List of National Historic Landmarks in Illinois

This complete list of National Historic Landmarks in Illinois lists all objects and sites in the US -amerikanischen State Illinois , which in this state as a National Historic Landmark classified (NHL) and under the supervision of the National Park Service are. These buildings, districts, objects and other sites meet certain criteria with regard to their national importance. This list leads the objects according to the official designations in the National Register of Historic Places .

Distinction to the National Register of Historic Places

All NHLs are automatically placed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP), a list of historic buildings that the National Park Service recognizes as monuments . The main difference between an NHL and a general NRHP record is the statewide significance that NHLs have, while most of the other records are of only local or state interest.

Legend

NHL	National Historic Landmark
NHLD	National Historic Landmark District

Current NHLs in Illinois

	Name of the site	image	year	place	county	description
1	Robert S. Abbott House		1976	Chicago 41 ° 48 ′ 29 "  N , 87 ° 36 ′ 58.1"  W.	Cook County	Home of Robert Sengstacke Abbott , founder of the Chicago Defender newspaper
2	Adler Planetarium		1987	Chicago 41 ° 51 '59.2 "  N , 87 ° 36" 26.7 "  W.	Cook County	First and oldest planetarium in the western hemisphere
3	Auditorium building		1975	Chicago 41 ° 52 ′ 32.7 "  N , 87 ° 37 ′ 27.7"  W.	Cook County	Designed by the architects Dankmar Adler and Louis Sullivan
4th	Bishop Hill Colony		1970	Bishop Hill 41 ° 12 ′ 1.1 ″  N , 90 ° 7 ′ 8 ″  W.	Henry County	Historic district of Swedish immigrants dating back to its founding in 1846
5	Cahokia Mounds		1964	Collinsville 38 ° 39 '14 "  N , 90 ° 3' 52"  W.	St. Clair County	Largest archaeological site of the Mississippi culture
6th	Sullivan Center		1975	Chicago 41 ° 52 ′ 54.8 "  N , 87 ° 37 ′ 40"  W.	Cook County	Building designed by the architect Louis Sullivan and later named after him
7th	James Charnley House		1998	Chicago 41 ° 54'26.2 "  N , 87 ° 37'39.3"  W.	Cook County	Designed jointly by architects Louis Sullivan and Frank Lloyd Wright
8th	Chicago Board of Trade Building		1978	Chicago 41 ° 52 ′ 41.2 "  N , 87 ° 37 ′ 55.7"  W.	Cook County	Skyscraper designed by Holabird & Roche and built in 1930 for the Chicago Board of Trade
9	Church of the Holy Family		1970	Cahokia 38 ° 34 ′ 13.3 "  N , 90 ° 11 ′ 18.4"  W.	St. Clair County	Church built in 1799
10	Columbus Park		2003	Chicago 41 ° 52 ′ 26 "  N , 87 ° 46 ′ 11"  W.	Cook County	Part of the Chicago Park District
11	Arthur Compton House		1976	Chicago 41 ° 47 ′ 32.8 "  N , 87 ° 35 ′ 46.5"  W.	Cook County	Home of Nobel Prize winner Arthur Holly Compton
12	Coonley House		1970	Riverside 41 ° 49 ′ 7.1 "  N , 87 ° 49 ′ 43"  W.	Cook County	Designed by the architect Frank Lloyd Wright
13	Crow Island School		1990	Winnetka 42 ° 6 ′ 4 ″  N , 87 ° 44 ′ 46 ″  W.	Cook County	School building designed by Larry Perkins and Eliel Saarinen
14th	Dana-Thomas House		1976	Springfield 39 ° 47 '38.1 "  N , 89 ° 39' 7.5"  W.	Sangamon County	Building designed by Frank Lloyd Wright
15th	David Davis Mansion		1975	Bloomington 40 ° 28 '53.8 "  N , 88 ° 58' 49.5"  W.	McLean County	Former home of David Davis
16	Charles G. Dawes House		1976	Evanston 42 ° 2  '33.1 " N , 87 ° 40' 23.1"  W.	Cook County	Former home of Charles Gates Dawes , after which the Dawes plan was named
17th	John Deere House and Shop		1964	Grand Detour 41 ° 53 ′ 47.8 "  N , 89 ° 24 ′ 52.7"  W.	Ogle County	Site of the invention of the first steel plow by John Deere
18th	Oscar Stanton De Priest House		1975	Chicago 41 ° 48 '35.2 "  N , 87 ° 37' 4.6"  W.	Cook County	Home of Oscar Stanton De Priest , an African-American Republican member of the US House of Representatives
19th	Jean Baptiste Point Du Sable Homesite		1976	Chicago 41 ° 53 '15.9 "  N , 87 ° 37'24.3"  W.	Cook County	Home of the fur trader Jean Baptiste Point du Sable , who is now considered the first permanent resident of what is now Chicago
20th	Eads Bridge		1964	East St. Louis 38 ° 37 ′ 38.7 "  N , 90 ° 11 ′ 8.1"  W.	St. Clair County	Combined road and rail bridge over the Mississippi ; the longest arch bridge when it was completed in 1874; also listed in Missouri
21st	Farm Creek Section		1997	East Peoria 40 ° 40 ′ 31.8 "  N , 89 ° 29 ′ 23.3"  W.	Tazewell County	Site of exposed geological strata
22nd	Farnsworth House		2006	Plano 41 ° 38 ′ 6 ″  N , 88 ° 32 ′ 8.6 ″  W.	Kendall County	Country house designed by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
23	Pleasant Home		1996	Oak Park 41 ° 53 ′ 7 ″  N , 87 ° 48 ′ 2 ″  W.	Cook County	Even as John Farson House known house by architect W. George Maher was designed
24	Fort de Chartres		1960	Prairie du Rocher 38 ° 5 '4.7 "  N , 90 ° 9' 28.7"  W.	Randolph County	French fort built in 1720, whose powder magazine is one of the oldest surviving buildings in Illinois
25th	Fort Sheridan Historic District		1984	Fort Sheridan 42 ° 12 ′ 45 "  N , 87 ° 48 ′ 38"  W.	Lake County	Originally from the US Army erected a military post
26th	John J. Glessner House		1976	Chicago 41 ° 51 '28.4 "  N , 87 ° 37' 14.8"  W.	Cook County	House designed in 1886 by architect Henry Hobson Richardson
27	Ulysses S. Grant Home		1960	Galena 42 ° 24 '36.4 "  N , 90 ° 25' 22.5"  W.	Jo Daviess County	Home of Ulysses S. Grant , Commander in Chief of the Union Army in the Civil War and later 18th US President
	Big Point Lighthouse		1999	Evanston 42 ° 3 ′ 50 "  N , 87 ° 40 ′ 34"  W.	Cook County	Lighthouse built in 1873 on the shores of Lake Michigan
29	Haymarket Martyrs' Monument		1997	Forest Park 41 ° 50 ′ 27 "  N , 87 ° 49 ′ 9.4"  W.	Cook County	Memorial to the victims of the Haymarket massacre at German Waldheim Cemetery
30th	Hegeler Carus Mansion		2007	La Salle 41 ° 20 '9 "  N , 89 ° 5' 13.4"  W.	LaSalle County	Designed by Chicago architect William W. Boyington
31	Isidore H. Heller House		2004	Chicago 41 ° 48 '4.8 "  N , 87 ° 35" 49.5 "  W.	Cook County	House of banker Isidore H. Heller designed by architect Frank Lloyd Wright
32	Arthur Heurtley House		2000	Oak Park 41 ° 53 ′ 33.8 "  N , 87 ° 47 ′ 59.4"  W.	Cook County	First building designed entirely in the Prairie House style by architect Frank Lloyd Wright
33	Hull House		1965	Chicago 41 ° 52 '17 "  N , 87 ° 38" 49.7 "  W.	Cook County	One of the first houses of the settlement movement in the USA
34	Illinois and Michigan Canal Locks and Towpath		1964	Joliet 41 ° 34 ′ 11 "  N , 88 ° 4 ′ 11"  W.	Will County	Eight hydraulic structures and canal sections of what is now the Illinois Waterway
35	Nicholas Jarrot Mansion		2001	Cahokia 38 ° 34 '12.4 "  N , 90 ° 11' 13.6"  W.	St. Clair County	Federal style building constructed 1807–1810
36	Kennicott Grove		1976	Glenview 42 ° 5 '12.7 "  N , 87 ° 52' 12.1"  W.	Cook County	Home of the naturalist Robert Kennicott
37	Kincaid Mounds State Historic Site		1964	Brookport 37 ° 4 '50.1 "  N , 88 ° 29' 30.4"  W.	Massac County	Archaeological dig site
38	Second Head of Building		1976	Chicago 41 ° 52 ′ 28.1 "  N , 87 ° 37 ′ 38.6"  W.	Cook County	A department store designed by the architect William Le Baron Jenney in 1889
39	Frank R. Lillie House		1976	Chicago 41 ° 47 ′ 22.4 "  N , 87 ° 35 ′ 35.2"  W.	Cook County	Former home of embryologist Frank Rattray Lillie
40	Lincoln Home National Historic Site		1960	Springfield 39 ° 47 '43.3 "  N , 89 ° 38' 41"  W.	Sangamon County	The only house that Abraham Lincoln , the 16th US President, had ever owned
41	Alfred Caldwell Lily Pool		2006	Chicago 41 ° 55 '31.1 "  N , 87 ° 38' 2.8"  W.	Cook County	Example of a Prairie House style park pond by landscape architect Alfred Caldwell
42	Lincoln's grave		1960	Springfield 39 ° 49 '24 "  N , 89 ° 39' 21"  W.	Sangamon County	The grave of 16th President Abraham Lincoln
43	Vachel Lindsay House		1971	Springfield 39 ° 47 '45.3 "  N , 89 ° 38' 58"  W.	Sangamon County	Former home of the writer Nicholas Vachel Lindsay
44	Owen Lovejoy House		1997	Princeton 41 ° 22 ′ 23 "  N , 89 ° 27 ′ 3"  W.	Bureau County	Home of Congressman and Abolitionist Owen Lovejoy
45	Marquette Building		2010	Chicago 41 ° 52 ′ 48.7 "  N , 87 ° 37 ′ 45.7"  W.	Cook County	Office building designed by Holabird & Roche in 1895
46	Marshall Field and Company Building		1978	Chicago 41 ° 53 '0.7 "  N , 87 ° 37' 40.3"  W.	Cook County	Department store designed by architect Daniel Burnham , built in 1892
47	Mazon Creek fossil beds		1997	Morris 41 ° 19 ′ 15.6 "  N , 88 ° 20 ′ 45.6"  W.	Grundy County	Pennsylvania period fossil site
48	Pierre Menard House		1970	Ellis Grove 37 ° 57 '52.9 "  N , 89 ° 54' 35.6"  W.	Randolph County	Former home of Pierre Menard (1766–1844), the first lieutenant governor of Illinois (1818–1822)
49	Robert A. Millikan House		1976	Chicago 41 ° 47 ′ 34.5 "  N , 87 ° 35 ′ 46.6"  W.	Cook County	Home of the physicist Robert Andrews Millikan
50	Modoc Rock Shelter		1961	Modoc 38 ° 3 '46 "  N , 90 ° 3' 49"  W.	Randolph County	Archaeological site
51	Montgomery Ward Company Complex		1978	Chicago 41 ° 53 ′ 47.2 "  N , 87 ° 38 ′ 36.2"  W.	Cook County	Former headquarters of the Montgomery Ward mail order company
52	Morrow Plots		1968	Urbana 40 ° 6 ′ 9.2 ″  N , 88 ° 13 ′ 32.9 ″  W.	Champaign County	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign experimental corn field
53	Nauvoo Historic District		1961	Nauvoo 40 ° 33 ′ 5 ″  N , 91 ° 22 ′ 18 ″  W.	Hancock County	Historic settlement of the Mormons
54	New Philadelphia Town Site		2009	Barry 39 ° 41 ′ 45 "  N , 90 ° 57 ′ 35"  W.	Pike County	1836 as the first settlement founded by an African American
55	Old Kaskaskia Village		1964	Ottawa	LaSalle County	Archaeological site; best-documented indigenous killer in the Illinois River valley - closed to the public
56	Old Main, Knox College		1961	Galesburg 40 ° 56 ′ 29.1 ″  N , 90 ° 22 ′ 14 ″  W.	Knox County	Old main building of Knox College ; best preserved site of the numerous Lincoln-Douglas debates
57	Old State Capitol		1961	Springfield 39 ° 47 '57  .3 " N , 89 ° 38' 53.3"  W.	Sangamon County	Fifth State Capitol of Illinois
58	Union Stock Yards Gate		1981	Chicago 41 ° 48 ′ 59.9 "  N , 87 ° 38 ′ 54.1"  W.	Cook County	Entrance gate to the Chicago slaughterhouses; designed by the architect John Wellborn Root
59	Orchestra Hall		1994	Chicago 41 ° 52 '45.1 "  N , 87 ° 37'27.9"  W.	Cook County	Concert hall built in 1904 and designed by Daniel Burnham
60	Principia College Historic District		1993	Elsah 38 ° 56 ′ 56 ″  N , 90 ° 20 ′ 51.1 ″  W.	Jersey County	Completed in 1940 by the architects Bernard Maybeck and Henry Gutterson in the Colonial Revival and Tudor Revival style , the ensemble of buildings of Principia College
61	Pullman Historic District		1970	Chicago 41 ° 41 ′ 50 "  N , 87 ° 36 ′ 34"  W.	Cook County	Former housing estate for the workers of the Pullman Palace Car Company , where the Hotel Florence is also located
62	Reliance Building		1976	Chicago 41 ° 52 ′ 56.6 "  N , 87 ° 37 ′ 40.2"  W.	Cook County	From 1890 to 1895 built and designed by architects John Wellborn Root , Charles B. Atwood and Daniel Hudson Burnham -designed office building
63	Riverside Historic District		1970	Riverside 41 ° 49 ′ 54.5 "  N , 87 ° 48 ′ 48.6"  W.	Cook County	Completed in 1869 as one of the first planned cities in the USA
64	Frederick C. Robie House		1963	Chicago 41 ° 47 ′ 25.2 "  N , 87 ° 35 ′ 46.4"  W.	Cook County	House designed in 1908 by Frank Lloyd Wright in the style of the Prairie Houses and completed in 1910
65	Rock Island Arsenal		1988	Rock Island 41 ° 31 ′ 1 ″  N , 90 ° 32 ′ 31 ″  W.	Rock Island County	Former site of Fort Armstrong ; now largest US government-owned arms factory; in the civil war prisoner of war camp
66	Rookery Building		1975	Chicago 41 ° 52 ′ 45.4 "  N , 87 ° 37 ′ 56.2"  W.	Cook County	1886 built by architects Daniel Burnham and John Wellborn Root entworfendes office building
67	George Herbert Jones Laboratory		1967	Chicago 41 ° 47 '18.3 "  N , 87 ° 36' 3.7"  W.	Cook County	The laboratory in which the element plutonium was first isolated and its atomic mass determined
68	Sears, Roebuck, and Company Complex		1978	Chicago 41 ° 52 ′ 6.7 "  N , 87 ° 42 ′ 38.1"  W.	Cook County	Former headquarters of the Sears Corporation
69	Shedd Aquarium		1987	Chicago 41 ° 52 '1.9 "  N , 87 ° 37" 9.2 "  W.	Cook County	Formerly the world's largest aquarium
	Chicago Pile		1965	Chicago 41 ° 47 ′ 25.8 "  N , 87 ° 36 ′ 3.8"  W.	Cook County	World's first nuclear reactor
71	Printing House Row District		1976	Chicago 41 ° 52 ′ 35.6 "  N , 87 ° 37 ′ 41.2"  W.	Cook County	Formerly the newspaper district in southern downtown Chicago; today mostly residential areas
72	Crown Hall		2001	Chicago 41 ° 50 ′ 1 "  N , 87 ° 37 ′ 38"  W.	Cook County	1950–1956 built and designed by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe main building of the College of Architecture, Planning and Design of the Illinois Institute of Technology
73	Starved skirt		1960	Ottawa 41 ° 19 ′ 17 ″  N , 88 ° 59 ′ 25 ″  W.	La Salle County	Sandstone cliffs on the Illinois River
74	Lorado Taft Midway Studios		1965	Chicago 41 ° 47 '7.4 "  N , 87 ° 36" 9.9 "  W.	Cook County	In 1906 the studio of the sculptor Lorado Taft was built from a converted barn
true	FF Tomek House		1999	Riverside 41 ° 49 ′ 55.8 "  N , 87 ° 49 ′ 1.6"  W.	Cook County	Built in 1904 by architect Frank Lloyd Wright in the style of Prairie Houses designed building
76	Lyman Trumbull House		1975	Alton 38 ° 53 '50.6 "  N , 90 ° 10' 35.1"  W.	Madison County	Home of former US Senator Lyman Trumbull
77	U 505		1989	Chicago 41 ° 51'52.4 "  N , 87 ° 36'56.6"  W.	Cook County	The only German submarine seized by the US Navy during World War II is now in the Museum of Science and Industry
78	Unity Temple		1970	Oak Park 41 ° 53 ′ 19 ″  N , 87 ° 47 ′ 48.5 ″  W.	Cook County	1905–1908 by Frank Lloyd Wright temple of the Unitarian Universalist Church
79	University of Illinois Observatory		1989	Urbana 40 ° 6 ′ 14.7 "  N , 88 ° 13 ′ 32.6"  W.	Champaign County	University of Illinois Observatory at Urbana-Champaign
80	The Wayside		1966	Winnetka 42 ° 6 ′ 51.2 ″  N , 87 ° 43 ′ 56.9 ″  W.	Cook County	Former home of journalist Henry Demarest Lloyd
81	Ida B. Wells-Barnett House		1974	Chicago 41 ° 49'40.1 "  N , 87 ° 37'3"  W.	Cook County	Former home of civil rights activist Ida B. Wells
82	Frances Willard House		1965	Evanston 42 ° 2 '53.8 "  N , 87 ° 40' 42.5"  W.	Cook County	Former home of Frances Willard , a co-founder of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union
83	Daniel Hale Williams House		1975	Chicago 41 ° 49 ′ 6.3 "  N , 87 ° 36 ′ 55"  W.	Cook County	The former home of Daniel Hale Williams , the first African American cardiologist and heart surgeon
84	Frank Lloyd Wright Home and Studio		1976	Oak Park 41 ° 53 '36.2 "  N , 87 ° 48' 0.7"  W.	Cook County	Former home and studio of Frank Lloyd Wright

Former NHLs in Illinois

	Name of the site	image	year	place	county	description
1	Soldier Field		1987	Chicago 41 ° 51 ′ 45 ″  N , 87 ° 37 ′ 0 ″  W.	Cook County	Lost NHL status in 2006
2	Milwaukee Clipper		1989	Muskegon	Muskegon County , Michigan	The Milwaukee Clipper was a museum ship on Navy Pier in Chicago when it was declared an NHL. In 1990 the ship was taken to Hammond, Indiana and in 1997 to Muskegon, Michigan.
3	President (ship)		1989	St. Elmo (formerly)	Fayette County (formerly)	Lost NHL status in 2011
4th	USS Silversides (SS-236)		1972	Chicago (formerly)	Cook County (formerly)	Now located as a museum in Muskegon, Michigan

See also

• National Register of Historic Places in Illinois

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} National Park Service: National Historic Landmarks Program: Questions and Answers ( English ) Retrieved September 3, 2012.
2. ↑ ^{a b c d} List of National Historic Landmarks in Illinois . National Park Service , accessed October 26, 2017.
3. ^ ^{A b} National Park Service: National Historic Landmark Program: NHL Database . Archived from the original on June 6, 2004. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved September 3, 2012. 
4. ^ Illinois and Michigan Canal Locks And Towpath. Retrieved September 3, 2012
5. ↑ Lincoln Tomb ( Memento of the original from December 26, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved September 3, 2012 
6. ↑ Union Stock Yards Gate ( Memento of the original from May 28, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved September 3, 2012 
7. ↑ Milwaukee Clipper (Passenger Steamship) ( English ) In: National Historic Landmarks Program . National Park Service. Archived from the original on July 29, 2010. Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved September 3, 2012. 

Web links

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