Situated on a 38’x 150’ wide lot at the corner of Dearborn Street and Delaware Place, the John Howland Thompson House is a handsome Romanesque Revival mansion designed in 1888 by the highly respected architectural firm of Cobb & Frost which also designed the Newberry Library. This stately home stands three stories with full basement, is built of rough-faced square blocks of stone and has a unique tower, steeply pitched gable roofs and bands of simple, intertwining ornament. The adjacent coach house is faced in the same style as the house. Both the Dearborn Street and Delaware Place elevations of the home are landmarked. The home is approximately 10,200 square feet in size.