Annawan Chapter House

Built in 1910 (Prairie School architecture). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.

From the record

“The Annawan Chapter House is a historic building located at 206 S. The building was constructed between 1909 and 1910 as a meetinghouse for Annawan's chapter of the American Woman's League.”
Wikipedia article Annawan Chapter House, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 16 National Register listings published here for Henry County · listed in 1980 · category: Building · built in 1910, Prairie School architecture, by Helfensteller, Hirsch & Watson.

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. 206 S. Depot St., Annawan, 61234
When was it listed? November 1980
Category. building
Also known as. American Woman's League Chapter Houses TR
Township. Annawan township
When was it built? 1910
Architectural style. Prairie School architecture
Architect. Helfensteller, Hirsch & Watson
National Register reference number. 80001368 - 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

3,927 words

The chapter on Annawan Township in History of Henry County, Illinois : It's Taxpayers and Voters; Containing Also, a Biographical Directory, a Condensed History of the State; Map of the County; a Business Directory...etc, published 1877 names Annawan. This is what it says, exactly as the scans read.

BARKER S. If. Merchant. Anns. wan; born in Oswego Co. N.Y. Jan. I, 1835; came to this county 1858; Rep; Lib; owns 320 acres of land, value $15,000; wife was Helen J. Hartley, born Bureau Co. 111. Nov. 27, 1841; married Jan. j, 1862; has three children; Mr. Baiker is by trade a blacksmith; worked at his trade six years in Annawan; has been a member of Town Council five years, School Treasurer se\en years. Justice of Peace, also legal adviser.

Passage source: History of Henry County, Illinois : It's Taxpayers and Voters; Containing Also, a Biographical Directory, a Condensed History of the State; Map of the County; a Business Directory...etc, published 1877.

CHAPPELL HENRY H. Livery, Annawan; born Oswego Co. N. Y. Feb. 2O, 1841; came to this county 1866; Rep; Lib; owns personal property valued at $1.500; wife was Ida E. Lathrop, born May 26, 1852; married July 21, 1870; has one child; was sergeant in army three years.

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 Annawan Township - 3,927 words on its settlement, mills, schools and churches.

Storms near this property

17 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Annawan, the town this property stands in, in 17 storm reports between 1996 and 2025: 11 thunderstorm wind, 4 hail, 1 tornado, 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
April 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Annawan	$400,000	Barn destroyed & house damaged
June 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Annawan	$10,000	Wind gusts estimated to be 65 mph blew down some 6 to 10 inch diameter tree limbs and twisted the canopy of a gas station in Annawan, IL around 1240 pm June 13.
July 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Annawan	$10,000	Trees down in a separate storm that was not part of the bow echo in Southern Henry County.
May 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Annawan	$7,000	Severe thunderstorm winds lifted a machine shed and tossed it between a house and garage, destroying the shed.
July 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Annawan	$5,000	Wind gusts estimated to be 65 mph blew down some power lines in Annawan, IL at 514 pm CDT July 23. A power outage was observed throughout the town.
May 2025	Hail	Annawan	-	A public reported shared via social media showing several hailstones estimated to be around golf ball sized. The time of the event was estimated using radar.
August 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Annawan	-	A trained spotter reported an estimated wind gust of 60 MPH.
June 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Annawan	-	A few large trees were blown down.
July 2015	Hail	Annawan	-	This was a delayed public report that was relayed via facebook.
July 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Annawan	-	Wind gusts estimated to be 60 mph were observed about 3 miles southeast of Annawan, IL around 425 pm CDT July 23.
June 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Annawan	-	Wind gusts estimated to be 70 mph were observed just south of Annawan, IL between 510 pm and 520 pm CDT June 23. Corn in several area fields were leaning or flattened.
June 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Annawan	-	Wind gusts estimated to be 80 mph were observed in Annawan, IL at 536 pm June 23.
June 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Annawan	-	Tree limbs about 4 to 5 inches in diameter were blown down. Time estimated.
March 2006	Hail	Annawan	-	Also heavy rain; truck struck by lightning
July 1999	Flood	Annawan	-	A NWS spotter reported six inches of standing water on Interstate 80 just east of Annawan.
April 2011	Hail	Annawan	-	no account filed
August 1996	Tornado (F0)	Annawan	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Henry 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
	Ryan Round Barn	6.1 miles	1974

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 80001368 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Henry County	All 16 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.
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.