Carmi Chapter House

The Carmi Chapter House is a historic building located at 604 W. Main St. in Carmi, Illinois. The building was constructed between 1909 and 1910 as a meetinghouse for Carmi'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 Carmi Chapter House is an example of a Class II building, which was designed for clubs with 60 to 100 members. The building was designed in the Prairie School style and cost $2,500. After the club disbanded, it was converted to a private home.^[2]

Carmi Chapter House
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
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Location	604 W. Main St., Carmi, Illinois
Coordinates	38°5′7″N 88°10′5″W
Area	1.1 acres (0.45 ha)
Architect	Helfensteller, Hirsch and Watson
Architectural style	Prairie School
MPS	American Woman's League Chapter Houses TR
NRHP reference No.	80001416[1]
Added to NRHP	November 28, 1980

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.