Nathan C. Ricker House

Historic house in Illinois, United States

United States historic place


Nathan C. Ricker House
U.S. National Register of Historic Places


40°6′39″N 88°12′57″W / 40.11083°N 88.21583°W / 40.11083; -88.21583
Area	less than one acre
Built	1892 (1892)
Architect	Ricker, Nathan C.
Architectural style	Queen Anne
NRHP reference No.	00000682^[1]
Added to NRHP	June 21, 2000

The Nathan C. Ricker House is a historic house located at 612 West Green Street in Urbana, Illinois. Architect Nathan Clifford Ricker designed the house for himself in 1892; he lived there until his death in 1924. Ricker was a professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, and he established the university's architecture program; he also designed several of the school's buildings. His house, a two-story Queen Anne structure, was his only residential design. The house has an asymmetrical plan with a multi-component roof, projecting bays, and a front porch along the entire west side. Wood shingles decorate the house's exterior, and decorative posts, railings, and a frieze adorn the porch.^[2]

The house was added to the National Register of Historic Places on June 21, 2000.^[1]

References

^ ^a ^b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
^ Clapper, Jamie (October 16, 1999). "National Register of Historic Places Registration Form: Ricker, Nathan C., House" (PDF). Illinois Historic Preservation Agency. Archived from the original (PDF) on April 16, 2015. Retrieved April 9, 2015.