Hotel Kaskaskia Buildings (Boundary Increase)

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2007.

From the record

One of 29 National Register listings published here for LaSalle County · listed in 2007 · category: Building.

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

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 2 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
Address. 217 Marquette St. and 629 Second St., LaSalle, 61301
When was it listed? January 2007
Category. building
Township. LaSalle township
National Register reference number. 06001023 - 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.

The ground it stands on

2,263 words

The chapter on LaSalle Township in History of LaSalle County, Illinois : Its Topography, Geology, Botany, Natural History, History of the Mound Builders, Indian Tribes, French Explorations, and a Sketch of the Pioneer Settlers of Each Town to 1840, with an Appendix, Giving the Present Status of the County, Its Population, Resources, Manufactures and Institutions, published 1877 names LaSalle. This is what it says, exactly as the scans read.

The next summer he left on account of the war, and remained two years at Magnolia, Tn 1835, sold his claim and bought 400 acres north of and now adjoining the town of LaSalle. In common with most of the settlers in 1896, he supposed his fortune made, being told that his 400 acres were worth $40,000, and that he need work no more, bat not realizing that sam he went one year on the Ottawa mission as a Methodist exhorter, and in 1837 was married to Nancy Winters, of Mt. Palatine, and went to farmi nding his 400 neres worth what its production of farm erops would Indicate. He is still living on a part of the $40,000 farm, at a ripe old age, probably as comfortable as he would have been had he realized his anticipated fortune His experience and disappointment in that respect,

Passage source: History of LaSalle County, Illinois : Its Topography, Geology, Botany, Natural History, History of the Mound Builders, Indian Tribes, French Explorations, and a Sketch of the Pioneer Settlers of Each Town to 1840, with an Appendix, Giving the Present Status of the County, Its Population, Resources, Manufactures and Institutions, published 1877.

Machine-read from a century-old scan, so expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters.

Read the whole chapter on LaSalle Township - 2,263 words on its settlement, mills, schools and churches.

Fires near this property

32 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 32 fires within 5 miles of Hotel Kaskaskia Buildings (Boundary Increase) between 2008 and 2019, burning about 104 acres in total. 2 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	18
Debris and open burning	7
Smoking	4
Natural	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	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
3 August 2019	Smoking	under an acre	Illinois Division of Forestry Resources	19-00092
28 August 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Illinois Division of Forestry Resources	1063
25 August 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Illinois Division of Forestry Resources	10118
2 August 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Illinois Division of Forestry Resources	1060
6 July 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Illinois Division of Forestry Resources	19-00080
28 July 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Illinois Division of Forestry Resources	19-00089
29 May 2014	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Illinois Division of Forestry Resources	14-0000082
27 May 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Illinois Division of Forestry Resources	1046

Every fire recorded in LaSalle County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 15 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 15 workings within 5 miles of Hotel Kaskaskia Buildings (Boundary Increase): 9 past producers, 6 producers. 6 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction, 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
Boehm No. 2 Pit	Clay	Producer
Lasalle City Pit	Stone	Past Producer
Alpha Cement Pitmertel Gravel Co.	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Bailey Falls Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Bonucci Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Lock Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Sitterly Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Wetherby Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Alpha Portland Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Lasalle Quarry & Mill	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer

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
Hotel Kaskaskia	under 500 feet	1988
LaSalle City Building	under 500 feet	1985
LaSalle Downtown Commercial District	under 500 feet	2017
Julius W. Hegeler I House	0.6 miles	2009
Hegeler-Carus Mansion	0.6 miles	1995
Westclox Manufacturing Plant Historic District	0.7 miles	2007

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 06001023 in Record Group 79.
LaSalle County	All 29 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.