Baptist Retirement Home

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2017.

From the record

“The Baptist Retirement Home is a historic retirement home at 316 Randolph Street in Maywood, Illinois. The home was built in 1930 for the Baptist Old People's Home organization, which was founded in Maywood in 1906; the large-scale building replaced its original, smaller facilities.”
Wikipedia article Baptist Retirement Home, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 621 National Register listings published here for Cook County · listed in 2017 · category: Building.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. 316 Randolph St., Maywood, 60153
When was it listed? October 2017
Category. building
Township. Proviso township
Architectural style. Tudor Revival architecture
National Register reference number. 100001765 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Mines and quarries near this property

7 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Baptist Retirement Home: 7 past producers. None of them 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.

Site	Commodity	Status
A C O'Laughlin Stone Co Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Bellwood Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Melrose Park City Eng. - Own Crews	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Northlake City Eng. - Own Crews	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
River Forest City Eng - Own Crews	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Riverside Lime and Stone Co Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
West Chester City Eng. - Own Crews	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Cook County

Storms near this property

12 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Maywood, the town this property stands in, in 12 storm reports between 2001 and 2022: 6 flash flood, 2 lightning, 2 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind. The reports record 1 death. 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
July 2001	Lightning	Maywood	1 killed	no account filed
August 2014	Flash Flood	Maywood	$150,000	Interstate 290 was closed between Harlem Avenue and Mannheim Road with portions of the interstate covered with up to four feet of water. Multiple cars were stranded in the water before it closed. A portion of the far right eastbound lane buckled from the high water.
August 2015	Lightning	Maywood	$2,000	Multiple utility poles were down due to lightning.
September 2022	Flash Flood	Maywood	-	Interstate 290 was closed due to flooding near Des Plaines Avenue.
May 2020	Flash Flood	Maywood	-	Interstate 290 was flooded near Des Plaines Avenue. The CTA suspended Blue Line service between the Forest Park and Harlem stations due to flooding.
July 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Maywood	-	A tree was blown down on 1st Avenue near Pine Street.
June 2015	Flash Flood	Maywood	-	Both directions of I-290 were flooded and closed between Harlem Avenue and Desplaines Avenue.
August 2015	Flash Flood	Maywood	-	All lanes and shoulders on east bound I-290 at Des Plaines Avenue were flooded and closed.
August 2014	Flash Flood	Maywood	-	Several lanes on westbound I-290 at Des Plaines Avenue were flooded and impassable.
August 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Maywood	-	Eight to ten inch diameter trees were blown down on 21st Street, two blocks north of Roosevelt.
October 2006	Hail	Maywood	-	no account filed
May 2005	Hail	Maywood	-	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
Harry H. Nichols House	0.1 miles	1992
Mads C. Larson House	0.1 miles	1992
Masonic Temple Building	0.2 miles	1992
Maywood Fire Department Building	0.3 miles	1992
Joseph P. O. Sullivan House	0.3 miles	1992
Mrs. Henry F. Akin House	0.4 miles	1992

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 100001765 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.