John Taylor Snite House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2003.

From the record

“The John Taylor Snite House is an architecturally-significant house in Highland Park, Illinois, United States. It was built for John Taylor Snite, a prominent businessman and sailor.”
Wikipedia article John Taylor Snite House, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 98 National Register listings published here for Lake County · listed in 2003 · category: Building.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Listed as. Snite, John Taylor, House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. 225 N. Deere Park Ave. E, Highland Park, 60035
When was it listed? August 2003
Category. building
Also known as. Highland Park MRA
Architectural style. Art Deco architecture, Renaissance Revival architecture
National Register reference number. 03000790 - the number the National Park Service assigned this property when it was listed, and the key its nomination file is catalogued under at the National Archives.

Mines and quarries near this property

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of John Taylor Snite House: 4 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Stone. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status
Deerfield Pit	Stone	Past Producer
Glencoe City Engr. - Own Crews	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Northbrook City Dept of Public Work	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Winnetka City Eng. - Own Crews	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Lake County

Storms near this property

7 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Highland Park, the town this property stands in, in 7 storm reports between 2008 and 2025: 3 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 flood, 1 lightning. The reports record 2 injuries. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
August 2018	Lightning	Highland Park	2 hurt	Two women were returning to their car after a concert and sought shelter under a tree as a storm moved through the area. Lightning struck the tree and both women sustained cuts, bruises and burns.
June 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Highland Park	-	A private weather station recorded a 64 mph gust in Highland Park.
April 2023	Hail	Highland Park	-	A photo showed hail up to the size of golf balls.
September 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Highland Park	-	A photo was shared on social media of a tree blown down near Highland Park.
July 2008	Flood	Highland Park	-	Many streets were flooded with six inches of standing water between Route 41 and Route 43 in Highland Park. Five inches of standing water was reported near Deerfield and Route 83.
August 2024	Hail	Highland Park	-	no account filed
April 2023	Hail	Highland Park	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Lake County

Map coverage status

No historic map-sheet match is published for this property yet. That does not mean no map exists. This record needs a coordinate-quality review before it can be joined to a sheet boundary. Browse the county's mapped places while that work is pending.

Listed places nearby

6 within 8 miles

Other National Register properties close enough to walk or drive between, ordered by distance from this one. Both positions come from the same geocoding pass that matched these properties to their map sheets.

Property	Distance	Listed
Lichtstern House	0.2 miles	1982
A. G. Becker Property	0.4 miles	1984
Braeside School	0.6 miles	1982
Ravinia Park Historic District	0.6 miles	1982
Harold Florsheim House	0.7 miles	1982
Rosewood Park	0.8 miles	1982

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 03000790 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Lake County	All 98 listed properties in this county.

Provenance

Listing record. National Park Service National Register of Historic Places, listed-properties dataset, current to 2026-05-22.
Map join. Address geocoded through the United States Census geocoder, then tested against the published boundary of every sheet in the USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection.
How this page is made. Listing fields come from federal records; map-sheet coverage is a labelled coordinate-to-boundary calculation, not a source-field claim.
Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.
Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.