Original Owner:	C. E. Matthews
Address:	432 N. Kenilworth
Architect:	Tallmadge & Watson
Year Built:	1909
	This 1909 home illustrates Tallmadge & Watson's version of Wright's prairie style.  They use Wright's stucco exterior and wood trim, crisp lines, and entranceway decorated with art glass; inside the plan is more traditional, without Wright's flowing spaces.  Tallmadge and Watson also had a kind of architectural trademark which is also illustrated here.  The multi-story piers around the entranceway, meeting at the top in a gable shape is a motif which is found in many of their houses. Charles E. Matthews was one of the founders of Sharpe and Dohme, a drug manufacturing company later known as Merck, Sharp & Dohme and now known simply as Merck.  Mr. Matthews died in 1945 and Mrs. Matthews died in 1954, leaving the property to a niece, Margret Deerlove.  The Matthews lot originally extended north to Chicago Avenue; after Ms. Deerlove sold the house in 1964 the lot was subdivided and the north portion sold.  A small ranch house was later built there. Tallmadge and Watson completed about 70 houses in Oak Park and River Forest.  Vernon Watson resided in a house of his own design at 643 Fair Oaks, about 6 blocks to the east.