Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1994.
One of 50 National Register listings published here for DuPage County · listed in 1994 · category: Building.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service · the Wikipedia article
The chapter on Bloomingdale Township in History Of Dupage County (1857), published 1857 names Bloomingdale. This is what it says, exactly as the scans read.
The first election in this precinct was held at Elk grove, eight miles north east of Bloomingdale. Lyman Meacham was elected justice of the peace. The first path master went as far south as Warrenville, ten miles distant, to warn out the settlers on the highway to perform their road labor. The claim difficulty to which allusion has been made, occurred in this town. It is thought that no correct history of the horrid transaction has ever appeared. Thestatement of this affair, given in the life of George W. Green, the banker, who committed suicide in the Chicago jail, is very erroneous. The compilers have been at considerable pains to obtain a brief, and as they believe, an impartial account of the transaction, which is commonly known as
Passage source: History Of Dupage County (1857), published 1857.
Bloomingdale is not excelled by any of its sister towns in healthfulness of climate, fertility of soil, beauty of scenery, variety of products, nor in attention to agriculture. Meacham's grove is in this town, and embraces about 1,200 acres of fine timber. The trail made by Gen. Scott's army, in passing from Fort Dearborn to the Mississippi, is about a mile and a half south of the grove. The trail was visible when the first settlers came, and has always been known as the army trail road. The source of the east branch of the Du Page river is from low land about half a mile south of the grove. The west branch rises in a slough, a few rods in width, situated near the north east corner of the town of Wayne. The town is well watered by springs and small streams, it having but one stream of any size. A branch of Salt creek runs in an easterly direction through the town, uniting with the main branch at Duncklee's grove, in the town of Addison. This stream furnishes water power at some seasons, and a saw mill has been erected upon it.
Passage source: History Of Dupage County (1857), published 1857.
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 Bloomingdale Township - 2,683 words on its settlement, mills, schools and churches.
Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Randecker's Hardware Store in 2014, burning under an acre in total. None 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 |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 10 April 2014 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | 2014-357 |
Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Randecker's Hardware Store: 2 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ajax Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Curtis S&G Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Mallard Lake Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer |
Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Bloomingdale, the town this property stands in, in 15 storm reports between 1996 and 2025: 8 thunderstorm wind, 6 hail, 1 tornado. The reports record 1 death and 1 injury. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bloomingdale | 1 killed | A man was struck by a falling tree limb on a golf course and died from his injuries. |
| August 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bloomingdale | 1 hurt, $25,000 | At least ten trees were blown down, some onto homes. One home lost part of its roof and one person was injured. |
| August 2008 | Tornado (EF1) | Bloomingdale | $250,000 | A second, brief tornado touched down in Bloomingdale, near an apartment complex on Century Point Lane. There was roof and window damage at two apartment buildings. Significant damage was done to roofs of houses and to trees from Cardinal Drive east across Bloomingdale Road through Norton Lane and into the area around Sterling Drive. |
| July 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bloomingdale | - | A photo showed a tree limb 7 to 8 inches in diameter snapped from a trunk. |
| July 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bloomingdale | - | A tree was blown down onto a house. |
| August 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bloomingdale | - | Large tree limbs were blown down. |
| July 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bloomingdale | - | A large tree was blown down. |
| August 2015 | Hail | Bloomingdale | - | no account filed |
| June 2009 | Hail | Bloomingdale | - | no account filed |
| July 2003 | Hail | Bloomingdale | - | no account filed |
| August 2003 | Hail | Bloomingdale | - | no account filed |
| August 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bloomingdale | - | no account filed |
| May 2000 | Hail | Bloomingdale | - | no account filed |
| August 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bloomingdale | - | no account filed |
| April 1996 | Hail | Bloomingdale | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Bloomingdale School-Village Hall | under 500 feet | 1994 |
 | Stacy's Tavern | 4.7 miles | 1974 |
 | Alfred A. Schiller House | 5.0 miles | 2008 |
| Theosophical Society in America Headquarters | 5.1 miles | 2025 | |
 | Lake Ellyn Park | 5.2 miles | 2017 |
 | Glen Ellyn Main Street Historic District | 5.3 miles | 1984 |
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 94001265 in Record Group 79. |
| Wikipedia article | Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA. |
| DuPage County | All 50 listed properties in this county. |
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