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Photograph of Milk Pail Restaurant
Photograph by Andrew Jameson, CC BY-SA 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Country Tea Room

Built in 1929 (gablefront house). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999.

From the record

“The Milk Pail Restaurant, formerly known as the Country Tea Room, is a historic restaurant (tearoom) in unincorporated Dundee Township, Kane County, Illinois, United States. It was originally a farmhouse for Increase C.”

Wikipedia article Milk Pail Restaurant, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 86 National Register listings published here for Kane County · listed in 1999 · category: Building · built in 1929, gablefront house.

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.
  • Address. 14N630 IL 25, East Dundee, 60120
  • When was it listed? February 1999
  • Category. building
  • When was it built? 1929
  • Architectural style. gablefront house
  • National Register reference number. 99000164 - 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.

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 15 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 15 workings within 5 miles of Country Tea Room: 7 past producers, 6 producers, 2 plants. 8 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Elgin City PitStonePast Producer
Bartlett PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Bartlett Plant & PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Beverly Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Dundee Pit Road Mat'Ls CorpSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Dundee S & G PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Elgin PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Hammond Plant & PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Hammonds Pit & MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionPlant
Mc Graw Pit Meyer MaterialSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Kane County

Storms near this property

3 since 2013

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names East Dundee, the town this property stands in, in 3 storm reports between 2013 and 2021: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 2021Thunderstorm WindEast Dundee-Trees were blown down across the road near Route 25 and Sunset Park Drive.
August 2018Thunderstorm WindEast Dundee-A tree was blown down onto a transformer.
April 2013HailEast Dundee-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Kane 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.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Elgin Historic District0.8 miles1983
Elgin Academy1.0 miles1976
Elgin National Watch Company Observatory1.0 miles1994
Gifford-Davidson House1.0 miles1980
First Universalist Church1.1 miles1980
Fire Barn 51.2 miles1991

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 99000164 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Kane CountyAll 86 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.