Obee House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.

From the record

One of 98 National Register listings published here for Lake County · listed in 1982 · category: Building.

Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

Listing status. The Park Service records this property as Removed.
What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. 1642 Green Bay Rd., Highland Park, 60035
When was it listed? September 1982
Category. building
Also known as. Highland Park MRA
Township. Moraine township
National Register reference number. 82002573 - 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.

Fires near this property

2 since 2020

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Obee House in 2020, burning about 23 acres in total. None started naturally. None was 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	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.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
15 December 2020	Debris and open burning	23 acres	Illinois Division of Forestry Resources	2020-2498
4 November 2020	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Illinois Division of Forestry Resources	2020-2239

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 Obee House: 3 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Stone. 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
Deerfield Pit	Stone	Past Producer
Glencoe City Engr. - Own Crews	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Northbrook City Dept of Public Work	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Lake County

Storms near this property

7 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Highland Park, the town this property stands in, in 7 storm reports between 2008 and 2025: 3 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 flood, 1 lightning. 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
August 2018	Lightning	Highland Park	2 hurt	Two women were returning to their car after a concert and sought shelter under a tree as a storm moved through the area. Lightning struck the tree and both women sustained cuts, bruises and burns.
June 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Highland Park	-	A private weather station recorded a 64 mph gust in Highland Park.
April 2023	Hail	Highland Park	-	A photo showed hail up to the size of golf balls.
September 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Highland Park	-	A photo was shared on social media of a tree blown down near Highland Park.
July 2008	Flood	Highland Park	-	Many streets were flooded with six inches of standing water between Route 41 and Route 43 in Highland Park. Five inches of standing water was reported near Deerfield and Route 83.
August 2024	Hail	Highland Park	-	no account filed
April 2023	Hail	Highland Park	-	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

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
Highland Park Water Tower	0.5 miles	1982
Humer Building	0.8 miles	1982
Maple Avenue Maple Lane Historic District	0.9 miles	1982
Jean Butz James Museum of the Highland Park Historical Society	1.0 miles	1982
Linden Park Place-Belle Avenue Historic District	1.0 miles	1983
Hazel Avenue Prospect Avenue Historic District	1.0 miles	1982

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 82002573 in Record Group 79.
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.