Washington C. Wear House

Washington C. Wear House
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
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Location	1 mi. S and 0.4 mi. W of jct. of IL 90 and IL 91, Princeville, Illinois
Coordinates	40°54′55″N89°45′53″W / 40.91528°N 89.76472°W / 40.91528; -89.76472
Area	less than one acre
Built	1870 (1870)
Architectural style	Italianate
NRHP reference No.	93000838 [1]
Added to NRHP	August 19, 1993

The Washington C. Wear House is a historic house located south of Princeville, Peoria County, Illinois. Washington C. Wear, a farmer from Ohio, had the house built in 1870. The house has an Italianate design which a local architectural survey regarded as one of the best examples of the style in rural Peoria County. The two-story projecting front entrance includes a porch with square posts, an arched doorway and paired second-story windows, and a gabled pediment at the top. The house's windows are tall and narrow with bracketed hoods. The hip roof atop the house features wide eaves and paired brackets along the cornice. ^[2]

The house was added to the National Register of Historic Places on August 19, 1993. ^[1]

References

1. "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places . National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
2. Powell, Starla L. (April 15, 1993). "National Register of Historic Places Registration Form: Wear, Washington C., House" (PDF). Retrieved January 2, 2016.^{[ dead link ]}