List of National Historic Landmarks in Illinois
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CHICAGO NHLS:
Robert Abbott House
Adler Planetarium
Auditorium Building
Carson, Pirie, Scott Building
James Charnley House
Chicago Board of Trade Building
Columbus Park
Arthur Compton House
Oscar De Priest House
Du Sable Homesite
John J. Glessner House
Haymarket Martyrs' Monument
Isidore Heller House
Hull House
Kennicott Grove
Leiter II Building
Frank Lillie House
Lincoln Park Lily Pool
Marquette Building
Marshall Field Company Store
Robert Millikan House
Montgomery Ward Complex
Old Stone Gate
Orchestra Hall
Robert Abbott House
Adler Planetarium
Auditorium Building
Carson, Pirie, Scott Building
James Charnley House
Chicago Board of Trade Building
Columbus Park
Arthur Compton House
Oscar De Priest House
Du Sable Homesite
John J. Glessner House
Haymarket Martyrs' Monument
Isidore Heller House
Hull House
Kennicott Grove
Leiter II Building
Frank Lillie House
Lincoln Park Lily Pool
Marquette Building
Marshall Field Company Store
Robert Millikan House
Montgomery Ward Complex
Old Stone Gate
Orchestra Hall
CHICAGO CONT:
Pullman Historic District
Reliance Building
Frederick Robie House
Rookery Building
Room 405 G. H Jones Lab
Sears & Roebuck Complex
Shedd Aquarium
First Self-Sustaining Nuclear Site
South Dearborn Printing House Row
S. R. Crown Hall
Lorado Taft Midway Studios
Unterseeboot 505
Ida B. Wells-Barnett House
James Charnley House
Daniel Hale Williams House
Second Presbyterian Church
Pullman Historic District
Reliance Building
Frederick Robie House
Rookery Building
Room 405 G. H Jones Lab
Sears & Roebuck Complex
Shedd Aquarium
First Self-Sustaining Nuclear Site
South Dearborn Printing House Row
S. R. Crown Hall
Lorado Taft Midway Studios
Unterseeboot 505
Ida B. Wells-Barnett House
James Charnley House
Daniel Hale Williams House
Second Presbyterian Church
There are 86 National Historic Landmarks in Illinois, including Eads Bridge, which spans into Missouri and which the National Park Service credits to Missouri's National Historic Landmark list. Also included are two sites that were once National Historic Landmarks before having their designations removed. All National Historic Landmarks are listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
Contents
Current NHLs in Illinois
The following is a complete list of Illinois' National Historic Landmarks. They are listed here under their National Historic Landmark program names.
[1] | Landmark name | Image | Date designated[2] | Location | County | Description |
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1 | Robert S. Abbott House |
(#76000686) |
Chicago Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. |
Cook | A home of Robert S. Abbott, founder of the Chicago Defender newspaper. | |
2 | Adler Planetarium |
(#87000819) |
Chicago Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. |
Cook | First and oldest planetarium in the western hemisphere. | |
3 | Auditorium Building |
(#70000230) |
Chicago Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. |
Cook | Building designed by Dankmar Adler and Louis Sullivan. | |
4 | Bishop Hill Colony |
(#70000244) |
Bishop Hill Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. |
Henry | Historic district of Swedish dissident commune founded in 1846. | |
5 | Cahokia Mounds |
(#66000899) |
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Madison and St. Clair | Largest archaeological site related to Mississippian culture, and largest pre-Columbian earthworks in North America north of Mexico. Also a UNESCO World Heritage Site | |
6 | Carson, Pirie, Scott, and Company Store |
(#70000231) |
Chicago Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. |
Cook | Architect Louis Sullivan-designed building. | |
7 | James Charnley House |
(#70000232) |
Chicago Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. |
Cook | Louis Sullivan AND Frank Lloyd Wright got in on this one's design. | |
8 | Chicago Board of Trade Building |
(#78003181) |
Chicago Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. |
Cook | Skyscraper designed by Holabird & Root, housed the world's largest trading floor when built in 1930. | |
9 | Church of the Holy Family |
(#70000851) |
Cahokia Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. |
St. Clair | A church dating from 1799. | |
10 | Columbus Park |
|
(#91000567) |
Chicago Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. |
Cook | Magnum Opus of landscape architect Jens Jensen. |
11 | Arthur H. Compton House |
(#76000687) |
Chicago Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. |
Cook | Home of Nobel Prize–winning physicist who proved light has both wave and particle aspects, the Compton Effect. | |
12 | Avery Coonley House |
|
(#70000243) |
Riverside Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. |
Cook | Frank Lloyd Wright-designed home, in Riverside Historic District |
13 | Crow Island School |
(#89001730) |
Winnetka Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. |
Cook | An elementary school designed by Perkins + Will and Eliel & Eero Saarinen. Model for the now-widespread Winnetka Plan school design. | |
14 | Susan Lawrence Dana House |
(#74000774) |
Springfield Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. |
Sangamon | A Frank Lloyd Wright-designed house. | |
15 | David Davis House |
(#72001479) |
Bloomington Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. |
McLean | Home of Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States and Abraham Lincoln campaign manager David Davis. | |
16 | Charles G. Dawes House |
(#76000706) |
Evanston Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. |
Cook | Home of Charles Gates Dawes, Nobel Peace Prize recipient and Vice President to Calvin Coolidge. | |
17 | John Deere Home and Shop |
(#66000327) |
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Ogle | Site of the invention of the first steel plow by John Deere. | |
18 | Oscar Stanton DePriest House |
(#75000646) |
Chicago Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. |
Cook | Home of the first post-Reconstruction African-American US congressman. | |
19 | Jean Baptiste Point Du Sable Homesite |
(#76000690) |
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Cook | Home of a Chicago's first settler, an African-American. | |
20 | Eads Bridge |
(#66000946) |
East St. Louis Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. |
St. Clair | A combined road and railway bridge which was, when completed in 1874, the longest arch bridge in the world. Extends into St. Louis, Missouri. | |
21 | Farm Creek Section |
(#91002039) |
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Tazewell | Site of exposed geological strata. | |
22 | Farnsworth House |
(#04000867) |
Plano Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. |
Kendall | A one-room home designed by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe. | |
23 | John Farson House |
(#72000454) |
Oak Park Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. |
Cook | The most famous work of George Washington Maher. | |
24 | Fort De Chartres |
(#66000329) |
Prairie du Rocher Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. |
Randolph | French fort built in 1720. Its powder magazine is believed to be oldest standing building in Illinois. | |
25 | Fort Sheridan Historic District |
(#80001379) |
Fort Sheridan Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. |
Lake | An area originally established as a United States Army Post. The campus was designed by Holabird & Roche. | |
25.5 | Henry Gerber House |
(#15000584) |
Chicago Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. |
Cook | Gerber established the Society for Human Rights, the first American gay rights organization, here in the 1920s. | |
26 | John J. Glessner House |
(#70000233) |
Chicago Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. |
Cook | A 19th century house designed by Henry Hobson Richardson. | |
27 | Ulysses S. Grant Home |
(#66000322) |
Galena Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. |
Jo Daviess | A house given to General of the Army Ulysses S. Grant following the Civil War. Grant was elected President of the United States while residing here. | |
28 | Grosse Point Lighthouse |
(#76000707) |
Evanston Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. |
Cook | A lighthouse on the shores of Lake Michigan, built in 1873 the wake of several shipping disasters. | |
29 | Haymarket Martyrs' Monument |
(#97000343) |
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Cook | A monument in Waldheim Cemetery commemorating the Haymarket Riot. | |
30 | Hegeler-Carus Mansion |
(#95000989) |
LaSalle Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. |
La Salle | Designed by Chicago architect William W. Boyington for Edward C. Hegeler, a partner in a nearby zinc company. It was later the home of his son-in-law, publisher and philosopher Paul Carus. | |
31 | Isidore H. Heller House |
(#72000450) |
Chicago Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. |
Cook | A Frank Lloyd Wright-designed house. | |
32 | Arthur Heurtley House |
(#00000258) |
Oak Park Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. |
Cook | Frank Lloyd Wright-designed house. | |
33 | Hull House |
(#66000315) |
Chicago Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. |
Cook | One of the first settlement houses in the U.S., founded by Jane Addams. | |
34 | Illinois and Michigan Canal Locks And Towpath |
(#66000332) |
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Will | A canal that helped establish transportation from the Great Lakes to the Mississippi River and the Gulf of Mexico. It established Chicago as a major center of commerce. | |
35 | Nicholas Jarrot Mansion |
(#74002197) |
Cahokia Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. |
St. Clair | A mansion built in 1799 for a fur trader. | |
36 | Kennicott Grove |
(#73000698) |
Glenview Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. |
Cook | The home of Robert Kennicott, an American naturalist. | |
37 | Kincaid Site |
(#66000326) |
Brookport Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. |
Massac and Pope | Archaeological site. | |
38 | Leiter II Building |
|
(#76000695) |
Chicago Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. |
Cook | Longtime flagship store of Sears, Roebuck & Co., designed by William Le Baron Jenney. |
39 | Frank R. Lillie House |
(#76000696) |
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Cook | Former home of embryologist Frank Rattray Lillie. | |
40 | Abraham Lincoln Home |
(#71000076) |
Springfield Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. |
Sangamon | The only house ever owned by America's 16th president. | |
41 | Lincoln Park Lily Pool |
(#06000235) |
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Cook | An example of Prairie School landscape architecture designed by Alfred Caldwell. | |
42 | Lincoln Tomb |
|
(#66000330) |
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Sangamon | The tomb of America's 16th president, Abraham Lincoln. |
43 | Vachel Lindsay House |
(#71000297) |
Springfield Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. |
Sangamon | Home of poet Vachel Lindsay. | |
44 | Owen Lovejoy House |
(#73000690) |
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Bureau | Home of prominent abolitionist Owen Lovejoy. | |
45 | Marquette Building |
(#73000697) |
Chicago Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. |
Cook | Skyscraper designed by Holabird & Roche. | |
46 | Marshall Field Company Store |
(#78001123) |
Chicago Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. |
Cook | Designed by Daniel Burnham, it was the longtime flagship store of Marshall Field's. | |
47 | Mazon Creek Fossil Beds |
(#97001272) |
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Grundy | Lagerstätte of fossils, best known as one of the only sites where Tully Monsters were found. | |
48 | Pierre Menard House |
(#70000245) |
Ellis Grove Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. |
Randolph | House of fur trader Pierre Menard, the first lieutenant governor of Illinois. | |
49 | Robert A. Millikan House |
(#76000699) |
Chicago Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. |
Cook | Home of Robert A. Millikan, a Nobel Prize-winning physicist. | |
50 | Modoc Rock Shelter |
(#66000328) |
Modoc Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. |
Randolph | An archaeological site, a rock overhang used as shelter during the Archaic period in North America. | |
51 | Montgomery Ward Company Complex |
(#78001125) |
Chicago Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. |
Cook | The former warehouse and offices of the national headquarters of one of the nation's first mail order companies, Montgomery Ward. | |
52 | Morrow Plots, University of Illinois |
(#68000024) |
Urbana Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. |
Champaign | An experimental corn field. | |
53 | Nauvoo Historic District |
(#66000321) |
Nauvoo Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. |
Hancock | A historic district based around a 19th-century Mormon settlement; beginning of the Mormon Trail. | |
54 | New Philadelphia Townsite |
(#05000869) |
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Pike | Site of first U.S. settlement founded by an African-American. | |
55 | Old Kaskaskia Village |
(#66000324) |
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La Salle | The best-documented Native American village in the Illinois River Valley. | |
56 | Old Main, Knox College |
(#66000323) |
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Knox | Best-preserved site of one of the Lincoln-Douglas debates. | |
57 | Old State Capitol (Illinois) |
(#66000331) |
Springfield Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. |
Sangamon | The fifth capitol building of Illinois. Site of Lincoln's House Divided Speech. | |
58 | Old Stone Gate, Chicago Union Stockyards |
(#72000451) |
Chicago Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. |
Cook | Entrance to the famous Union Stock Yards, designed by John Wellboorn Root. | |
59 | Orchestra Hall |
(#78001127) |
Chicago Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. |
Cook | A symphony hall designed by Daniel Burnham. | |
60 | Principia College Historic District |
(#93001605) |
Elsah Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. |
Jersey | One of the last major works by Bernard Maybeck. | |
61 | Pullman Historic District |
(#69000054) |
Chicago Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. |
Cook | Another historic district of the Pullman Company, including the Hotel Florence. | |
62 | Reliance Building |
(#70000237) |
Chicago Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. |
Cook | A building designed by Burnham & Root. | |
63 | Riverside Historic District |
(#69000055) |
Riverside Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. |
Cook | Planned community designed by Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux. | |
64 | Frederick C. Robie House |
(#66000316) |
Chicago Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. |
Cook | A Prairie style home designed by Frank Lloyd Wright in 1908. | |
65 | Rock Island Arsenal |
(#69000057) |
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Rock Island | An arsenal and site of a large Union prison camp. | |
66 | Rookery Building |
(#70000238) |
Chicago Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. |
Cook | An office building designed by Daniel Burnham and John Wellborn Root. | |
67 | Room 405, George Herbert Jones Laboratory |
|
(#67000005) |
Chicago Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. |
Cook | The laboratory that first isolated plutonium and determined its atomic mass. |
68 | Sears, Roebuck and Company |
(#78001129) |
Chicago Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. |
Cook | The headquarters of Sears, Roebuck and Company for almost seven decades. | |
69 | Second Presbyterian Church |
(#74000754) |
Chicago Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. |
Cook | This church is a masterpiece of the Arts and Crafts movement with an interior by Howard Van Doren Shaw. | |
70 | Shedd Aquarium |
(#87000820) |
Chicago Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. |
Cook | Formerly the largest indoor aquarium in the world. | |
71 | Site of the First Self-Sustaining Nuclear Reaction |
|
(#66000314) |
Chicago Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. |
Cook | Site of the First Self-Sustaining Nuclear Reaction. |
72 | South Dearborn Street-Printing House Row North Historic Districtt |
|
(#76000705) |
Chicago Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. |
Cook | A historic district reflecting Chicago's legacy as a major printing center. |
73 | S.R. Crown Hall |
(#01001049) |
Chicago Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. |
Cook | Ludwig Mies van der Rohe-designed architecture school building at Illinois Institute of Technology | |
74 | Starved Rock |
(#66000325) |
Ottawa Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. |
La Salle | A Sandstone butte overlooking the Illinois River, purportedly the site of a massacre of the Illinois Confederation. | |
75 | Adlai E. Stevenson II Farm |
(#03000918) |
Mettawa Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. |
Lake | Home of several-time candidate for United States President Adlai E. Stevenson II. | |
76 | Lorado Taft Midway Studios |
(#66000317) |
Chicago Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. |
Cook | Studios of sculptor Lorado Taft, designed by Pond & Pond. | |
77 | F.F. Tomek House |
(#99000632) |
Riverside Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. |
Cook | A Frank Lloyd Wright house in the Riverside Historic District | |
78 | Lyman Trumbull House |
(#75000667) |
Alton Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. |
Madison | House of US Senator Lyman Trumbull. He co-authored the Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution. | |
79 | U-505 (German Submarine) |
(#89001231) |
Chicago Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. |
Cook | German U-Boat at Museum of Science and Industry, Chicago | |
80 | Unity Temple |
(#70000240) |
Oak Park Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. |
Cook | A temple designed by Frank Lloyd Wright. | |
81 | University Of Illinois Observatory |
(#86003155) |
Urbana Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. |
Champaign | An observatory. | |
82 | The Wayside |
(#66000320) |
Winnetka Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. |
Cook | Home of Henry Demarest Lloyd. | |
83 | Ida B. Wells-Barnett House |
(#74000757) |
Chicago Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. |
Cook | Former home of civil rights advocate Ida B. Wells. | |
84 | Frances Willard House |
(#66000318) |
Evanston Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. |
Cook | Former home of temperance reformer Frances Willard, and longtime headquarters of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union. | |
85 | Daniel Hale Williams House |
(#75000655) |
Chicago Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. |
Cook | The former home of Dr. Daniel Hale Williams, one of the first major African American surgeons. | |
86 | Frank Lloyd Wright Home And Studio |
(#72000456) |
Oak Park Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. |
Cook | Former home and studio of Frank Lloyd Wright. |
Former NHLs in Illinois
Landmark name | Image | Date designated | Date withdrawn | Locality | County | Comment | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Soldier Field (Grant Park Stadium) | February 2, 1987 | February 17, 2006 | Chicago | Cook | Was declared an NHL on February 27, 1987. The designation was withdrawn on February 17, 2006. | |
2 | PRESIDENT (Steamboat) | SS President | December 20, 1989 | July 13, 2011 | St. Elmo (formerly) | Fayette (formerly) | A steamboat, out of service, broken down into pieces, and for sale. |
See also
- National Register of Historic Places listings in Illinois
- List of National Historic Landmarks by state
References
- ↑ Numbers represent an ordering by significant words. Various colorings, defined here, differentiate National Historic Landmarks and historic districts from other NRHP buildings, structures, sites or objects.
- ↑ The eight-digit number below each date is the number assigned to each location in the National Register Information System database, which can be viewed by clicking the number.
External links
- Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. Note this lists 85 current NHLs as well as 1 withdrawn NHL, and hence the overall count of 84 is due to crediting one (Eads Bridge) to Missouri.
- National Historic Landmarks Program, at National Park Service