Von KleinSmid Mansion
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| Von KleinSmid Mansion | |
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| U.S. National Register of Historic Places | |
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| Location: | Sandwich, Illinois, DeKalb County, Illinois, USA |
| Coordinates: | Coordinates: |
| Built/Founded: | 1878 |
| Added to NRHP: | May 9, 1985[1] |
| NRHP 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
- ^ NRIS Database, National Register of Historic Places, retrieved Oct. 2006.
- ^ National Register of Historical Places
- ^ http://cwis.usc.edu/about/history/vonkleinsmid_era.html.
