Philip D. Armour III House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1996.

From the record

“Armour III House is a historic mansion in Lake Bluff, Illinois, USA. Armour III, grandson of Armour and Company founder Philip D.”
Wikipedia article Philip D. Armour III House, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 98 National Register listings published here for Lake 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 listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Listed as. Armour, Philip D., III, House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. 900 Armour Dr., Lake Bluff, 61944
When was it listed? November 1996
Category. building
Architectural style. Tudor Revival architecture
Architect. Harrie Thomas Lindeberg
National Register reference number. 96001342 - 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.

Storms near this property

5 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lake Bluff, the town this property stands in, in 5 storm reports between 2003 and 2022: 2 flood, 1 hail, 1 flash flood, 1 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
August 2007	Flash Flood	Lake Bluff	$10,000	Up to 4 inches of rain fell in a short time in the early morning hours. Some low lying roads had more than 2 feet of standing water. US41 near the Route 176 viaduct was closed due to flooding. One man had to be rescued from his vehicle. Route 176 was also closed at Sheridan Road due to flooding and buckling of pavement.
July 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Lake Bluff	-	A photo was shared of a tree that was blown down onto a car in Lake Bluff.
July 2007	Flood	Lake Bluff	-	Two feet of standing water at Route 41 and Route 176.
July 2006	Flood	Lake Bluff	-	Road closed at 14 Skokie Valley Road because of high water.
July 2003	Hail	Lake Bluff	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Lake 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.

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 96001342 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Lake County	All 98 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.
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.