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Joseph Ross House

Rochester, Illinois, listed on the NRHP in Illinois

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 6, 2026
Entity authorityQ20710898 ↗
Source-derived summary

The Joseph Ross House is a historic house located at 5200 Passfield Road in Rochester, Illinois. Joseph Ross built the two-story Italianate house in 1868. The brick house has an L-shaped plan with a low hip roof. Two porches run along the house, one at the front entrance and one along the rear ell. A bracketed and dentillated cornice, the house's main decorative feature and a key element of the Italianate style, encircles the roof line. The house is the best-preserved brick Italianate house in the Rochester vicinity.

The house was added to the National Register of Historic Places on March 2, 2006.

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This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Joseph Ross House” as rochester, Illinois, listed on the NRHP in Illinois. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1868, 2006—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Joseph, Ross and House can be independently traced.
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The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as rochester, Illinois, listed on the NRHP in Illinois. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 6, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q20710898. Authority coordinates are 39.726, -89.434. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1868 and 2006.

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This entry incorporates text from “Joseph Ross House” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.