Shiloh House is a historic house at 1300 Shiloh Boulevard in

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John Alexander Dowie John Alexander Dowie (25 May 18479 March 1907) was a Scottish-Australian minister known as an evangelist and faith healer. He began his career as a conventional minister in South Australia. After becoming an evangelist and faith healer, he ...

, the founder of Zion, built the house in 1902–03; he lived there until his death in 1907. Architect Paul Burkhardt of

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, who worked on many of Zion's early buildings, designed the home. Burkhardt's design incorporated the Queen Anne and

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styles. After Dowie's death, the house passed through several owners, including the Great Lakes Bible Institute; the school used the house for twelve years before moving to

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in 1945. The Zion Historical Society bought the house and renovated it for a new headquarters in 1967. The house was added to the

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on May 12, 1977.

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National Register of Historic Places in Lake County, Illinois Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Illinois Queen Anne architecture in Illinois Swiss chalet architecture Houses completed in 1903 {{LakeCountyIL-NRHP-stub