Peoria State Hospital

Built in 1902 (Prairie School architecture). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.

From the record

“Peoria State Hospital Historic District, also known as Bartonville State Hospital or Illinois Asylum for the Incurable Insane, was a psychiatric hospital operated by the State of Illinois from 1902 to 1973. The hospital is located in Bartonville, Illinois, near the city of Peoria in Peoria County.”
Wikipedia article Peoria State Hospital, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 35 National Register listings published here for Peoria County · listed in 1982 · category: District · built in 1902, Prairie School architecture.

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

The listing

Address. Ricketts Ave. and U.S. 24, Bartonville, 61607
When was it listed? February 1982
Category. district
Township. Limestone township
When was it built? 1902
Architectural style. Prairie School architecture
National Register reference number. 82002590 - 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

4,494 words

This property stands in Limestone Township. The History of Peoria County, Illinois. Containing a History of the Northwest--history of Illinois--history of the County, Its Early Settlement, Growth, Development, Resources, Etc., Etc. .., published 1880 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 Limestone Township - 4,494 words on its settlement, mills, schools and churches.

Fires near this property

3 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Peoria State Hospital in 2009, burning about 1 acre 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	2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	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
3 March 2009	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Illinois Division of Forestry Resources	MURR
23 March 2009	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Illinois Division of Forestry Resources	9273
2 January 2009	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Illinois Division of Forestry Resources	904

Every fire recorded in Peoria County

Mines and quarries near this property

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Peoria State Hospital: 3 occurrences, 1 producer, 1 plant, 1 past producer. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Fire Clay (Refractory). 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
Peoria Blacktop S & G	Fire Clay (Refractory)	Plant
Pekin Sand	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Stevers Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Limestone Prospect	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Occurrence
Limestone Prospect	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Occurrence
Limestone Prospect	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Occurrence

Every working recorded in Peoria County

Storms near this property

34 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Bartonville, the town this property stands in, in 34 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 17 hail, 15 thunderstorm wind, 1 lightning, 1 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
March 2020	Tornado (EF1)	Bartonville	$300,000	A tornado touched down 0.3 miles east of the Peoria Airport at 8:58 PM CDT. The tornado tracked northeastward, doing minor damage to house roofs, fences and siding in a subdivision. Business roofs were then damaged at Madison Park Shopping Center and numerous trees at Madison Park Golf Course. Several roofs were damaged in a nearby subdivision before the tornado dissipated near the eastern portion of St. Mary's Cemetery at 9:03 PM CDT.
June 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Bartonville	$60,000	Numerous large trees and power lines were blown down.
June 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Bartonville	$20,000	Several trees and power lines were blown down.
August 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Bartonville	$10,000	A picnic shelter was destroyed.
August 2015	Lightning	Bartonville	$10,000	A lightning strike caused a mobile home to catch fire in Bartonville.
September 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Bartonville	$10,000	Measured wind gust of 60 mph with downed tree limbs and pea sized hail.
November 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Bartonville	$4,000	A 2-foot diameter tree was blown down in Bartonville. Power outages were reported.
August 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Bartonville	$1,000	A large tree limb was blown down on Kimmoor Road in Limestone Township.
August 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Bartonville	$1,000	An aluminum flag pole was snapped by strong winds.
July 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Bartonville	-	A large tree approximately 16 inches in diameter was blown onto a house.
August 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Bartonville	-	A large tree branch was blown down onto the roof of a house.
May 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Bartonville	-	A power line was blown down.
July 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Bartonville	-	Several trees were blown down.
November 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Bartonville	-	Numerous tree branches were blown down.
August 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Bartonville	-	A tree was blown onto power lines on Fairview Drive.
August 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Bartonville	-	A tree was blown onto powerlines southwest of Bartonville.
September 2005	Hail	Bartonville	-	A large tree was also blown down in town.
May 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Bartonville	-	Thunderstorms winds blew down numerous large tree branches in Bartonville.
May 2025	Hail	Bartonville	-	no account filed
March 2023	Hail	Bartonville	-	no account filed
July 2020	Hail	Bartonville	-	no account filed
July 2020	Hail	Bartonville	-	no account filed
January 2018	Hail	Bartonville	-	no account filed
April 2017	Hail	Bartonville	-	no account filed
April 2017	Hail	Bartonville	-	no account filed
June 2015	Hail	Bartonville	-	no account filed
May 2011	Hail	Bartonville	-	no account filed
March 2005	Hail	Bartonville	-	no account filed
March 2005	Hail	Bartonville	-	no account filed
March 2005	Hail	Bartonville	-	no account filed
June 2002	Hail	Bartonville	-	no account filed
August 2001	Hail	Bartonville	-	no account filed
April 2000	Hail	Bartonville	-	no account filed
June 1994	Hail	Bartonville	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Peoria 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
Lincoln Branch Peoria Public Library	3.9 miles	2014
John C. Proctor Recreation Center	4.1 miles	1979
International Harvester Building	4.3 miles	2005
Peoria Warehouse Historic District	4.6 miles	2014
Pettingill-Morron House	4.7 miles	1976
West Bluff Historic District	5.0 miles	1976

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 82002590 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Peoria County	All 35 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.