M.Z. Button House — 501 West Marion Street

The M.Z. Button house is a 2½-story, wood clapboard, Queen Anne/Colonial Revival style structure built circa 1910 on a Joliet limestone foundation. The house has a 1-story, open, wrap front porch with a pedimented entry on the southeast corner. The porch is supported on single, turned columns ornamented with spandrel ladderwork just below the eave. A Palladian attic window decorates the south-facing gable. The structure is a Local Landmark.