A National Historic Landmark. Built in 1876 (Second Empire architecture in the United States and Canada). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1995.
From the record
“The Hegeler Carus Mansion, located at 1307 Seventh Street in La Salle, Illinois is one of the Midwest's great Second Empire structures. Hegeler, a partner in the nearby Matthiessen Hegeler Zinc Company, the mansion was designed in 1874 by noted Chicago architect William W.”
Wikipedia article Hegeler Carus Mansion, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 29 National Register listings published here for LaSalle County · listed in 1995 · category: Building · built in 1876, Second Empire architecture in the United States and Canada, by William W. Boyington · a National Historic Landmark.
Architectural style. Second Empire architecture in the United States and Canada
Architect. William W. Boyington
National Register reference number.95000989- 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.
La Salle embraces the E. ยข of T, 33, R. 1, except a small point between the Tinols and Vermillion rivers which belongs to Deer Park. Tt is crossed from north to south by the Iinois Central Railroads and from east to west by the Chicago, Roel Tsland & Pacific Railroad, and the Tlinois and Michigan Canal terminates in an artificial basin within its limits.
A manufacturing industry ean never flourish until agriculture is developed, the population becomes dense, and capital has accumulated sufficient for its prosecution. The coal production, and the zine and glass manufacture, have assumed large proportions, and with the produce and shipping interest, aggregates an amount of business that must be quite gratifying to the citizens of La Salle, and of which older places might be proud. The future of the Jocality can have bot one resalt, that of a great success,
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 31 fires within 5 miles of Hegeler-Carus Mansion
between 2008 and 2019, burning about 300 acres in total. 2 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
18
Debris and open burning
7
Smoking
3
Natural
2
Power generation/transmission/distribution
1
The most recent of
them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service
that recorded it.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
14 workings within 5 miles of Hegeler-Carus Mansion: 7 past producers, 6 producers, 1 plant.
7 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay, Stone. Distance is straight-line from the
map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring
settlement's page as well.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
La Salle, the town this property stands in, in 28 storm reports between 1996 and 2025: 13 thunderstorm wind, 6 hail, 2 lightning, 2 flood.
The reports record 5 injuries. 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.
Lightning struck the flagpole at Hall High School. A side flash affected 5 students sitting near windows in a 4th floor classroom. One student was taken to a hospital. The others suffered only a minor tingling sensation.
A personal weather station in Peru recorded 2.88 of rainfall in the two hour period between 5:15 and 7:15 PM CST. 1.85 fell in a 45 minute window between 5:15 and 6 PM CST.
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.
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.
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