Ephraim Smith House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.

From the record

“The Ephraim Smith House is an 1845 Greek Revival house in the village of Sugar Grove, Illinois, United States. The house was built by Ephraim Smith, a millwright from Vermont.”
Wikipedia article Ephraim Smith House, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 86 National Register listings published here for Kane County · listed in 1980 · 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.
Listed as. Smith, Ephraim, House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. NE of Sugar Grove, Sugar Grove, 60554
When was it listed? June 1980
Category. building
Township. Sugar Grove township
Architectural style. Greek Revival architecture
National Register reference number. 80001377 - 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

89 words

This property stands in Sugar Grove Township. History of Kane County, Ill., published 1908 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 Sugar Grove Township - 89 words on its settlement, mills, schools and churches.

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 11 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 11 workings within 5 miles of Ephraim Smith House: 7 past producers, 4 producers. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, 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
Big Rock Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Feltes Pit No. 6	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Feltes Plant No. 7 & Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Fox Valley Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Harker Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Kane County Hwy. Dept. Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Kane County Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Kane Sand & Gravel	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Kuglee Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Nichols Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Kane County

Storms near this property

35 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Sugar Grove, the town this property stands in, in 35 storm reports between 1999 and 2025: 20 thunderstorm wind, 10 hail, 1 tornado, 1 funnel cloud. 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
June 2011	Lightning	Sugar Grove	$95,000	A house was struck by lightning on Carol Street causing extensive structural damage.
January 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Sugar Grove	$10,000	A farm house was damaged at Rt. 47 and Kadeka Rd. 400 feet of cedar fence was torn down. 3 foot diameter trees were snapped off and a 20 foot tall tree was uprooted.
August 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Sugar Grove	$1,000	Large tree limbs and signs were blown down along Route 30 between Route 47 and Route 25.
August 2025	Heavy Rain	Sugar Grove	-	A private weather station in southwest Aurora recorded 5.66 of 24-hour rainfall, 4.88 of which fell between 2 and 6 AM CST.
May 2014	Hail	Sugar Grove	-	Multiple reports of hail between 1.00 inches and 1.50 inches came in from around Sugar Grove.
June 2014	Flood	Sugar Grove	-	Approximately eight inches of standing water was reported over the intersection of Galena Boulevard and Municipal Drive.
June 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Sugar Grove	-	Multiple large trees were downed near the intersection of Route 47 and Baseline Road.
August 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Sugar Grove	-	Numerous six to twelve inch diameter tree limbs were blown down.
June 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Sugar Grove	-	A gust to 78 mph was measured at the Aurora Municipal Airport.
June 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Sugar Grove	-	Trees were blown down.
January 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Sugar Grove	-	Report measured at Aurora Municipal Airport in Sugar Grove.
May 2003	Tornado (F0)	Sugar Grove	-	A weak tornado touched down 2 miles west of Route 47 off Interstate 88 in rural Kane county. The tornado was on the ground for 2 minutes. No Damage was reported.
July 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Sugar Grove	-	Thunderstorm winds tore the roof off of a building.
April 2023	Hail	Sugar Grove	-	no account filed
August 2018	Hail	Sugar Grove	-	no account filed
June 2015	Hail	Sugar Grove	-	no account filed
May 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Sugar Grove	-	no account filed
June 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Sugar Grove	-	no account filed
June 2013	Hail	Sugar Grove	-	no account filed
June 2013	Hail	Sugar Grove	-	no account filed
July 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Sugar Grove	-	no account filed
May 2011	Hail	Sugar Grove	-	no account filed
June 2011	Hail	Sugar Grove	-	no account filed
August 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Sugar Grove	-	no account filed
July 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Sugar Grove	-	no account filed
August 2011	Hail	Sugar Grove	-	no account filed
July 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Sugar Grove	-	no account filed
June 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Sugar Grove	-	no account filed
July 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Sugar Grove	-	no account filed
March 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Sugar Grove	-	no account filed
September 2006	Funnel Cloud	Sugar Grove	-	no account filed
May 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Sugar Grove	-	no account filed
May 2003	Hail	Sugar Grove	-	no account filed
July 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Sugar Grove	-	no account filed
June 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Sugar Grove	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Kane 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
Gray-Watkins Mill	3.0 miles	1979
Sam and Ruth Van Sickle Ford House	3.8 miles
George M. Crego Farm	3.8 miles	2022
Aurora College Complex	4.3 miles	1984
Abraham Lincoln School	5.2 miles	2022
Stearns-Wadsworth House	5.2 miles	1982

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 80001377 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Kane County	All 86 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.