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Photograph of Winslow House
Photograph by Oak Park Cycle Club, CC BY-SA 2.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

William H. Winslow House And Stable

Built in 1893 (Prairie School architecture). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1970.

From the record

“The Winslow House is a Frank Lloyd Wright-designed house located at 515 Auvergne Place in River Forest, Illinois. Built in 1894-95, it was his first major commission as an independent architect.”

Wikipedia article Winslow House (River Forest, Illinois), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 621 National Register listings published here for Cook County · listed in 1970 · category: Building · built in 1893, Prairie School architecture, by Frank Lloyd Wright.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service · the Wikipedia article

The listing

  • What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 2 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
  • Listed as. Winslow, William H., House And Stable - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
  • Address. 515 Auvergne Pl., River Forest, 60305
  • When was it listed? April 1970
  • Category. building
  • Township. River Forest township
  • When was it built? 1893
  • Architectural style. Prairie School architecture
  • Architect. Frank Lloyd Wright
  • National Register reference number. 70000242 - 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

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of William H. Winslow House And Stable: 6 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.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
A C O'Laughlin Stone Co QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Bellwood QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Melrose Park City Eng. - Own CrewsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Northlake City Eng. - Own CrewsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
River Forest City Eng - Own CrewsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
West Chester City Eng. - Own CrewsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Cook County

Storms near this property

13 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names River Forest, the town this property stands in, in 13 storm reports between 2003 and 2023: 6 thunderstorm wind, 5 hail, 1 flood, 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 2006HailRiver Forest$15,000Quarter size hail was reported in River Forest and lasted 10 minutes. The hail caused damage to cars and windows.
June 2008Thunderstorm WindRiver Forest$10,000Trees and large tree limbs were blown down along Wenonah Avenue. Trees and tree limbs were blown down across other parts of Oak Park. A large tree was uprooted along Clinton Avenue and fell onto a house causing damage to the roof and gutters.
April 2023Thunderstorm WindRiver Forest-A photo showed a large tree limb snapped, blocking Thatcher Avenue south of North Avenue.
June 2021Flash FloodRiver Forest-Street flooding was reported in Forest Park. The inbound Eisenhower Expressway (Interstate 290) was closed between Des Plaines Avenue and Harlem Avenue due to standing water.
July 2020Thunderstorm WindRiver Forest-A very large tree limb was blown down in a backyard.
June 2020Thunderstorm WindRiver Forest-A tree was blown down across a road.
June 2013Thunderstorm WindRiver Forest-Several 4 to 6 inch diameter limbs were blown down.
July 2011Thunderstorm WindRiver Forest-A one-foot diameter branch was blown down with numerous smaller branches on Harvard Street between Clarence Avenue and East Avenue.
June 2009FloodRiver Forest-Standing water was reported on right the side of Interstate 290 at Austin Blvd.
June 2019HailRiver Forest-no account filed
August 2014HailRiver Forest-no account filed
June 2006HailRiver Forest-no account filed
July 2003HailRiver Forest-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
William E. Drummond House0.1 miles1970
Richard Cluever House0.4 miles1977
Mads C. Larson House0.4 miles1992
William Frangenheim House0.5 miles1992
William and Caroline Gibbs House0.5 miles1992
Jacob Bohlander House0.5 miles1989

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 70000242 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.
  • 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.