Anita Willets Burnham Log House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2005.

From the record

“The Anita Willets Burnham Log House, also commonly known as the Schmidt-Burnham Log House, located at 1140 Willow Rd. in the Crow Island Woods of Winnetka, Illinois, United States, was the home and studio of artist and author Anita Willets-Burnham. The log house, which is stories tall and made of hand-hewn, squared oak logs, was built approximately 1836 on a farmstead in south central Winnetka.”
Wikipedia article Anita Willets Burnham Log House, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 621 National Register listings published here for Cook County · listed in 2005 · 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. Burnham, Anita Willets, Log House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. 1140 Willow Rd., Winnetka, 60093
When was it listed? June 2005
Category. building
Township. New Trier township
Architectural style. rustic architecture
National Register reference number. 04001297 - 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

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Anita Willets Burnham Log House: 5 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Glencoe City Engr. - Own Crews	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Morton Grove City Eng. - Own Crews	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Northbrook City Dept of Public Work	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Wilmette City Eng. - Own Crews	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Winnetka City Eng. - Own Crews	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Cook County

Storms near this property

4 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Winnetka, the town this property stands in, in 4 storm reports between 2001 and 2012: 2 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. 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
July 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Winnetka	$10,000	Windows were blown out of buildings in downtown Winnetka.
June 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Winnetka	-	no account filed
September 2006	Hail	Winnetka	-	no account filed
July 2001	Hail	Winnetka	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Cook 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
Lola Maverick Lloyd House	0.7 miles	2006
Louis B. Kuppenheimer Jr. House	0.9 miles	2017
Community House	0.9 miles	2007
Eli and Jeanne Lipman House	1.0 miles	2025
Robert and Suzanne Drucker House	1.2 miles	2013
Henry Demarest Lloyd House	1.3 miles	1966

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 04001297 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Cook County	All 621 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.