Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.
“The Catlow Theater is a historic single-screen movie theater located in downtown Barrington, Illinois, United States.”
Wikipedia article Catlow Theater, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 98 National Register listings published here for Lake County · listed in 1989 · category: Building.
Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
The chapter on Cuba Township in The Past and Present of Lake County, Illinois, published 1877 names Barrington. This is what it says, exactly as the scans read.
In early days there was a saw-mill in this town, on Flint Creek, near where it empties into Fox River, known as Freeman's mill. It was abandoned many years ago. A branch of the Chicago & Northwestern Railway passes through the southwestern portion of this town, formerly known as the Chicago & Fond du Lac Railroad. It was completed through the town about the year 1854, and a station established at the point where this railroad crosses the line between Cook and Lake Counties - partly in the town of Cuba in Lake County, and Barrington, Cook County, called Barrington Station. Soon after, a town plat was cut out at this station, in the town of Cuba, by Willard Stevens. Another plat was laid out adjoining this, on the south side of the county line in Cook County, so that the village of Barrington lies in both counties. The village of Barrington became organized as a corporation in 1864. The first Trustees were Homer Wilmarth, N. R. Burlingham, Wm. Howorth, John Sennott and G. Hermandinger.
Passage source: The Past and Present of Lake County, Illinois, published 1877.
Among the early settlers of this town surviving, and still a resident, is Lewis H. Bute. He is an attorney at law and resides in the village of Barrington. He was elected Supervisor of the town in 1852, and has been re-elected from time to time on many occasions since. He has been Chairman of the Board of Supervisors and holds the office of Supervisor of the town at the present time.
Passage source: The Past and Present of Lake County, Illinois, published 1877.
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.
Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Catlow Theatre: 2 producers. All of them 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.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dundee North Road Mat'Ls Corp | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Filter Materials Perlite Plant | Perlite | Producer |
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.
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.
| Photograph | Property | Distance | Listed |
|---|---|---|---|
| George E. Van Hagen House | 2.3 miles | 2016 | |
| Louis Fredrick House | 2.4 miles | 2019 | |
 | Grigsby Estate | 2.5 miles | 1987 |
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 89001112 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. |
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