The John Robertson Jr. House is a historic house at 145 W. Main Street in Barrington,

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. The house was built in 1898 for John Robertson Jr., a local banker and a member of Barrington's village board. Carpenter Fred Lines built the house, which has an

American Foursquare The American Foursquare or American Four Square is an American house style popular from the mid-1890s to the late 1930s. A reaction to the ornate and mass-produced elements of the Victorian architecture, Victorian and other Revival styles popul ...

plan with Neoclassical details. The -story house has a roughly rectangular layout with a service addition, front and side porches, and a

dormer A dormer is a roofed structure, often containing a window, that projects vertically beyond the plane of a pitched roof. A dormer window (also called ''dormer'') is a form of roof window. Dormers are commonly used to increase the usable space ...

projecting from the front of its

hip roof A hip roof, hip-roof or hipped roof, is a type of roof where all sides slope downwards to the walls, usually with a fairly gentle slope (although a tented roof by definition is a hipped roof with steeply pitched slopes rising to a peak). Thus, ...

, a typical Foursquare layout. Its Neoclassical elements include

Corinthian columns The Corinthian order (Greek: Κορινθιακός ρυθμός, Latin: ''Ordo Corinthius'') is the last developed of the three principal classical orders of Ancient Greek architecture and Roman architecture. The other two are the Doric order w ...

supporting the porches, swags and garlands adorning several windows, and multiple

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s. The house was added to the

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on December 22, 2014.

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Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Cook County, Illinois American Foursquare architecture in Illinois Neoclassical architecture in Illinois Houses completed in 1898 Barrington, Illinois {{CookCountyIL-NRHP-stub