Frank J. Baker House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974.

From the record

“Baker House is a 4,800-square-foot Prairie School style house located at 507 Lake Avenue in Wilmette, Illinois. The house, which was designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, was built in 1909, and features five bedrooms, three and a half bathrooms, and three fireplaces.”
Wikipedia article Frank J. Baker House, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 621 National Register listings published here for Cook County · listed in 1974 · category: Building.

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. Baker, Frank J., House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. 507 Lake Ave., Wilmette, 60091
When was it listed? November 1974
Category. building
Township. New Trier township
Architectural style. Prairie School architecture
Architect. Frank Lloyd Wright
National Register reference number. 74000759 - 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

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Frank J. Baker House: 5 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
Evanston City Eng	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Glencoe City Engr. - Own Crews	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Morton Grove City Eng. - Own Crews	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Wilmette City Eng. - Own Crews	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Winnetka City Eng. - Own Crews	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Cook County

Storms near this property

14 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Wilmette, the town this property stands in, in 14 storm reports between 2000 and 2022: 10 thunderstorm wind, 2 lightning, 1 flood, 1 hail. 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
June 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Wilmette	$100,000	Numerous large trees were blown down with some trees uprooted. Some of the fallen trees crushed parked cars. Roof damage was reported to a hospital in Evanston. A wind gust to 57 mph was measured.
June 2010	Lightning	Wilmette	$100,000	Lightning struck a house which started a fire. The house was engulfed in flames.
September 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Wilmette	$30,000	Nineteen large trees and numerous tree limbs were blown down. One tree went down at 13th and Lake Streets, crushing a fence and breaking a window. A house and two cars were damaged when a tree fell on Amherst Lane.
July 2015	Lightning	Wilmette	$15,000	A garage was struck by lightning on Sheridan Road resulting in damage to the bricks and chimney.
August 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Wilmette	$2,000	Winds estimated to 40 mph caused a large branch to fall onto a car trapping a motorist near Gross Point Road and Park Place. No injuries were reported.
August 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Wilmette	-	A photo shared on social media showed a tree limb hanging from power lines in the 3100 block of Hartzell Street.
August 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Wilmette	-	Photos shared on social media showed tree limbs blown down near Harrison Street and Prospect Street.
June 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Wilmette	-	Several large trees were blown down around Harrison Street near Ackerman Park, south of Central Street.
July 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Wilmette	-	Wind gusts were measured to 58 mph. Small tree limbs were blown down.
July 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Wilmette	-	A 74-inch diameter tree known as the Bicentennial Ash was blown down in Gillson Park.
August 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Wilmette	-	Over 1,000 trees were either uprooted, blown over, or suffered some kind of damage. At least 76 trees, including some 25 to 30 inches in diameter, were blown down at a golf course.
September 2006	Hail	Wilmette	-	no account filed
May 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Wilmette	-	no account filed
September 2000	Flood	Wilmette	-	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
Bailey-Michelet House	0.2 miles	1982
Alfred Bersbach House	0.3 miles	2003
Linden Avenue Terminal	0.4 miles	1984
Ouilmette North Historic District	0.4 miles	2005
Gillson Park and Wilmette Harbor Historic District	0.5 miles	2024
Chicago and Northwestern Depot	0.6 miles	1975

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 74000759 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.