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Home My Public Portal About10-12-23 HPC Agenda PacketHistoric Preservation Commission Thursday, October 12, 2023 7:00 PM Village Boardroom 24401 W. Lockport Street Plainfield, IL 60544 Agenda CALL TO ORDER ROLL CALL PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE APPROVAL OF THE AGENDA APPROVAL OF THE MINUTES Approval of the Minutes of the Historic Preservation Commission held on July 13, 2023. 07-13-2023 HPC Minutes.pdf CHAIR'S COMMENTS COMMISSIONER'S COMMENTS PUBLIC COMMENTS (5 minutes per topic) OLD BUSINESS NEW BUSINESS 1.23819 W. LOCKPORT ST. (2007-042523.HPC) 1.a.Seeking a motion to open a Public Hearing for the proposed landmark nomination for the property located at 23819 W. Lockport St. 23819 W. Lockport Staff Report Packet.pdf 1.b.Seeking a motion to close the Public Hearing for the proposed landmark nomination for the property located at 23819 W. Lockport St. 1.c.Seeking a motion to adopt the findings of fact of staff as the findings of fact of the 1 Historic Preservation Commission Page - 2 Historic Preservation Commission and, furthermore, recommend approval of the landmark designation for the property commonly known as 23819 W. Lockport Street, based on the criteria outlined in the staff report and landmark nomination. 2.HISTORIC PRESERVATION COMMISSION AND SUBCOMMITTEES 2023 MEETING SCHEDULE 2.a.Seeking a motion to approve the Historic Preservation Commission and Landmark & District Designation Subcommittee meeting schedules for 2024. 2024 Schedule of Historic Preservation Meetings.pdf 2024 Historic Preservation Subcommittee Meeting Schedule.pdf DISCUSSION ADJOURN REMINDERS - October 16th - Village Board Meeting at 7:00 p.m. October 17th - Plan Commission at 7:00 p.m. November 9th - Historic Preservation Commission at 7:00 p.m. 2 Historic Preservation Commission Record of Minutes Date: July 13, 2023 Location: Village Hall CALL TO ORDER Chairman Bortel called the meeting to order at 7:05 p.m. ROLL CALL PRESENT: Commissioners Barvian, Derrick, Rapp, Schmidt, and Chairman Bortel ABSENT: Commissioners Olsen and Scholz STAFF: Jonathan Proulx, Planning Director PLEDGE TO THE FLAG Chairman Bortel led the pledge to the flag. APPROVAL OF AGENDA Commissioner Derrick made a motion to approve the agenda. Seconded by Commissioner Rapp. The motion carried unanimously by voice vote: APPROVAL OF MINUTES Commissioner Derrick made a motion to approve the minutes of the Historic Preservation Commission held on June 8, 2023, as amended. Seconded by Commissioner Schmidt. The motion carried unanimously by voice vote: CHAIR’S COMMENTS No Comments. COMMISSIONERS COMMENTS No Commissioner Comments. PUBLIC COMMENT No Public Comments. OLD BUSINESS 24109 W. LOCKPORT ST. (CASE 2012-050823.COA.FG) Mr. Proulx provided a reintroduction of the proposed Certification of Appropriateness application and stated unfortunately the applicant will not be present tonight. There was discussion the regarding evolution of the property’s appearance, what changes the applicant is proposing since the June 8th meeting, what changes/improvements the commission are comfortable with the applicant making per the Secretary of Interior Standards for Rehabilitation, stipulation regarding the siding removing if original materials are discovered it should be restored, having a contrast in color for the brick window trim and door trim like the historic photo, replicating the parapet in the historic photo, and sign placement. Ayes: Barvian, Derrick, Rapp, Schmidt, and Bortel Nays: None Absent: Olsen and Scholz Ayes: Barvian, Derrick, Rapp, Schmidt, and Bortel Nays: None Absent: Olsen and Scholz 3 July 13, 2023 Historic Preservation Commission Page 2 of 3 Chairman Bortel stated if the applicant is still interested having a mural on the east façade that they used the historic photo from 1904. Commissioner Derrick explained what the commission is charged with and what standards they use to review a Certificate of Appropriateness. Commissioner Derrick made a motion to recommend approval of the requested Certificate of Appropriateness for replacement windows, replacement siding, painting of the front façade, and a projecting wall sign at 24109 W. Lockport Street, subject to execution of a Letter of Agreement with the HPC, applicant, and Village staff to accept the following conditions of approval: 1. East Façade – During construction remove the vinyl siding and if the wood siding underneath can be repaired and restored for less than the cost of the new siding, then it is the recommendation of the HPC to repair and restore the wood siding. 2. Brick – The HPC is agreeable for the brick on the front façade can be painted lighter than 3. Trim articulation 4. Windows – Must be the exact same size of the current openings, the HPC would prefer darker window to contrast the paint on the brick on the front façade. 5. Gate – Wrought iron see through gate. 6. Top Front Façade (Cornius) – Replicate the trim detail in the historic photo. Shall be same color as windows, sign trim, and articulation at the brick. 7. Lighting – Will require approval by HPC. 8. Sign – Shall be centered in the trim detail in the historic photo. Commissioner Derrick made a motion to adjourn. Commissioner Barvian seconded the motion. The motion carried unanimously by roll call vote: NEW BUSINESS 23842 W. MAIN ST. (CASE 2017-061423.COA) Mr. Proulx provided an introduction of the proposed Certification of Appropriateness application. There was discussion about the current windows, the replacement windows, and replacement doors. Commissioner Derrick suggested the applicant investigate using wood windows by Marvin or asking Andersen if they have a wood window. The commission feels that more information is needed about the current windows and doors. Notes for applicant from HPC • Information on whether these windows and doors, the subject of the application, are original or replacement, if replacement what was used before. • True divided light and historic materials (wood) need to be used. Ayes: Barvian, Derrick, Rapp, Schmidt and Bortel Nays: None Absent: Olsen and Scholz 4 July 13, 2023 Historic Preservation Commission Page 3 of 3 DISCUSSION No Discussion. ADJOURN Commissioner Derrick made a motion to adjourn. Commissioner Barvian seconded the motion. The motion carried unanimously by roll call vote: Meeting adjourned at 8:45 p.m. Respectfully submitted, Tracey Erickson Recording Secretary Click here to view the video of this Meeting. Ayes: Barvian, Derrick, Rapp, Schmidt and Bortel Nays: None Absent: Olsen and Scholz 5 6 7 HISTORIC URBANIZED CORE SURVEY Plainfield Historic Preservation Commission ADDRESS 23819 W. Lockport St. PIN/Property Index Number #06-03-15-102-009-0000 Historic Property Name(s) Common Name(s) Architectural Style Classical Revival Vernacular Building Type no type Construction Date c. 1935 Architect/Builder Historic Use(s) Single Family Residential Present Use(s) Single Family Residential History (associated events, people, dates) Assessor’s Subdivision. Lot shown as 627 on the 1931 Sanborn map is vacant; this house appears on the 1944 Sanborn map, with the new address of 202; slight T-shaped front, 1 story garage wing off rear and side sun porch off east, as is extant. No garage is shown, but the coverage of the Sanborn ends before the rear lot line. Description Poured concrete foundation; red/green mottled brick in running bond; asphalt shingle side gable roof. 1-1/2 stories, T- shaped facade, 4 facade bays. Symmetrical 3 bay house core with side gable sun porch on east, recessed from facade plane; 8-light casement sash, set of 3 to front and 4 to side/east. House entrance with low 1 story gable projection and original Classical Revival surround with fluted pilasters, tiny fan design within entablature, denticulated cornice, all in wood. Two light paneled original door with aluminum storm door. Raised stoop with east side rail only. 8/8 double-hung sash in end bays with gable roof dormers above, with 5/5 double-hung sash. Chimney off-center to west on ridge. Integrity/Major Physical changes from original construction Excellent integrity! Original windows, multi-light! Minor alteration of synthetic siding on the gable roof dormer walls. Subsidiary Building(s)/Site Attached garage at rear. Flagstone sidewalk to front door. Concrete driveway west curves then L’s at rear of house to garage bay. Registration & Evaluation National Register of Historic Places: Currently Listed: ___yes X no If not currently listed, recommend: Individually ___yes X no; historic district X yes no Contributing X or non-contributing Significance statement: An excellent example of the Classical Revival style on a smaller house; great example of early 20th century residential architecture. VP; EP. Village of Plainfield designation: Currently Listed: ___yes X no If not currently listed, recommend: Historic Landmark X yes no; Historic District X yes no Contributing X or non-contributing Form prepared by: ArchiSearch Historic Preservation Consultants (Alice Novak) Date of Field Survey: 9.23.05 - 189 202 W. Lockport St. 8 HISTORIC URBANIZED CORE SURVEY Plainfield Historic Preservation Commission ADDRESS PIN/Property Index Number #06-03-15-102-009-0000 202 W. Lockport St. 23819 W. Lockport St. 9 1 Village of Plainfield Historic Landmark Nomination 23819 W. Lockport St. Village of Plainfield Historic Preservation Commission Nomination for Individual Landmark Listing in Register of Historic Places c. 1939-1940 For the property located at: 23819 W. Lockport Street (f/k/a 202 W. Lockport Street) 06-03-15-102-009-0000 The East 61½ feet of Lot 7 in the Assessor’s Subdivision of the North End of the NW¼ of Section 15 Petitioners: Clayton & Debra S. Olsen A request to the Village of Plainfield to consider designating the structure at 23819 W. Lockport Street, as a local landmark. 10 2 Village of Plainfield Historic Landmark Nomination 23819 W. Lockport St. Table of Contents Cover 1 Part I 3 Site Part II 4 Overview Part III 5 Architectural Style Description Part IV 6 Photo Descriptions Part V 20 Photo Description Key Appendix A 21 Early Plainfield Appendix B 27 Early History Appendix C 30 The Post-Corbin Era Appendix D 35 Statement of Significance Summary Statement of Significance 36 Exhibit Table of Contents 37 Exhibit A 38 Elihu Corbin’s 1852 Purchase Exhibit B 39 Pre-Civil War Map of Plainfield Exhibit C 40 Ingersoll’s 1834 Plat of Planefield Exhibit D 41 Ingersoll’s Addition to Plainfield Exhibit E 42 Plat of Arnold’s Addition to Plainfield Exhibit F 43 Assessor’s Subdivision of the North End of the NW1/4 of Section 15 Exhibit G 44 Subdivision of Lot 7 Into Four Parcels Exhibit H 45 Chain of Title for 23819 W Lockport St. Bibliography 48 11 3 Village of Plainfield Historic Landmark Nomination 23819 W. Lockport St. Part I Site The house under consideration is an example of the Classical Revival or Neoclassical style which is one of the most commonly seen across Illinois and the United States. This style was inspired by the World’s Columbian Exposition held in Chicago in 1893 which promoted a renewed interest in the classical forms. Similar to the Colonial Revival style which was popular during the same period, the Classical Revival style was more formal and monumental in its design. The house occupies one of the four lots that were created when the 2.06 acre Lot 7 of the Assessor’s Subdivision of the North End of the NW¼ of Section 15 was subdivided probably by Jonathan Hartong. This subdivision of ten parcels was created on June 18, 1867 and was part of two-forty acre parcels purchased by Elihu Corbin in early December 1852 from Frank and Adeline Parmalee for $2,100 (Z-194 & 195). These two-forty acre parcels stretched east from West Street (now Division) along the south side of the Lockport, Plainfield & Yorkville Plank Road (now Lockport Street) to the railroad right-of-way and south to the lots on the north side of the Oswego & Indiana Plank Road (now Route 30 or Joliet Road). The Parmalees had purchased a 160-acre parcel from Riley B. Ashley for $3,200 that included the North halves of the Northwest and Northeast quarters of Section 15 in March 1851 and sold Elihu Corbin, the North half of the West and East halves of Section 15 or 80 acres. [Elihu Corbin’s 1852 Purchase – Exhibit A] A map of pre-Civil War Plainfield, c. 1855, shows the presence of nine buildings – the Sharon German Evangelical Church occupied Lot 10, built in 1855 at the corner of Dillman Street and the Plank Road and eight houses, facing north along the south side of the Lockport, Plainfield & Yorkville Plank Road east to nearly where Academy Road (now Eastern Avenue) intersected the Plank Road. On March 24, 1857, Elihu Corbin sold Lot 7 (2.06 acres) which was one of the largest lots in the ten lot Assessor’s Subdivision of the North End of the NW¼ of Section 15 to Moses Dunkle for $250 in Contract 57-415. Dunkle built a house on the West sixty-four feet for he and his wife to raise their family. [Pre-Civil War Map of Plainfield - Exhibit B] The November 2006 ArchiSearch survey of Plainfield’s Historic Urbanized Core evaluated residential and commercial structures with more emphasis on architectural content and analysis since the historic research for most of the buildings was extremely limited. Examining the ArchiSearch surveys of those properties along the south side of Lockport Street including additional research at the Will County Recorder of Deeds and evaluating data from the United States Census’ from the second half of the 19th Century seems to indicate that perhaps at least five (5) of the buildings shown on the Pre-Civil War Map of Plainfield in Exhibit B still remain to this day along the south side of Lockport Street. 12 4 Village of Plainfield Historic Landmark Nomination 23819 W. Lockport St. Part II Overview The Classical Revival (1895 – 1950) or Neoclassical style is one of the most commonly seen in the United States. Revivalism in architecture was the use of visual styles that consciously echoed the style of a previous architectural era. The style was inspired by the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago which promoted a renewed interest in the classical forms. Similar to the Colonial Revival style which was popular in the same period, the Classical Revival style was more formal and monumental in its design. Relying on stylistic details of the earlier Greek Revival style, Classical Revival style buildings often have massive columns with classical Corinthian, Doric or Ionic capitals, topped by a front facing pediment. One of the most distinctive versions of the Classical revival style featured a full height columned front porch topped with a classical pediment. Other variations of this style often featured a rounded front portico with columns and a balustraded flat roof, or a flat-roofed, fill or partial front porch with columns. The arrangement of windows and doors is formal and symmetrical, with the front door often flanked with pilasters or side lights and capped with a flat entablature, broken pediment or rounded fanlight. 13 5 Village of Plainfield Historic Landmark Nomination 23819 W. Lockport St. Part III Architectural Description Classical Revival style with its impressive Greek temple-like form was most often used for courthouses, banks, churches, schools and mansions. It was never quite as popular as the Colonial Revival style for more common residential buildings. Classical Revival style in residential structures often exhibits double-hung windows, typically six-over-six, a full height entry porch with or without a lower full width porch and cornices with dentils and wide bands beneath a cornice. Exterior materials were nearly always brick, stone and or cast stone. With a poured concrete foundation this 1939 one and one-half story residence was built using red and green mottled brick in a running bond and currently has an asphalt shingle side gable roof. Local architect and Plainfield historian, Michael Lambert believes that the nominated house was a Plan Book design, and the entry frontispiece/surround is a classic catalog element and has a low one-story gable projection and original Classical Revival surround with fluted pilasters, tiny fan design within entablatures, and a denticulated cornice, all in wood. There is a two-light paneled original wood door with an aluminum storm door and a raised stoop with an east side rail only. There exists eight-over-eight double-hung sash in end bays with gable roof dormers above with five-over-five double-hung sash. ArchiSearch notes in its evaluation – “An excellent example of the Classical Revival style on a smaller house…with an attached garage at the rear; a great example of an early Twentieth Century residential architecture…with excellent integrity! Original multi-light windows…minor alteration of synthetic siding on the gable roof dormer walls. Part IV 14 6 Village of Plainfield Historic Landmark Nomination 23819 W. Lockport St. Photo Descriptions Note: See Part V for photo description keynote list. Plate 1 – Main entry porch @ north facade (photo credit: Leif Henricksen) D1 E1 F1 15 7 Village of Plainfield Historic Landmark Nomination 23819 W. Lockport St. Plate 2 – Window close-up (photo credit: Leif Henricksen) A2 16 8 Village of Plainfield Historic Landmark Nomination 23819 W. Lockport St. Plate 3 – Window close-up (photo credit: Leif Henricksen) A1 E1 17 9 Village of Plainfield Historic Landmark Nomination 23819 W. Lockport St. Plate 4 – Door close-up at entry porch on north facade (photo credit: Leif Henricksen) B1 18 10 Village of Plainfield Historic Landmark Nomination 23819 W. Lockport St. Plate 5 – Windows along north facade (photo credit: Leif Henricksen) Plate 6 – Eave close-up (photo credit: Leif Henricksen) A4 F1 A3 19 11 Village of Plainfield Historic Landmark Nomination 23819 W. Lockport St. Plate 7 – Window close-up (photo credit: Leif Henricksen) Plate 8 – Northeast view (photo credit: Leif Henricksen) A4 F1 A5 20 12 Village of Plainfield Historic Landmark Nomination 23819 W. Lockport St. Plate 9 – Dormer close-up (photo credit: Leif Henricksen) A6 E1 21 13 Village of Plainfield Historic Landmark Nomination 23819 W. Lockport St. Plate 10 – Original window close-up (photo credit: Leif Henricksen) A1 E1 22 14 Village of Plainfield Historic Landmark Nomination 23819 W. Lockport St. Plate 11 – Original window close-up (photo credit: Leif Henricksen) A1 E1 23 15 Village of Plainfield Historic Landmark Nomination 23819 W. Lockport St. Plate 12 – Basement window close-up (photo credit: Leif Henricksen) A8 C1 24 16 Village of Plainfield Historic Landmark Nomination 23819 W. Lockport St. Plate 13 – Garage man-door (photo credit: Leif Henricksen) B2 25 17 Village of Plainfield Historic Landmark Nomination 23819 W. Lockport St. Plate 14 – Southwest view (photo credit: Leif Henricksen) Plate 15 – Single-car garage (photo credit: Leif Henricksen) B3 F1 26 18 Village of Plainfield Historic Landmark Nomination 23819 W. Lockport St. Plate 16 – South view (photo credit: Leif Henricksen) F1 E1 27 19 Village of Plainfield Historic Landmark Nomination 23819 W. Lockport St. Plate 17 – West view (photo credit: Leif Henricksen) E1 28 20 Village of Plainfield Historic Landmark Nomination 23819 W. Lockport St. Part V Photo Description Key FRONT HOUSE ORIGINAL PORTION – 2-STORY FRONT WITH SINGLE STORY REAR A. TYPICAL WINDOWS A1 Single, clear glass, 8/8 double-hung; brick rowlock sill; no side trim A2 Three (3) grouped, clear glass, 6 divided, casement; brick rowlock sill; no side trim A3 Three (3) grouped, clear glass, 8 divided, casement; brick rowlock sill; no side trim A4 Single, clear glass, 8/8 double-hung; brick rowlock sill; no side trim; standard shutters both sides A5 Four (4) grouped, clear glass, 8 divided, casement; brick rowlock sill; no side trim A6 Single, clear glass, 6/6 double-hung within 2nd floor dormer; flat aluminum trim on sides and top A7 Single, clear glass, 6/6 double-hung; brick rowlock sill; no side trim A8 Basement clear glass foundation awning window with 2 vertical muntins to divide into 3 equal parts B. TYPICAL DOORS B1 (Front door) Single, 6-paneled wood door – 4 rectangular wood inset with 2 small rectangular windows at top; decorative neo-classical fluted pilasters with Doric style capital & base flank door with decorative architrave and articulated cornice crown molding; brass hardware pull handle with lockset plate above. Glass and aluminum storm door in front, non- original. B2 (Garage man door) Single, wood door with 6-panel divided lites on upper half; 2 rectangular wood inset panels at bottom; no trim. Wood screen door. B3 (Garage overhead door) Single-bay, 7 foot tall x 8 foot wide paneled garage door with simple wood lintel; linear extended pilasters each side of door extending slightly past lintel. C. FOUNDATION C1 Concrete foundation. D. FRONT PORCH D1 Two (2) concrete stoops centered on door vestibule extension with center gable. E. TYPICAL EXTERIOR E1 Brick; full exterior; running bond pattern. F. TYPICAL ROOF F1 Gable roof with moderate pitch; asphalt shingles; typical minimum overhang on gable sides, typical 12 inch roof overhang with boxed eave on sloped sides; continuous flat fascia trim; crown molding applied to some edges; gutters and traditional downspouts, white. 29 21 Village of Plainfield Historic Landmark Nomination 23819 W. Lockport St. Appendix A Early Plainfield The Land Ordinance of 1785 was adopted on May 20, 1785 by the Continental Congress and set the stage for an organized and community-based westward expansion of the United States in the years after the American Revolution. The Land Ordinance of 1785 was the effort of a five-person committee led by Thomas Jefferson that established a systematic and ubiquitous process for surveying, planning, and selling townships on the western frontier. Each western township contained thirty-six square miles of land which was divided into thirty-six sections, each containing one square mile or 640 acres. Section 1 was located at the northeast corner of each township with subsequent sections numbered east to west; each tier had six sections and there were six rows of six sections for a total of thirty-six sections with Section 36 found in the southeast corner. This mathematical precision of planning was through the concerted efforts of surveyors which allowed these sections to be easily subdivided for re-sale by settlers and land speculators. Initially government land offices sold land to pioneers at the price of $1.25 per acre. Each township contained dedicated space for public education and other government uses, as the centermost of the 36 sections were reserved for government or public purposes - Sections 15, 16, 21 & 22, with Section 16 dedicated specifically for public education. Additionally roadways were often constructed along the north-south or east-west Township or Section division lines that comprised the Township and Range delineations. Revolutionary War land bounty land warrants were first awarded through an Act of Congress on September 16, 1776. These were grants of free land from Congress or states like Virginia who claimed lands west of the Appalachian Mountains in areas that would later become the states of Ohio and Kentucky as a reward for serving in the Continental Army during the American Revolution and the War of 1812. The grants were not automatic as veterans had to apply for them and if granted, use the warrant to apply for a land patent which granted them ownership of the land that could be transferred or sold to other individuals. Land warrants issued by Congress were usually for the newly established lands created by the Land Ordinance of 1785 and the Northwest Ordinance of 1787 in Michigan, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Wisconsin and Minnesota. Long before there were railroads, most Chicagoans’ link to civilization was primarily by schooner to and from New York City via the Great Lakes, the Erie Canal and the Hudson River. In the early 1830s, Chicago was closer to a Wild West town than a metropolis. The two principal cities of the Midwest were the river towns of Cincinnati and St. Louis, both which had good steamboat service. The closest a river steamer could get to Chicago was Ottawa, more than 90 miles from Chicago on the Illinois River. The Postal Act of 1792 established the role of the Postmaster General and made the United States’ Government responsible for creating post offices and establishing the delivery of the mail by private contractors. The first Post Office in northern Illinois opened in Galena in 1826, five years before Chicago saw one established at their settlement. With the establishment of a post office in Galena in 1826, John D. Winters began running stagecoaches between St. Louis and Galena, carrying passengers and the U.S. Mail. The stagecoach became the pre-dominant mode of overland public transport for passengers and mail. Stagecoach lines were chosen not just for the convenience of passengers but to accommodate the timely collection and distribution of the mail. Without mail contracts most stage lines would not have survived. Chicago’s first stagecoach line arrived from Detroit in 1833 after the end of the Blackhawk War of 1832 that ended an Indian revolt over ownership of Illinois farmland which now made overland travel safe west of Chicago. In July 1833, John Taylor Temple (1804-1877) of Virginia, who had received a homeopathic medical 30 22 Village of Plainfield Historic Landmark Nomination 23819 W. Lockport St. degree in 1824 from the University of Maryland arrived in Chicago with his wife and 4 children with a contract from the U.S. Postmaster General to carry the mail from Chicago to Fort Howard at Green Bay. He soon built a two-story frame house at the corner of Wells & Lake Street and a medical office at the southwest corner of Franklin and South Water Street. In 1831, the High Prairie Trail from Chicago to Ottawa had been laid out by State officials as both northern Illinois’ newest official road that also used established Indian trails. Soon after the Chicago to Fort Howard at Green Bay route began, it was discontinued and on January 1, 1834, Temple had political connections that allowed him to secure the mail contract from Chicago to Peoria and had money to purchase a coach and set up the necessary way stations. Temple was given a contract for operating a stagecoach line and conveying the U.S. Mail from Chicago southwest to Peoria to meet the steamboats navigating the Illinois River from St. Louis and later a route to Ottawa via Walkers’ Grove. The route to Ottawa started at the shore of Lake Michigan near the banks of the Chicago River and extended almost due west following the old Pottawattamie Indian trail along the DesPlaines River which is now part of U.S. 6 to the ford across the DesPlaines River at Riverside, thence the road headed west to Captain Joseph Naper’s settlement at the DuPage River ford before turning southwest towards Walker’s Grove averaging about 10 miles each hour. Initially stage passengers stayed with settlers in Walker’s Grove, which consisted of three or four crude log huts that offered limited comforts. Later the route was moved north to the newly platted settlement at Plainfield (1834). Leaving Plainfield, the trail passed into what would become Kendall County in 1841, crossing the prairie to the tiny cluster of cabins at the southernmost point of a grove of towering black walnut trees before continuing on to Ottawa which was located at the head of navigation on the Illinois River. The area from which Plainfield developed was first inhabited by the Potawatomie Indians. The Potawatomie hunted the dense forests along the banks of the DuPage River and had some semi-permanent settlements. When Illinois achieved statehood in 1818 most of the territory was wilderness. Occasional explorers, soldiers on the marches to distant outposts, as well as Native American traders and trappers, had given glowing descriptions of the beauties of the region. The Illinois and Michigan Canal project had been conceived during the Wat of 1812 which prompted the initial purchases of Native American lands commencing in 1816. The first Europeans arriving in the area were French fur traders in the 1820s, who traded peacefully with the Potawatomie but did not establish any permanent settlements. By about 1826, American missionaries began to arrive to Christianize the Native Americans and establish permanent settlements. Along with the occasional pioneers who ventured into the lands covered by the Northwest Ordinance came several early Methodist missionaries. One of these early Methodist missionaries was The Reverend Jessie Walker who came to the area before statehood. Walker had been born in Virginia and first visited the Indiana territory in 1806 and later was appointed to the circuit in Illinois and likely introduced his son-in-law, James Walker, to the region. In 1828, James Walker led a party that established a small settlement and sawmill along the DuPage River at Walkers’ Grove just south of present-day Plainfield. This new settlement was known as Walker's Grove and with a saw mill thrived in the midst of the thick forests covering the area. The DuPage River also provided essential transportation between the settlements at Fort Dearborn at Lake Michigan (now Chicago) and Ottawa along the Illinois River. Walker's Grove was an important link along the water and trail route. Walker's sawmill and the area's timber also supplied the fast- growing settlement of Chicago with lumber to build their first wood-framed houses. It has been documented that the lumber used to build the first structures in Chicago were hauled by wagons built in Plainfield by John Bill and driven by Reuben Flagg and Timothy Clark from Walker's Mill – the George Washington Dole Forwarding House and the Philip Ferdinand Wheeler Peck House – a two-story frame building in which Peck kept a store at southeast corner of South Water and LaSalle Streets that was built in the Autumn of 1832. Walker’s Grove was also reportedly the first permanent settlement in Will County. 31 23 Village of Plainfield Historic Landmark Nomination 23819 W. Lockport St. In 1828, Chester Ingersoll had traveled from his home in Vermont to northeast Illinois and settled at the Walkers’ Grove settlement and four years later, joined with others to defend Fort Beggs and later opened one of the first hotels in Chicago. In October, 1833, Chester purchased 160 acres of land in the Northeast Quarter of Section 16 and in December 1833, married a young actress, Phebe Wever in Chicago and together ran the Traveler Hotel until 1834. Ingersoll platted a town in August 1834, northeast of Walkers’ Grove, naming it Planefield. Ingersoll platted his town with twelve nearly square blocks consisting of rectangular lots on a modified grid plan that would be familiar to many of those newly arriving pioneer families from New England and a rectangular Block 13 containing twenty-seven lots that stretched west from the DuPage River, east to a north-south roadway initially called West Street, that was later changed to Division. Ingersoll’s east-west streets were named for the three main towns in Northeastern Illinois at the time - Ottawa, Chicago and Lockport - while his north-south streets were named for the region’s rivers - DuPage, Kankakee, Fox River, DesPlaines, and Illinois. He envisioned a public square to become his central business district that would be centered about the northern half of Block 3 with DesPlaines Street to the east and Fox River Street to the west along a proposed east-west thoroughfare to be built on the section line where Sections 16 and 9 met. Six blocks (1, 5, 8, 9, 10, 11, & 12) consisted of eight lots separated by an alley with four lots north of the alley and four lots south of the alley. Block 6 had 3 lots and Block 7 had 4 lots since they were adjacent or east of the DuPage River and Block 13 stretched east from the DuPage River along Ottawa Street to West Street that later came to be known as Division and was divided into twenty-seven lots all of similar size as those in the other blocks – [Ingersoll’s 1834 Plat of Plainfield - Exhibit C]. In 1834 Chester Ingersoll built a house for his family on an open tract of land that was south of Lot 26 in Block 13 of his newly platted town; this house was recently restored and designated a Village Landmark in September 2013. In October 1837, Ingersoll’s oldest daughter, Melissa married Thomas Jefferson York and soon thereafter, Ingersoll had a small cottage west of his house built for them. The location of this house was south of Lot 25 in Block 13 and was later designated a Village landmark known as “Pioneer House” in 2008. In May 1837, Ingersoll recorded an addition to his original Village plat comprising of 12 additional blocks – 6 blocks on either side of Juliet - a new east-west street. [Ingersoll’s Addition to Plainfield – Exhibit D] In 1851, Ingersoll’s 1837 Addition was re-surveyed and became John D. Shreffler’s Addition. Thus Ingersoll’s 1834 house was now located on Lot 2 and the house built for his daughter Melissa was now on Lot 3 in Block 1 of Shreffler’s Addition. Research conducted by Michael Lambert, a local Plainfield architect and historian on the James Mathers’ family has found that Levi Arnold, a bachelor, likely traveled to the settlement around Walker’s Grove in late 1831 or 1832 in the company of the family of James and Sarah Mathers, whom he had met in the area of St. Joseph, Indiana. Arnold staked claims in the area near the DuPage River and in present-day Kendall County before returning to St. Joseph, Indiana to marry Mariah Skinner on August 6, 1833. Sometime in early 1834, Levi Arnold and his wife Mariah arrived from Indiana and purchased the quarter section of land north of Ingersoll’s newly platted town – the Southeast Quarter of Section 9 on December 11. Arnold was particularly interested in land adjacent to the DuPage River and parcels that straddled the Chicago-Ottawa Road. Unlike Ingersoll who preferred orderly development as shown in his 1834 Plat of Planefield, Arnold laid out four streets in his addition and allowed pioneer families to build homes and businesses on his land but often chose not to sell the land to them which allowed the creation of many irregular and disorganized lots in shape and size. He did not embrace Ingersoll’s concept of a New England town square since a portion of Block 4 in his new corresponding addition would be needed to join Ingersoll’s planned segment. In May 1836, Ingersoll sold Lot 3 in Block 2 to Anson Johnson for $30. This was the first recorded sale of land fronting onto the East- West road that would eventually become Lockport Road. Arnold allowed entrepreneurs to build stores along the 32 24 Village of Plainfield Historic Landmark Nomination 23819 W. Lockport St. roadway but chose not to sell them the land since the first recorded sale on his side of the roadway took place nearly four years later in March 1840 with the sale of a five acre parcel to Chester Bennett. The difference in development styles likely frustrated Ingersoll’s sense of order and Arnold’s haphazard development of the growing community likely encouraged Arnold to cultivate a new friendship with Lewis Judson. Together in 1835, they started a new town on the east bank of the Fox River called Hudson, thus Arnold lived in Plainfield but a short time, choosing to devote most of his energies toward the development of his new town. Initially the new town located 10 miles northwest of Plainfield attracted few settlers and in the Spring of 1836, Levi Arnold moved his family to Hudson renting his Plainfield home on the Chicago to Ottawa Road, which later came to be known as Main Street to Dr. Erastus G. Wight, a circuit riding physician. Chester Ingersoll abandoned his public square concept in 1836, opting instead for a public park located in Block 10, now called the Village Green, which was immediately south of his failed public square concept that would be eventually surrounded by residential housing. In 1840, as the family of Chester and Phebe Ingersoll grew, they moved from the village north to a farm in Wheatland Township and within three years were living on a farm near Lockport. In 1847 Ingersoll along with members of his family and numerous families from the area left Illinois and traveled West to settle in California where Ingersoll died unexpectedly in September 1849. In February 1841, Arnold sold to Elihu Springer, the minister of the Methodist Episcopal Church, a 1.25 acre parcel where the congregation planned to construct their house of worship. This parcel was located in the western half of Block 6 between Chicago Street (now DesPlaines Street) on the west, Arnold Street (now Illinois Street) on the east and the diagonal Oak Street on the north. Beginning in January 1850, the Trustees of the Methodist Episcopal Church began selling their lots in the western portion of Block 6 in favor of buying the lots in the eastern portion of Block 6. By May 1850, the Trustees of the Methodist Episcopal Church had purchased the eastern half of Block 6 or that portion of the block that would become known as Chittenden & Smiley’s subdivision after the Assessor had subdivided the area in 1866. After this parcel was surveyed in 1867, the lots therein became designated as Lots 16 through 24. Arnold’s town of Hudson changed its name to Lodi for a short time and eventually settled on its current name of Oswego. In 1844 Levi Arnold took sick and died in September at the age of 37. His wife Mariah, who was 32 with three young daughters had her late husband’s holdings in Plainfield surveyed which was completed by the following September (1845) and began selling the remaining lots in the area that came to be called “Arnold’s Addition.” [Arnold’s Addition to the Village of Plainfield - Exhibit E]. By mid-century, businesses had spread randomly throughout Ingersoll’s Plainfield with a concentration of restaurants, blacksmiths, liveries and hotels along DesPlaines Street where it intersected with the east-west roadway in which the initial contracts of lots of the first commercial buildings on the north side of the stipulated stated the “South 30 feet is reserved for a road running East-West” – these early contracts referred to the roadway as DuPage Street but would it would eventually become known as “the Lockport Road” as it was known outside of the village. As traffic increased on the east – west roadway, buildings located elsewhere in the community were moved to either side of the roadway and often were set on every other lot so that infill buildings only required front and rear walls, a floor, and a roof. This thoroughfare separated the two communities begun by Arnold and Ingersoll branching eastward 6 miles to the canal port at Lockport which in 1848 saw the opening of the Illinois and Michigan Canal. Once this road was completed, it carried travelers going between the canal docks at Lockport and the accelerating farm settlements west of the DuPage River with the village of Plainfield growing significantly after 1850. 33 25 Village of Plainfield Historic Landmark Nomination 23819 W. Lockport St. By 1849 the only centralized commercial and industrial center in Plainfield that had formed was located about the intersection of present-day Joliet Road, Division Street, and Commercial Street. Kankakee Street was renamed James Street, in honor of James Fairbanks, who created Fairbanks’ Addition along the street now bearing his name in 1853 and DuPage Street along the DuPage River had become abandoned. Unfortunately, no formal adoption of street names existed between the Ingersoll and Arnold sides of the village. In fact, names of streets changed—typically—at DuPage Street (now Lockport Street) which divided the two sides of the village. By 1855, all of the holdings of the Methodist Episcopal Church in the western portion of Block 6 had been sold and replaced with those lots in the eastern half of Block 6. As the economy began growing after the conclusion of the Civil War, the Trustees of the Church saw an opportunity to sell their lots and build a new house of worship one block south of the noise and expanding traffic artery of Lockport Street. In October 1866, the Trustees of the Methodist Episcopal Church purchased Lots 10 and 11 in Block 2, at the northwest corner of Illinois and Chicago Streets in Ingersoll’s Original Plainfield from Limon and Leah Tobias for $350. They sold their parcels of land along the north side of Lockport Street and west of Arnold Street (now Illinois Street) in March 1867 to James H. Smiley and George N. Chittenden once their new place of worship had been completed. By 1869, the northern and southern portions of Plainfield were incorporated into a single community and by the 1870s, DuPage Street became commonly known as Lockport Street. Simultaneous to efforts of Ingersoll and Arnold, a third distinct community began to develop. In November 1834, James Mathers and James M. Turner purchased a quarter section of land in the Southwest Quarter of Section 10 that was east of Arnold’s Southeast Quarter of Section 9. In June 1836, James Mathers purchased Turner’s half share and in July 1836, platted East Plainfield which was comprised of 96 lots along Main Street and Water Street (which is now Plainfield-Naperville Road), which paralleled the DuPage River where Mathers built a sawmill and gristmill. Mathers also built himself a house in 1835 at the northeast corner of Mill and Water Streets near his sawmill and gristmill and his partner James Turner had built a small cottage for his family at the southeast corner of Section 10, currently the house at the northeast corner of Lockport Street and Eastern Avenue. Mathers’ land acquisition extended east of Division, North of the Lockport-Plainfield- Yorkville Plank Road to Naperville Road (now Plainfield-Naperville Road). [Reference Exhibit A] The southeastern portion of the Village or the Northwest Quarter of Section 15 was the last portion of the Village to be developed. In December 1834 Robert Chapman purchased 280 acres in the Northeast Quarter and North Half of the Northwest Quarter of Section 15 & the South Half of the Northwest Quarter of Section 15 and in July 1838, Chapman sold all of his holdings “excepting & reserving from the Southwest corner of the South Half of the South Half of the said Northwest Quarter of Section 15” - a 2.5 acre parcel in the Southwest corner or 20 square rods to be used as a cemetery that Chapman donated to the residents of Plainfield in the Spring of 1837. In 1840, Dr. Oliver J. Corbin purchased a twelve-acre parcel south of Joliet Road and in 1845 sold a small three lot triangular parcel of land to John Dillman to build a foundry, creating Plainfield’s first industrial park in what would become Oliver J. Corbin’s Subdivision in 1856. In December 1852, two forty-acre parcels were purchased by Elihu Corbin from Frank and Adeline Parmelee for $2,100 – the North Half of the West Half and the North Half of the East Half of the Northwest Quarter of Section 15. Before the end of January in 1853, Elihu Corbin had created his addition to Plainfield consisting of 3 blocks of 8 lots and a fourth block with 4 lots lying along West Street (now Division) on the west and Dillman Street on the east. Corbin also began selling lots on the south side of the Lockport, Plainfield & Yorkville Plank Road stretching east from West Street (now Division) beginning in March 1854 in what would become known as the Assessor’s Subdivision of the North End of the Northwest Quarter of Section 15 in June, 1867. Elihu Corbin eventually created several additional subdivisions from his two-forty acre parcels. [Elihu Corbin’s 1852 Purchase – Exhibit A] 34 26 Village of Plainfield Historic Landmark Nomination 23819 W. Lockport St. Commercial development was scattered in each quadrant of the village, but soon began to concentrate along either side of the east-west DuPage Street or what later became known as “the Lockport Road” which occupied the area where Section 16 of Ingersoll’s Original Plainfield and Section 9 of Arnold’s Addition met. As was the case in most of the newly established towns and villages of the Northwest Territories, once the pioneer families had built their houses and established businesses, places of worship and schools for their children were soon to follow. Plainfield’s commercial and residential development became concentrated in portions of the four quarter sections of prairie lands along or near to the DuPage River that made up the Village. Soon a North-South roadway (West St. later Division) and an East-West Roadway (Lockport Road) were created along the division lines of Sections 9, 10, 15 and 16. Chester Ingersoll’s - NE ¼ of Sec. 16 (1833), Levi Arnold’s - SE ¼ of Sec. 9 (1834), James Mathers’ - SW ¼ of Sec. 10 (1835), Elihu Corbin’s - NW ¼ of Sec. 15 (1852). By 1869, the northern and southern portions of Plainfield were incorporated into a single community and by the 1870s, DuPage Street became commonly known as Lockport Street. The 1870 Census listed the population of Plainfield at 723 and there were 1,750 residents living in Plainfield Township. 35 27 Village of Plainfield Historic Landmark Nomination 23819 W. Lockport St. Appendix B Elihu Corbin, Jr. was born on May 28, 1813 in Middletown, Vermont. Elihu was the youngest son of Elihu Sr. and Finella (Fannie) Furbs of ten children – seven girls and three boys in Middletown. Elihu’s grandfather, Edward Eastman Corbin had moved his family from Connecticut to central Vermont in the mid-1760s and served as a private in the Vermont militia led by Colonel Seth Warner and members of the Green Mountain Boys during the American Revolution assisting in the defeat of British General John Burgoyne at the Battle of Bennington on August 16, 1777 which was part of the Saratoga campaign that later became known as the turning point battle in the American Revolution. The citizens of Ira, Poultney, Wells and Tinmouth petitioned the Vermont legislature to create a new town bounded by the ridges that prevented them from attending meetings and worship services in their original towns. Middletown was incorporated by the legislature on October 28, 1784 with land from the four towns to create a town named by surveyor Joseph Spaulding from Middletown, Connecticut. Comprised of almost twenty-three square miles, “Middletown,” was located in the center of Vermont in Rutland County and by the 1880’s “Springs” was added to the name because of three large natural springs. Elihu lived in Middletown for his first twenty-two years before moving to Chicago in 1835. In 1836 he moved from Chicago to Brooklyn Township in Cuyahoga County, Ohio near Cleveland where he worked as a tanner and shoemaker. Here he met Eliza Ann Fish (1816 – 1905) the oldest daughter of Ebenezer Fish, Jr. Her father and his younger brother Moses Fish had relocated from Groton, Connecticut to northeastern Ohio near Cleveland in the Fall of 1811 and were among the first settlers into the area. Cleveland had been established along the southern shore of Lake Erie and at the mouth of the Cuyahoga River by General Moses Cleaveland of the Connecticut Land Company on July 22, 1796. Eliza Fish’s father, Ebenezer Fish, Jr. (1787 – 1880) was the fourth child of ten born to Ebenezer Fish, Sr. and his wife Lydia Manton. Ebenezer Jr. joined his brother Moses in 1811 and together they shared an eighty-acre tract of farmland in Brooklyn Township near Cleveland that Moses had purchased and they built a log cabin in which they lived until the outbreak of the War of 1812. On July 18, 1812, a mixed force of British regular soldiers, Canadian voyageurs and their Native American allies captured Mackinac Island in the siege of Fort Mackinac before the American defenders knew that war had been declared between the United States and Britain. Ebenezer enlisted for six months, August 22 – December 14, 1812, in the Ohio Militia guarding the frontier from possible British incursions. Ohio like every state had its own militia and all men between the ages of 18 - 45 were expected to serve a tour of duty. Ebenezer’s brother Moses (24) was drafted but since his health was poor, Ebenezer volunteered to take his place and fulfilled Moses’ military servitude from early 1813 to January 1815. Ironically Eliza’s grandfather, Ebenezer Fish, Sr. (1757 – 1827) had served in the Connecticut militia during the American Revolution and was taken prisoner on September 6, 1781 at the Battle of Griswold by British forces led by General Benedict Arnold and was held for three months as a prisoner of war on the English ship, Jersey, before being paroled. In February 1815, Ebenezer, Jr. returned to Groton, Connecticut where he met Joanna Stanton and they were married in January 1816 and had their first child, Eliza Ann in October 1816. After the birth of their second child, Lydia Emily in April 1818, they moved to Brooklyn Township, Ohio and built a second log cabin for themselves on the 80 acres purchased by his younger brother Moses. In 1824, the Fish family patriarch, sixty-seven year old Ebenezer Fish with his wife Lydia Manton sold their family farm near Groton, Connecticut and with their youngest daughter, Matilda now twenty-one, moved to Brooklyn Township near Cleveland, Ohio, joining seven of their children who had previously relocated from 36 28 Village of Plainfield Historic Landmark Nomination 23819 W. Lockport St. Groton to Ohio. Within three years, their daughter Matilda Ann was married in August 1827 and nine days after her wedding Ebenezer was dead at age seventy. On April 16, 1837, twenty-four year old Elihu Corbin married twenty-one year old Eliza Ann Fish in Cleveland. Elihu and Eliza had nine children - six would survive to adulthood however their first-born Eliza died in 1848 at the age of ten, Frances died at age seven in 1847 and Henry died before his first birthday in 1848. The 1840 Census had the couple living in Brooklyn Township and when the 1850 Census was taken in July in Brooklyn Township, Elihu’s occupation was listed as “miner” as he had probably left after the August 1849 birth of his daughter Emily for the California gold fields. In addition to his thirty-four year old wife Eliza were their other two children – Alfred, 7, and Hannah, 5. Also in the enumeration was Calista Payne (21) who likely was a domestic and Elihu’s twenty year old apprentice shoemaker, Moses Fish, a cousin to Elihu’s wife now operating the shoemaker shop while Elihu was prospecting in California. Moses was ten when he and his four siblings were left as orphans in February 1840 after his father, Moses Fish, Sr. second wife Harriet died in childbirth and two months later in April his father passed away. His father’s older sister, Lydia Fish and her husband Alexander Ingham became guardians for the five minor children. When Moses reached sixteen, he became an apprentice shoemaker at Elihu’s shop and three months after the 1850 Census was taken in July, Moses married Calista Payne on October 27, 1850. The 1860 Census lists thirty-year old Moses Fish as a shoe merchant with his wife Calista and their three children residing in neighboring Newburgh, Ohio. Elihu returned to Brooklyn Township from the California gold fields early in 1851 and on March 6, 1852 they welcomed the birth of their daughter Mary Evelyn. It seems likely that Elihu sold his shoemaker/tannery business to his young apprentice, Moses Fish, Jr. before Elihu and Eliza moved west to Plainfield in the summer of 1852 with their four young children – Alfred, 9, Hannah almost 8, Emily 3 and five- month old Mary. In September, 1840, a twenty-four year old Franklin Parmelee from Byron, New York married nineteen year old Adeline Whitney from Hindsburg, New York. Franklin’s parents had moved from their home in Vermont in order to take advantage of the inexpensive fertile farmlands in northwestern New York near Byron about fifty miles northeast of Buffalo in Genesee County and Hindsburg was about fourteen miles north of Byron in adjacent Orleans County. By the age of fifteen, Franklin was already an experienced bookkeeper and was hired by a stage line in nearby Batavia, New York and five years later in 1836, he was employed as a clerk with General Reed’s steamship line in Erie, Pennsylvania and later served as the onboard clerk of the Great Lakes steamer, James Madison, on which he made his first visit to Chicago in 1837. After a thirteen year career as a steamship clerk, he moved his wife and three children, Adeline (8), John (5) and Frank, Jr. (2) to Plainfield in 1849 to start a career as a merchant. The 1850 Census taken in April lists the family of Franklin Parmelee working as a merchant listed on the same page with the families of Jonathan Hagar, Dennison Green, Archibald & Jesse McAllister. A month earlier in March, Franklin Parmelee had purchased Lot 28 in East Plainfield on which he built a house for his family and in November, he purchased Lot 75. Before moving back to Chicago, he sold both lots for $1,000 to Riley B Ashley – eventually the right-of-way for the Joliet, Aurora & Northern Railway would occupy where Parmelee’s homestead stood. In March 1851 Franklin Parmelee purchased two parcels totaling 160 acres in Section 15 consisting of the North half of the NW Quarter and the North half of the NE Quarter from Riley B. Ashley for $3,200. On December 3 & 6, 1852, Elihu Corbin purchased two forty-acre parcels for $1,000 and $1,100 from Franklin Parmelee – the North half of the East half and the North half of the West half of the NW Quarter in Section 15. It seems likely that Elihu’s venture to the California gold fields had been successful and along with the sale of his shoemaker/tannery business in Ohio allowed him to pay Franklin Parmelee with money from those ventures and build a family home on Lots 5 and 6 on the north side of the Oswego and Indiana Plank Road (now Joliet Road) in what would later become his daughter Mary E. Corbin’s Subdivision in 1905. Research at the Will 37 29 Village of Plainfield Historic Landmark Nomination 23819 W. Lockport St. County Recorder of Deeds shows the presence of a mortgage for $1,100 for the December 6 purchase with said mortgage retired on September 10, 1855. [Corbin’s 1852 Purchase – Exhibit A] By 1853 Franklin Parmelee had relocated his family to Chicago and returned to the transportation field with the purchase of six Concord stage coaches, thirty horses and a staff of twelve employees. In 1854, he expanded his operation with the organization of the Franklin Parmelee & Company, a partnership formed with David A Gage, Liberty Bigelow and Martin S. Johnson, for the purpose of carrying on a stage and omnibus business in the city of Chicago. Parmelee negotiated contracts with the railroad companies and hotels and created a regular “bus” line that took the place of several vehicles for the transportation of passengers run by hotels individually, eventually establishing Chicago’s first omnibus line. The 1860 Census listed the personal assets of Franklin Parmelee at $75,000 in real estate and a personal estate of $50,000. The property along the south side of the Lockport, Plainfield & Yorkville Plank Road (now Lockport Street) would be subdivided into ten lots ranging in size from one acre to three acres and stretched east nearly 30 chains or 1,960 feet from Dillman Street to the eventual right-of-way of the Joliet, Aurora & Northern Railway created in September 1885 and would be identified as the Assessor’s Subdivision of North End of NW ¼ of Sec. 15 in 1867. The first sale of these ten lots occurred on March 18, 1854, when Corbin sold the two acre - Lot 4 to William and Fanny Maria Morgan for $200. Three years later on March 24, 1857, Elihu sold the 2.06 acre Lot 7 to Moses Dunkle for $250. The final sale in Corbin’s ten lot subdivision was in July 1862 when Lot 1 was sold to Jacob Daily for $210. The division of Elihu Corbin's 1852 land purchase along the south side of the Lockport Road into ten (10) parcels is delineated in Exhibit F. 38 30 Village of Plainfield Historic Landmark Nomination 23819 W. Lockport St. Appendix C The Post – Corbin Era Moses Dunkle was born in April 1813 and was one of thirteen children born to Jacob Dunkle and Louisa Krebs in Centre County, Pennsylvania. Along with his oldest brother John Melchior (1806), they were the only two children to move from Pennsylvania. – John died in Michigan in 1879 and Moses died in Plainfield in 1865. Their great-grandfather, Melchior Dunkle, Sr. (Dunckel) was born in Switzerland near Alsace-Lorraine in 1701 and emigrated to the United States with his wife Anna in 1742, fifteen years after the death of Melchior’s parents settling in Centre County, Pennsylvania. The lands of the future Centre County were first recorded by James Potter in 1764 who had reached the top of Nittany Mountain in the Appalachian Mountains and viewed the prairies and forest lands in the surrounding valleys. After the American Revolution, Centre County was created on February 13, 1800 from four counties and was so named as it was the geographic center of Pennsylvania Moses married Frances Veronica Henry in 1835 and the 1840 Census shows he and his twenty-four-year-old wife living in Gregg Township in Centre County. The 1850 Census shows the couple running the newly re-built American Hotel in downtown Howard, Pennsylvania. The hotel had been built in 1836 and was destroyed by fire on March 10, 1850. The five-story hotel was built of cut brown stone with a cupola on the west side of Main Street between Court and Eagle Streets by Connecticut-born entrepreneur Benjamin Rathbun. The hotel suffered another fire on January 25, 1865 and was rebuilt but was eventually razed in 1931. Moses’ younger brother John lived with them at the hotel and worked as a boatman at the nearby river and lake. Moses’ father died in January of 1846 and when his mother passed away in March 1856, Moses and his wife quit their jobs at the American Hotel and moved west to Plainfield. Moses purchased the 2.06 acre Lot 7 from Elihu Corbin for $250 on March 25, 1857 in what would become the Assessor’s Subdivision of the North End of the NW¼ of Section 15. Since Lot 7 was the only parcel of land that Moses Dunkle owned in Plainfield, it seems appropriate that he built a house on Lot 7 soon after purchasing the two-acre parcel from Elihu Corbin. ArchiSearch’s 2005 field survey identified the house at 23829 (208) W. Lockport as the oldest house located on the four parcels that would be created from Lot 7 and since Moses was the first owner of the two-acre Lot 7, it seems appropriate that the house at 23829 W. Lockport was built for he and his wife Frances. On April 7, 1858, Moses’ wife Frances died at the age of forty-two and was buried two days later at the Plainfield Township Cemetery. Thirteen months later on May 8, 1859, forty-six year old Moses married thirty-six year old Elizabeth Dundore, formerly of Berks County, Pennsylvania living now in Wheaton, Illinois. Her uncle Philip Yost Dundore, Sr. and his family had recently moved from Lawrence County, Illinois to Wheatland Township. Nine months after Moses and Elizabeth were married they welcomed their first child - Mary Ann and by June 1864, the couple had added an additional three children - John (1861), Emma (1862) and Sara (1864). When Moses died in October 1865, he left his wife with four young children ranging from sixteen months to Mary Ann at five years. The immediate area had been in the throes of a smallpox epidemic and burials at the Plainfield Township Cemetery numbered over 224 from January 1863 to December 31, 1865. On April 1, 1887, Elizabeth Dunkle sold the family house on the 2.06 acres on Lockport Street for $1,800 to Susan Wightman of Lockport that her husband Moses had built almost thirty years earlier and moved to Naperville with her daughter Sarah. Within a span of eight years (1879 – 1887), Elizabeth’s three daughters had married – Sarah lived in Naperville, Emma and Mary both lived in Chicago and her son John Henry had died in May 1886 at the age of twenty-five. After selling her property in Plainfield, Elizabeth moved to Naperville with her daughter 39 31 Village of Plainfield Historic Landmark Nomination 23819 W. Lockport St. Sarah who was married four days later to Albert Wert on April 5. Later because of failing health, Elizabeth moved into her daughter’s house on Washington Street in Naperville where she passed away at the age of eighty-six on October 2, 1909. Susan Wightman’s father was Holder Sisson who had moved to farmland around Evansville, Indiana from New York where his parents had moved after living in Rhode Island. Holder was drafted into the Indiana militia on January 14, 1814 during the War of 1812. His militia was attached to the American forces under General Winfield Scott who fought a battle at Lundy’s Lane on July 25, 1814 in an unsuccessful invasion attempt of British Canada. With the end of the war, he married Mary “Polly” Anderson in July 1815 and they had a son (Ben) in 1816 who died the following year and Polly died from complications of childbirth in June after their second son (Allen Shepherd) was born in January 1817. Holder had Polly’s parents Samuel and Jerusha Anderson raise his son while he moved back to Indiana. Once back in Indiana, Holder was granted a claim to replace personal property “worn out, lost or destroyed” while serving in the War of 1812. In February 1821, Holder married Connecticut-born Clarissa Bronson, who was related through both her parents to the Revolutionary War leader Ethan Allen in Vigo County, Indiana near Terre Haute. Sometime after the birth of his fourth daughter Clarissa in June 1830, Holder went back to Portland, New York to bring his thirteen year-old son, Allen back to Indiana to live with his family. After the birth of their fifth daughter, Susan Eliza in June 1831, Holder moved his family to farmland near Lockport in October and was one of the earliest settlers in the area of what was then part of Cook County When the Black Hawk War broke out in early 1832, Holder moved his family to Fort Dearborn for safety and was elected captain to command a company of soldiers since he had served in the Indiana militia in western New York during the War of 1812. Holder later was one of the earliest commissioners of Cook County which originally included what is now Will, Kendall, Kane and DuPage counties and later became one of the first commissioners in Will County after its creation in 1836. Susan Eliza Sisson was one of the eight children raised by Holder Sisson and Clarissa Bronson on their farm in Lockport. Holder originally settled the family on land on the east side of the DesPlaines Rver but later purchased land in Section 10 on the west side of the river after the Black Hawk War ended in the Fall of 1832. Susan married George Silas Wightman, the oldest son of Josiah Butts Wightman and Sylvia Button on September 18, 1850 in Lockport. The family of Josiah Wightman’s was the second pioneer family to move into Wheatland Township in 1840 after having first moved in 1834 to what would become Kendall County in 1841 near the AuSable Creek from Rome, New York. He remained there for but two years resettling into Plainfield Township in 1836 and eventually permanently settling into Wheatland Township. After their marriage in September 1850, George and Susan lived on his farm in Sections 22 and 27 in Wheatland Township. In August 1858, Susan’s mother passed away at the age of 65 and her father re-married five months later. In early 1864 Susan’s father proposed that she and George purchase his farm as his hearing was deteriorating quickly and he and his wife would move into the Village of Lockport building a house in what became known as Sisson’s Addition to Lockport. Holder had purchased land in Section 26 years before in 1835 near Lockport and had it surveyed in 1860 and divided into lots to sell to new families moving into Lockport. George Wightman sold his farm in Wheatland Township on October 13, 1864 for $6,000 and purchased the Sisson farm on the west side of the DesPlaines River in Section 10 of Lockport Township for $9,900 on October 18. Holder sold his first lots in Sisson’s Addition to Lockport in December 1866. George and Susan Wightman would raise twelve children with ten surviving to adulthood. Eight were born in Wheatland Township and four after they bought her father’s farm in Lockport Township in 1864. Susan’s father passed away in April 1878 at the age of eighty-seven and Susan’s husband, George passed away nine years later on March 8, 1887 at their farm in Lockport Township and was buried three days later at the Plainfield Township Cemetery. With the death of her father and husband, Susan turned the management of the farm over to her two 40 32 Village of Plainfield Historic Landmark Nomination 23819 W. Lockport St. youngest sons, George and Silas having lived on the farm for nearly thirty-two years and decided to move to Plainfield with her twenty-one year old daughter Ella, teenagers Mary (16) and Percy (14) and 8 year old Clarence. She purchased from Elizabeth Dunkle the house Elizabeth’s husband Moses had built on the 2.06 acres of Lot 7 in 1857 for $1,800 within walking distance of downtown Plainfield and neighborhood schools. On August 4, 1894, Susan Wightman passed away and was buried two days later at the Plainfield Township Cemetery next to her husband George S. Wightman. On April 13, 1896, the house and the 2.06 acres of Lot 7 were sold by the heirs of Susan Wightman to Joseph & Anna Vinson from Joliet for $1,800. The Vinson’s sold the house and the 2.06 acres three and half years later on October 3, 1899 to Jonathan Hartong of Plainfield for $1,500 and the 1900 Census shows Joseph (61) and Anna (50) Vinson living on Division Street in Joliet with Joseph’s occupation listed, as a “capitalist.” The beginnings of the Hartong family originated in Lancaster County of Pennsylvania. Lancaster County is in southeast central Pennsylvania about eighty miles east of Philadelphia and was organized on May 10, 1729 as Pennsylvania’s fourth county and was named after the city of Lancaster in the English county of Lancashire, the native home of John Wright, an early settler. Many of the settlers to Lancaster County originally came from German-speaking areas of Europe and spoke a dialect of German, they referred to as “Deitsch” (Deutsch). Over the years this was corrupted to “Pennsylvania Dutch” which had nothing to do with Holland, the Netherlands or the Dutch language. The patriarch of the Hartong family was Christian Hartong (1758 – 1809) and with his wife Barbara Schumacher (1762 – 1835) lived initially in Brecknock Township in Lancaster County raising at least nine children. Family records from the 17th and 18th Century were often difficult to locate, read or verify and the records of the Hartong children indicate they were quite prolific. In 1813 their oldest son, Philip Hartong moved his family from Lancaster County to Stark County in northeastern Ohio and in 1824 his younger brother Jacob, a weaver, moved his family to Summit County in eastern Ohio, which was adjacent to Stark County, purchasing 200 acres of land that the family farmed. However after 15 years of farming, Jacob returned to his love of weaving, supplying clothes to his family and neighbors while his sons worked the family farm. Jonathan Hartong was one of twelve children and one of seven boys born to Jacob and Elizabeth Tritisch. An older brother Elias Hartong was five years old when his parents moved from Pennsylvania to their new farm in Summit County, Ohio near Akron in 1824. When Elias moved to Will County with his wife in 1846, he would be the first of five Hartong brothers to relocate to the Plainfield area where he purchased farmland in Plainfield Township. Jonathan Hartong was eleven years old when Elias left Ohio in 1846 for Will County and at the time of the 1860 Census, Jonathan was living in Elkhart, Indiana with his wife of three years. Soon after the birth of their son, Clinton in August 1871, they too re-located to Plainfield. In October 1899, Jonathan purchased Lot 7 with the house built by Moses Dunkle with its 2.06 acres from Joseph and Anna Vinson for $1,500. Jonathan was the fourth owner of Lot 7 and based on research from the Will County Recorder of Deeds, he decided to create three lots east of the lot where Moses Dunkle had built his house in 1857. Soon after the purchase of Lot 7, Jonathan Hartong likely built himself a house on the newly created lot (now 23825). that was east of the Upright and Wing built by Dunkle. After the death of Jonathan on May 1, 1924, his heirs sold the house to Jonathan Hartong’s oldest daughter Sarah and her husband William Townsend who had married in February 1879 for $5,000. [see Exhibit J]. In August 1925, the heirs of Jonathan Hartong sold the remaining empty 132.99 feet of the eastern portion of Lot 7 to Frank Ording, a forty-six year Plainfield resident and baker living in a rented home on Dillman Street 41 33 Village of Plainfield Historic Landmark Nomination 23819 W. Lockport St. with his wife and two children as enumerated in the 1900 Census. The house that Ording built in c.1927 occupied 71.49 feet of frontage on Lockport Streeton (now 23823) leaving an empty lot of 61.5 feet east of his new house. Ording sold the empty lot east of his new house to King Albert Spangler on August 29, 1929. However fifty-six days later saw the first day of the stock market crash of 1929 on October 24, commonly referred to as Black Thursday which kicked off the Great Depression and may explain why Spangler likely did not build the house in this nomination until the mid-1930s. King Albert Spangler was the oldest son of Samuel Spangler and Ellen Maria Smith born on March 6, 1872. King’s father, Samuel Spangler, was one of fourteen children raised by John George Spangler and Catherine Lydia Stemm. John George Spangler was one of six children born to Peter Spangler and Hannah Wolfersberger, marrying Catherine Lydia Stemm in April 1821 in Centre County, Pennsylvania at the age of twenty-one and soon after the birth of their twelfth child in March 1848, moved from Centre County to Plainfield Township in Will County arriving in early May 1848. Their three oldest children, Jacob (25), George (21) with his nearly seventeen-year-old wife Catherine Kopp and Sarah (20) accompanied them to Will County. Soon after arriving in Plainfield Township, John G. Spangler purchased a farm of 160 acres in Section 2 of Plainfield Township in Contract O-536 from Moses, William and Sally Sanborn, complete with barns and house for $2,750 on May 16 and Jacob purchased eighty acres from the Grosvenor estate in Section 1 in June 1848. In October 1850 John G. Spangler purchased a 120-acre farm in Sections 1 and 2 in Plainfield Township from Benjamin and Abigail Hyland and in March 1854, purchased the 80-acre farm from his son Jacob and wife Lucretia in Section 1 for $2,400. Samuel was five when his parents moved to their home (farm) in Plainfield Township in 1848, eight when the 1850 Census was taken and seventeen when the 1860 Census was enumerated in July. In February 1862 he served with Company G of the 100th Illinois infantry as a private and on January 25, 1866, married twenty-year old Ellen Maria Smith raising five children, all of whom lived to adulthood. By the time that King Spangler was born in 1872, his seventy-two-year-old grandfather John G. Spangler had remarried, moved to Joliet after the death of his first wife in 1857, retired and handed the daily operation of the family farm over to his twenty- seven year old son Samuel who had moved his family to the Spangler farmstead in Plainfield Township. On September 3, 1892, Samuel Spangler purchased Lot 5 in Hall’s Subdivision on the east side of Bartlett Avenue for $300 and built a house in 1893 for his family and within eight years had turned over the running of the farmstead to his son King Albert. In April 1896, King married Minnie Sarah Shafer and moved his wife to the Spangler farmstead in Plainfield Township. On August 1, 1900, King Spangler purchased a 195-acre farm from William Thompson, Jr. and his wife Annie in Sections 24 and 25 of Wheatland Township for $15,000. Following the death of their infant son David in October 1897, King and his wife Minnie had a daughter, Ferne born on November 19, 1902 and lived on their Wheatland Township farm for almost thirty years. On July 20, 1928, King and Minnie Spangler purchased a house on Lot 4 on the east side of Center Street from Dale and Catherine Reece in contract 686-55. The 1930 Census indicated that King and Minnie had moved from their farm in Wheatland Township to the house located on Lot 4 in Andrew T. Simmons Second Subdivision at 729 N. Center (a/k/a 14923). Their daughter Ferne with her husband LaVergne Bronk, who married in 1921, had moved to the Spangler farmstead in Wheatland Township purchased by her parents in August 1900. The 1930 Census for Wheatland Township shows Ferne and her husband living on the farm. On August 29, 1929, King Spangler purchased the vacant East 61.5 feet of Lot 7 in the Assessor’s Subdivision of the North End of the NW¼ of Section 15 on the south side of Lockport Street from Frank Ording in Contract 723-452. Fifty-six days later the Wall Street Crash began on October 24, 1929, commonly referred to as Black Thursday, the day of the largest sell-off of stock in United States’ history. Five days later, on October 29, investors traded 42 34 Village of Plainfield Historic Landmark Nomination 23819 W. Lockport St. over 16 million shares on the New York Stock Exchange in a single day all of which had followed the London Stock Exchange Crash of September, signaling the beginning of the Great Depression that became known as Black Tuesday. In March 1935 King Spangler and his son-in-law, LaVergne Bronk purchased an additional 221 acres of land in Section 23 of Wheatland Township that was adjacent to the Spangler’s 1900 purchase from the Thompson family. This 1935 purchase was from the Master of the Chancery of the Will County Circuit Court for back taxes. The historic aerial maps indicate that the house was under construction in 1939 by the Smiley brothers – Maurice and Clyde. The 1940 Census enumerated in April shows King (68) and Minnie (66) Spangler living in the nominated house on Lockport Street with the Census listing the value of their house at $10,000. Their next- door neighbors to the west were Frank Ording (66), a Plainfield baker, his wife Daisy (58) and their two children, Lowell (30) and Gretchen (26). On July 28, 1948, the Center Street house was sold to Joseph Bennett, nearly twenty years after its purchase where King and Minnie lived for about nine years until they had the nominated house built about a block away on Lockport Street. Albert Spangler died less than a year later on June 3, 1949 at the age of seventy-seven at Silver Cross Hospital in Joliet and was buried on June 6 at the Plainfield Township Cemetery. The 1950 Census enumerated on April 8 indicates that Minnie Spangler was living at the nominated house at 202 Lockport Street and was renting a room to twenty-two-year-old Vivian Berg, an English and Spanish teacher at Plainfield High School. Minnie lived at the house another twenty-three years before passing away on January 6, 1974 at St. Joseph’s Hospital at the age of ninety-nine. She was buried on January 9, 1974 next to her husband of fifty-five years, King Albert Spangler. With the death of her mother, Ferne I (Spangler) Bronk inherited the house from her parents. The 1940 Census shows Ferne Spangler and her husband LaVergne Bronk living at 600 N. Fox River Street (a/k/a 15118) with their five-year old, adopted son Allyn and the 1950 Census shows the couple still living on Fox River Street with their fifteen-year-old son Allyn. Ferne’s husband LaVergne Bronk died in April 1980 and records show the deed to the house in this nomination was placed into a trust in November 1986 and the Public Records Index – 1950 – 1993 shows Ferne having lived in the house after the death of her husband, LaVergne Bronk. Ferne died on May 30, 2001 at the age of ninety-eight and was buried at the Plainfield Township Cemetery. The house was purchased from June (Flagg) Bronk, the wife of Allyn Bronk, the adopted son of Ferne and LaVergne Bronk. New Notes: Michael Lambert believes that the nominated house was a Plan Book design. Also Michael Lambert believes – the entry frontispiece/surround is a classic catalog element A curious connection – the Smiley families made the former Olsen Bartlett Avenue house into apartments where they lived in the 1940s and 1950s 43 35 Village of Plainfield Historic Landmark Nomination 23819 W. Lockport St. Appendix D Statement of Significance In ArchiSearch’s 2006 evaluation of this nearly eighty-five (8) year-old 1½ - story residence notations include – “an excellent example of the Classical Revival style on a smaller house, a great example of early 20th Century residential architecture” Integrity is the ability of a property to convey its significance. The evaluation of integrity is sometimes a subjective judgment but it must always be grounded in an understanding of a property’s physical features and how they relate to its significance. ArchiSearch notes the presence of the original, multi-light windows and a minor alteration of synthetic siding on the north facades’ gable roof dormer walls. This Classical Revival style house was the last house to be built on the 2.06 acre Lot 7 which was subdivided into four lots of varying sizes. The Plainfield 1931 Sanborn Fire Insurance map shows an empty lot that research has shown the owner King Albert Spangler purchased on August 29, 1929, about 56 days before the start of the Great Depression. The house appears on the 1944 Sanborn Fire Insurance, historic aerial maps show the house under construction in 1939 and the 1940 Census enumerated in April shows King Albert (70) and his wife Minnie (68) living at the house on Lockport Street. This 1½-story house with its T-shaped facade has a poured concrete foundation with red/green mottled brick in a running bond with an asphalt shingle side gable roof. It has a symmetrical 3-bay house core with a side gable sun porch on the east, recessed from the façade plane, an 8-light casement sash - set of 3 to the front and 4 to the east side. The entry frontispiece is a classic catalog element added to the house and is a low one-story gable projection with an original Classical Revival surround with fluted pilasters, tiny fan design with the entablature, denticulated cornice all in wood. There is a two-light paneled original door with an aluminum storm door and a raised stoop with an east side rail only. 8-over-8 double-hung sash in end bays with gable roof dormers above, with 5-over-5 double-hung sashes. This will be Plainfield’s fifth designated residential Village Landmark constructed in the Twentieth Century, with its period of significance from 1939-1940. A. 1939 to 1974 with the death of Minnie Sarah Shafer Spangler at the age of ninety-nine – 35 years. B. 1939 to Nov. 1986 – house placed into the Ferne I. Bronk Trust – 47 years C. 1939 – 2001 – with the death of Ferne I. (Spangler) Bronk – 62 years Summary Statement of Significance The house is nominated for designation as a local landmark in the Village of Plainfield under the following criteria: Criterion d: embodies distinguishing characteristics of an architectural style valuable for the study of a period, type, method of construction, or use of indigenous materials; Criterion f: embodies elements of design, detailing, materials, or craftsmanship that are of architectural significance. Criterion j: is suitable for preservation or restoration; 44 36 Village of Plainfield Historic Landmark Nomination 23819 W. Lockport St. EXHIBITS A. Elihu Corbin’s 1852 Purchase B. Pre-Civil War Map of Plainfield - c. 1855 C. Ingersoll’s 1834 Plat of Planefield D. Ingersoll’s Addition to Plainfield – 1837 E. Plat of Arnold’s Addition to Plainfield – September 4, 1845 – this shows the quarter section that came to be known as Arnold’s Addition - surveyed almost a year after Levi Arnold’s death. F. Assessor’s Subdivision of the North End of the NW¼ of Section 15 – created June 18, 1867 – 10 Lots G. Subdivision of Lot 7 into Four Parcels H. Chain of Title for 23819 W. Lockport Street 45 37 Village of Plainfield Historic Landmark Nomination 23819 W. Lockport St. EXHIBIT A Elihu Corbin’s 1852 Purchase 46 38 Village of Plainfield Historic Landmark Nomination 23819 W. Lockport St. EXHIBIT B Pre-Civil War Map of Plainfield - c. 1855 47 39 Village of Plainfield Historic Landmark Nomination 23819 W. Lockport St. EXHIBIT C Ingersoll’s 1834 Plat of Planefield 48 40 Village of Plainfield Historic Landmark Nomination 23819 W. Lockport St. EXHIBIT D Ingersoll’s Addition to Plainfield – 1837 49 41 Village of Plainfield Historic Landmark Nomination 23819 W. Lockport St. EXHIBIT E Plat of Arnold’s Addition to Plainfield – September 4, 1845 50 42 Village of Plainfield Historic Landmark Nomination 23819 W. Lockport St. EXHIBIT F Assessor’s Subdivision of the North End of the NW¼ of Section 15 Begins at the intersection of Dillman & Lockport Streets & continues East to the EJ&E right-of-way Lot 10 September 14, 1854 – $125 – 1 acre - Sharon German Evangelical Church Lot 9 February 15, 1855 - $112 - 1 acre - John W. Hills – later sub-divided into 2 parcels Lot 8 February 24, 1855 - $100 - 1 acre - Miles L. Read - later sub-divided into 2 parcels Lot 7 March 24, 1857 - $250 - 2.06 acres – Moses Dunkle - later sub-divided into 4 parcels Lot 6 January 1, 1856 - $100 – 1 acre – David Dice - later sub-divided into 2 parcels Lot 5 December 29, 1855 - $110 – 1 acre – Harriet Lee - later sub-divided into 2 parcels Lot 4 March 18, 1854 - $200 – 2 acres – Fanny Marie Morgan - later sub-divided into 4 parcels Lot 3 March 21, 1855 – $525 – 2 acres - Lewis J. Hammond - later sub-divided into 4 parcels Lot 2 March 5, 1856 - $350 – 3 acres – Frederick Burgstahler - later sub-divided into 5 parcels Lot 1 July 8, 1862 - $210 – 2.69 acres – Jacob Daily - later sub-divided into 3 parcels Typical Measurements used in 19th Century Plainfield 1 chain = 66 feet – a surveyor’s chain was 66 feet in length with 100 links; each link was 7.92 inches 1 Rod = 16½ feet (198 inches) or 25 links x 7.92 inches = ¼ of a chain or 5½ yards 51 43 Village of Plainfield Historic Landmark Nomination 23819 W. Lockport St. EXHIBIT G Lot 7 - Commence at the center of the Lockport & Plainfield Plank Road at the NE corner of Lot 8 deeded by Elihu Corbin to Miles L. Read, thence South 20 rods (330’), thence East 16 rods (266.46’) to the SW corner of Lot 6 deeded by Elihu Corbin to David Dice, thence North on said line to the center of the Plank Road, thence West 16 rods (266.46’) to place of beginning, being Lot 7 with 2.06 Acres. The house in this nomination is one of 4 houses that would be built on the 2.06 acres of Lot 7. Each of the ten lots that made up Corbin’s Assessor’s Subdivision of the North End of the NW¼ of Section 15 had a legal description so it could be recorded at the Will County Assessor’s Office in Joliet. Eventually the owner of the larger lot would hire a surveyor to create a new parcel within that lot and sell the parcel to someone who would build a house on the land & each individual parcel would then have a legal description: Subdivision of Lot 7 into 4 Parcels – West to East Lot 7 purchased March 24, 1857 by Moses Dunkle from Elihu Corbin for $250 23829 (208) W. Lockport - (c. 1857) - built by Moses Dunkle - The West 64’ of Lot 7 23825 (206) W. Lockport – (c. 1899) – likely built by Jonathan Hartong Lot 7, except the West 64’ & except the East 132.99’ 23823 (204) W. Lockport – (c. 1926) – likely built by Frank Ording after purchase from the heirs of Jonathan Hartong The South 181.5’ of the West 71.49’ of the East 132.99’ of Lot 7; the North 148.5’ of the West 71.49’ of the East 132.99’ of Lot 7 23819 (202) W. Lockport – (c. 1935) – built by King Albert Spangler - The East 61½’ of Lot 6 52 44 Village of Plainfield Historic Landmark Nomination 23819 W. Lockport St. EXHIBIT H 23819 (202) W. Lockport 06-03-15-102-009-0000 The East 61½’ of Lot 7 in the Assessor’s Subdivision of the North end of the NW ¼ of Section 15 GRANTOR GRANTEE 4/04/2013 Bronk, Ferne I. [Trust Deed – 2013046007] $155,000 2 Sisters LLC 11/28/1986 Bronk, Ferne I. [Deed in Trust – R87000058] Bronk, Ferne I. (Widow) 8/29/1929 Ording, Frank C./Daisy [WD – 723-452] Spangler, King The East 61½’ of Lot 7 in the Assessor’s Subdivision of the North end of NW ¼ of Sec. 15; said grantors grant, convey & quit claim unto King Spangler a perpetual easement over, through & across the West 71.49’ of the East 132.99’ of Lot 7 for laying, repairing & re-laying sewer & water pipes to connect the premises above with the sewer & water connection from the said West 71.49’ with the water main & sewer located on Lockport Street. 8/14/1925 Townsend, Sarah A./William [WD – 609-435] $1.00 Ording, Frank Hartong, Henry F. (Widower) Hartong, Samuel W./Frances E. The East 132.99’ of Lot 7 in the Assessor’s Subdivision of the Burdick, Cora J./Elmer North end of NW ¼ of Sec. 15. 10/03/1899 Vinson, Anna/Joseph [WD-356-491] $1,500 Hartong, Jonathan (Joliet) (Plainfield) Commence at a point on the Lockport Plank Road at the NE corner of Lot 8 deeded by Elihu Corbin to Miles L. Reed, thence South 20 rods (330’), thence East to the SW corner of Lot 6 deeded by Elihu Corbin to David Dice, thence North on said line to the center of the Plank Road, thence West to place of beginning being Lot 7, containing 2.06 Acres 4/13/1896 Wightman, Annie A.[QCD -325-181] $1,800 Vinson, Anna M. Wightman, Percy R. Wightman, Frank H./Catherine J.; Wightman, Wallace J./Clara J. Wightman, George S; Gorham, Clara (Wightman)/Herbert Heirs at law of Susan Wightman Commence at a point on the Lockport Plank Road at the NE corner of Lot 8 deeded by Elihu Corbin to Miles L. Reed, thence South 20 rods, thence East to the SW corner of Lot 6 deeded by Elihu Corbin to David Dice, thence North on said line to the center of the Plank Road, thence West to place of beginning, being Lot 7 of 2.06 acres. 4/01/1887 Dunkle, Elizabeth [WD – 242-441] $1,800 Wightman, Susan (Widow – Plainfield) (Lockport) Commence at a point on the Lockport Plank Road at the NE corner of Lot 8 deeded by Elihu Corbin to Miles L. Reed, thence South 20 rods, thence East to the SW corner of Lot 6 deeded by Elihu Corbin to David Dice, thence North on said line to the center of Lockport Plank Road, thence West to place of beginning being Lot 7 containing 2.06 Acres. 6/18/1867 Assessor’s Subdivision of North End of NW ¼ of Sec. 15, 36N 9E – B102-P22 53 45 Village of Plainfield Historic Landmark Nomination 23819 W. Lockport St. 3/24/1857 Corbin, Elihu [Deed – 57-415] $250 Dunkle, Moses Commence at the center of the Lockport & Plainfield Plank Road at the NE corner of Lot 8 deeded by Elihu Corbin to Miles L. Read, thence South 20 rods (330’), thence East 16 rods (266’) to the SW corner of Lot 6 deeded by Elihu Corbin to David Dice, thence North on said line to the center of the Plank Road, thence West 16 rods (266.46’) to place of beginning being Lot 7 with 2.06 Acres 12/06/1852 Parmalee, Frank/Adeline [WD – Z-195] $1,100 Corbin, Elihu Being the N ½ of E ½ of NW ¼ of Sec. 15 in Twp. 36 N of Range 9 E, containing 40 A. 12/03/1852 Parmalee, Frank/Adeline [WD – Z-194] $1,000 Corbin, Elihu Being N ½ of W ½ of NW ¼ of Sec. 15 – 40 A., except a small piece in the SW corner heretofore deeded by Riley B. Ashley to Michael Dillman, said piece lying East of the road leading from Plainfield to Joliet & on the south side of the road leading from Plainfield to Lockport, being 40 A. lying in a square form, except as above, in the NW corner of Sec. 15. – this property became E. Corbin’s addition (Z-554) 3/08/1851 Ashley, Riley B/Rhoda [WD – T-534-5] $3,200 Parmalee, Franklin The N ½ of the NW ¼ (excepting that piece lying on the west end of said piece & lying between the 2 roads & deeded by Riley B. Ashley to Michael Dillman), & also the N ½ of the NE¼ of Sec. 15, containing 160 A. 9/18/1845 Ashley, Riley B. [Deed – Q-120] $15 Dillman, Michael Part of W ½ of NW ¼ of Sec. 15, beginning at a stone planted on the west section line 19.98 chains south of NW corner of Sec. 15, thence East 3.05 chains to the center of Joliet & Plainfield Road, thence North 42 degrees West in center of said road to the west section line, thence south to place of beginning. 2/23/1841 Rossiter, David B./Susan M [Deed – G-162-3] $2,000 Ashley, Riley B. The N ½ of the NW ¼ & N ½ of the NE ¼ in Sec. 15, containing 160 A. 4/17/1839 Worner, Jacob/Catharine [WD – E-423] $600 4/01/1839 Worner, Jacob Van [WD –E-237] $3,600 Rossiter, David B. The NE ¼ & the N ½ of the NW ¼ of Sec. 15 & the S ½ of S ½ of the NW ¼ in Sec. 15, containing 280 A., excepting/reserving from the SW corner of the S ½ of the S ½ of said NW ¼ in Sec. 15, with 2 ½ A. from the SW corner thereof or 20 square rods which is reserved as a cemetery. Also SW ¼ of SE ¼ of Sec. 22, containing 40 A. 1/17/1839 Harris, Joseph/Calista [WD – E-222] $2,000 Worner, Jacob Van The NE¼ & N ½ of the NW ¼ of Sec. 15 & the S ½ of the NW ¼ in Sec. 15 – 280 acres, excepting & reserving from the SW corner of the S ½ of the S ½ of said NW ¼ in Sec. 15 with 2 ½ Acres from the SW corner or 20 Square Rods to be used as a Cemetery. 54 46 Village of Plainfield Historic Landmark Nomination 23819 W. Lockport St. 7/16/1838 Chapman, Robert W. [WD- D-284] $3,555.60 Harris, Joseph The NE ¼ & N ½ of the NW ¼ of Sec. 15 & S ½ of the NW ¼ of Sec. 15 – 280 Acres, excepting & reserving from the SW corner of the S ½ of the S ½ of said NW ¼ in Sec. 15 with 2½ acres from the SW corner or 20 square rods to be used as a cemetery. 3/16/1837 United States [Land Patent 401-330 ] $200 Chapman, Robert W. NW ¼ of Sec. 15, 36N 9 E, containing 160 A 7/02/1836 Shively, Samuel/Lucy [WD – A-330-1] $400 Chapman, Robert W. The NE ¼ of Sec. 15 in Twp. 36 N of Range 9 E, containing 160 A. 6/11/1835 U. S. Land Office [Land Patent 118 ] $200 Chapman, Robert W. Shively, Samuel NE ¼ of Sec. 15, 36 N 9 E, containing 160 A. 12/11/1834 U.S. Land Office [Land Patent – 1585] $200 Chapman, Robert W. NW ¼ of Sec. 15 in Twp. 36 N Range 9 E, containing 160 A. 55 47 Village of Plainfield Historic Landmark Nomination 23819 W. Lockport St. BIBLIOGRAPHY A Field Guide to American Architecture, Carole Rifkind, A Plume Book, 1980, ISBN 0-452-25334-5 A History of Plainfield: Then and Now (2nd Edition), Plainfield Bicentennial Commission (Plainfield Enterprise: Plainfield, Illinois, 1976 Ancestry.com Baker, John Milnes, “American House Styles: a Concise Guide,” 2nd Edition. Countryman Press, July 2, 2018. Historic Urbanized Core Survey, Plainfield Historic Preservation Commission. ArchiSearch Historic Preservation Consultant Alice Novak, Sept. 12, 2005 The History of Will County, Illinois - 1878 Plainfield Enterprise Plainfield Historical Society Archives – Plainfield, Illinois Plainfield Township Cemetery Records Restoring Old Houses, Nigel Hutchins, Firefly Books, Buffalo, NY, 1997, ISBN 1-55209-144-9 U.S. Federal Census Records – 1830, 1840, 1850, 1860, 1870, 1880, 1900, 1910, 1920, 1930, 1940, 1950 Will County Recorder’s Office Archives: Joliet, Illinois. Researchers: Michael Bortel Leif Henricksen Michael A. Lambert David Schmidt 56 PUBLIC NOTICE HISTORIC PRESERVATION COMMISSION 2ND THURSDAY OF EACH MONTH 7:00 P.M. VILLAGE HALL 24401 W. LOCKPORT STREET PLAINFIELD, IL 60544 2024 MEETING SCHEDULE January 11, 2024 February 8, 2024 March 14,2024 April 11, 2024 May 9, 2024 June 13, 2024 July 11, 2024 August 8, 2024 September 12, 2024 October 10, 2024 November 14, 2024 December 12, 2024 57 PUBLIC NOTICE HISTORIC PRESERVATION COMMISSION SUBCOMMITTEE LANDMARKS & DISTRICT DESIGNATION SUBCOMMITTEE 1ST THURSDAY OF EACH MONTH 6:00 P.M. VILLAGE HALL 24401 W. LOCKPORT STREET PLAINFIELD, IL 60544 2024 MEETING SCHEDULE January 4, 2024 February 1, 2024 March 7, 2024 April 4, 2024 May 2, 2024 June 6, 2024 July 4, 2024* August 1, 2024 September 5, 2024 October 3, 2024 November 7, 2024 December 5, 2024 *Office Closed – No Meeting 58