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Hauptgebaude

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.

From the record

“Hauptgebaude, also known as Old Main, was the predecessor to Elmhurst University in Elmhurst, Illinois. The three-story building was constructed in 1878 as a gymnasium style of school, reflecting the German heritage of the local residents.”

Wikipedia article Hauptgebaude, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 50 National Register listings published here for DuPage County · listed in 1976 · 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.
  • Address. 190 Prospect St., Elmhurst, 60126
  • When was it listed? August 1976
  • Category. building
  • Township. York township
  • National Register reference number. 76002162 - 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.

The ground it stands on

2,155 words

This property stands in York Township. History Of Dupage County (1857), published 1857 gives that township a chapter of its own.

The chapter covers the township.

Machine-read from a century-old scan, so expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters.

Read the whole chapter on York Township - 2,155 words on its settlement, mills, schools and churches.

Fires near this property

1 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Hauptgebaude in 2005, burning under an acre in total. 1 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
Natural1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
25 June 2005Naturalunder an acreIllinois State Fire Marshal's Officenot named

Every fire recorded in DuPage County

Mines and quarries near this property

9 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 9 workings within 5 miles of Hauptgebaude: 8 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Stone. 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
Village of Lombard PitStonePast Producer
A C O'Laughlin Stone Co QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Bellwood QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Elmhurst Portable Plant #1Stone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Elmhurst Underground No. 1Stone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Melrose Park City Eng. - Own CrewsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Northlake City Eng. - Own CrewsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unnamed Limestone QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
West Chester City Eng. - Own CrewsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in DuPage County

Storms near this property

30 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Elmhurst, the town this property stands in, in 30 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 16 thunderstorm wind, 6 flood, 5 hail, 2 flash flood. The reports record 4 injuries. 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 2007Thunderstorm WindElmhurst3 hurt, $100,000Numerous trees, tree limbs and power lines were blown down. A woman was seriously injured when a tree fell on her car on Prairie Avenue. Another tree fell on car, injuring the driver at York Street and St. Charles Road. A tree was blown down onto a city vehicle on Fairview, where the driver was injured. Two other people were injured when they entered their flooded basements.
June 2010Thunderstorm WindElmhurst1 hurtOne hundred trees were blown down or damaged. A man was injured by a falling tree limb.
June 2010Thunderstorm WindElmhurst$25,000Numerous trees, tree limbs and power lines were blown down in Elmhurst. Several trees were blown down onto cars causing damage, including a large tree that fell onto a car on Poplar Avenue.
July 2025Flash FloodElmhurst$2,000Flooding was reported in numerous areas in Elmhurst. Multiple roads were flooded near North Avenue and Interstate 294. Two to three feet of water was reported on streets near the intersection of North Avenue and North York Street. An underpass on Robert Palmer Drive was flooded near 1st Street. Water entered a nearby apartment building and parking garage. Basement flooding was also reported. A personal weather station reported 2.28 inches of rain in one hour on the southeast side of Elmhurst and another personal weather station reported 2.10 inches of rain in one hour on the northeast side of Elmhurst.
July 2010LightningElmhurst$2,000Lightning struck a utility pole on Church Street. Wires and a ceramic insulator fell off the pole and onto a car, smashing both the front and back windows.
August 2008Thunderstorm WindElmhurst$2,000Trees and power lines were blown down.
July 2025FloodElmhurst-Standing water 12 to 18 inches deep was reported on multiple side streets and intersections in and around the South Sunnyside Avenue and Olive Street area.
July 2024Flash FloodElmhurst-Several feet of water was reported covering North Avenue near Interstate 290.
June 2023Thunderstorm WindElmhurst-Several tree limbs up to 6 inches in diameter were snapped off of trees.
May 2022FloodElmhurst-York Street was closed due to flooding near 3rd Street. North Avenue was closed due to flooding between York Street and Interstate 290. The Interstate 290 interchange ramp was closed due to flooding at North Avenue.
July 2022FloodElmhurst-An underpass was flooded and impassible in Elmhurst. Measured rainfall of 2.47 inches was reported in one hour between 4:15 am and 5:15 am CST.
July 2022Thunderstorm WindElmhurst-Half of a tree was blown down onto a road.
June 2022Thunderstorm WindElmhurst-A photo shared on social media showed large tree limbs blown down west of Elmhurst University.
August 2021Thunderstorm WindElmhurst-Large tree limbs were blown down.
June 2021FloodElmhurst-Ramp flooding was reported at the interchange of Interstate 290 and North Avenue.
August 2020Thunderstorm WindElmhurst-Tree limbs and power lines were blown down in Elmhurst.
September 2018Thunderstorm WindElmhurst-A one foot diameter tree was blown down.
May 2018FloodElmhurst-A flooded underpass in downtown Elmhurst was blocked off by police.
June 2018FloodElmhurst-Two flood prone viaducts were closed due to flooding.
July 2012Thunderstorm WindElmhurst-Large trees were blown down. Wind gusts were estimated to 80 mph.
August 2011Thunderstorm WindElmhurst-Winds were estimated to 65 mph and blew down trees on portions of York Street and Prospect Avenue.
October 2006HailElmhurst-Nickel size hail was reported at Grand and York Avenue.
July 2003HailElmhurst-Reported at Interstate 290 and Route 83.
May 2025HailElmhurst-no account filed
May 2003Thunderstorm WindElmhurst-no account filed
August 2003HailElmhurst-no account filed
August 2003Thunderstorm WindElmhurst-no account filed
August 2003Thunderstorm WindElmhurst-no account filed
July 2001Thunderstorm WindElmhurst-no account filed
May 1994HailElmhurst-no account filed

Every storm recorded in DuPage 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
John L. Pentecost House0.2 miles2003
Emery, Jr., William H., House0.4 miles2004
Frank B. Henderson House0.4 miles2002
Robinwood0.4 miles2004
William and Jennette Sloane House0.4 miles2016
Villa Avenue Train Station1.3 miles1986

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 76002162 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
DuPage CountyAll 50 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.