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Photograph of Walter Gale House
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Walter Gale House

Built in 1893 (Queen Anne style). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.

From the record

“Gale House is a house in Oak Park, a suburb of Chicago in Illinois, United States. It was designed by Frank Lloyd Wright and constructed in 1893.”

Wikipedia article Walter Gale House, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 621 National Register listings published here for Cook County · listed in 1973 · category: Building · built in 1893, Queen Anne style, by Frank Lloyd Wright.

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. Gale, Walter, House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
  • Address. 1031 W. Chicago Ave., Oak Park, 60302
  • When was it listed? August 1973
  • Category. building
  • Township. Oak Park township
  • When was it built? 1893
  • Architectural style. Queen Anne style
  • Architect. Frank Lloyd Wright
  • National Register reference number. 73000700 - 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 Walter Gale House: 4 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
River Forest City Eng - Own CrewsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Cook County

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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
August 2008Thunderstorm WindOak Park$3,000As 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 2010Thunderstorm WindOak Park$1,000Several tree limbs and power lines were blown down.
August 2024Thunderstorm WindOak Park-A picture was received of a roughly 6-inch diameter tree limb that had snapped.
April 2023Thunderstorm WindOak 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 2023Thunderstorm WindOak 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 2021Thunderstorm WindOak Park-Tree damage was reported.
August 2021Thunderstorm WindOak Park-Half of a tree was snapped at its fork.
August 2020Thunderstorm WindOak Park-Numerous tree limbs were blown down in Oak Park. More than a dozen streets were blocked by the fallen tree limbs.
August 2007Thunderstorm WindOak 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.

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
Frank Lloyd Wright House and Studiounder 500 feet1972
Arthur Heurtley House0.1 miles2000
Mrs. Thomas H. Gale House0.2 miles1970
Frank Thomas House0.3 miles1972
Marshall Field and Company Store0.4 miles1988
Frank Lloyd Wright-Prairie School of Architecture Historic District (Boundary Increase)0.4 miles2009

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 73000700 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.