Mineola Hotel

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.

From the record

“The Mineola Hotel is a historic hotel located at 91 North Cora Street in Fox Lake, Illinois. The hotel is located on the western shore of Fox Lake, one of the lakes which forms the Chain O'Lakes.”
Wikipedia article Mineola Hotel, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 98 National Register listings published here for Lake County · listed in 1979 · 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. 91 N. Cora St., Fox Lake, 60020
When was it listed? July 1979
Category. building
Township. Grant township
National Register reference number. 79003785 - 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

3,280 words

The chapter on Grant Township in The Past and Present of Lake County, Illinois, published 1877 names Fox Lake. This is what it says, exactly as the scans read.

The Pistakee Lakes, so called, spoken of, are a chain of lakes in the western part of the county, which are attracting much attention of late as a place of resort for hunting and fishing, especially the locality within this township. These lakes are three in number. The first is commonly called Grass Lake, and the second, Fox Lake.

Passage source: The Past and Present of Lake County, Illinois, published 1877.

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 Grant Township - 3,280 words on its settlement, mills, schools and churches.

Fires near this property

44 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 44 fires within 5 miles of Mineola Hotel between 2008 and 2020, burning about 212 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 2 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	17
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	17
Fireworks	3
Arson/incendiarism	2
Recreation and ceremony	1
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1
Equipment and vehicle use	1
Misuse of fire by a minor	1
Natural	1

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

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
30 September 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Illinois Division of Forestry Resources	17-2800
30 September 2013	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Illinois Division of Forestry Resources	MARTIN
9 July 2012	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Illinois Division of Forestry Resources	12-01639
9 July 2012	Debris and open burning	1.1 acres	Illinois Division of Forestry Resources	12-01644
7 July 2012	Fireworks	2.0 acres	Illinois Division of Forestry Resources	12-01622
4 July 2012	Fireworks	1.0 acres	Illinois Division of Forestry Resources	12-01582
21 July 2016	Power generation/transmission/distribution	under an acre	Illinois Division of Forestry Resources	16-1966
16 July 2016	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Illinois Division of Forestry Resources	16-001903

Every fire recorded in Lake County

Mines and quarries near this property

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Mineola Hotel: 2 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.

Site	Commodity	Status
Big Hollow Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Pistakee Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Volo Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Lake County

Storms near this property

16 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Fox Lake, the town this property stands in, in 16 storm reports between 1996 and 2026: 11 thunderstorm wind, 4 hail, 1 flood. The reports record 5 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
July 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Fox Lake	3 hurt	no account filed
April 1996	Thunderstorm Wind	Fox Lake	2 hurt, $5,000,000	no account filed
April 2026	Flood	Fox Lake	-	Flooding was reported along Rollins Rd in Fox Lake.
August 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Fox Lake	-	Several trees were snapped or blown down.
October 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Fox Lake	-	Trees and powerlines down in Ingleside area. Tree down across Rt. 59 partially blocking some lanes.
July 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Fox Lake	-	Numerous tree limbs of up to 8 inches in diameter were blown down.
July 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Fox Lake	-	Several trees were blown down onto roads.
July 2003	Hail	Fox Lake	-	Tennis ball size hail was reported in Fox Lake.
June 2015	Hail	Fox Lake	-	no account filed
May 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Fox Lake	-	no account filed
July 2003	Hail	Fox Lake	-	no account filed
July 2003	Hail	Fox Lake	-	no account filed
July 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Fox Lake	-	no account filed
August 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Fox Lake	-	no account filed
September 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Fox Lake	-	no account filed
June 1996	Thunderstorm Wind	Fox Lake	-	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

1 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	Property	Distance	Listed
	Hall, David, House	2.8 miles	2014

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 79003785 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Lake County	All 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.