Harrer Building

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.

From the record

One of 621 National Register listings published here for Cook County · listed in 1983 · category: Building.

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

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. 8051 Lincoln Ave., Skokie, 60077
When was it listed? February 1983
Category. building
Township. Niles township
Architectural style. Renaissance Revival architecture
National Register reference number. 83000310 - 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.

Mines and quarries near this property

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Harrer Building: 4 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: 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
Evanston City Eng	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Morton Grove City Eng. - Own Crews	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Niles City Dept of Public Works	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Wilmette City Eng. - Own Crews	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Cook County

Storms near this property

19 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Skokie, the town this property stands in, in 19 storm reports between 1996 and 2025: 10 thunderstorm wind, 6 hail, 2 flash flood, 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
June 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Skokie	$50,000	Numerous trees, tree limbs and power lines were blown. Some trees and limbs fell on cars causing damage. A 40 foot tall tree was completely uprooted on Kolmar Street and fell onto a house. Twelve inch diameter tree limbs were blown down near Skokie Village Hall.
August 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Skokie	$30,000	Multiple reports of estimated wind gusts to around 70 mph came in from Skokie and Evanston. Three large trees were blown onto homes in Skokie.
January 2025	Flood	Skokie	-	From the Chicago311 site, multiple reports were received of minor street flooding in the Garfield Park and West Ridge neighborhoods of Chicago.
July 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Skokie	-	A large tree was blown down blocking Kilbourne Avenue.
August 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Skokie	-	A tree was partially uprooted and fell onto power lines. A large part of another tree snapped off and crushed a car.
August 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Skokie	-	A large tree was uprooted and fell onto a car.
August 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Skokie	-	Numerous trees were snapped and uprooted in Evanston.
November 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Skokie	-	Power lines were blown down in Skokie and in Evanston.
June 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Skokie	-	A large tree limb was blown down onto a CTA rail line.
August 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Skokie	-	Chicago Street and Sanitation Department received numerous reports of downed trees and limbs in the Edgewater, Rogers Park, and Andersonville neighborhoods.
June 2014	Flash Flood	Skokie	-	Up to six inches of flowing water was reported at Prospect Avenue and Harrison Street. A CoCoRaHS observer near Winnetka measured 2.19 inches of rain in 55 minutes while the ASOS at O'Hare measured 0.90 inches of rain in 20 minutes.
May 2012	Flash Flood	Skokie	-	The intersection of Howard Street and Western Avenue was closed due to flooding.
July 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Skokie	-	A 24-inch diameter tree was blown down at the intersection of Oakton Street and Wesley Avenue. Other trees were blown down in the area.
April 2023	Hail	Skokie	-	no account filed
April 2020	Hail	Skokie	-	no account filed
April 2010	Hail	Skokie	-	no account filed
October 2006	Hail	Skokie	-	no account filed
May 2000	Hail	Skokie	-	no account filed
April 1996	Hail	Skokie	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Cook 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
Dempster Street Station	0.9 miles	1996
Hyatt House Hotel	1.1 miles	2013
Forest, The, and Annex	1.7 miles	1984
Stoneleigh Manor	1.7 miles	1984
Herbert A. Dilg House	1.7 miles	2009
Building at 1305-1307 Judson Avenue	1.8 miles	1984

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 83000310 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Cook County	All 621 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.