Oak Park Conservatory

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2005.

From the record

“Oak Park Conservatory is a conservatory and botanical garden at 615 Garfield Street in Oak Park, a suburb of Chicago in Illinois, United States. It is open daily with restricted hours; admission is free, but a donation is suggested.”
Wikipedia article Oak Park Conservatory, 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.
Address. 615 Garfield St., Oak Park, 60304
When was it listed? March 2005
Category. building
Township. Oak Park township
National Register reference number. 04001298 - 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 Oak Park Conservatory: 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
Bellwood Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Melrose Park City Eng. - Own Crews	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
River Forest City Eng - Own Crews	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Riverside Lime and Stone Co Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
West Chester City Eng. - Own Crews	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Cook County

Storms near this property

9 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Oak Park, the town this property stands in, in 9 storm reports between 2007 and 2024: 9 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
August 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Oak Park	$3,000	As many as 50 large tree limbs were blown down along with power lines in Oak Park. A couple entire trees were also blown down.
June 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Oak Park	$1,000	Several tree limbs and power lines were blown down.
August 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Oak Park	-	A picture was received of a roughly 6-inch diameter tree limb that had snapped.
April 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Oak Park	-	Numerous trees were uprooted and windows were blown out near Lake Street and Oak Park Avenue. Shingles were blown off a church roof along Lake Street.
July 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Oak Park	-	Photo shared via social media showed a large tree limb which had been blown down in Oak Park. Time was estimated using radar.
June 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Oak Park	-	Tree damage was reported.
August 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Oak Park	-	Half of a tree was snapped at its fork.
August 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Oak Park	-	Numerous tree limbs were blown down in Oak Park. More than a dozen streets were blocked by the fallen tree limbs.
August 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Oak Park	-	Several large trees blown down in Oak Park.

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
Gunderson Historic District	0.4 miles	2002
The Hunt Club	0.5 miles	2024
Oak Park Village Hall	0.8 miles	2014
Columbus Park	1.1 miles	2003
Ridgeland-Oak Park Historic District	1.1 miles	1983
Masonic Temple Building	1.2 miles	1982

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 04001298 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.