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Photograph of St. Sava's Serbian Orthodox Seminary
Photograph by bogdanstepniak, CC BY 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Church of the St. Sava Serbian Orthodox Monastery

Built in 1931. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.

From the record

“The Saint Sava Serbian Orthodox Monastery and Seminary is an Eastern Orthodox Christian and professional school of theology located in Libertyville, Illinois. It is under jurisdiction of the Serbian Orthodox Eparchy of New and Midwestern America of the Serbian Orthodox Church.”

Wikipedia article Saint Sava Serbian Orthodox Monastery and Seminary, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 98 National Register listings published here for Lake County · listed in 1979 · category: Building · built in 1931.

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. N of Libertyville on N. Milwaukee Ave, Libertyville, 60048
  • When was it listed? September 1979
  • Category. building
  • Township. Warren township
  • When was it built? 1931
  • National Register reference number. 79000850 - 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

838 words

This property stands in Warren Township. The Past and Present of Lake County, Illinois, published 1877 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 Warren Township - 838 words on its settlement, mills, schools and churches.

Fires near this property

13 since 2012

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 13 fires within 5 miles of Church of the St. Sava Serbian Orthodox Monastery between 2012 and 2018, burning about 10 acres in total. None 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined9
Debris and open burning3
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
1 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIllinois Division of Forestry Resources9118
1 August 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIllinois Division of Forestry Resources8118
9 July 2012Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreIllinois Division of Forestry ResourcesDEC-79
8 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIllinois Division of Forestry Resources18-2269
26 June 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresIllinois Division of Forestry Resources12-0482
1 June 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreIllinois Division of Forestry Resources60118
8 May 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreIllinois Division of Forestry Resources18-1522
30 April 2018Debris and open burning2.0 acresIllinois Division of Forestry Resources18-1413

Every fire recorded in Lake County

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 Church of the St. Sava Serbian Orthodox Monastery: 4 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Gurnee PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Gurnee PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Lake County Pit No. 1Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Lake County Pit No. 2Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Peterson PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Lake County

Storms near this property

30 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Libertyville, the town this property stands in, in 30 storm reports between 1996 and 2025: 16 thunderstorm wind, 6 hail, 4 flood, 3 heavy rain. 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
September 2000LightningLibertyville$25,000Several lightning strikes reported throughout the city, with only one fire reported.
July 2011Thunderstorm WindLibertyville$10,000Telephone lines were blown down along with large trees in Prairie View. A roof was blown off.
June 2025Thunderstorm WindLibertyville-A microburst impacted portions of Libertyville. A large tree fell onto a townhouse on Country Club Dr, rendering it uninhabitable, and power poles were downed near Liberty Lake. Tree damage was also noted in the same general area.
February 2024Thunderstorm WindLibertyville-A photo shared via social media showed fence panels blown over in Libertyville. Time was estimated using radar.
June 2024Heavy RainLibertyville-Mesonet station FW4338 recorded 5.33 of rain.
June 2024Heavy RainLibertyville-Storm total rainfall of 6.86 was recorded in Libertyville.
July 2023Thunderstorm WindLibertyville-Multiple trees between 8 and 12 inches in diameter were reported down off of Lake Street in Libertyville.
August 2021Thunderstorm WindLibertyville-Multiple large tree limbs were blown down.
September 2021Thunderstorm WindLibertyville-Tree limbs were blown down.
May 2020FloodLibertyville-Appley Avenue was flooded near Oak Spring Road.
July 2020Thunderstorm WindLibertyville-Wind gusts were estimated to 60 mph and 2 inch diameter tree limbs were blown down.
June 2018FloodLibertyville-Numerous local roads had several inches of standing flood water along with some flowing water. Rainfall of 0.56 inches occurred in a ten minute period from 403 pm CST to 413 pm CST.
September 2014Thunderstorm WindLibertyville-A large tree was blown down onto Butterfield Road just north of IL-176.
June 2011Thunderstorm WindLibertyville-Wind gusts were estimated to 60 mph.
July 2011Thunderstorm WindLibertyville-A portion of a roof was peeled off by strong winds on Church Street.
March 2007FloodLibertyville-Eight to twelve inches of standing water reported on Route 176, 1/8 mile west of St. Mary's Road. Six inches of standing water on Bradley Road at Interstate 94.
July 2006FloodLibertyville-One foot of standing water reported at Route 21 and Maple Avenue.
July 2006Thunderstorm WindLibertyville-Two medium sized trees blown down and several tree limbs blown down.
July 2005Thunderstorm WindLibertyville-Trees and power lines were blown down.
May 2004Thunderstorm WindLibertyville-Trees were blown down near Milwaukee and Peterson Roads and north along Route 21.
April 2017HailLibertyville-no account filed
March 2011HailLibertyville-no account filed
April 2007HailLibertyville-no account filed
May 2003Heavy RainLibertyville-no account filed
July 2003Thunderstorm WindLibertyville-no account filed
May 2000HailLibertyville-no account filed
May 2000HailLibertyville-no account filed
May 1998HailLibertyville-no account filed
September 1996Thunderstorm WindLibertyville-no account filed
April 1996Thunderstorm WindLibertyville-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Lake 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
David Adler Estate2.2 miles1999
Mrs. Isaac D. Adler House2.3 miles2002
Libertyville Town Hall3.0 miles2022
Libertyville Downtown Historic District3.1 miles2025
Proctor Building3.2 miles1998
Cook Memorial Library3.2 miles2001

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 79000850 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Lake CountyAll 98 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.