Marine Chapter House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.

From the record

“The Marine Chapter House is a historic building located on Silver Street in Marine, Illinois. The building was constructed between 1909 and 1910 as a meetinghouse for Marine's chapter of the American Woman's League.”
Wikipedia article Marine Chapter House, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 40 National Register listings published here for Madison 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.
Address. Silver St., Marine, 62061
When was it listed? November 1980
Category. building
Also known as. American Woman's League Chapter Houses TR
Township. Marine township
Architectural style. Prairie School architecture
Architect. Helfensteller, Hirsch & Watson
National Register reference number. 80001397 - 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.

Storms near this property

16 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Marine, the town this property stands in, in 16 storm reports between 1995 and 2026: 9 thunderstorm wind, 4 hail, 3 tornado. 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 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Marine	$20,000	no account filed
April 2024	Tornado (EF0)	Marine	$10,000	A tornado touched down on Loos Road, about 1.7 miles northwest of Marine. In this location it blew down several tree limbs, metal canopy off a roof and blew shed doors down. It then tracked to the east northeast crossing Illinois Route 4, then crossed Pocahontas Road. It snapped off a large pine tree before lifting and dissipating on Brothers Lane just west of Buffalo Road. Overall, the was rated EF0 (max wind speed of 74 mph) with a path length of 4.37 miles and a max path width of 100 yards. No deaths or injuries were reported.
April 2026	Thunderstorm Wind	Marine	-	Thunderstorm winds damaged a shed near Marine.
April 2026	Tornado (EF0)	Marine	-	A very brief tornado touched down IL just east of Illinois Route 4 and just north of Lower Marine Road where it collapsed the overhead doors of a metal building and caused minor roof damage to a double wide manufactured home. The tornado lifted shortly after.
March 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Marine	-	Thunderstorm winds blew down several large tree branches.
May 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Marine	-	Thunderstorm winds blew down numerous large tree limbs, several trees and power lines in Marine and Highland. One house in Marine suffered minor roof damage.
August 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Marine	-	Thunderstorm winds blew down several large tree limbs.
May 2004	Tornado (F1)	Marine	-	A tornado initially formed near the intersection of Highway 4 and Fruit Road where several trees were damaged. The tornado moved northeast and caused minor roof damage to a couple of homes and more extensive damage to several farm buildings for about 2 miles. Sheet metal from one roof flew at least one-quarter mile.
September 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Marine	-	Thunderstorm wind gusts downed trees and damaged some buildings in a subdivision in rural Madison County between Marine and St. Jacob. At one home, 9 Bartlett Pear trees were downed by the storm. Another home lost roof shingles and had an 8 by 10 foot shed blown into a neighbors yard. A television antenna was bent and a fence was also damaged by a downed tree.
May 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Marine	-	Ham radio spotters reported power lines down and power outages.
March 2025	Hail	Marine	-	no account filed
August 2012	Hail	Marine	-	no account filed
April 2012	Hail	Marine	-	no account filed
April 2011	Hail	Marine	-	no account filed
August 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Marine	-	no account filed
July 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Marine	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Madison 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

2 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
	John Carney House	6.5 miles	1983
	William W. Jarvis House	6.5 miles	1988

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 80001397 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Madison County	All 40 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.