William S. Warfield House | |
Location: | 1624 Maine St., Quincy, Illinois |
Coordinates: | 39.9314°N -91.3897°W |
Architect: | Silsbee, Joseph Lyman |
Architecture: | Queen Anne, Richardsonian Romanesque |
Added: | March 21, 1979 |
Area: | less than one acre |
Refnum: | 79000814 |
The William S. Warfield House is a historic house located at 1624 Maine Street in Quincy, Illinois. The house was built in 1886 for William S. Warfield, who founded the Warfield Grocery Co.; Warfield was one of many prominent Quincy residents to build a large house on Maine Street. Architect Joseph Lyman Silsbee designed the house in a blend of the Richardsonian Romanesque and Queen Anne styles; his design popularized Romanesque architecture, and the blend with Queen Anne in particular, in Quincy. The house features a stone exterior with terra cotta decorations, a massive plan, and a large western porch as well as several smaller porches throughout.[1]
The house was added to the National Register of Historic Places on March 21, 1979.