916 N. State St.

916 N. State St.

"James and Elizabeth Ater Vent House, 1906

Colonial Revival


This home was built in 1906 for James T. Vent and his wife Elizabeth.  Vent was originally from Ohio and was a farmer in Piatt County.  A recent owner was Donn Piatt, a great, great grandson of James Piatt, one of the City's founders.  This house features the Colonial Revival style; rectangular shape, two and a half story, with replacement siding and paneled pilasters, and truncated hip roof.  This cubic form is often found in Illinois.  The porch features columns that are a combination of Tuscan and fluted Doric, a plain wood balustrade, and frieze with dentils.  The second story above the porch has wide windows flanking a center square oriel with a beveled glass transom and a balsutrade inset into the porch roof.  The main house roof projects over the oriel and has a full entreblature with dentils and overhanging boxed eaves.  A gable roof dormer, whose Palladian style window breaks the dormers pediment, is set above the oriel and has a similar balustrade in front of its window.  A wide window grouping on the south elevation is set under a beveled glass segmental arched transom.
The one and a half story carriage barn outbuilding (c. 1906) has a gable roof an replacement siding.

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