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George E. Purple House

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Area
  
less than one acre

NRHP Reference #
  
05000845

Architectural style
  
Renaissance architecture

Built
  
1928 (1928)

Opened
  
1928

Added to NRHP
  
12 August 2005

George E. Purple House

Location
  
338 Sunset Ave., LaGrange, Illinois

The George E. Purple House is a historic home located at 338 Sunset Ave. in LaGrange, Illinois, United States. The Italian Renaissance Revival style house was designed by William G. Carnegie and built in 1928. The house includes several characteristic features of Italian Renaissance Revival architecture, including a green tile hipped roof, large first-floor windows, overhanging eaves, decorative brackets, and extensive decorations; these decorations include bas-relief urns above the first floor windows and brick quoins on the corners. George E. Purple, founder of the Flexible Steel Lacing Company, commissioned the house; while Purple died in 1930, his family inhabited the house until 1944.

The house was added to the National Register of Historic Places on August 12, 2005.

References

George E. Purple House Wikipedia


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