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Historic house in Illinois, United States United States historic place


Greenwood Cottage
U.S. National Register of Historic Places


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Location	543 E. Peru St., Princeton, Illinois
Coordinates	41°22′20″N 89°27′22″W / 41.37222°N 89.45611°W / 41.37222; -89.45611
Area	0.1 acres (0.040 ha)
Built	1852 (1852)
Architect	Martin, Abel
Architectural style	Gothic Revival
NRHP reference No.	83000301
Added to NRHP	May 9, 1983

Greenwood Cottage is a historic house located at 543 East Peru Street in Princeton, Illinois. The house was built in 1852 for Princeton lawyer Joseph Innskeep Taylor. Architect Abel Martin built the Gothic Revival home to the specifications of a design in Andrew Jackson Downing's Architecture of Country Houses. The clapboard house features a front porch with gingerbread bargeboard, a balustrade along the porch roof, and lancet windows on the second floor. Taylor planned the house's landscape, which features both native and exotic trees arranged in a natural setting. The grounds of the house also include an English garden with a Gothic arched entrance.

Among the holdings are portraits of Taylor and his wife Sarah, painted by Junius Sloan in the 1850s.

The house was added to the National Register of Historic Places on May 9, 1983.

References

^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
Schimmer, James R. (January 19, 1983). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory - Nomination Form: Greenwood Cottage" (PDF). Illinois Historic Preservation Agency. Archived from the original (PDF) on August 5, 2016. Retrieved June 11, 2016.
Brauer, Richard H. W. "In Quest of Beauty: Junius R. Sloan 1827-1900," CRSA Froum, Summer 2008, no. 22, p. 10.

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