Durham-Perry Farmstead

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2006.

From the record

“The Durham-Perry Farmstead is a park and open-air museum in Bourbonnais, Illinois on the grounds of the former Thomas Durham farm. The buildings reflect the agricultural practices of Illinois farmers in the 19th and early 20th centuries.”
Wikipedia article Durham-Perry Farmstead, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 14 National Register listings published here for Kankakee County · listed in 2006 · category: District.

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 5 buildingss, 2 structuress as contributing to the listing.
Listed as. Durham--Perry Farmstead - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. 459 N. Kennedy Dr., Bourbonnais, 60914
When was it listed? May 2006
Category. district
Township. Bourbonnais township
National Register reference number. 06000445 - 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.

Fires near this property

60 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 60 fires within 5 miles of Durham-Perry Farmstead between 2008 and 2020, burning about 60 acres in total. None started naturally. None was recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause	Fires
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	46
Debris and open burning	12
Equipment and vehicle use	1
Fireworks	1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
30 September 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Illinois Division of Forestry Resources	18-4632
29 September 2010	Equipment and vehicle use	5.0 acres	Illinois Division of Forestry Resources	COGNIS
18 September 2012	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Illinois Division of Forestry Resources	MITCHELL
13 September 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Illinois Division of Forestry Resources	101811
1 September 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Illinois Division of Forestry Resources	20-0004144
6 August 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Illinois Division of Forestry Resources	2019-1883
6 August 2012	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Illinois Division of Forestry Resources	POND
3 August 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Illinois Division of Forestry Resources	20-0003283

Every fire recorded in Kankakee County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 10 workings within 5 miles of Durham-Perry Farmstead: 8 past producers, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Clay, 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
Kankakee Highway Pit No. 1	Stone	Past Producer
Kankakee Pit	Clay	Past Producer
Lehigh East Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Manteno Quarry & Mill	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Azzarelli Pit 3	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Azzarelli Pit No.2	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Grasso and Son Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Havener Sand Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Ohrt Rd. Sand Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Route 113 Gravel Pit Azzarell:	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Kankakee County

Storms near this property

53 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Bourbonnais, the town this property stands in, in 53 storm reports between 1994 and 2026: 28 thunderstorm wind, 14 hail, 4 flash flood, 4 flood. The reports record 3 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 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Bourbonnais	3 hurt, $500,000	Several houses received minor wind damage with five homes suffering significant damage. Numerous trees, tree limbs and power lines were blown down. Three people suffered minor injuries from flying debris. One man was injured when part of a roof landed on his vehicle.
June 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Bourbonnais	$100,000	Some siding was peeled off of homes.
July 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Bourbonnais	$100,000	A parked car on North Blaine Avenue was destroyed by a large tree that was blown down onto it. Another car on Goodwin Street sustained significant damage after a large tree limb fell on it. An SUV on South Grand Avenue suffered major damage after a large tree limb fell onto the roof. Some trees were uprooted. Numerous trees, tree limbs and power lines were blown down throughout Bradley.
May 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Bourbonnais	$50,000	Twenty utility poles were blown down. Several roofs were pulled back. A corn crib and metal silos were blown down with debris oriented roughly toward the east.
June 2011	Lightning	Bourbonnais	$40,000	A large tree was struck by lightning in an alley near Kennedy Drive and North Street. The tree then fell on to three cars, destroying two of them. Power lines were also brought down by the falling tree.
August 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Bourbonnais	$40,000	no account filed
April 2003	Lightning	Bourbonnais	$1,000	no account filed
June 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Bourbonnais	$500	A 4.5 inch diameter tree limb fell onto a fence.
March 2026	Hail	Bourbonnais	-	About a dozen hail reports from around Bourbonnais, Bradley, and Kankakee largely ranged between 2 and 4.5 inches in diameter. Numerous houses sustained window, roofing, and siding damage. Numerous vehicles also sustained significant damage from the hail.
July 2025	Heavy Rain	Bourbonnais	-	Rainfall of 3.04 inches was measured by a private weather station.
July 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Bourbonnais	-	The tops of 12 inch diameter trees were broken off.
July 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Bourbonnais	-	A 30 inch diameter tree was blown down.
July 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Bourbonnais	-	A large tree was reported down at a residence on Yale Court in Bourbonnais.
August 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Bourbonnais	-	Multiple large tree limbs were broken at the Olivet Nazarene University Campus.
May 2020	Flash Flood	Bourbonnais	-	Numerous streets and underpasses were flooded in Bradley.
August 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Bourbonnais	-	Trees, tree limbs and power lines were blown down in Bradley. The hardest hit areas were Blatt and Meadowview subdivisions, west of Kennedy Drive. A 60 inch diameter tree on Marla Terrace was snapped at its base and fell onto a pickup truck, a garage and another vehicle in the garage.
May 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Bourbonnais	-	Wind gusts were estimated to 60 mph.
July 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Bourbonnais	-	Extensive tree damage was reported in Bradley. One tree limb two feet in diameter was snapped off. Wind gusts were estimated between 60 mph and 70 mph.
June 2017	Flash Flood	Bourbonnais	-	Heavy rain caused flash flooding in the Kankakee and Bradley areas. One water rescued occurred for a partially submerged car in Bradley on Kennedy Drive. Rainfall of 1.85 inches was measured in Kankakee.
June 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Bourbonnais	-	Damage was done to the press box at Ward Field of Olivet Nazarene University.
June 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Bourbonnais	-	Large branches and a couple trees were blown down.
June 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Bourbonnais	-	Large tree limbs fell onto power lines at Route 113 and Tower Road. The downed lines caused a small grass fire.
July 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Bourbonnais	-	A 12 to 14 inch diameter tree was blown down near Route 45 and North Street.
June 2012	Hail	Bourbonnais	-	Penny and nickel size hail were reported across portions of Bourbonnais.
August 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Bourbonnais	-	Two separate reports estimated winds between 60 and 65 mph.
July 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Bourbonnais	-	High winds toppled tree limbs throughout Bradley and Bourbonnais.
March 2011	Flood	Bourbonnais	-	Minor street flooding was reported along Blatt Road in Bradley with standing water up to the bumper of a parked car.
June 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Bourbonnais	-	Wind gusts were estimated to 60 mph.
June 2010	Flash Flood	Bourbonnais	-	Water was flowing over East River Road in Kankakee. Route 50 was flooded at Harrison Street and Greenwood Street in Kankakee. An underpass was flooded at Brookmont and Schuyler in Bradley. A spotter reported 1.86 inches of rain in Kankakee, the Kankakee Metro Waste Water facility reported 3.00 inches, Momence had 1.99 inches and Bourbonnais reported 1.51 inches.
April 2009	Flood	Bourbonnais	-	Minor flooding of streets and underpasses was reported.
March 2009	Flood	Bourbonnais	-	Ditches and fields were reported to be flooded along with standing water on some roads. Storm total rainfall was measured at 1.81 inches in Kankakee.
May 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Bourbonnais	-	An eighteen inch diameter tree was blown down near the 100 block of North Center Street.
July 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Bourbonnais	-	Small tree limbs were blown down in Bourbonnais with wind speeds estimated to 60 mph.
August 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Bourbonnais	-	Tree limbs were blown down near Route 50 with wind gusts estimated to 60 mph.
August 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Bourbonnais	-	Numerous tree limbs up to 4 inches in diameter were blown down. Wind gusts were estimated to 70 mph.
July 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Bourbonnais	-	Bleechers were tossed around at Olivet Nazarene University.
May 2008	Hail	Bourbonnais	-	Pea to nickel size hail was reported in Bourbonnais.
May 2006	Flash Flood	Bourbonnais	-	One foot of water at Charles and Cryer Roads. One to two feet of water on roadways at University and Stadium Roads. Two to Three feet of water on 200 block of Barrington Drive. Bourbonnais measured 3.10 inches of rain.
May 2006	Flood	Bourbonnais	-	Roads near Olivette University were closed with 6 inches of water. Bourbonnais measured 2.33 inches of rain.
July 2003	Hail	Bourbonnais	-	Reported near Olivet Nazarene University.
June 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Bourbonnais	-	A squall line caused wind damage to portions of north central and northeast Illinois during the late night hours of the 27th and the early morning hours of the 28th. County sheriffs departments reported numerous trees and power lines down in Winnebago, Ogle, Lee and Boone Counties. Large trees were down in Tonica in southwest La Salle County. The most severe damage was in Grundy County. A wind gust of 70 mph was reported at the emergency management office in Morris. Power poles were snapped in Morris causing widespread power outages. Roads were blocked by large tree branches and uprooted trees. Falling tree limbs damaged buildings and vehicles. Corn fileds were also damaged by strong winds. Lightning set a house on fire in Morris. A trailer was overturned at the Sportsman's Club in Bourbonais, Kankakee County.
April 1994	Hail	Bourbonnais	-	High winds caused hail to accumulate several inches deep along walls.
May 2018	Hail	Bourbonnais	-	no account filed
July 2017	Hail	Bourbonnais	-	no account filed
July 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Bourbonnais	-	no account filed
June 2012	Hail	Bourbonnais	-	no account filed
August 2011	Hail	Bourbonnais	-	no account filed
October 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Bourbonnais	-	no account filed
March 2007	Hail	Bourbonnais	-	no account filed
August 2007	Hail	Bourbonnais	-	no account filed
May 2006	Hail	Bourbonnais	-	no account filed
May 2003	Hail	Bourbonnais	-	no account filed
April 1996	Hail	Bourbonnais	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Kankakee 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
Lemuel Milk Carriage House	2.1 miles	1979
Pope Brace Company Building	2.1 miles	2021
Kankakee County Courthouse	2.2 miles	2007
Warren Hickox House	2.7 miles	1978
Illinois Central Railroad Depot	2.8 miles	2000
B. Harley Bradley House and Stable	2.8 miles	2009

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 06000445 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Kankakee County	All 14 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.
Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.
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.