George W. Maher House

Built in 1893. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.

From the record

“Maher House is a historic house at 424 Warwick Road in Kenilworth, Illinois, USA. Maher built the house in 1893 for himself and his wife.”
Wikipedia article George W. Maher House, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 621 National Register listings published here for Cook County · listed in 1979 · category: Building · built in 1893.

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. Maher, George W., House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. 424 Warwick Rd., Kenilworth, 60043
When was it listed? March 1979
Category. building
Township. New Trier township
When was it built? 1893
National Register reference number. 79000833 - 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 George W. Maher 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

3 since 2016

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Kenilworth, the town this property stands in, in 3 storm reports between 2016 and 2023: 1 flash flood, 1 hail, 1 flood. 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
March 2023	Flood	Kenilworth	-	A report was received of at least one foot of water on Green Bay Road near Melrose Avenue and Roger Avenue.
July 2016	Flash Flood	Kenilworth	-	Numerous stranded cars at the viaduct at Wilson St and Winnetka Rd.
April 2020	Hail	Kenilworth	-	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
O'Grady, Mr. J. William de Coursey, House	0.1 miles	2008
Ramsey, Charles N., and Herry E. Weese House	0.2 miles	2009
Kenilworth Club	0.3 miles	1979
Hiram Baldwin House	0.3 miles	1983
William McJunkin House	0.3 miles	2006
Orth House	0.4 miles	1976

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 79000833 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.