Louis B. Kuppenheimer Jr. House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2017.

From the record

“House is a historic house at 789 Burr Avenue in Winnetka, Illinois. The house was built in 1937-38 for Louis B.”
Wikipedia article Louis B. Kuppenheimer Jr. House, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 621 National Register listings published here for Cook County · listed in 2017 · category: Building.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · 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. Kuppenheimer, Louis B., Jr., House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. Winnetka, Winnetka, 60093
When was it listed? December 2017
Category. building
Township. New Trier township
Architectural style. Gothic Revival
Architect. David Adler
National Register reference number. 98000980 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Mines and quarries near this property

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Louis B. Kuppenheimer Jr. House: 4 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
Glencoe City Engr. - Own Crews	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Northbrook City Dept of Public Work	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Wilmette City Eng. - Own Crews	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Winnetka City Eng. - Own Crews	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Cook County

Storms near this property

4 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Winnetka, the town this property stands in, in 4 storm reports between 2001 and 2012: 2 hail, 2 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
July 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Winnetka	$10,000	Windows were blown out of buildings in downtown Winnetka.
June 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Winnetka	-	no account filed
September 2006	Hail	Winnetka	-	no account filed
July 2001	Hail	Winnetka	-	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
Lola Maverick Lloyd House	0.6 miles	2006
Henry Demarest Lloyd House	0.7 miles	1966
Community House	0.7 miles	2007
John Rogerson Montgomery House	0.7 miles	2004
Anita Willets Burnham Log House	0.9 miles	2005
Dr. Paul W. and Eunice Greeley House	1.1 miles	2011

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 98000980 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.