Lemont Methodist Episcopal Church

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Lemont Methodist Episcopal Church
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Location306 Lemont St., Lemont, Illinois
Coordinates 41°40′23″N88°0′0″W / 41.67306°N 88.00000°W / 41.67306; -88.00000 Coordinates: 41°40′23″N88°0′0″W / 41.67306°N 88.00000°W / 41.67306; -88.00000
Area0.2 acres (0.081 ha)
Built1861
Architectural styleItalianate
NRHP reference # 86001031 [1]
Added to NRHPMay 5, 1986

Lemont Methodist Episcopal Church, also known as the Old Stone Church, is a historic church building at 306 Lemont Street in Lemont, Illinois.

Lemont, Illinois Village in Illinois, United States

Lemont is a village located in Cook, DuPage, and Will counties in the U.S. state of Illinois, and is a suburb of Chicago. The population was 16,000 as of the 2010 census. Lemont is home to Argonne National Laboratory and other heavy industrial sites, and has a substantial European immigrant population.

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It was built in 1861 and added to the National Register in 1986.

National Register of Historic Places federal list of historic sites in the United States

The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the United States federal government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures, and objects deemed worthy of preservation for their historical significance. A property listed in the National Register, or located within a National Register Historic District, may qualify for tax incentives derived from the total value of expenses incurred preserving the property.

Lemont Area Historical Society and Museum

The building is now home to the Lemont Area Historical Society and Museum, which was founded in 1970 to save the building. [2] The museum features displays of local history and culture. The Society hosts historic programs, tours and lectures.

Local history is the study of history in a geographically local context and it often concentrates on the local community. It incorporates cultural and social aspects of history. Local history is not merely national history writ small but a study of past events in a given geographical but one that is based on a wide variety of documentary evidence and placed in a comparative context that is both regional and national. Historic plaques are one form of documentation of significant occurrences in the past and oral histories are another.

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References

  1. National Park Service (2010-07-09). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places . National Park Service.
  2. "About Us". Lemont Area Historical Society. Retrieved 14 December 2013.

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