Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1996.
“Mattfeldt House is a historic house located at 202 S. The house was constructed circa 1860 for Theodore H.”
Wikipedia article Theodore H. O. Mattfeldt House, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 12 National Register listings published here for Logan County · listed in 1996 · category: Building.
Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
The chapter on Mount Pulaski Township in History of Logan County, Illinois : Its Past and Present .., published 1878 names Mt. Pulaski. This is what it says, exactly as the scans read.
BEIDLEB SAMUEL LINN, postmaster and druggist, Mt. Pulaski; was bora in Lancaster Co. Pa. June 23, 1837; lived in Trenton, N. J. in 1852-3; went from there to Ross Co. Ohio; remained during the years 1854-5-6; came to this county in 1857, and to this village the following fall; was appointed postmaster by James Buchanan immediately after he arrived here, and has held the office ever since, with the exception of about a year during Andrew Johnson's administration; was director of the G. C. & S. R.R. from its organization in 1870 till 1876; married Miss Piudence Ann Capps, Feb. 8, i860; she was born in Mt. Pulaski, Dec 18, 1841; have had eight children, viz : Helen, bom Nov. 3, i860, deceased; Monitor Clarence, bom Jan.- 12, 1862; Frank X. bom Feb. 16, 1864; John^ Linndemuth, bom Dec. 27, 1865; Snow Flake, bom Dea 13, 1867; Imogene A. bom Oct. 5, 1872; Bell Capps, bom Feb. 7, 1874; George Hoke, born Dec. ao, 1876; owns twenty lots and fourteen houses in Mt Pulaski, valued at $18,000; also, section of land in Kansas, valued at $10 per acre; persoi^al^prpp^rtx $10,000; black rep; Universalist .
Passage source: History of Logan County, Illinois : Its Past and Present .., published 1878.
CASS FRANK J>. M.D. physician and surgeon, Mt. Pulaski; rep; MedL-Epis; bora, in 1832, in what was dien Sangamon Co. now Logan; graduated from Rush Medical College, Chicago, in 1863, and from the Miami Medical College, Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1876; married Sarah 6. Landis, of this county, in 1858; has one iiad five children: John, Mary S. (married ' Wniiam Burr), Maggie A. (married Thomas Anderson), Lucy C. (married Thomas Clark), and Dahlia, deceased
Passage source: History of Logan County, Illinois : Its Past and Present .., published 1878.
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 Mount Pulaski Township - 12,245 words on its settlement, mills, schools and churches.
Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Theodore H. O. Mattfeldt House between 2009 and 2010, burning about 8 acres 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 |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 1 |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 March 2009 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 7.0 acres | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | FRICKE |
| 17 November 2010 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | 10368 |
Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Theodore H. O. Mattfeldt House: 2 producers. All of them still produce. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Allsopp Sand & Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Fulk Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Mount Pulaski Courthouse | under 500 feet | 1978 |
 | Robert Buckles Barn | 1.7 miles | 1983 |
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 96000853 in Record Group 79. |
| Wikipedia article | Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA. |
| Logan County | All 12 listed properties in this county. |
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