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James Charnley House

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Built
  
1892

Designated NHL
  
August 6, 1998

Opened
  
1892

Phone
  
+1 312-573-1365

NRHP Reference #
  
70000232

Designated CL
  
August 20, 1972

Area
  
404.7 m²

Added to NRHP
  
17 April 1970

James Charnley House

Location
  
1365 N. Astor Street, Chicago, Illinois

Address
  
1365 N Astor St, Chicago, IL 60610, USA

Hours
  
Closed now Saturday10AM–1PMSundayClosedMondayClosedTuesdayClosedWednesday12–1PMThursdayClosedFridayClosed

Architects
  
Frank Lloyd Wright, Louis Sullivan

Similar
  
Emil Bach House, Heller House, Roloson Houses, Robie House, Arthur Heurtley House

The James Charnley Residence is located in Chicago's Gold Coast neighborhood, at 1365 North Astor Street. The house is now called the Charnley–Persky House and is operated as a museum and organization headquarters by The Society of Architectural Historians (SAH). An Adler & Sullivan design, the townhouse is the work of Louis Sullivan and a young Frank Lloyd Wright, who was a junior draftsman in Sullivan's office at the time. The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1970.

The house was completed in 1892 for Charnley, a Chicago lumberman who lived in the house with his family for about a decade. The building was later owned by members of the Waller family, who invested in real estate. The house was purchased by the architectural firm of Skidmore, Owings and Merrill in 1986 and subsequently restored. Seymour Persky purchased the house in 1995 and donated it to the SAH who renamed the building to the Charnley–Persky House to honor their benefactor.

The plain brick facade with simple ornamentation was quite different from other houses on the Gold Coast, but the interior is distinguished by rich ornamentation that is typical of Sullivan's work.

References

James Charnley House Wikipedia