Pleasant Home

A National Historic Landmark. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1972.

From the record

“Pleasant Home, also known as the John Farson House, is a historic home located in the Chicago suburb of Oak Park, Illinois, United States. The large, Prairie style mansion was designed by architect George Washington Maher and completed in 1897.”
Wikipedia article Pleasant Home, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 621 National Register listings published here for Cook County · listed in 1972 · category: Building · a National Historic Landmark.

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

The listing

Address. 217 Home Ave., Oak Park, 61021
When was it listed? June 1972
Category. building
Architectural style. Prairie School architecture
Architect. George W. Maher
National Register reference number. 72000454 - 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.

Storms near this property

9 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Oak Park, the town this property stands in, in 9 storm reports between 2007 and 2024: 9 thunderstorm wind. 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 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Oak Park	$3,000	As many as 50 large tree limbs were blown down along with power lines in Oak Park. A couple entire trees were also blown down.
June 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Oak Park	$1,000	Several tree limbs and power lines were blown down.
August 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Oak Park	-	A picture was received of a roughly 6-inch diameter tree limb that had snapped.
April 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Oak Park	-	Numerous trees were uprooted and windows were blown out near Lake Street and Oak Park Avenue. Shingles were blown off a church roof along Lake Street.
July 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Oak Park	-	Photo shared via social media showed a large tree limb which had been blown down in Oak Park. Time was estimated using radar.
June 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Oak Park	-	Tree damage was reported.
August 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Oak Park	-	Half of a tree was snapped at its fork.
August 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Oak Park	-	Numerous tree limbs were blown down in Oak Park. More than a dozen streets were blocked by the fallen tree limbs.
August 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Oak Park	-	Several large trees blown down in Oak Park.

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.

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 72000454 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.
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.