Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2003.
From the record
“The Lewis Steward House is a historic residence in Plano, Illinois. It was the home of Lewis Steward, a prominent early settler to Kendall County who co-founded Marsh, Steward & Company, ran for the governorship of Illinois, and was elected to the United States House of Representatives.”
Wikipedia article Lewis Steward House, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 10 National Register listings published here for Kendall County · listed in 2003 · category: Building.
National Register reference number.03001200- 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.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
2 workings within 5 miles of Lewis Steward House: 2 past producers.
None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone. Distance is straight-line from the
map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring
settlement's page as well.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Plano, the town this property stands in, in 39 storm reports between 2000 and 2026: 27 thunderstorm wind, 9 hail, 2 flash flood, 1 funnel cloud.
The reports record 1 injury. 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.
Two large trees were blown down on Keller Road. Trees were blown down on River Road. Part of a roof was blown off a house on River Road. One tree fell on a car. Other trees were blown over onto power lines.
A large section of a tree was blown down at Dearborn and Harve Streets, which knocked down a utility pole. Tree limbs and power lines were blown down across other areas of Plano.
Kendall County Sheriff reported a tree approximately 22 inches in diameter had snapped at the trunk. This occurred near the intersection of Harve and Charles Streets in Plano. Time was estimated using radar.
Water was flowing across U.S. Highway 34 in Plano and numerous roads were covered by high water in Oswego. Collins Road between Grove and Plainfield Roads was closed due to high water.
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.
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.
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