Von KleinSmid Mansion

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Von KleinSmid Mansion
(U.S. National Register of Historic Places)
Location: Sandwich, Illinois, DeKalb County, Illinois, USA
Coordinates: 41°38′49″N, 88°37′13″W
Built/Founded: 1878
Added to NRHP: May 9, 1985[1]
Reference #: 85000979
Governing body: Private Ownership

The von KleinSmid Mansion was built for the von KleinSmid family of the DeKalb County city of Sandwich, Illinois in the mid-nineteenth century. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1985. The building is located on Sandwich's West Center Street, and is under private ownership. [2]

It was the childhood home of Rufus B. von KleinSmid, former President and Chancellor of the University of Southern California [3]

[edit] Notes

  1. ^ NRIS Database, National Register of Historic Places, retrieved Oct. 2006.
  2. ^ http://www.nationalregisterofhistoricplaces.com/IL/De+Kalb/state.html.
  3. ^ http://cwis.usc.edu/about/history/vonkleinsmid_era.html.