Original Owner:	Simpson Dunlop
Address:	417 N. Kenilworth
Architect:	E. E. Roberts
Year Built:	1897
	Built just a few years after Roberts opened his Oak Park practice in 1893, this home and the home next door for Simpson's brother Joseph were Roberts first commissions for very large houses.  In these homes we see Roberts beginning to move away from the traditional Queen Anne design: the houses have much cleaner lines, with sharper vertical and horizontal detailing than the more traditional Queen Anne homes of Patton and Fisher further down the block, built just 6 or 8 years previously.  The massing is much simpler, there are fewer projecting bays and gables than in the Patton and Fisher homes; details and massing are much simplified. Simpson Dunlop was a partner with his brother of the Dunlop Bros. bank; unfortunately Simpson Dunlop did not survive to enjoy his new home very long.  He died of typhoid fever in 1899, in his early 40s.