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Dorhmann-Buckman House

Built in 1875 (Italianate architecture). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1995.

From the record

“The Dohrmann-Buckman House is a historic house at 8455 W. The house was built in 1875 for original owner Frederick Dohrmann.”
Wikipedia article Dohrmann-Buckman House, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 621 National Register listings published here for Cook County · listed in 1995 · category: Building · built in 1875, Italianate architecture.

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

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 2 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
Listed as. Dorhmann--Buckman House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. 8455 W. Grand Ave., River Grove, 60171
When was it listed? January 1995
Category. building
Township. Leyden township
When was it built? 1875
Architectural style. Italianate architecture
National Register reference number. 94001598 - 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 Dorhmann-Buckman House: 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.

Site	Commodity	Status
A C O'Laughlin Stone Co Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Bellwood Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Melrose Park City Eng. - Own Crews	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Northlake City Eng. - Own Crews	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
River Forest City Eng - Own Crews	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Cook County

Storms near this property

5 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names River Grove, the town this property stands in, in 5 storm reports between 2006 and 2020: 4 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. 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
August 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	River Grove	-	Trees, tree limbs and power lines were blown down in River Grove and Elmwood Park. Several cars and houses were damaged by fallen trees. Several roads were blocked by the fallen trees.
August 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	River Grove	-	A 12 inch diameter tree was blown down on 5th Avenue.
July 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	River Grove	-	A 20 foot long, 8 inch diameter tree limb was blown down at Triton College.
July 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	River Grove	-	no account filed
October 2006	Hail	River Grove	-	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.

Property	Distance	Listed
Robinson House	2.5 miles	1992
Richard Cluever House	2.5 miles	1977
Caroline Grow House	2.5 miles	1992
Albert Soffel House	2.6 miles	1992
William and Caroline Gibbs House	2.6 miles	1992
Caroline Millward House	2.6 miles	1992

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 94001598 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Cook County	All 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.