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Photograph of Mr. Robert Silhan House
Photograph by Zol87 from Chicago, IL, USA, CC BY-SA 4.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Mr. Robert Silhan House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2007.

From the record

“Robert Silhan House is a small-scale Streamline Moderne house in Berwyn, Illinois, United States. Thought to be constructed around 1937, it was inspired by buildings at the Century of Progress World's Fair.”

Wikipedia article Mr. Robert Silhan House, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 621 National Register listings published here for Cook County · listed in 2007 · 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 2 buildingss, 1 structure as contributing to the listing.
  • Listed as. Silhan, Mr. Robert, House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
  • Address. 3728 S. Cuyler Ave., Berwyn, 60402
  • When was it listed? February 2007
  • Category. building
  • Township. Berwyn township
  • Architectural style. Moderne architecture
  • National Register reference number. 07000062 - 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

2 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Mr. Robert Silhan House in 2005, burning about 1 acre 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/undetermined2

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

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
7 June 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIllinois State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
20 May 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIllinois State Fire Marshal's Officenot named

Every fire recorded in Cook County

Mines and quarries near this property

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Mr. Robert Silhan House: 5 past producers, 1 plant. 1 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.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Dolese and Shepard Crushed StoneStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Mc Cook Yard No. 387 & MillStone, Crushed/BrokenPlant
River Forest City Eng - Own CrewsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Riverside Lime and Stone Co QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Summit Quarry Consumers CompanyStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Superior Stone Co QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Cook County

Storms near this property

19 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Berwyn, the town this property stands in, in 19 storm reports between 2000 and 2026: 9 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail, 3 heavy rain, 2 flash flood. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
September 2018Tornado (EF0)Berwyn$10,000A weak EF-0 tornado produced mainly tree damage in western Chicago. The first damage was noted on Arthington Street, just west of Cicero Avenue. A continuous path of mostly minor tree damage extended to the east northeast crossing Interstate 290 near Pulaski Road with the final damage noted near Garfield Park, between 5th Avenue and Jackson Blvd near Central Park Avenue. One tree was blown into an apartment building knocking out windows and a couple of large tree limbs fell onto cars.
August 2008Thunderstorm WindBerwyn$10,000Trees, tree limbs and power lines were blown down in Berwyn. Some of the tree limbs fell onto cars.
July 2025Thunderstorm WindBerwyn-Multiple 12 inch diameter trees were snapped.
July 2025Thunderstorm WindBerwyn-A photo showed a tree limb roughly 8 inches in diameter snapped in Proska Park.
July 2023Heavy RainBerwyn-A private weather station, KILCICER16 , recorded 8.21 inches of rainfall between roughly 6 AM and 2 PM CST.
July 2023Heavy RainBerwyn-A private weather station, KILCICER16, recorded 8.96 inches of storm total rainfall.
June 2022Thunderstorm WindBerwyn-A large tree was uprooted and numerous large tree limbs were blown down in Berwyn.
June 2021Flash FloodBerwyn-The intersection of 29th Street and Wisconsin Avenue was completely submerged from flood waters. Rainfall of 2.76 inches was measured in 1.5 hours.
May 2020Heavy RainBerwyn-Rainfall of 1.80 inches was measured in one hour.
August 2020Thunderstorm WindBerwyn-Tree damage was reported in Cicero.
July 2019Flash FloodBerwyn-Numerous viaducts were completely submerged and impassable, particularly in the North Lawndale neighborhood.
August 2017Thunderstorm WindBerwyn-Numerous branches were blown down, including several large branches between Ashland and Pulaski and Roosevelt and 31st in the Little Village Neighborhood.
June 2013Thunderstorm WindBerwyn-Numerous moderate sized limbs were blown down.
June 2008Thunderstorm WindBerwyn-A wind gust to 67 mph was measured in the Lawndale neighborhood of Chicago.
September 2007Thunderstorm WindBerwyn-Several trees were blown down throughout the city.
July 2003HailBerwyn-Quarter size hail was reported at Oak Park and 31st Street.
March 2026HailBerwyn-no account filed
June 2019HailBerwyn-no account filed
September 2000FloodBerwyn-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.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Arthur J. Dunham House1.2 miles1982
Berwyn Health Center1.3 miles2002
Berwyn Municipal Building1.4 miles2001
J. Sterling Morton High School East Auditorium1.6 miles1983
Central Berwyn Bungalow Historic District1.6 miles2015
Chicago Portage National Historic Site1.7 miles1966

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 07000062 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Cook CountyAll 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.
  • 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.