Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999.
“Churchville School, also known as Fischer School, is a former school building located in unincorporated Bensenville, Illinois.”
Wikipedia article Churchville School, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 50 National Register listings published here for DuPage County · listed in 1999 · category: Building.
Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
This property stands in Addison Township. History Of Dupage County (1857), published 1857 gives that township a chapter of its own.
The chapter covers the township.
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 Addison Township - 2,385 words on its settlement, mills, schools and churches.
Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Churchville School: 3 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Stone. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Village of Lombard Pit | Stone | Past Producer | ||
| Elmhurst Portable Plant #1 | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Elmhurst Underground No. 1 | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| Northlake City Eng. - Own Crews | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer |
Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Bensenville, the town this property stands in, in 15 storm reports between 2003 and 2024: 10 thunderstorm wind, 4 hail, 1 tornado. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bensenville | $60,000 | High winds blew over several bleachers, blew down a fence along with many downed trees in Redmond Park. Numerous trees and tree limbs were blown down in parts of Bensenville. Some of the trees fell onto cars. |
| April 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bensenville | $50,000 | The roof on two industrial buildings was blown off near County Line Road and Third Avenue. A brick wall of one of the buildings also collapsed. |
| April 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bensenville | $50,000 | Trees and tree limbs were blown down. Four houses suffered roof damage. |
| June 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bensenville | $40,000 | A roof was blown off a building on Waveland. Part of the roof was tangled in nearby power lines. |
| July 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bensenville | $30,000 | Numerous trees were blown down. One tree fell through a house. |
| April 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bensenville | $25,000 | Most of the roof of an auto shop on Green Street was blown off. |
| August 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bensenville | $2,000 | Trees and power lines were blown down near Jefferson and Marion Roads. |
| July 2024 | Tornado (EF0) | Bensenville | - | A tornado with estimated peak winds of 80 mph touched down just southwest of O'Hare Airport in Bensenville where it damaged trees. The tornado then moved across O'Hare Airport, crossing from DuPage County into Cook County. |
| August 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bensenville | - | Trees were blown down. |
| July 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bensenville | - | A gust to 60 mph estimated at Route 83 and Thorndale. |
| March 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bensenville | - | Four trees blown down at White Pines and Pine Grove. |
| August 2003 | Hail | Bensenville | - | Reported along Irving Park Road. |
| June 2015 | Hail | Bensenville | - | no account filed |
| June 2009 | Hail | Bensenville | - | no account filed |
| October 2006 | Hail | Bensenville | - | no account filed |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Hauptgebaude | 2.8 miles | 1976 |
 | Robinwood | 2.8 miles | 2004 |
 | Villa Avenue Train Station | 2.9 miles | 1986 |
 | John L. Pentecost House | 2.9 miles | 2003 |
 | Emery, Jr., William H., House | 3.0 miles | 2004 |
 | Frank B. Henderson House | 3.0 miles | 2002 |
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 99000114 in Record Group 79. |
| Wikipedia article | Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA. |
| DuPage County | All 50 listed properties in this county. |
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