Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992.
“Anderson House is a historic house located at 920 W. The house's first floor was built in 1883, while its second floor was added in 1892.”
Wikipedia article John C. Anderson House, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 8 National Register listings published here for Macoupin County · listed in 1992 · category: Building.
Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
The chapter on Carlinville Township in History of Macoupin County, Illinois : Biographical and Pictorial, published 1911 names Carlinville. This is what it says, exactly as the scans read.
Carlinville is now (1911), a beautiful little city 6f 3,616 population, with most of its business houses on four streets which face the square. The place is devoid of manufactories, although at one time it had nourishing machine shops, a brewery, established in 1859 by Steel & Lebherz, which continued in operation many years. This and the machine shops have long been abandoned. There were mills in Carlinville, the output of which was many hundred barrels of flour per day. These have gone out of existence, most of them having been destroyed by fire, until today not one remains.
Passage source: History of Macoupin County, Illinois : Biographical and Pictorial, published 1911.
Carlinville is a splendid trading town and has one of the. most fertile and prosperous regions in central Illinois from which to secure customers. With good roads and railroad facilities unsurpassed in the Chicago & Alton and the Illinois Traction System, the people easily reach her marts, not only from all points of the county but from adjoining territory. Her merchants are consequently busy and prosperous, as is evidenced by the modern store buildings and many handsome homes, cRurches and other structures.
Passage source: History of Macoupin County, Illinois : Biographical and Pictorial, published 1911.
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 Carlinville Township - 9,926 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 John C. Anderson House: 1 past producer, 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: 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.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Limestone Prospect | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Occurrence | ||
| Macoupin County Pit | Stone | Past Producer |
Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Carlinville, the town this property stands in, in 50 storm reports between 1995 and 2025: 27 hail, 21 thunderstorm wind, 2 tornado. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 2002 | Hail | Carlinville | $1,000,000 | no account filed |
| May 1996 | Tornado (F1) | Carlinville | $250,000 | no account filed |
| May 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Carlinville | - | Thunderstorm winds caused tree damage of an unknown extent throughout Carlinville. |
| June 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Carlinville | - | Thunderstorm winds blew down a tree onto Illinois Route 4 on southeast side of town. |
| May 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Carlinville | - | Thunderstorm winds blew down several large trees. |
| June 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Carlinville | - | Thunderstorm winds blew down a small shed. |
| July 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Carlinville | - | Numerous tree limbs were blown down around town. Also, a 55 foot tree was blown over crashing through a fence and into a back yard. The tree was alive but hollow. Several power lines were blown down as well. |
| June 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Carlinville | - | Thunderstorm winds blew down several trees and power lines, and numerous tree limbs in Carlinville. |
| August 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Carlinville | - | Numerous tree limbs were blown down. |
| July 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Carlinville | - | Thunderstorm winds blew down numerous tree limbs and power lines. |
| May 2005 | Hail | Carlinville | - | Amateur radio spotters reported nickel size hail northwest of Carlinville. |
| June 2005 | Hail | Carlinville | - | Storm spotters reported 3/4 inch hail. |
| April 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Carlinville | - | The County Sheriff reported that a home was damaged by a downed tree. |
| April 2001 | Hail | Carlinville | - | The County Emergency Manager reported 3/4 inch hail. |
| September 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Carlinville | - | Thunderstorm wind gusts downed some trees and power lines in Carlinville. |
| May 2000 | Hail | Carlinville | - | Storm spotters reported 3/4 inch hail. |
| June 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Carlinville | - | The County Sheriff reported power lines down on the north side of town. |
| July 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Carlinville | - | The local power company reported electric lines down just west of town. |
| July 2000 | Hail | Carlinville | - | Storm spotters reported 1 inch hail in Carlinville. |
| May 1998 | Hail | Carlinville | - | Storm spotters reported 1 inch hail. |
| May 1998 | Hail | Carlinville | - | A storm spotter reported 3/4 inch hail. |
| March 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Carlinville | - | Thunderstorm wind gusts destroyed a storage building and blew part of the roof off a barm. |
| May 1995 | Hail | Carlinville | - | Ham radio spotters reported threee-quarters inch diameter hail in the Brighton area. Several minutes later, the Illinois State Police and the county sheriff reported golf ball-size hail in and around Carlinville, lasting for about ten minutes. |
| May 2025 | Hail | Carlinville | - | no account filed |
| July 2023 | Hail | Carlinville | - | no account filed |
| April 2013 | Hail | Carlinville | - | no account filed |
| April 2011 | Hail | Carlinville | - | no account filed |
| May 2011 | Hail | Carlinville | - | no account filed |
| May 2010 | Hail | Carlinville | - | no account filed |
| June 2009 | Hail | Carlinville | - | no account filed |
| July 2008 | Hail | Carlinville | - | no account filed |
| March 2007 | Hail | Carlinville | - | no account filed |
| August 2007 | Hail | Carlinville | - | no account filed |
| June 2006 | Hail | Carlinville | - | no account filed |
| April 2005 | Hail | Carlinville | - | no account filed |
| April 2005 | Hail | Carlinville | - | no account filed |
| April 2005 | Hail | Carlinville | - | no account filed |
| August 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Carlinville | - | no account filed |
| August 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Carlinville | - | no account filed |
| April 2002 | Hail | Carlinville | - | no account filed |
| June 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Carlinville | - | no account filed |
| June 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Carlinville | - | no account filed |
| April 2002 | Hail | Carlinville | - | no account filed |
| April 2002 | Hail | Carlinville | - | no account filed |
| April 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Carlinville | - | no account filed |
| April 2002 | Hail | Carlinville | - | no account filed |
| June 1999 | Tornado (F1) | Carlinville | - | no account filed |
| November 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Carlinville | - | no account filed |
| May 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Carlinville | - | no account filed |
| May 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Carlinville | - | no account filed |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Carlinville Chapter House | 0.8 miles | 1980 |
 | Carlinville Historic District | 1.1 miles | 1976 |
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 92001535 in Record Group 79. |
| Wikipedia article | Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA. |
| Macoupin County | All 8 listed properties in this county. |
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