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This is a list of the 62 National Register of Historic Places listings in Evanston, Illinois. Current listings. 1] Name on the Register [2] Image Date listed [3]
The Evanston History Center (EHC), formerly the Evanston Historical Society, maintains its headquarters at the Charles Gates Dawes House. The house is open to the public by docent-led tours, featuring a walk through the library, dining room, kitchen, and great hall which are decorated with period furnishings and artwork once belonging to the ...
Evanston Township was a civil township in Cook County, ... Kelley, Michael I., Winter in Ridgeville, 1850-51, Evanston Historical Society Newsletter (Jan.-Feb. 1981)
This is a list of the 137 National Register of Historic Places listings in Cook County, Illinois outside Chicago and Evanston.Separate lists are provided for the 62 listed properties and historic districts in Evanston and the more than 350 listed properties and districts in in Chicago.
Lord's father, Harvey B. Hurd, was the first president of the Evanston village board of trustees, and founder and first president of the Evanston Historical Society. [1] He hired Myron Hunt to develop his properties. Lord instead engaged Dwight Perkins and George W. Maher and opened Elinor Place.
Evanston [a] is a city in Cook County, Illinois, United States, situated on the North Shore along Lake Michigan. A suburb of Chicago, Evanston is 12 miles (19 km) north of Downtown Chicago, bordered by Chicago to the south, Skokie to the west, Wilmette to the north, and Lake Michigan to the east. Evanston had a population of 78,110 as of 2020. [6]
The district encompasses a section of southeast Evanston that was developed in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. As Chicago expanded in the late nineteenth century, its residential development surged past its northern border and into Evanston, causing the suburb to grow considerably. Early laws, including the first municipal ...
The historic Grosse Point Light is located in Evanston, Illinois. Following several shipping disasters near Evanston, residents successfully lobbied the federal government for a lighthouse. Construction was completed in 1873. The lighthouse was added to the National Register of Historic Places on September 8, 1976. [12]