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Clarkson W. Freeman House

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Area
  
less than one acre

NRHP Reference #
  
80001411

Architectural style
  
Italianate architecture

Built
  
1878 (1878)

Opened
  
1878

Added to NRHP
  
29 September 1980

Clarkson W. Freeman House

Location
  
704 W. Monroe St., Springfield, Illinois

Similar
  
Wyndham Springfield City Centre, Executive Mansion, Illinois State Capitol, Lincoln‑Herndon Law Offices State Hist, Oak Ridge Cemetery

The Clarkson W. Freeman House is a historic house located at 704 West Monroe Street in Springfield, Illinois. The house was built in 1878 for farmer and businessman Clarkson W. Freeman. The two-story house has an Italianate design with an "L"-shaped plan, an asymmetrical front porch, a bay window and bracketed cornice on the east side, and long, narrow windows with decorative heads. Ornate Carpenter Gothic trim decorates the top of the porch and gables, including the false gable above the porch; no other house in Springfield has trim with the same level of detail.

The house was added to the National Register of Historic Places on September 29, 1980.

References

Clarkson W. Freeman House Wikipedia