Built in 1928 (Tudor Revival architecture). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.
From the record
“The Public Service Building is a historic building at 344-354 N. The commercial block was built in 1928 for utility magnate Samuel Insull.”
Wikipedia article Public Service Building (Libertyville, Illinois), CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 98 National Register listings published here for Lake County · listed in 1983 · category: Building · built in 1928, Tudor Revival architecture, by Hermann V. von Holst.
National Register reference number.83003581- 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.
In this connection, it may be here mentioned that Liberty ville, in the early his¬ tory of the county, has produced more marked men and notable characters than Any other town in this county. Among the number, Tobias Wynkoop, before mentioned, is entitled to a passing notice. He settled in the Fall of 1835, at the point where the Milwaukee road crosses the creek, north of Libertyville, afterward known as Wynkoop'* Creek; He had expansive ideas as to the size of a farm he required. He declared that a quarter-section of land would only answer him for a garden spot. He claimed nearly the entire breadth of prai¬ rie on the west, extending westward about three miles. His boundaries were defined by laying down a single rail around it, in the form of a Virginia fence. When the land sale came, he was unable to purchase the land, and it passed into other hands.
Horace Butler, who settled at Libertyville in 1837, was the second lawyer who came to the county, but was really the first who practiced his profession. He was a man of ability, and one of the main supporters of the interests of Libertyville in all its early contests. He was a member of the Constitutional Convention of this State in 1847, and was, for one term, a Representative in the Legislature 'from Lake County.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 15 fires within 5 miles of Public Service Building
between 2012 and 2019, burning about 26 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
10
Debris and open burning
3
Power generation/transmission/distribution
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.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
5 workings within 5 miles of Public Service Building: 4 past producers, 1 producer.
1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, 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.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Libertyville, the town this property stands in, in 30 storm reports between 1996 and 2025: 16 thunderstorm wind, 6 hail, 4 flood, 3 heavy rain.
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.
A microburst impacted portions of Libertyville. A large tree fell onto a townhouse on Country Club Dr, rendering it uninhabitable, and power poles were downed near Liberty Lake. Tree damage was also noted in the same general area.
Numerous local roads had several inches of standing flood water along with some flowing water. Rainfall of 0.56 inches occurred in a ten minute period from 403 pm CST to 413 pm CST.
Eight to twelve inches of standing water reported on Route 176, 1/8 mile west of St. Mary's Road. Six inches of standing water on Bradley Road at Interstate 94.
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.
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.
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