National Register of Historic Places

Greenwood Cottage

Princeton, Bureau County, Illinois
Listed
May 8, 1983
Type
Building
Period
Industrial
Ref No.
83000301

About this property

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.

Location

543 E. Peru St.
Princeton, Bureau County, Illinois
41.36280, -89.45334

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When was Greenwood Cottage listed on the National Register?

Greenwood Cottage was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on May 8, 1983.

What type of historic resource is Greenwood Cottage?

Greenwood Cottage is classified as a building in the National Register of Historic Places.

What is the period of significance for Greenwood Cottage?

The period of significance for Greenwood Cottage is recorded as the industrial era.

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