The Baptist Retirement Home is a historic retirement home at 316 Randolph Street in Maywood, Illinois. The home was built in 1930 for the Baptist Old People's Home organization, which was founded in Maywood in 1906; the large-scale building replaced its original, smaller facilities. At the time, retirement care was shifting from family-centered to institutional practices, and the elderly began to choose retirement home living instead of being forced there by a lack of family or money. When it opened, the facility was racially segregated and only admitted white residents; it also restricted membership to members of the Baptist faith who were over seventy years old. Architect Elmer C. Roberts designed the Tudor Revival building, which features half-timbering on its upper stories, towers enclosing its stairwells, and projecting bays topped by crenellated parapets. Additions were placed on the building in 1955 and 1965 to expand its capacity.[2]
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| Location | 316 Randolph St., Maywood, Illinois |
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| Coordinates | 41°53′04″N 87°50′14″W / 41.88444°N 87.83722°W |
| Built | 1930 |
| Architect | Elmer C. Roberts |
| Architectural style | Tudor Revival |
| NRHP reference No. | 100001765[1] |
| Added to NRHP | October 26, 2017 |
The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places on October 26, 2017.[1]
References edit
- ^ a b "National Register of Historic Places Weekly Lists 2017" (PDF). National Park Service. Retrieved September 26, 2020.
- ^ Ramsey, Emily; Tatum, Raymond Terry (February 27, 2017). "National Register of Historic Places Registration Form: Baptist Retirement Home" (PDF). Illinois Historic Preservation Division. Retrieved September 26, 2020.[dead link]