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Francis Stuyvesant Peabody Estate

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1994.

From the record

“The Mayslake Peabody Estate is an estate constructed as a country home for Francis Stuyvesant Peabody between 1919 and 1922. The estate is located in the western Chicago suburb of Oak Brook, Illinois, United States, and is now part of the Mayslake Forest Preserve administered by the Forest Preserve District of DuPage County.”

Wikipedia article Mayslake Peabody Estate, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 50 National Register listings published here for DuPage County · listed in 1994 · category: District.

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

The listing

  • Listed as. Peabody, Francis Stuyvesant, Estate - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
  • Address. 1717 W. 31st St., Oak Brook, 60523
  • When was it listed? February 1994
  • Category. district
  • Township. York township
  • National Register reference number. 93000836 - 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

2,155 words

This property stands in York Township. History Of Dupage County (1857), published 1857 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 York Township - 2,155 words on its settlement, mills, schools and churches.

Fires near this property

1 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Francis Stuyvesant Peabody Estate in 2005, burning under an acre in total. 1 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
Natural1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
25 June 2005Naturalunder an acreIllinois State Fire Marshal's Officenot named

Every fire recorded in DuPage County

Mines and quarries near this property

7 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Francis Stuyvesant Peabody Estate: 6 past producers, 1 plant. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone. 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
Downers Grove City PitStonePast Producer
Kugler PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Bellwood QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Federal Quarry & MillStone, Crushed/BrokenPlant
Unnamed Limestone QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
West Chester City Eng. - Own CrewsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Wester Springs City Eng.-Own CrewsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in DuPage County

Storms near this property

12 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Oak Brook, the town this property stands in, in 12 storm reports between 2006 and 2026: 7 hail, 5 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
March 2026HailOak Brook-Hail up to the size of golf balls was reported in Oak Brook.
August 2019Thunderstorm WindOak Brook-Numerous large tree limbs were blown down along Adams Road.
July 2012Thunderstorm WindOak Brook-An eight inch diameter tree limb was blown down.
July 2012Thunderstorm WindOak Brook-A five inch diameter tree was sheared off, approximately 30 feet in length.
April 2011HailOak Brook-Penny to nickel size hail was reported from a storm that moved across Oak Brook and Elmhurst.
August 2011HailOak Brook-Hail up to quarter size fell near Butterfield Road and 22nd Street.
June 2010HailOak Brook-Nickel size hail was reported near mile marker 135 on Interstate 88.
June 2010Thunderstorm WindOak Brook-Tree limbs were blown down blocking Midwest Road south of Interstate 88.
June 2008Thunderstorm WindOak Brook-Several large tree limbs, six inches in diameter, were blown down near Interstate 88 and Midwest Road.
April 2006HailOak Brook-Quarter size hail was reported near Interstate 294 and Cermak Road.
April 2014HailOak Brook-no account filed
June 2010HailOak Brook-no account filed

Every storm recorded in DuPage 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
Butler School0.8 miles2003
Graue Mill1.6 miles1975
Downtown Hinsdale Historic District2.3 miles2006
Immanuel Evangelical Church2.4 miles2001
Robbins Park Historic District2.5 miles2008
Francis Stuyvesant Peabody House2.5 miles2000

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 93000836 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
DuPage CountyAll 50 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.
  • 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.