Matthew T. Scott House
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| Matthew T. Scott House | |
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| U.S. National Register of Historic Places | |
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| Location: | Chenoa, McLean County, Illinois, USA |
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| Built/Founded: | 1855- 1st part, 1863 2nd part |
| Added to NRHP: | February 10, 1983[1] |
| Governing body: | Matthew T. Scott House Foundation |
The Matthew T. Scott House is a historical house in which the founder of Chenoa, Matthew T. Scott lived. The House was built in two parts, The first part of the House was built in 1855 in a form known informally as a Kentucky Cat Slide. This part is the caretakers living quarters. The second part of the house, the front section, was built in 1863 in the form known as Georgian. The house features 3 period rooms, a DAR room, and a Chenoa room.
The house was later bought and restored by Mrs. Elizabeth Stevenson Ives, a great niece of Mather T. Scott. The Houee has been listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places since February 10, 1983. The house can be found along 1st Avenue in the McLean County, Illinois city of Chenoa.
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- ^ NRIS Database, National Register of Historic Places, retrieved Jan. 2007.
Mrs. Matthew T. Scott was Julia Green, she survived her husband and became not only a great landowner, but a founder and later President of the DAR. her sister, Letitia Green, married Adlai Stevenson in this house in 1866. Mr. Stevenson was a circuit lawyer then residing in Metamora who subsequently became a congressman, and served as Postmaster General in the first Cleveland termn and Vice President in the second term from 1893-1897.
Matthew Scott came to Chenoa to buy land for investors from Kentucky and eventually owned some 60 sq. miles of farmland.
Matthew not Mather
