Grigsby Estate

Built in 1930 (Tudor Revival architecture). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987.

From the record

“The Grigsby Estate is a historic estate and hobby farm at 125 Buckley Road in Barrington Hills, Illinois, USA. The house was built in 1930 for Bertram James Grigsby, an electrical engineer and president of a radio manufacturing company, and his wife Elsie.”
Wikipedia article Grigsby Estate, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 98 National Register listings published here for Lake County · listed in 1987 · category: Building · built in 1930, Tudor Revival architecture.

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

The listing

Address. 125 Buckley Rd., Barrington Hills, 60010
When was it listed? May 1987
Category. building
Township. Cuba township
When was it built? 1930
Architectural style. Tudor Revival architecture
National Register reference number. 87000649 - 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

2,019 words

This property stands in Cuba Township. The Past and Present of Lake County, Illinois, published 1877 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 Cuba Township - 2,019 words on its settlement, mills, schools and churches.

Mines and quarries near this property

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Grigsby Estate: 4 producers, 1 past producer. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Perlite. 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
Filter Materials Perlite Plant	Perlite	Producer
Algonquin Plant	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Carpentersville Pit #25	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Dundee North Road Mat'Ls Corp	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Dundee Pit Meyer Material	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working 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

3 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
George E. Van Hagen House	1.1 miles	2016
Louis Fredrick House	1.2 miles	2019
Catlow Theatre	2.5 miles	1989

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 87000649 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
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.
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.