Mr. James Kent Calhoun House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2010.

From the record

“James Kent Calhoun House is a historic house at 740 Greenwood Avenue in Glencoe, Illinois. The house was built in 1895 for James Kent Calhoun and his family.”
Wikipedia article Mr. James Kent Calhoun House, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 621 National Register listings published here for Cook County · listed in 2010 · 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.
Listed as. Calhoun, Mr. James Kent, House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. 740 Greenwood Ave., Glencoe, 60022
When was it listed? June 2010
Category. building
Township. New Trier township
Architectural style. Queen Anne style architecture in the United States
National Register reference number. 09000780 - 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

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Mr. James Kent Calhoun House: 4 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, 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
Deerfield Pit	Stone	Past Producer
Glencoe City Engr. - Own Crews	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Northbrook City Dept of Public Work	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Winnetka City Eng. - Own Crews	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Cook County

Storms near this property

7 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Glencoe, the town this property stands in, in 7 storm reports between 2008 and 2020: 2 flash flood, 2 hail, 1 flood, 1 lightning. 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
April 2013	Flash Flood	Glencoe	$12,000,000	Widespread flooding was reported across northern Cook County. All lanes on Interstate 94 were impassable near Pratt Avenue. Hundreds of homes were flooded, including homes along the Des Plaines River where some basements were flooded to the ceiling. The exit ramp from Interstate 90 to Arlington Heights Road was blocked due to flooding. Over six inches of water was reported on Milwaukee Avenue from Golf Road to north of Glenview Road. Portions of the Edens Expressway were closed. Some of the heaviest rainfall reports include 6.23 inches near Winnetka, 5.91 inches near Lincolnwood, and 5.82 inches near Evanston.
February 2008	Flood	Glencoe	$2,000,000	The combination of heavy rain and melting snow caused flooding across parts of Chicago including flooded roads and numerous flooded basements. Part of the roof of a grocery store in Glencoe collapsed from the weight of rain and melting snow. No injuries were reported.
July 2011	Lightning	Glencoe	$1,000,000	Lightning struck a large house on Lincoln Avenue and started a fire in the attic which spread to the second floor. The house and its contents were a total loss. No one was home at the time of the fire.
June 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Glencoe	$50,000	Trees, tree limbs and power lines were blown down in many areas. Some trees fell onto houses and other buildings. Power outages lasted several days causing significant food spoilage.
August 2020	Hail	Glencoe	-	Nickel size hail fell across Glencoe for 10 minutes.
July 2012	Flash Flood	Glencoe	-	Hazel Avenue under a viaduct was closed due to high water.
April 2020	Hail	Glencoe	-	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.

Property	Distance	Listed
Edmund D. Brigham House	0.4 miles	2016
William A. Glasner House	0.5 miles	2005
Sylvan Road Bridge	0.6 miles	1978
Jesse L. Strauss Estate	0.6 miles	2014
John Rogerson Montgomery House	1.4 miles	2004
Louis B. Kuppenheimer Jr. House	1.9 miles	2017

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 09000780 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.