Wee Haven

	Wee Haven
	U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Location	1509 W. Park Ave., Champaign, Illinois
Coordinates	40°7′2″N 88°16′17″W / 40.11722°N 88.27139°W
Built	1925
Architect	Charles Saxby Elwood
Architectural style	Prairie School
NRHP reference No.	11000906
Added to NRHP	December 15, 2011

Wee Haven is a historic house located at 1509 West Park Avenue in Champaign, Illinois. The Prairie School house was built in 1925; its design came from a plan which architect Charles Saxby Elwood had published in Fruit, Garden and Home magazine the previous year. As is typical in Prairie School designs, the house has a heavy emphasis on horizontality, as can be seen in its low massing, flat roof with wide eaves, and casement windows with art glass. The house's various ornaments, which include tile prairie flowers, a wooden apron and string course, and fascia along the eaves, also add to its horizontal focus. The house's fireplace, its most distinctive Prairie School interior feature, has a tile hearth with a brick surround and two more decorative tile flowers.^[2]

The house was added to the National Register of Historic Places on December 15, 2011.^[1]

References

^ ^a ^b "Weekly List of Actions Taken on Properties: 12/12/11 Through 12/16/11". National Park Service. December 23, 2011. Retrieved July 18, 2015.
^ Kummer, Karen Lang (June 2011). "National Register of Historic Places Registration Form: Wee Haven" (PDF). Illinois Historic Preservation Agency. Retrieved July 19, 2015.^{[dead link‍]}

[NPS-1] "Weekly List of Actions Taken on Properties: 12/12/11 Through 12/16/11". National Park Service. December 23, 2011. Retrieved July 18, 2015.

[2] Kummer, Karen Lang (June 2011). "National Register of Historic Places Registration Form: Wee Haven" (PDF). Illinois Historic Preservation Agency. Retrieved July 19, 2015.^{[dead link‍]}

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