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Photograph of Crow Island School
Photograph by Zol87, CC BY-SA 2.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Crow Island School

A National Historic Landmark. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.

From the record

“Crow Island School in Winnetka, Illinois, is an elementary school operated by Winnetka Public Schools. It is significant for its progressive philosophy and its International Style architecture.”

Wikipedia article Crow Island School, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 621 National Register listings published here for Cook County · listed in 1989 · category: Building · a National Historic Landmark.

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

The listing

  • Address. 1112 Willow Rd., Winnetka, 60093
  • When was it listed? October 1989
  • Category. building
  • Township. New Trier township
  • Architectural style. International Style
  • National Register reference number. 89001730 - 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

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Crow Island School: 5 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.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Evanston City EngStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Glencoe City Engr. - Own CrewsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Morton Grove City Eng. - Own CrewsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Wilmette City Eng. - Own CrewsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Winnetka City Eng. - Own CrewsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Cook County

Storms near this property

4 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Winnetka, the town this property stands in, in 4 storm reports between 2001 and 2012: 2 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 2012Thunderstorm WindWinnetka$10,000Windows were blown out of buildings in downtown Winnetka.
June 2011Thunderstorm WindWinnetka-no account filed
September 2006HailWinnetka-no account filed
July 2001HailWinnetka-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.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Dr. Paul W. and Eunice Greeley House0.5 miles2011
William McJunkin House0.6 miles2006
Orth House0.6 miles1976
Ramsey, Charles N., and Herry E. Weese House0.8 miles2009
Community House0.8 miles2007
O'Grady, Mr. J. William de Coursey, House0.8 miles2008

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 89001730 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Cook CountyAll 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.