Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.
From the record
“The Hubbard House is a historic home in Hudson, Illinois, one of two houses on the list of United States Registered Historic Places. The other one, located along the same street, was the Gildersleeve House.”
Wikipedia article Hubbard House (Illinois), CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 35 National Register listings published here for McLean County · listed in 1979 · category: Building.
National Register reference number.79003163- 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.
He went in 1801 to where Newark, Ohio, now is, and built several log cabins for a company which settled there. He married and moved eight miles north of that place and cleared out a small farm and ran a shop in which he made furniture, chairs, etc. Jesse Havens enlisted in the war of 1812 and was at the desperate defence made by Major Croghan and his band of one hundred and sixty men, of Fort Stephenson on the Lower Sandusky. In the fall of 1829 Jesse Havens came to Illinois. He came first to Big Grove, near where Urbana now is, and from there went in search of a house and found one on the North Fork of the Sangamon, south of where Leroy now is. When he moved his family there, which was in December, 1829, the sleet troubled him very much, and he was obliged to walk many miles to obtain corn for food. He left the Sangamon and came to Buckles' Grove and from there he came to where Hudson now is, in January, 1830. There he bought some claims, made improvements and went to farming, as did all the settlers in that section.
John Smith married, March 30, 1831, Anna Havens. In the spring of 1832 he settled at Havens' Grove, about three-quarters of a mile north of his present residence. In 1849 he settled about half a mile from Hudson, in the edge of Havens' Grove, and has lived there ever since.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 10 fires within 5 miles of Hubbard House
between 2013 and 2014, burning about 21 acres in total. None started naturally. 3 were 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
Debris and open burning
3
Arson/incendiarism
3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
2
Recreation and ceremony
1
Equipment and vehicle use
1
The most recent of
them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service
that recorded it.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
1 working within 5 miles of Hubbard House: 1 past producer.
None of them 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.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Hudson, the town this property stands in, in 22 storm reports between 1996 and 2025: 13 thunderstorm wind, 7 hail, 1 tornado, 1 funnel cloud.
The reports record 2 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.
A funnel cloud was sighted by numerous people between Hudson and Lexington, including the Lake Bloomington recreational areas. There was no evidence of debris near the ground, and no reports of damage.
A farm near Hudson sustained significant damage to many outbuildings. In addition, numerous trees and power lines were blown down between Hudson and Gridley.
Thunderstorm winds blew down numerous trees, tree limbs and power lines. In Lexington, the roof of a maintenance building was blown off. Several of the fallen trees in Lexington and Bloomington caused minor damage to a couple of homes. No injuries were reported.
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.
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.
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