Marine Chapter House

Marine Chapter House
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
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Location	Silver St., Marine, Illinois
Coordinates	38°46′47″N 89°46′33″W / 38.77972°N 89.77583°W / 38.77972; -89.77583
Area	1.1 acres (0.45 ha)
Built	1909
Architect	Helfensteller, Hirsch and Watson
Architectural style	Prairie School
MPS	American Woman's League Chapter Houses TR
NRHP reference No.	80001397[1]
Added to NRHP	November 28, 1980

The Marine Chapter House is a historic building located on Silver Street in Marine, Illinois. The building was constructed between 1909 and 1910 as a meetinghouse for Marine's chapter of the American Woman's League. The American Woman's League was a political and social organization founded by magazine publisher Edward Gardner Lewis in 1908. The organization was created to promote feminist causes, particularly the women's suffrage movement; Lewis also intended for the organization to promote and sell his women's magazines. Lewis commissioned the St. Louis architectural firm of Helfensteller, Hirsch & Watson to design five classes of buildings which the League would use as meetinghouses. The Marine Chapter House is an example of a Class I building, which was designed for clubs with 30 to 60 members. The building was designed in the Prairie School style and cost $1,200. After the club disbanded, the building was converted to a library.^[2]

The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places on November 28, 1980.^[1] It is one of nine American Woman's League chapter houses on the National Register in Illinois.