Julius W. Hegeler I House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2009.

From the record

“Hegeler I House is a historic building in LaSalle, Illinois, United States. Completed in 1904, the house was designed by Pond & Pond and is an excellent local example of Arts & Crafts architecture.”
Wikipedia article Julius W. Hegeler I House, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 29 National Register listings published here for LaSalle County · listed in 2009 · 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 as contributing to the listing.
Listed as. Hegeler I, Julius W., House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. 1306 Seventh St., LaSalle, 61301
When was it listed? February 2009
Category. building
Township. LaSalle township
Architect. Pond and Pond
National Register reference number. 09000028 - 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

31 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 31 fires within 5 miles of Julius W. Hegeler I House between 2008 and 2019, burning about 300 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	3
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
11 September 2012	Debris and open burning	210 acres	Illinois Division of Forestry Resources	I&M
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

Every fire recorded in LaSalle County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 14 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 14 workings within 5 miles of Julius W. Hegeler I House: 7 past producers, 6 producers, 1 plant. 7 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
Unimin Utica Plant & Pit	Silica	Plant
Alpha Cement Pitmertel Gravel Co.	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Bailey Falls 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
Lehigh Portland Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past 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
Hegeler-Carus Mansion	under 500 feet	1995
LaSalle City Building	0.5 miles	1985
LaSalle Downtown Commercial District	0.6 miles	2017
Hotel Kaskaskia	0.6 miles	1988
Hotel Kaskaskia Buildings (Boundary Increase)	0.6 miles	2007
Westclox Manufacturing Plant Historic District	1.2 miles	2007

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 09000028 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
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.