Aaron G. Cloud House

Built in 1884 (Eastlake Movement). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.

From the record

“Cloud House, now the McCoy Memorial Library, is a historic house in McLeansboro, Illinois, which is now used as the city's public library. The house was built in 1884 for Aaron G.”
Wikipedia article Aaron G. Cloud House, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 4 National Register listings published here for Hamilton County · listed in 1978 · category: Building · built in 1884, Eastlake Movement, by Reid & Reid.

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. Cloud, Aaron G., House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. 164 S. Washington St., McLeansboro, 62859
When was it listed? April 1978
Category. building
Township. McLeansboro township
When was it built? 1884
Architectural style. Eastlake Movement, Italianate architecture, Second Empire style
Architect. Reid & Reid
National Register reference number. 78001150 - 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

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Aaron G. Cloud House: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: 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	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Hamilton Hwy Dept Pit	Stone	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Hamilton County

Storms near this property

3 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names McLeansboro, the town this property stands in, in 3 storm reports between 1994 and 1995: 3 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
May 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	McLeansboro	$10,000	no account filed
April 1994	Thunderstorm Wind	McLeansboro	$50	Trees were blown down.
May 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	McLeansboro	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Hamilton 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

3 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
Cloud State Bank	under 500 feet	1978
Chalon Guard and Emma Blades Cloud House	under 500 feet	2009
St. James Episcopal Church	0.2 miles	1995

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 78001150 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Hamilton County	All 4 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.