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One of 621 National Register listings published here for Cook County · listed in 2024 · category: Building.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service
The Rockwell House
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2024.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 2 buildingss, 1 site as contributing to the listing.
- Still standing. The Park Service records this property as extant.
- Address. 20841 Oak Lane Dr., Olympia Fields, 60461
- When was it listed? August 2024
- Category. building
- Township. Rich township
- National Register reference number. 100010711 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Fires near this property
2 since 2005Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of The Rockwell House in 2005, burning under an 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 |
|---|---|
| Recreation and ceremony | 1 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 July 2005 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Illinois State Fire Marshal's Office | not named |
| 18 May 2005 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Illinois State Fire Marshal's Office | not named |
Mines and quarries near this property
1 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of The Rockwell House: 1 past producer. 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.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicago Hghts City Eng | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer |
Storms near this property
5 since 2005Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Olympia Fields, the town this property stands in, in 5 storm reports between 2005 and 2019: 2 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 1 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Olympia Fields | $20,000 | Multiple large trees blown down. A semi trailer was blown over at 83rd and the Tri-state Tollway. |
| June 2019 | Flash Flood | Olympia Fields | - | Flooding of unknown severity was reported in Matteson, Park Forest, Olympia Fields and Richton Park. |
| October 2006 | Hail | Olympia Fields | - | Penny size hail reported at Interstate 57 and Route 30. |
| October 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Olympia Fields | - | Shingles were blown off off houses. |
| February 2017 | Hail | Olympia Fields | - | no account filed |
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
5 within 8 milesOther 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 | Property | Distance | Listed |
|---|---|---|---|
| Olympia Fields Country Club | 1.2 miles | 2001 | |
 | Bloom Township High School | 3.2 miles | 1982 |
 | Flat Iron Building | 3.6 miles | 2003 |
| Ravisloe Country Club | 3.9 miles | 2021 | |
 | Karl Vogt Building | 6.1 miles | 1988 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 100010711 in Record Group 79. |
| 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.
- 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.