no formal adoption of street names existed between the Ingersoll and Arnold sides of the village. In fact, names of streets changed—typically—at DuPage Street (now Lockport Street) which divided the two sides of the village. A residential neighborhood grew around the Village Green in Ingersoll’s original part of Plainfield. By 1855, all of the holdings of the Methodist Episcopal Church in the western portion of Block 6 had been sold and replaced with those lots in the eastern half of Block 6. As the economy began growing after the conclusion of the Civil War, the Trustees of the Church saw an opportunity to sell their lots and build a new house of worship one block south of the noise and expanding traffic artery of Lockport Street. In October 1866, the Trustees of the Methodist Episcopal Church purchased Lots 10 and 11 in Block 2, at the northwest corner of Illinois and Chicago Streets in Ingersoll’s Original Plainfield from Limon and Leah Tobias for $350. They sold their parcels of land along the north side of Lockport Street and west of Arnold Street (now Illinois Street) in March 1867 to James H. Smiley and George N. Chittenden once their new place of worship had been completed. By 1869, the northern and southern portions of Plainfield were incorporated into a single community and by the 1870s, DuPage Street became commonly known as Lockport Street. Simultaneous to efforts of Ingersoll and Arnold, a third distinct community began to develop. In November 1834, James Mathers and James M. Turner purchased a quarter section of land in the SW ¼ of Section 10 that was east of Arnold’s SE ¼ of Section 9. In June 1836, James Mathers purchased Turner’s half share and in July 1836, platted East Plainfield which was comprised of 96 lots along Main Street and Water Street (which is now Plainfield-Naperville Road), which paralleled the DuPage River on which Mathers built a sawmill and gristmill. Mathers also built himself a house in 1835 at the northeast corner of Mill and Water Streets near his sawmill and gristmill and his partner James Turner had built a small cottage for his family at the southeast corner of Section 10 (currently the house at the northeast corner of Lockport Street and Eastern Avenue). The southeastern part of the Village or the NW ¼ of Section 15 was the last portion of the Village to be developed. In December 1834 Robert Chapman had purchased 280 acres in NE ¼ & N ½ of the NW ¼ of Sec. 15 & S ½ of the NW ¼ of Sec. 15 and in July 1838 sold all of his holdings “excepting & reserving from the SW corner of the S ½ of the S ½ of said NW ¼ of Sec. 15,” a 2 ½ acre parcel in the SW corner or 20 square rods to be used as a cemetery that Chapman had donated to the residents in the Spring of 1837. In 1840, Dr. Oliver J. Corbin purchased a twelve acre parcel south of Joliet Road and in 1845 sold a small three lot triangular parcel of land to John Dillman to build a foundry, creating Plainfield’s first industrial park in what would become Oliver J. Corbin’s Subdivision in 1856. In 1852, a forty-acre parcel was purchased by Elihu Corbin who had the land subdivided into an addition to Plainfield as well as several subdivisions. Commercial development was scattered in each quadrant of the village, but soon began to concentrate along either side of the east-west DuPage Street or what later became known as “the Lockport Road” which occupied the area where Section 16 of Ingersoll’s Original Plainfield and Section 9 of Arnold’s Addition met. As was the case in most of the newly established towns and villages of the Northwest Territories, once the pioneer families had built their houses and established businesses, places of worship and schools for their children were soon to follow. Plainfield’s commercial and residential development became concentrated in 30 20 portions of the four quarter sections of prairie lands along or near to the DuPage River that made up the Village. Soon a North-South roadway (West St. or Division) and an East-West Roadway (Lockport Road) were created along the division lines of Sections 9, 10, 15 and 16. Chester Ingersoll’s - NE ¼ of Sec. 16 (1833), Levi Arnold’s - SE ¼ of Sec. 9 (1834), James Mathers’ - SW ¼ of Sec. 10 (1835), Elihu Corbin’s - NW ¼ of Sec. 15 (1852). By 1869, the northern and southern portions of Plainfield were incorporated into a single community and by the 1870s, DuPage Street became commonly known as Lockport Street. 31 21 Appendix B Site In 1834, Chicago and Ottawa Streets stretched from Division on the East to the DuPage River on the West. Lots 8, 9, 10, & 11 in Block 4 faced South along Chicago Street & Lots 1, 2, 3, & 4 in Block 9 faced North along Chicago Street. On the 1834 map Blocks 4 and 9 each had an alley that divided them in half. It seems likely that Ingersoll’s February 1840 sale to Calvin Colegrove of the S ½ of Lots 1 & 2 in Block 9 for $200 included the 2-story portion of the house in this nomination since empty Ingersoll lots sold for $25 - $30. In September 1842, a Colegrove purchase for $242 added the N ½ of Lots 1 and 2 plus all of Lots 3 and 4 for a total of 1.59 acres plus another seventeen acres west of the DuPage River in Section 16 with a mortgage for the purchase amount from Ingersoll that would later be forgiven. The map in Exhibit A shows the original plat by Ingersoll of his new community. Four lots in Block 13 were abandoned when Illinois, DesPlaines, Fox River and Kankakee Streets were extended south to Commercial Street after Shreffler’s Addition was created in 1851 and seven additional lots were lost when the land along either side of Kankakee Street was re-subdivided by James Fairbanks in December 1856. With the abandonment of Ingersoll’s public square concept, the lots in Block 3 were restored similarly to those other blocks facing Lockport Street (Blocks 1, 2, 3 and 4) however some years later Block 3 would be re- subdivided – the north portion by Thomas Hoag in 1882 and the south half by Giles Foster in 1885. The most significant difference between the Map of 1834 and the Map of 1862 above shows the vacation of Chicago Street between Fox River and James (originally Kankakee Street). On October 1, 1855, hotelkeeper George Bradley who operated DuPage House on DuPage Street (this street was later re-named Lockport Street) sold the lots he owned along Kankakee Street to James Fairbanks for $2,000 who obtained a 32 22 mortgage from Edward S. Pratt for $1,698.67 in the form of three promissory notes for his purchase money - $530 was due on 9/28/1856, $564.50 was due on 9/28/1857 and $604.17 was due on 9/28/1858. In December 1856, James Fairbanks created Fairbanks’ Addition from his purchase of the lots from George Bradley and had the land re-surveyed and subdivided into 18 lots of various sizes on either side of Kankakee Street which Fairbanks renamed James Street and eliminated DuPage Street which paralleled the DuPage River and Kankakee Street, shown on the 1834 map. With the creation of ten lots along what had been the east side of Kankakee Street, Chicago Street ended at its junction with Fox River. On October 27, 1858, Edward S. Pratt took over Fairbanks’ Addition after James Fairbanks defaulted on his payments of promissory notes two and three. A public auction was held at the Will County Court House where Jonathan Hagar, a merchant from Plainfield, offered $1,200 for the lots and Chicago Street was officially vacated with subsequent maps showing Chicago Street ending at Fox River Street. The legal descriptions of properties originally sold by Chester Ingersoll to owners in Block 9 were changed after 1857 with the elimination of Chicago as a through street making deeded lands confusing. In April 1948, the Village Board through ordinance #464 abandoned the two east-west alleys in Block 4 and Block 9 since Chicago Street had ended at Fox River nearly a hundred years earlier. 33 23 Appendix C Calvin & Nancy Colegrove On February 2, 1840, Chester Ingersoll sold the south half of Lots 1 and 2 in Block 9 to Calvin Chauncey Colegrove for $200. Calvin had married Nancy Bartlett in Lockport at the Congregational Church on April 8, 1839. In May 1838, Nancy Bartlett, who was the oldest sister of Robert Franklin Bartlett journeyed from Sherburne, New York with her parents Robert Bartlett and Versalle Newton and members of Erastus Newton’s immediate family to settle in Lockport and join her brother Robert Franklin Bartlett. Robert F. Bartlett, had completed his apprenticeship as a mason on the Chenango Canal and accompanied his uncle, Erastus Newton from Sherburne, New York the previous year to bid on work for the proposed Illinois and Michigan Canal as a mason. It seems likely that Ingersoll’s February 2, 1840 sale to Calvin and Nancy Colegrove of the two half lots in Block 9 likely included the two-story portion of the current house being considered for this nomination since the purchase price for these two half lots was $200 which was a substantial amount of money for empty land since other sales of lots in Ingersoll’s “Planefield” usually ranged between $25 and $30 for lots measuring 80 feet wide and 132 feet deep. A subsequent purchase on September 6, 1842 by Calvin and Nancy Colegrove not only included the north half of Lots 1 and 2 and all of Lots 3 and 4 plus seventeen acres of land west of the DuPage River in Section 16. In addition Chester and Phebe Ingersoll gave the couple a mortgage for their 1842 purchase. A possible reason for this extraordinary deal might have to do with the fact that Calvin Colegrove was the oldest son of Clark Tracy Colegrove - his father had married Chester Ingersoll’s oldest sister, Permilla in 1811 in Vermont. The Census of 1850 indicated that Calvin’s parents, Clark and Permilla were living in a house in Wheatland Township on land purchased in May 1843 from George and Mary Burrell by their son Lester Grover Colegrove and his wife Lucretia Ingersoll, the daughter of Chester Ingersoll by his second wife Mary Polly Burdick. That same census indicated that Lester and his wife, Permilla lived in an adjacent house on the same property. The marriage that took place in Lockport in April 1839 between Calvin Colegrove and Nancy Bartlett likely brought together the pioneering families of Ingersoll, Colegrove and Bartlett that helped to shape early Plainfield. 34 24 Appendix D Edward & Mary Mitchell In February 1847, Calvin and Nancy Colegrove welcomed the birth of their first child of six, Alvin Riley. Two days before Christmas in1847, Calvin and Nancy Colegrove sold their house and the lots in Block 9 to the Plainfield postmaster, James Ballard and his wife Sally for $200. Nearly two years later on December 18, 1849, James and Sally Ballard sold the property in Block 9 to Edward W. and Mary Mitchell for $500. Edward Mitchell was a wheelwright who had emigrated to the United States from England with his wife and two children in 1848. On September 7, 1850, a Census Marshal recorded the 1850 Census data for the Mitchell household - Edward (34), his wife Mary (28) and their two children, Joseph (10) and Hannah (7) both born in England and their one year old son Edward born in Plainfield in 1849. Two additional people were enumerated at the house – James Wraith, a seventeen year old emigre from England that listed his occupation as a wheelwright, thus serving as an apprentice to Edward Mitchell and a forty year old weaver also from England, named David Shaw. In March 1849, Congress had passed a bill establishing a Census Board whose membership consisted of the Secretary of State, the Attorney General and the Postmaster General. This act authorized the Census Board to prepare printed forms and schedules for the upcoming census and to hire Census Marshals to make a count of the population in the thirty-one states and four territories – Oregon, Minnesota, New Mexico and Utah. The official enumeration day of the Census was June 1, 1850 and for the first time the Census enumerators were to record the names of every person in the household along with their age, sex, birthplace and occupation of males over the age of fifteen with the results to be returned to the Secretary of the Interior by November 1, 1850. The only official records of new arrivals were the Passenger Lists furnished by incoming vessels to U. S. Customs officials which listed the names of all passengers, their nationality, where they embarked and, in some cases, where they were going. For many immigrants that simple list was the only record of their arrival in America. One could work, own property and enjoy most of the benefits of living in this county without ever becoming a citizen. However, citizenship was a requirement for those wishing to vote, hold public office or purchase land from the U.S. Government Land Office. Congress passed the Naturalization Act of April 14, 1802 that reduced the residence period for naturalization from fourteen years back to five. Previously on June 18, 1798, at a time when political tensions were running high and there was an increased desire to guard the nation, Congress changed the residency requirement in the Naturalization Act to guard the nation. A two-step process was put into place that took five years after residing in the United States for two years. The person seeking citizenship first went to a local “court of record” that was a court that kept permanent records of its proceedings and declared that it was his “bona fide intention” to become a United States citizen and to renounce allegiance to his former country which usually involved making a sworn statement before a judge and signing a printed document. After three additional years, the applicant would reappear before the court with two witnesses who would swear that he had been a good citizen and would take the oath of allegiance before a judge and be officially declared a citizen of the United States. If the applicant was married and had children born overseas, his wife and minor children would automatically become citizens and children born to a married couple after their arrival in America were considered citizens by birth regardless of their parents’ status. Edward Mitchell and his family lived at the house under consideration for the next seven years. During those seven years he used the property as collateral to obtain three mortgages - $360.70 in December 1852 from 35 25 Leonard Marsh, $250 in March 1853 from Edward S. Pratt of Bennington, Vermont, and $600 in September 1854 from Edward S. Pratt, now of Rensselaer, New York. Records located at the Will County Recorder’s Office indicate that Edward Mitchell owned no other property in Will County, so it seems likely that these three mortgages might have been used to add an addition, the recessed wing with a porch entrance to the house replacing the original north-facing entrance to the two-story upright likely built by Ingersoll and the construction of a workshop where he would build and repair wheels and fix wagons. Located east across the Village Green at the southeast corner of where DesPlaines and Chicago Streets met was the house and wagon workshop of John Bill. An 1862 map of Plainfield clearly indicates the presence of a large structure north of the location of the house on Lot 1 in Block 9 of Ingersoll’s Original Plainfield [Reference maps at beginning of the Site Section]. On October 7, 1854 an infant was born to Edward and Mary Mitchell, however the child died the next day and was buried at the Plainfield Township Cemetery two days later. Two months later on December 18, 1854, Edward Mitchell and his apprentice, James Wraith took their oath of citizenship from a judge of the Circuit Court at the Will County Courthouse in Joliet. James Wraith had served as Mitchell’s apprentice for five years learning the craft of a wheelwright. – 1849 to 1854. James Wraith married Sophia Needham in December 1853 and purchased three lots in Elihu Corbin’s Addition to Plainfield in July 1854 on which he built his house at the northwest corner of Dillman and Ottawa Streets. Less than a year later on September 9, 1856, Edward W. Mitchell sold his Block 9 parcel consisting of a house with additional structures in Ingersoll’s Original Town of Plainfield to Minerva A. Bunzey for $1,600. A stipulation in the deed contract (46-326) “said premises being under mortgage to Edward S. Pratt for $600, which mortgage is to be paid by the party of the second part (Minerva & William Bunzey). In September 1856 Edward Mitchell relocated his family and wheelwright business to East Waterloo, Iowa. The 1860 Census enumerated on June 1 listed an Edward Mitchell(44) as a Master Wheelwright along with his wife Mary(37), their son Joseph(19) working as an apprentice wheelwright, his daughter Hannah(17), son Edward(11) and a seven year old daughter Mary and a 34 year old Englishman Edward Pecker, a journeyman wheelwright. Six years later in 1866, Edward Mitchell registered to vote in California by showing his citizenship papers obtained from the Will County Circuit Court and for the next twenty years was a resident of Napa, California where continued work as a Master Wheelwright. On November 3, 1852, William H. Bunzey and Minerva A. Brown applied for and paid for Marriage License #1790 from the Will County Circuit Court. The license contained an attached statement that attested that William was twenty-one and Minerva was eighteen. The couple were married the following day by Reverend Daniel Vandersall however there is only about a twenty-seven year period of documented history of the couple. After they were married, they purchased two parcels in Plainfield – Lot 4 in Block 4 of Elihu Corbin’s Addition at the northwest corner of Dillman and Joliet Road from Michael Dillman in August 1855 for $115 and sold that property four months later on December 10 back to Dillman for $500. In September 1856, they purchased the 1.59 acre parcel in Block 9 from wheelwright Edward Mitchell and assumed the $600 mortgage Mitchell owed to Edward S. Pratt. In March 1857, following the death of their infant child in November 1856, William & Minerva Bunzey sold the Block 9 parcel to Roxanna Keen for $500 and the Keen’s assumed the Edward S. Pratt mortgage of $600. Minerva Bunzey died in September 1858 in Joliet and no trace has been discovered of her husband’s whereabouts - very little information has been uncovered about either individual. 36 26 Appendix E The Family of James Clark Keen Sr. In September 1609, the vessel Crescent anchored within Sandy Hook (New Jersey) about seventeen miles from present-day New York City. The commander of this expedition was Henry Hudson, an English captain in the service of the Dutch East India Company looking for the elusive Northwest Passage to India. He sent out a boat to explore the upper reaches of a river (that came to be designated the Hudson) that travelled upriver to above the site that would later become Albany. In 1615, a settlement was begun by the Dutch East India Company near the present-day site of Albany to which the name of Fort Orange was given and the surrounding area came to be known as New Netherland. In the Dutch revolt which led to Netherland’s independence in 1581 against the Spanish occupation, the leader of the revolt was Willem van Oranje (William of Orange) and he became the first branch of the current dynasty of the House of Orange-Nassau. In 1664 the King of England, Charles II made a grant to his brother James, then the Duke of York to all lands from the Connecticut River to the Delaware River. New Amsterdam became New York City and Fort Orange received the name of Albany. Orange County became that area south of Albany in New York’s mid- Hudson River valley of southeastern New York near the borders of New Jersey and Pennsylvania in 1683. James Clark Keen was born in February 1800 and was the middle child of four born to Joseph Keen and Mary Betsey Clark of Orange County, New York – other siblings included Elihu Clark (1798 – 1878), Thankfull (1803 – 1870) and Phebe Ann (1812 – 1889). James Clark Keen married Polly Sanford on March 1, 1821 and would have 9 children over the next twenty years - three sons and six daughters, with eight surviving to adulthood. According to the Keen family history, William Sanford Keen, the oldest child of James Clark Keen and Polly Sanford was named after the youngest brother of his mother - William Sanford. His middle name “Sanford” was his mother’s maiden name. His mother Polly was one of three children born to Abram Sanford and Cynthia Mosier – Robert (1798), Polly (1801), and William (1803). Polly’s mother Cynthia married Moses Rumsey in 1806 after her husband Abram Sanford died in 1805 leaving her with three small children to raise and her marriage to Moses brought them an additional six children to the household. During their ten years of marriage Moses and Cynthia had an additional four children and in 1816, Moses died. The Census of 1820 shows the widow Cynthia Rumsey living in Scipio, New York. At the age of fourteen (1835), William Sanford Keen moved twenty-seven miles south from his parent’s home in Scipio, New York to Ithaca, New York to become an apprentice blacksmith for the next seven years with his mother’s youngest brother, William Sanford, his namesake. For centuries the land where Ithaca, New York was founded had been settled by the Cayuga Indians who were driven out in 1779. The first white settlers arrived in 1788 however titles to their cleared land was given to veterans of the Revolutionary War. In 1793, a grist mill was built and two years later a road was cleared from Oxford in Chenango County to Ithaca. Ithaca had its first frame house built in 1800 and by 1804 had its first postmaster. It soon became a transshipping point for salt from the curing beds near Salina, New York to buyers south and east. That business prompted the construction in 1810 of the Owego Turnpike and when the War of 1812 cut off the American access to gypsum from Nova Scotia that was used as a fertilizer, Ithaca soon became the center of the trade in Cayuga gypsum. In 1817 Tompkins County was formed with Ithaca at its heart and in 1819, the Ithaca Paper Company was built which remained in operation until 1954. In 1821, Ithaca had a population of 1,000 and was incorporated as a village. The incorporation in 1819 of the Cayuga Steamboat Company with the launching of the steamboat “Enterprise” in 1820 on Cayuga Lake brought many new businesses to town. 37 27 While apprenticing for his uncle, William Sanford of Ithaca, New York, it seems likely that William would have made the acquaintance of the family of Sylvester B. Norton, Jr. and his youngest daughter Roxanna. In 1842, James Clark Keen, Sr. became the only member of Joseph and Mary Keen’s family to move west from Chemung County, New York to Illinois with his son William S. Keen joining them after having completed an apprenticeship of seven years with his uncle, William Sanford in Ithaca, New York. James C. Keen Sr. and his wife Polly moved their family to Will County, Illinois and the farm of Hendrick Miller - which was located in Plainfield Township on over 400 acres in Sections 23 and 26 southeast of Plainfield. Hendrick Miller was one of five children born to William Miller and Elsje B. Mynders of Montgomery of Orange County, New York in 1777. His oldest brother Burgher Miller (1775 – 1842) married in 1801 and sometime after the birth of his daughter Mariah in 1806 moved his family along with that of his brother William (1781) to Montgomery, Ohio. Montgomery, Ohio had been founded in 1796 by three families that had been former residents of Montgomery in Orange County, New York which was founded in 1782 and was located near the county line with Ulster County, New York. The population of Orange County before 1800 was small enough that it seems plausible that Joseph Keen had become acquainted with family of William Miller or his son Hendrick Miller. Hendrick married in 1800 and raised five children with his first wife, Mary Blanchard in and around Orange County, New York. His father died in 1804 and his wife Mary passed away in 1828. He married a second time in 1828 to Mrs. Mary Lawrence Stokes who passed away in April 1834. Hendrick married for the third time to Harriet Ketcham, a woman twenty years his junior in March 1836 and soon thereafter they journeyed west to the area around Geneva, Batavia and La Fox in Kane County, Illinois from Orange County, New York with his single sons - twenty year old Henry, thirty year old Herman and William, a twenty-six year old who had recently married twenty-three year old Patience Allen in 1835. Hendrick’s youngest son, Henry was appointed the Postmaster of La Fox in December 1836 and in January 1839, Henry married Emma J. Wilson, the daughter of Isaac Wilson, the founder of Batavia, Illinois. A son, Franklin W. Miller was born to them in December 1839 and the Census of 1840 indicates that Henry’s family was living with his father, Hendrick Miller. Franklin passed away in January 1841 and two months later Henry died in March 1841. William A. Miller and his wife Patience also settled in Kane County at Kingston. Later Herman married Abigail Sexton in Galena, Illinois in 1844 and by 1850 they were farming outside La Crosse, Wisconsin. Hendrick’s oldest son Horace Miller relocated with his wife Olivia Stokes and their three children to Kane County in 1839 and the 1840 Census shows Horace living near his father in La Fox, Illinois. In December 1840, Horace replaced his youngest brother Henry as the Postmaster of La Fox. In July 1841, Horace and his wife named their new son Henry after his younger brother Henry, who had passed away four months earlier in March 1841. In September 1841, Hendrick Miller, his wife Harriet Ketcham and their two year old daughter Helen relocated southeast of the Village of Plainfield, purchasing 480 acres of land with barns and houses in Sections 23 and 26 in Plainfield Township at a Will County Sheriff’s sale in Joliet for $1,100. The Keen family history notes that in July 1842 after traveling from Chemung County, New York, the family of James Clark Keen, Sr. resided on the Miller farm after arriving in Will County. The only owner of a farm in Plainfield Township with the last name “Miller” was that of Hendrick Miller and the Census of 1850 indicated that Hendrick Miller and his family were residents of Plainfield Township. In October 1843, the son of James Clark Keen, Sr., James Clark Keen, Jr. purchased four lots in the School Addition to Joliet at a Sheriff’s tax sale, so it seems likely that the family of James C. Keen, Sr. arrived in the Summer of 1842 and lived on the Miller farm for at least two or three years before the first recorded purchase in Will County of Lots 12 and 13 in Block 13 in Ingersoll’s Original Village of Plainfield for $125 from Thomas J. York and his wife Melissa (Ingersoll) on 38 28 October 25, 1845 by James Clark Keen, Sr. (Reference Exhibit F – 1850 Census). William Sanford and his wife, Lavina Norton likely moved to Plainfield in 1843 and rented space to open a blacksmith shop – his nephew, William S. Keen likely came in 1842 with his parents when they moved from New York and lived at the Hedrick Miller farm southeast of Plainfield and William may have worked with his uncle and together they rented a building for a shared blacksmith shop in Plainfield after having just completed a seven year apprenticeship with his uncle in Ithaca, New York. In September 1845, William Sanford purchased twenty-seven lots in the Village of Oswego from the estate of Levi Arnold as well as Block 3 in Arnold’s Addition to the Village of Plainfield which included the former house of Stephen R. Beggs as well as obtaining a mortgage from Stephen Beggs for $125. An 1862 map of Plainfield (Reference Exhibit D – 1862 Map of Plainfield ) shows two buildings in Block 3 – one on the north side of Oak Street in the middle of the block and one located near DesPlaines Street. A month later James C. Keen, Sr. purchased Lots 12 and 13 in Block 13 at the southwest corner of Ottawa and Fox River Streets that had been a portion of a larger sale of property originally owned by Chester Ingersoll and sold on April 1, 1843 to his son-in-law Thomas Jefferson York who had married his oldest daughter Melissa in 1837. Deed records from the Will County Recorder of Deeds indicate these were the first purchases of property in Will County for James Clark Keen, Sr. The 1862 Plainfield map (Exhibit D) shows the presence of a house on this corner lot and additional records from the Will County Recorder indicate James C. Keen, Sr. purchased additional lots in 1847 and 1852 with no borrowing in the form of mortgages to build a house; thus the 1845 purchase of Lots 12 and 13 for $125 likely indicates the presence of a house since vacant lots in the same area sold for $25 during this time period. On January 5, 1846, William S. Keen married the youngest daughter of Sylvanus (Sylvester) Butler Norton and his wife Sara Kidder. The Nortons had moved to Wheatland Township from Ithaca, New York soon after the 1840 Census was completed in New York State. As James W. Marshall was building a sawmill for Captain John Sutter on the south fork of the American River on January 24, 1848 near the settlement of Coloma in the California Territory, he spied a few flakes of gold in the tailrace water. Both men tried to keep their discovery quiet but eventually word leaked out and soon newspapers in the East broke the story of gold being discovered in California. William S. Keen discussed the prospects of traveling to California with his wife Roxy to seek his fortune – not in the mining of gold but in plying his blacksmith experience in the areas around the gold fields. William reserved space on a wagon train along with others from Plainfield and Lockport, including his brother-in-law, Andrew Coburn who was married to his wife’s older sister, Harriet Norton. The wagon train was delayed twice since William and Roxanne were expecting their second child. Convinced by his wife that she would be fine and that he was obligated to leave and follow through on their investment, the wagon train left Plainfield for St. Joseph, Missouri on Monday, April 2, 1849. Their second child, Sarah was born the next day on Tuesday, April 3. On Monday, May 28, William wrote his first letter to his wife from Fort Kearny in the Nebraska Territory. Fort Kearny had been built in 1848 and was the eastern anchor near the head of the Grand Island along the Platte River. It was an important military and civilian way station until 1871. Wagon trains moving west were able to resupply after having completed about a sixth of their journey to California, Oregon or the Pacific Northwest - over 70,000 emigrants trekked to the California gold fields in 1849 and 1850. Livestock could be traded for fresh stock and letters could be sent back East. His letter stated that this was the first time they had stopped for a full day of rest since leaving St. Joseph and that they have seen over thirty graves of people who had died from cholera. The Census of 1850 recorded on September 7 shows the extended family of James Clark Keen, Sr. living at the house on Lots 12 and 13 at the southwest corner of Fox River and Ottawa Streets – his wife Polly (48) 39 29 and their five children – Laura (18), Isaac (15), Lucy (13), Julia (11), and Sarah (9), his wife’s mother Cynthia Rumsey (74) and Roxanna Norton Keen (25) who had married their oldest son, William Sanford Keen in April 1846 and their two young children – Anson (3) and Sarah (1). William tried his hand at gold mining but had some health setbacks. A letter written in March 1851 indicated that he had left the mountains and decided to live in the Central Valley at Stockton. The settlement had been founded in 1849 on the San Joaquin River and its seaport served as a gateway to the Central Valley and easy access for trade and transportation to the gold mines. His letters stated that he realized that many opportunities lay in providing for those seeking gold from all over the world and was determined to make some money before leaving for Plainfield. His brother-in-law Andrew Coburn bought property in Stockton to open a store but failed to convince William to do the same. Later in an 1853 letter to William, Andrew Coburn related that he had brought his wife Harriet and son Nelson to Stockton and they were doing fine. Soon after William S. Keen returned home from the gold fields of east-central California, his father James C. Keen, Sr. purchased an eighty acre farm on November 22, 1852 in the W ½ of the SE ¼ of Section 8 from Charles and Eliza Harriman for $800. The eighty-acre parcel had a house and barns fronting Lockport Road on the north side (now IL-126) approximately 1¼ miles west of the DuPage River and on the day of the purchase, James C. Keen, Sr. borrowed the purchase money of $800 from the seller, Charles Harriman. Nearly two weeks later on December 2, 1852, James and Polly Keen sold their 1.67 acre parcel consisting of Lots 8, 10, 11, 12 and 18 feet off the west side of Lot 13, all in Block 13 to Thomas Summerville for $600. The 1862 Plainfield map (Reference Exhibit D) shows a house not only on Lot 12 where the family of James and Polly Keen lived for seven years plus a house on Lot 8 at the southeast corner of Ottawa and James Streets. In April 1852, James C. Keene, Sr. purchased Lot 8 in Block 13 for $25 from George Bradley so it seems likely that the Keen’s might have had a structure built on their newly acquired property before they sold the parcel seven months later. The first recorded contract in Will County for William S. Keen was in March 1852 for Block 3 in Arnold’s Addition from his uncle,William Sanford for $500. This purchase included a house set on Block 3 with little more than 2½ acres. His uncle, William Sanford along with his wife Lavina Norton had moved from Ithaca, New York perhaps a year or two after ending William Keen’s apprenticeship. On September 5, 1845, William Sanford purchased twenty-seven lots in the Village of Oswego from the estate of Levi Arnold and twelve days later purchased Block 3 in Arnold’s Addition from Stephen R. Beggs and his wife Elizabeth for $250. The contract between William Sanford and Stephen Beggs mentions the presence of a house. In the Spring of 1853, Jabez Rose Bates, Jr. sold his share of the blacksmith partnership to his brother Charles and moved his wife and four of their children to Plainfield to work with his son Eli who had opened a blacksmith shop in 1852 when he moved to Plainfield from Brooklyn, New York. Jabez Rose Bates, Jr. was one of six children born to Jabez R. Bates, Sr. and Elizabeth Barker and the only child in the family to relocate from his home state of Maine to Illinois in 1852. His father had served for six months during the American Revolution in 1780 as a private in the Massachusetts arm of the Continental Army and lived his entire life in and around the village of Greene in Kennebec County, Maine. In January 1822, Jabez had married Olive Sturgis and opened up a blacksmith shop in Dexter, Maine with his younger brother Charles. In the Census of 1850, the family of Charles and Eunice Bates with their five children and Jabez and Olive Bates with their six children were enumerated on the same page, listing both with occupations as blacksmiths. Jabez’ two sons, Harrison and Elijah had apprenticed with Jabez and his brother Charles to learn the trade of blacksmithing. Jabez soon became friends with William S. Keen, another Plainfield blacksmith and on September 1, 1853, purchased Block 3 in Arnold’s Addition for $1,000 from William S. Keene and moved his family into the house located in Block 3 that the Keen’s had 40 30 purchased some eighteen months earlier in March 1852 for $500. On October 26, 1855, Jabez Bates Jr. died unexpectedly and was buried in Plainfield Township Cemetery two days later. A month later on October 24, 1853, William S. Keen and his wife Roxanna purchased Lots 1 and 2 in Block 2 on the south side of Lockport Street from Seymour and Maria Stone for $200. Nearly two years later on October 22, 1855, the Keens’ sold Lots 1 and 2 to Theodore Mickel for $300. A segment of the 1862 map shown at the beginning of the “Site section” shows the location of a house on the south half of Lot 1 in Block 9 plus a workshop north of the house likely built by Edward W. Mitchell, the wheelwright, who purchased the 1.59 acre parcel with the only house in Block 9 in December 1849 for $500. (Reference Exhibit G: 1850 Census). Mitchell owned no other land in Plainfield so it is likely he built this workshop and added the one-story wing portion to the house under consideration for this nomination. During his seven years at this location Mitchell obtained three mortgages totaling nearly $1,200. In September 1856, Edward Mitchell sold his 1.59 acre parcel to William and Minerva Bunzey for $1,600 and moved to East Waterloo, Iowa. In March 1857 or six months later, the Bunzey’s sold their parcel to William S. Keen for $500 who assumed the $600 mortgage taken on the property from Edward Mitchell. In October 1858, the Keen’s sold the N ½ of Lots 1, 2, 3, & 4 or about three-quarters of an acre to John Virgil, a carriage maker as shown on the 1862 map (Reference Exhibit D). On the aforementioned 1862 map, the property identified as W. S. Keen was located on the south half of Lots 1, 2, 3, and 4 in Block 9. Originally these lots were oriented facing north or looking out onto Chicago Street that originally extended to the DuPage River when originally platted by Ingersoll in 1834. The house purchased by the William Keen in March 1857 was located about forty feet north of the eighteen foot wide alley that crossed the middle of Block 9 that was officially vacated by the Village in 1948 as was the alley in Block 4. Thus as shown on the 1862 map, there were only three houses in Block 9 – the house of William S. Keen on the S ½ of Lot 1 with a blacksmith shop in front of the north facing house, the house of John Virgil on the N ½ of Lot 1, with a workshop for his carriage-construction – Lots 2, 3 and 4 were shared equally by Keen and Virgil and the house on Lot 8 at the northwest corner of Fox River and Ottawa Street was owned by John Becker and likely built by Jacob Geist. The 1862 map of Plainfield corroborates local Plainfield history that William Keen had a blacksmith shop in his front yard, however during the period from 1857 – 1872, that blacksmith workshop was originally oriented north of the house facing Chicago Street on the south half of Lots 1 and 2. Visitors to the site today would see that the entrance to the house is now facing East and where would there had been room for a blacksmith shop in the front yard – what a difference 162 years make! Philip Hoffer was born in Alsace in October 1838. At the time of his birth, Alsace was a part of eastern France lying along the upper and lower parts of the west bank of the Rhine River. On the east side of the Rhine River was Prussia and after the Franco-Prussian War (1870-71), Alsace was detached from France and annexed to the German Empire and after Germany lost World War I, Alsace was returned to France. On November 12, 1855, seventeen year old Philip Hoffer arrived in New York harbor aboard the steamer Republic from Le Havre, France. He made his way to Plainfield and worked at a blacksmith shop. On October 2, 1860, Philip took the oath of citizenship in Joliet at the Will County Circuit Court and became a naturalized citizen. On April 25, 1863, Philip married Margaretha Meyers Neuerburg in McLean County, Illinois and they returned to Plainfield. Philip soon worked with William Keen at his blacksmith shop that was located in front of his house on the south half of Lot 1 in Block 9. On November 11, 1868, Philip purchased a house and two parcels of land on the south side of Commercial Street in the Assessor’s subdivision just west of Shreffler’s Addition from Edgar and Ann Doud for $1,088.50 on land that would later become Miles V. Hartong’s subdivision in the mid – 1920s. The 1870 and 1880 Census shows Philip and his wife Margaret living on Commercial Street with their children – 41 31 Emma, Ida and Lucy - Ida died in late September 1870 at 7 months and Emma died a couple of months after celebrating her eighteenth birthday in September 1886. Their only surviving child, Lucy, married Miles V. Hartong on June 30, 1898 and the land on which the Hoffer homestead was located was purchased by Miles Hartong from the Master of Chancery of the Circuit Court of Will County in November 1925 for $11,500. On November 10, 1866, two Plainfield businessmen, George N. Chittenden and James K. Smiley purchased a large parcel of almost one acre located at the southeast corner of Block 4 in Arnold’s Addition from Emily Pierson, the widow of Myron Pierson who passed away on April 28, 1858 for $2,200. The Pierson’s had purchased the parcel on October 3, 1858 from William E. Morgan and his wife Fanny Maria for $825. William E. Morgan purchased all of Block 4 which was comprised of 2½ acres from Levi Arnold in March 1840 for $300; this was only the second sale of land by Levi Arnold along what would later become Lockport Street. When the Pierson’s purchased the nearly one acre parcel in 1858 there were only two wood- framed, two-story buildings located side-by-side on Lots 1 and 2 at the southeast corner of Block 4 where Lockport and DesPlaines Streets met. The two buildings had been built in 1847 for William E. Morgan by Elisha James Madison Wood and in July 1867, Elisha Wood retired from farming and purchased the building and operated a general store until his death in December 1888. His widow Hester sold the property in April 1894. In June 1871, William and Roxanna Keen’s oldest child Anson married Welthea Schutt and four years later in June 1875 they became grandparents with the birth of Arthur Hamilton Keen. The marriage ended in divorce three years later with Anson and his young son moving into his parent’s house on Fox River Street. On February 10, 1872, Philip Hoffer and William S. Keen purchased Lots 7 and 8 from Chittenden and Smiley for $725. The two lots were adjacent to George Frey’s wagon shop on Lot 6 that Frey had bought from Chittenden and Smiley in March 1869 for $200. During this blacksmith partnership William Keen and Company flourished for twenty-one years during which time William’s son Anson came to work at their shop. The 1880 Census shows the three children of William and Roxanna – Anson (33), Sarah (31) and Florence (20) living at the house on Fox River plus their four year old grandchild Arthur. In 1882 Anson married Theresa Frickel from Yorkville and in June 1888, they purchased a house at the southeast corner of Ottawa and DesPlaines Street for $300. The house was located across the street from the Village Green, within a short walk to his parent’s house on Fox River Street and about four blocks from the blacksmith shop of William Keen & Company. Anson’s father William Keen’s wife Roxy died on Sunday, November 18, 1900 at the age of 75 and was buried Tuesday in the Keen Family plot at the Plainfield Township Cemetery. Though Philip Hoffer sold his half share of the partnership back to William Keen for $350 on January 21, 1893, he remained as a practicing blacksmith in Plainfield. Soon thereafter William Keen changed the name of his business to Keen & Son and sometime after Anson’s son Arthur turned 19 in June 1894, he came to work alongside his grandfather William (73) and his father Anson (48) – all three generations were listed as working at the Keen & Son blacksmith shop. A December 1904 feature article in the local newspaper, The Enterprise about William Sanford Keen stated that he had been at the forge for 69 years and at the age of 83, still worked every day, walking the three blocks to his shop on Lockport Street. After an illness of several weeks, William died on April 28, 1905 at the age of 83. As was the custom of the time, the funeral was held at the house on Fox River on Monday, May 1, 1905 and William was buried next to his wife Roxanna at the Plainfield Township Cemetery. Ten months later on March 28, 1906, the children of William - Sarah, Florence and Anson along with Anson’s wife Theresa sold Lots 7 and 8 where the Keen & Son blacksmith shop was located to Emma Laydon for $500. In William Keen’s will, the house on Fox River was willed to his two daughters, Sarah (56) and Florence (46) in November 1905. On June 15, 1913, Sarah died from injuries sustained from a fall and three years 42 32 later in June 1916, Florence sold the house to Anson’s daughter, Olive for $1,190. The deed sale contract was written so that Olive (Grantee) would pay Florence (Grantor) a monthly annuity until her passing - “the sum of $1,190 payable as follows - $20 per month or more at the option of the Grantee on the 1st day of each & every month, hereafter until the full sum of $1,190 shall have been fully paid, provided, however that should the full sum not been paid upon death of the Grantor, the remaining unpaid, provided such balance does not exceed $300, then such payment to said Anson Keen, his heirs, executors or administrators, shall be only the sum of $300 & such payment shall be considered as & being full payment of the said sum of $1,190 & the condition, herein provided be fully complied with & extinguished. The above condition is to be construed as a condition subsequently & upon breach thereof, the Grantors herein, their heirs at law, devisees or assigns shall have the right to re-enter & take possession of said premises & dispossess the Grantee herein & heirs at law, devisees, personal representatives or assigns thereof. This conveyance is made for the purpose of correcting the description contained in the Warranty Deed 395-527 dated June 11, 1916. Florence died in 1943 and over the next twenty-four years direct descendants of William and Roxanna Keen continued to live at the house on Fox River. On February 28, 1967, Roxy May Olive Keen, the granddaughter of William S. and his wife Roxanna Keen, the purchasers of the property on March 17, 1857 sold the property, thus ending a 110 year ownership of the property by members of the Keen(e) family. 43 33 Appendix F Interior Although the interior of this pre-Civil War residence is not under consideration, a brief tour of the house was done while the nomination was being written. It appears that the two-story upright portion of the house was completed initially before its sale in February1840 since the basement is only under much of the two-story upright section. The basement does not extend under the one-story wing portion of the house; a crawl space can be seen where stones have been removed to where the flooring joists of the wing portion tie into the basement wall separating the two areas and later to bring electrical wiring to the wing portion. Additionally when viewing the roof joists in the attic, it appears that the one-story wing addition was added sometime after the completion of the two story upright portion. The limestone rubble foundation has been strengthened throughout the original basement with tuckpointing. The current entrance to the house is located in the one- story wing section that is located under a recessed porch that likely was added when Edward Mitchell owned the property (1849 – 1856) since he had a family larger than any of the previous three owners. Entering the house through the current front door allows one to view on the left what was likely the original entrance in 1840 which invites one into the two-story upright portion of the house. Entering through that doorway one would find themselves in the living room or parlor with its two east and one south facing windows that mirror those on the second floor. The window openings appear original though their hardware has long been replaced. As stated previously when Chester Ingersoll sold the two half lots to Calvin and Nancy Colegrove, there were four lots stretching west from Fox River Street to Kankakee Street oriented to the north or facing Chicago Street and 4 lots stretching west from Fox River Street along the north side of Ottawa street to Kankakee Street oriented to the south facing Ottawa Street. The Colegroves purchased the south half of Lots 1 and 2 - thus their section of each lot was only 66 feet deep instead of the normal 132 feet and 80 feet wide. It appears likely that Edward Mitchell favored the purchase of this property since he had additional space north of his house to add the wing portion on to the original house and room to construct a workshop for his wheelwright business. The 1862 map shows the evidence of Mitchell’s construction and a later sale of the north half of Lots 1 and 2 to John Virgil by William and Roxanna Keen in 1858. The house suffered significant damage from the August 1990 tornado and the owners at the time decided to repair the house rather than raze the historic house. As stated previously most of the window openings are historic though all windows and original hardware are modern. The house suffered penetrations to the sidewalls and roof from wind debris so the owners applied synthetic siding to the exterior walls of the house and many penetrations to the roof can be seen when viewing across the ceiling and roof joists in the attic. 44 34 Appendix G Summary Statement of Significance In ArchiSearch’s evaluation of this nearly 180 year old house survey notations included recent limestone applied to the foundation, synthetic siding, modern materials on the porch wing, double-hung window sash replacements on both the upright and wing portion and a replacement door and a recommendation to list it as historic. The owners of 1990 valued the history associated with this house and decided to make the repairs rather than demolish a piece of Plainfield history. The property has a connection to many of Plainfield’s prominent early Plainfield families – Ingersoll, Colegrove, Bartlett, Mitchell, Wraith, Norton and Keen. It should be noted that records from the Will County Recorder’s office indicate that there had already been four owners of the property after its initial sale by Chester Ingersoll in 1840 before William S. Keen and his wife purchased the property in March 1857 and for the next 110 years the house remained under the Keen family stewardship. The survey of this property by ArchiSearch in 2005-06 mistakenly places the ownership to Anson King – though the name “King” must have been a misspelling of “Keen.” The Keens would raise three children in the house – Anson, Sarah and Florence and for fifteen years William Keen would operate a blacksmith shop on this property before purchasing two lots less than three blocks from his house on Lockport Street with his fellow blacksmith partner and friend Philip Hoffer in 1872. Together for twenty-one years they would operate one of Plainfield’s premier businesses before dissolving their partnership in favor of William S. Keen setting up business with his son Anson and grandson Arthur. Thus the period of significance would begin when Chester Ingersoll sold the house and lots in 1840 to the sale of the property by the last of the Keen family in 1967. The Mitchell-Keen-Jackson Residence is nominated for designation as a local landmark in the Village of Plainfield under the following criteria: Criterion c: is identified with persons who significantly contributed to the development of the community, county, state, or nation; Criterion d: embodies distinguishing characteristics of an architectural style valuable for the study of a period, type, method of construction, or use of indigenous materials; Criterion j: is suitable for preservation or restoration; 45 35 Appendix H Exhibit Table of Contents A. Ingersoll’s Original Plat of Planefield – 1834 B. Ingersoll’s Addition to Plainfield – 1837 C. Plat of Arnold’s Addition – shows the quarter section that came to be known as Arnold’s Addition Surveyed Sept. 1845 - almost a year after Levi Arnold’s death. D. 1862 Plainfield – map showing location of buildings E. Chain of title for 15134 S. Fox River Street F. 1850 Census – June 7 – James C. Keen, Sr. G. 1850 Census – June 7 – Edward W. Mitchell 46 36 EXHIBIT A 47 37 EXHIBIT B 48 38 EXHIBIT C 49 39 EXHIBIT D 50 40 EXHIBIT E 15134 (506) S. Fox River 06-03-16-208-024-0000 The South 40’ of Lots 1 & 2 & the South 40’ of the East 20’ of Lot 3, & the East 180’ of the N ½ of the East & West vacated alley, all in Block 9 of Ingersoll’s Town of Plainfield, a subdivision of part of the W ½ of NE ¼ of Sec. 16 GRANTOR GRANTEE 4/26/2016 1st Community Financial Bank [WD – 2016074481] $175,000 Jackson, Paul The South 40’ of Lots 1 & 2 & the South 40’ of the East 20’ of Lot 3, & the East 180’ of the N ½ of the East & West vacated alley, all in Block 9 of Ingersoll’s Town of Plainfield, a subdivision of part of the W ½ of NE ¼ of Sec. 16 4/11/2016 Fannie Mae [SWD – R2016031533] Jackson, Paul 12/08/2015 Otte, Mary Beth [WD – 2016005827] Federal National Mtg. Ass. 4/03/2012 GMAC Mtg. LLC [Foreclosure – R2012035963] Otte, Mary Beth 7/29/2004 Mentzer, Ronald Charles [WD – R2004143392] $225,000 Otte, Mary Beth Mentzer,Patricia Jean 4/07/1971 McDermed, Kenneth [WD – R71007297] Mentzer, Ronald C. 7/10/1969 Dillow, Perry A. [WD – R69012462] McDermed, Kenneth 2/28/1967 Keene, Garry [WD – R67002589] Dillow, Perry A. The South 40’ of Lots 1 & 2 & the South 40’ of the East 20’ of Lot 3, & the East 180’ of the N ½ of the East & West vacated alley, all in Block 9 of Ingersoll’s Town of Plainfield, a subdivision of part of the W ½ of NE ¼ of Sec. 16 2/28/1967 Keen, Olive M. [WD – R67002588] Keene, Garry/Carol (Granddaughter of William S. & Roxanna Norton Keen) The South 40’ of Lots 1 & 2 & the South 40’ of the East 20’ of Lot 3, & the East 180’ of the N ½ of the East & West vacated alley, all in Block 9 of Ingersoll’s Town of Plainfield, a subdivision of part of the W ½ of NE ¼ of Sec. 16 4/05/1948 Village Ordinance #464 [1162-463] – That the East & West alley in Block 9 in the Original Town of Plainfield & that part of the East-West alley in Block 4 which lies West of the East line of Lot 8 in Block 4, is no longer necessary for general public use & travel. 51 41 11/11/1916 Keene, Florence Edna [Deed – 395-545] $1,190 Keen, Olive M. (youngest daughter of William S. & Roxanna Norton Keen) Commencing at a point on the East line of Lot 1in Block 9, 108’ South of the SE corner of Block 4 & running thence South on said East line of Lot 1 108’ to the South line of the East-West alley running through Block 9 as appears on Ingersoll’s original Plat, thence West on the South line of said alley 320’ to the NW corner of Lot 5 in Block 9, thence North 108’ & thence East to place of beginning, except the West 140’ thereof. This conveyance is made upon the express condition that the Grantee herein her heirs at law, devisees or assigns pay to the Grantor the sum of $1,190 payable as follows - $20 per month or more at the option of the Grantee on the 1st day of each & every month, hereafter until the full sum of $1,190 shall have been fully paid, provided, however that should the full sum not been paid upon death of the Grantor, remaining unpaid, provided such balance does not exceed $300, then such payment to said Anson Keen his heirs, executors or administrators, shall be only the sum of $300 & such payment shall be considered as & being full payment of the said sum of $1,190 & the condition, herein provided be fully complied with & extinguished. The above condition is to be construed as a condition subsequently & upon breach thereof, the Grantors herein, their heirs at law, devisees or assigns shall have the right to re-enter & take possession of said premises & dispossess the Grantee herein & heirs at law, devisees, personal representatives or assigns thereof. This conveyance is made for the purpose of correcting the description contained in the Warranty Deed 395-527 dated June 11, 1916 6/11/1913 Keen, Florence E./Sara L. [Deed – 395-527] $2,500 Keen, Olive M. (youngest daughter of William S. & Roxanna Norton Keen) The S ½ of Block 4 in the Village of Plainfield – the above conveyance is made for the express condition that the Grantee herein, her heirs at law, devisees, personal representatives or assigns pay to the Grantors herein or the survivor of them, the sum of $2,500, payable as follows - $90 upon the execution & delivery of this deed, the receipt of which amount is hereby acknowledged & $20 per month or more at the option of the Grantee on the 1st day of each & every month hereafter until the full sum of $2,500 shall have been paid, provided however, that should the full sum of $2,500 not have been paid upon the death of the survivor of the Grantors herein, then said Grantee herein her heirs at law, devisees or assigns shall pay to Anson Keen, his heirs, executors or administrators the balance of said sum of $2,500, remaining unpaid, provided such balance does not exceed $300, then such payment to said Anson Keen his heirs, executors or administrators, shall be only the sum of $300 & such payment shall be considered as & be in full payment of the said sum of $2,500 & condition, herein provided be fully complied with & extinguished. The above condition is to be continued as a condition subsequently & upon breach thereof, the Grantors herein, their heirs at law, devisees or assigns shall have the right to re-enter & take possession of said premises & dispossess the Grantee herein & heirs at law, devisees, personal representatives or assigns thereof. 9/21/1860 Keen, William S./Roxanna [MTG – 61-422] $500 Virgil, John N½ of the following property – beginning at the SE corner of Block 4, thence West 320’, South 216’, East 320’, North 216’ to place of beginning with 2 promissory notes due September 21, 1861 and September 21, 1862 for $250 each, containing about .80 Acre. 10/26/1858 Keen, Roxanna [WD – 67-241, 92-111] $425 Virgil, John N ½ of the following property – beginning at the SE corner of Block 4, thence West 320’, South 216’, East 320’, North 216’ to place of beginning, containing about .80 Acre. 3/17/1857 Bunzey, Minerva A. [WD – 48-162] $500 Keen, Roxanne Begin at the SE corner of Block 4, thence West 320’, thence South 216’, thence East 320’, 52 42 thence North 216’ to place of beginning. Said property having been mortgaged & $600 owed to Edward S. Pratt which mortgage Roxana & William S. Keen agrees to pay as a part of the purchase money, containing 1.59 Acres 9/09/1856 Mitchell, Edward W. [Deed – 46-326] $1,600 Bunzey, Minerva A. Mitchell, Mary Begin at SE corner of Block 4, thence West 320’ to SW corner of Block 4, thence South 216’, thence East 320’ to Fox River St., thence North 216’ to place of beginning; said premises being under mortgage to Edward S. Pratt for $600, which mortgage is to be paid by the party of the second part – Minerva A. Bunzey. containing 1.59 Acres 9/24/1853 Mitchell, Edward [MTG – 36-487-8] $600 Pratt, Edward S. Mitchell, Mary Begin at SE corner of Block 4, thence West to SW corner of Block 4, thence South to NW corner of Block 9, thence East to NE corner of Block 9, thence North to place of beginning with said mortgage payable 1 year from this date with interest at 10% – tenements mentioned 3/21/1853 Mitchell, Edward W. [MTG – 28-168-9] $250 Pratt, Edward S. Mitchell, Mary Begin at SE corner of Block 4, thence West to SW corner of Block 4, thence South to NW corner of Block 9, thence East to NE corner of Block 9, thence North to place of beginning with said mortgage of $250 due in 18 months. – tenements mentioned 12/18/1852 Mitchell, Edward W. [MTG – Z-271-2] $360.70 Marsh, Leonard Mitchell, Mary Begin at SE corner of Block 4, thence West to SW corner of Block 4, thence South to NW corner of Block 9, thence East to NE corner of Block 9, thence North to place of beginning with mortgage of $360.70 payable in two years - tenements mentioned 12/18/1849 Ballard, James/Sally [Deed – R-500] $500 Mitchell, Edward W. Mitchell, Mary Begin at SE corner of Block 4, thence West to SW corner of Block 4, thence South to NW corner of Block 9, thence East to NE corner of Block 9, thence North to place of beginning containing 1.59 Acres - tenements mentioned 12/23/1847 Colegrove, Calvin/Nancy [Deed – 92-110] $200 Ballard, James All of Lots 1, 2, 3, 4, in Block 9; Also an additional parcel - begin at SE corner of Block 4, thence West to SW corner of Block 4, thence South to NW corner of Block 9, thence East to NE corner of Block 9, thence North to place of beginning, containing 1.59 Acres 3/01/1847 Colegrove, Calvin [Mtg – M-238-9] $63.95 Pierson, Myron Specifically Lots 1, 2, 3, 4, in Block 9 – mentions tenements 9/06/1842 Colegrove, Calvin/Nancy [MTG – L-74-76] $241 Ingersoll, Phebe Same Description as in previous Deed – G-436 53 43 9/06/1842 Ingersoll, Chester [Deed – G-436] $241 Colegrove, Calvin From the quarter section corner of the North line of Sec. 16 in Twp. 36N Range 9E, thence South 16.5 chains, thence East 3.53 chains, thence North 25 degrees East 9.69 chains, thence North 14 degrees East 12.50 chains, thence West 8.50 chains to place of beginning, containing 9 acres & 140 rods; Also from said quarter section corner East 10.50 chains from thence South 40’ to place of beginning, from thence South 20 degrees West 3.08 chains, from thence South 10 degrees West 7.65 chains & thence East 9.50 chains, thence North 11 chains & thence West 6.70 chains to place of beginning containing 8 Acres & 40 rods; Also the N ½ of Lots 1 & 2 & Lots 3 & 4 in Block 9, reserving the right of the brickyard one year to make bricks – mentions tenements 2/12/1840 Ingersoll, Chester/Phebe [Deed – G-196] $200 Colegrove, Calvin S ½ of Lots 1 & 2 in Block 54 44 EXHIBIT F 1850 Census – Village of Plainfield – Sept. 7 49 James C. Keene, Sr. 48 Polly 74 Cynthia Rumsey – mother of Polly 25 Roxanna – wife of William S. Keen (James’ Sr. oldest son) has gone to CA gold fields 18 Laura – daughter of James & Polly 15 Isaac – son of James & Polly 13 Lucy - daughter of James & Polly 9 Sarah Elizabeth - daughter of James & Polly 3 Anson – son of Roxanna & William 1 Sarah – daughter of Roxanna & William Living at house on Lots 12 & 13 at the SW corner of Ottawa & Fox River Streets purchased October 25, 1845 55 45 EXHIBIT G 1850 Census - Village of Plainfield - Sept. 7 34 Edward W. Mitchell – wheelwright from England 28 Mary – his wife 10 Joseph - children 7 Hannah - of 1 Edward - Edward & Mary 17 James Wraith – wheelwright apprentice from England 40 David Shaw – weaver from England Living in a house purchased on Dec. 18, 1849 at S½ of Lots 1 & 2 at southwest corner of Chicago & Fox River Streets with a wheelwright workshop built by Edward Mitchell. Nearly a block north of the family of James C. Keen Sr. lives & the same house that William S. & Roxanna Keen will purchase on March 17, 1857 56 46 BIBLIOGRAPHY A Brief Synopsis of the James Mathers Family at Plainfield, IL, Plainfield Historical Society, 2010 A Field Guide to American Architecture, Carole Rifkind, A Plume Book, 1980, ISBN 0-452-25334-5 A History of Plainfield: Then and Now (2nd Edition), Plainfield Bicentennial Commission (Plainfield Enterprise: Plainfield, Illinois, 1976 Ancestry.com Historic Urbanized Core Survey, Plainfield Historic Preservation Commission. ArchiSearch Historic Preservation Consultant Alice Novak, Sept. 12, 2005 The Family History of William Clark Keen and Polly Sanford The History of Will County, Illinois – 1878 National Archives of the United States – Naturalization Records Plainfield Enterprise Plainfield Historical Society Archives – Plainfield, Illinois Plainfield Township Cemetery Records Restoring Old Houses, Nigel Hutchins, Firefly Books, Buffalo, NY, 1997, ISBN 1-55209-144-9 Rush University Medical Center Archives (Rush Medical College) U.S. Federal Census Records – 1830, 1840, 1850, 1860, 1870, 1880, 1900, 1910, 1920, 1930, 1940 Will County Clerk’s Office Will County Recorder’s Office Archives: Joliet, Illinois. Researchers: Michael Bortel Leif Henricksen Michael A. Lambert David Schmidt Images: Leif Hendricksen 57 58 REPORT TO THE HISTORIC PRESERVATION COMMISSION Page #2 of 3 1862-112219.DEMO 1/9/2020 15024 S. DES PLAINES ST Existing Conditions/ Site Context The subject residential building was constructed circa 1880 and faces S. Des Plaines Street to the east. It is not currently utilized for residential purposes. The structure appears on the 1898 Sanborn Map, the earliest map of the Village, and retains the same footprint in subsequent Sanborn maps from 1912 and 1931. The architectural style of the home is identified as being influenced by the French Second Empire, which corresponds with the date of construction. According to historic aerial imagery, a rear addition was added to the building serving as a breezeway connection between the home and the modern detached garage. The property is also improved with a playhouse. The survey specifically identifies the playhouse as having local landmark potential. The adjacent commercial businesses, zoning, and street classifications are as follows: North: Village Public Parking Lot (R-1) East: Station One Building; Oak Street Mixed-use office and residential building (B-5); South Des Plaines Street (Local) South: LBL Investments and Wandering Dragon Game Shoppe (B-5) West: Plainfield Township Community Center (B-5) ANALYSIS Demolition In order for the Historic Preservation Commission to recommend requiring the “alternatives analysis”, at least one of the following findings of fact must be demonstrated: a) The Village’s urban or rural survey shall identify the property as a potential landmark or contributing structure and there is sufficient architectural significance to warrant a delay in the demolition; b) The property has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places; c) The property has been listed on the Illinois Historic Structure Survey or alternatively the Will County or Kendall County Historic Surveys. d) The property has been determined to be eligible on the National Register of Historic Places; or e) The property is listed as a significant historic place or contributing structure based on a historical survey or historical tract search. Staff finds that the structure meets criteria a) and e) of the demolition ordinance. In November 2006, ArchiSearch Historic Preservation Consultants completed a survey of the Village’s urbanized core. This survey identified the subject structure as contributing to the Arnold’s Addition to Plainfield historic district. The Second French Empire architectural style is not commonly found in the Village and while the structure is not the most commendable example of this style, it is unique to the Village. The subject structure is also located just outside the Downtown Historic District. Due to the rear addition and synthetic siding, the home is not recommended for landmark status. The survey does, however, strongly recommend the playhouse located on the south side of the property for 59 REPORT TO THE HISTORIC PRESERVATION COMMISSION Page #3 of 3 1862-112219.DEMO 1/9/2020 15024 S. DES PLAINES ST landmark status. As mentioned earlier, the playhouse is not considered as part of this demolition request. It is important to note that while the property contributes to a prospective historic district, it is surrounded by modern buildings to the East, West and South. To the north of the property is a public parking lot, to the south is a one-story commercial building, to the west is the Plainfield Township Community Center and to the east is the Station One firehouse, all of which do not contribute to the historic district. CONCLUSION The Village of Plainfield has a wonderful collection of historic structures located both within and outside of the historic districts. The demolition ordinance was adopted in 2016 in order to address the demolition of historic structures that may be historic or significant to the Village but are neither located in a historic district nor a landmark property. Such is the scenario for the subject demolition request. The Historic Preservation Commission shall consider the extent to which the architectural and historical significance of the structure warrants a delay in demolition. Consideration must also be given to the condition of the structure and whether rehabilitation for a commercial use is feasible. The applicants have provided plans for the redevelopment of the subject property that are attached for the Commission’s review. Should the demolition be approved, the applicants’ development will require site plan review and approval by the Village of Plainfield Board of Trustees. If approved, new construction is anticipated to begin in Spring 2020. The Historic Preservation Commission has an opportunity to make a recommendation to the Village Board on the demolition request. The Historic Preservation Commission may also utilize this public hearing as an opportunity to provide comments on the redevelopment plans, as presented by the applicants. 60 15024 S. Des Plaines St. 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 HISTORIC URBANIZED CORE SURVEY Plainfield Historic Preservation Commission ADDRESS 15024 S. DesPlaines St. PIN/Property Index Number #06-03-09-403-037-0000 Historic Property Name(s) Common Name(s) Architectural Style French Second Empire influence Vernacular Building Type no type Construction Date c. 1880 Architect/Builder Historic Use(s) Single Family Residential Present Use(s) Single Family Residential History (associated events, people, dates) Assessor’s Subdivision. House appears on the 1893 Sanborn map, the earliest Sanborn for the Village; address was 224, with the carriage barn 224-1/2. Full-facade porch, south elevation bay, and large rear wing shown; truncated hip roof outlined. The 1898 map shows a 1 story rectangular outbuilding has been added to the north of the two-part carriage barn. The same appears on the 1912 Sanborn. By 1931, the 1 story outbuilding has been removed or moved. 3 outbuildings are shown: a square garage and an unidentified 1 story rectangular outbuilding on the north lot line, toward the rear of the lot. The carriage barn was always shown in the SW rear lot corner; on this map, it appears as two adjacent buildings or a larger 2 story building with a 1 story wing as always, but the 1 story N wing has been reduced by half, now recessed from the east end. This would be in the location where the small playhouse is. Only the address has changed on the 1944 Sanborn map. Description See reverse side/Continuation Sheet. Integrity/Major Physical changes from original construction Wall material. South elevation bay’s windows replaced, 1st story hood molds removed. 2nd story central door on facade to upper level porch concealed with synthetic siding, but hood mold remains. Modern rear wing added as connection between historic wing and modern garage to NW/rear of house. Subsidiary Building(s)/Site See reverse side/Continuation Sheet. Registration & Evaluation National Register of Historic Places: Currently Listed: ___yes X no If not currently listed, recommend: Individually ___yes X no; historic district X yes no Contributing X XX or non-contributing Significance statement: Inappropriate rear wing extensions are removed to rear of house; house substantially intact except for synthetic siding. Modern garage is attached, thus does not count as a separate feature. Playhouse may have been connected to the historic carriage barn (as per Sanborn map footprints), but otherwise its origin/function is unclear. It is an outstanding mid-late 19th century outbuilding, regardless of use. VP; AA. Village of Plainfield designation: Currently Listed: ___yes X no If not currently listed, recommend: Historic Landmark X (playhouse) yes no; Historic District X yes no Contributing XXX or non-contributing Form prepared by: ArchiSearch Historic Preservation Consultants (Alice Novak) Date of Field Survey: 12.03.05 - 449 706 N. DesPlaines St. 68 HISTORIC URBANIZED CORE SURVEY Plainfield Historic Preservation Commission ADDRESS PIN/Property Index Number #06-03-09-403-037-0000 Description Foundation not clearly visible; synthetically sided walls (wide gauge white); asphalt shingle broad truncated hip roof as to mimic a Mansard roof. 2 stories, basically rectangular in shape, 3 facade bays. All windows original 2/2 double-hung sash unless otherwise noted. All windows and doors on the main house core with pedimented and denticulated hood molds except as otherwise noted. Nearly full-facade flat roof porch enclosed with synthetic siding and storm/screens, 3 on north/south ends and 3 on either side of door with “sidelights.” Plain cornice. Sideways “X” patterned open rail atop to create a 2nd story open porch, c. 1925 or later. Wide fixed sash with transom in left/south bay. Door with historic storm door off-center to right/north. Square leaded glass window in far right bay, all visible through enclosed porch. 2/2 double- hung sash in end bays of 2nd story, with a central door covered flush with synthetic siding, drip mold intact. South elevation with original 2 story semi-hexagonal bay, 1/1 windows, hood molds on 1st story removed, but ghost remains. 2dn story bay’s windows with segmentally arched hood molds. Single 2/2 windows to rear of bay. 1.5 story historic rear wing with same roof form. Side entrance with historic flat hood and exceptional large scale incised brackets. Rear wing recessed slightly on north. Vinyl siding partially off or under application? Gambrel roof low 1 story connector wing added to attach historic rear wing to modern gable front garage’s south bay, with north bay left accessible, single overhead door. North elevation of main house blind front. Single double-hung sash on rear of 1st; two 2/2 on 2nd story, off-set (1 is lower than the other.) Subsidiary Building(s)/Site Wide open lot to north; connection, if any, to this lot unclear. c. 1945 hip roof double car garage with asbestos shingle siding, 2 overhead doors, at rear of adjacent lot, assumed to belong to this house. In SW lot corner is a c. 1880 steeply- pitched pyramidal hip roof (cement asbestos shingle) playhouse with clapboard (narrow) walls with corner boards and cornice, Italianate 4-panel door with upper round arched panels, pediment/gable wall dormer above door, and door framed with square sash, all framed with plain surrounds and drip molds - unmatched in the Village. 15024 S. DesPlaines St. 706 N. 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