Robert Vial House

Last updated
Robert Vial House
Vial House 1 (NRHP).jpg
USA Illinois location map.svg
Red pog.svg
Usa edcp location map.svg
Red pog.svg
Robert Vial House
Interactive map showing Robert Vial House’s location
Location7425 S. Wolf Rd., Burr Ridge, Illinois
Coordinates 41°45′17″N87°53′45″W / 41.75472°N 87.89583°W / 41.75472; -87.89583
Arealess than one acre
Built1856
Architectural styleUpright and wing
NRHP reference No. 07000853 [1]
Added to NRHPAugust 31, 2007

The Robert Vial House is a historic house located at 7425 S. Wolf Rd. in Burr Ridge, Illinois. Built in 1856, the house is the oldest in Burr Ridge and the only example of an early farmhouse in the community. The house was designed in the upright-and-wing form of the Greek Revival style and also features elements of the Italianate and Classical Revival styles. The two-story house has a front gable and a 1+12-story side wing. The house's main entrance is bordered by sidelights and a transom and framed by pilasters supporting a plain pediment. The front of the house has five six-over-six wood sash windows with wooden shutters. The wing has a front porch with a sloping overhang supported by columns. The house's main eave features ornamental Italianate brackets. [2]

Robert Vial was the second son of Joseph Vial, an early settler of Lyons Township who was also the area's first postmaster and a founder of Lyonsville Congregational Church. [3] Robert built the house for himself in 1856. He operated one of the largest farms in the area, and his farms had the first silo constructed in Cook County. Vial also served as a school director, township supervisor and treasurer of schools and as deacon of the Lyonsville Congregational Church, as had his father before him. After Robert Vial's death, his children converted his farm to a golf course, and the farmhouse became the course's clubhouse (both are gone now, having been converted into a housing development in what is now Western Springs, Illinois). In 1989, the Flagg Creek Heritage Society moved the house from its original location on Plainfield Road to its current site a few miles to the south on Wolf Road. The society restored the house and later turned it into a local history museum. [2] [3]

The house was added to the National Register of Historic Places on August 31, 2007. [1]

Related Research Articles

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Burr Ridge, Illinois</span> Village in Illinois, United States

Burr Ridge is a village in Cook and DuPage counties in the U.S. state of Illinois. Per the 2020 census, the population was 11,192.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Franklin Square (Bloomington, Illinois)</span> United States historic place

Franklin Square, or Franklin Park is located in Bloomington, Illinois, McLean County. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places, Franklin Square contains the homes of former Vice President Adlai Stevenson I and former Governor Joseph W. Fifer. In 1979 the square was designated as a local historic district. Located northeast of downtown Bloomington, the square encompasses the 300 and 400 blocks of E. Chestnut and E. Walnut streets and the 900 block of N. Prairie and N. McLean streets.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">City and Town Hall (Rochelle, Illinois)</span> United States historic place

The City and Town Hall in downtown Rochelle, Ogle County, Illinois, United States, operates as the township history museum, holding a number of static displays on local history. Historically it served as the headquarters for city and township government as well as holding the offices of numerous state, local and national entities. The building was erected in 1884 following an 18-year disagreement about the structure's cost between the city of Rochelle and Flagg Township.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Lyons Township, Cook County, Illinois</span> Township in Illinois, United States

Lyons Township is one of 29 townships in Cook County, Illinois. As of the 2020 census, its population was 115,105, with its most populous municipalities including La Grange, Justice and Summit. Lyons Township was established in 1850. The village of Lyons, almost all of which lies within the township, is often confused with it.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">John Artz Farmhouse</span> Historic house in Ohio, United States

John Artz Farmhouse is a historic building located at 5125 Duffy Road Berne, Ohio near Lancaster.

Millburn is a former unincorporated community in Lake Villa Township and Newport Township, Lake County, Illinois, United States. Millburn is located at the junction of U.S. Route 45 and County Routes A10 and A14; it lies within the village of Old Mill Creek and borders Lindenhurst to the west. It is 5 miles (8 km) south of the Illinois-Wisconsin state border and 10 miles (16 km) west of Waukegan.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Phillip and Maria Hasselbach Dingledey House</span> Historic house in Michigan, United States

The Phillip and Maria Hasselbach Dingledey House was a private house located at 1638 Haggerty Road, near Westland in Canton Township, Michigan. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000. The house is no longer at its listed location; a small commercial complex now occupies the site.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Orrin and Roxanne Fairman Kinyon House</span> Historic house in Michigan, United States

The Orrin and Roxanne Fairman Kinyon House is a private house located at 7675 N. Ridge Road in Canton, Michigan. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">John and Eliza Barr Patterson House</span> Historic house in Michigan, United States

The John and Eliza Barr Patterson House is a private house located at 6205 N. Ridge Road in Canton, Michigan, United States. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Dundee Township Historic District</span> Historic district in Illinois, United States

The Dundee Township Historic District is a set of sixty-five buildings in Dundee Township, Kane County Illinois. Buildings in the district are found in East Dundee, West Dundee, and Carpentersville. The district represents the development of the upper Fox River Valley from 1870 to the 1920s. Dundee Township became an important industrial area, especially following the construction of the Dundee Brick Company in West Dundee and the Illinois Iron and Bolt Company in Carpentersville. Also included in the district are a variety of Queen Anne, Italianate, and Greek Revival style houses and Gothic Revival churches. The majority of the historic district lies within the boundaries of West Dundee. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1975.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Perry Nelson House</span> Historic house in Minnesota, United States

The Perry Nelson House is a historic farmhouse in Dodge County, Minnesota; located in Concord Township, it is approximately 6 miles (9.7 km) from West Concord, Minnesota. The private home was placed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) on April 16, 1982. The house is considered significant for its distinctive scale among rural housing stock in the area, as well as its representation of both the agricultural development of the county and the Yankee heritage of the surrounding area.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Cornelius Flagg Farmstead</span> United States historic place

The Cornelius Flagg Farmstead is a historic farm located on Tipton School Road in Sherman, Illinois. Cornelius Flagg, a farmer and lumber businessman from Ohio, established the farm in the 1870s. The farmhouse, the farm's main building, is a two-story brick Italianate building. The house has an asymmetrical pattern with hip roofs over each component. Several of its key Italianate features are not original; the wraparound front porch was replaced in 1930, and its bracketed cornice was reconstructed in the 1940s after tornadoes damaged the roof. The farm's brick barn is unusually well-crafted for a barn built during the period, a sign of Flagg's wealth. Other buildings on the farm include a machinery shed, a smaller and older farmhouse, a privy, and an ice house.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Chenoweth–Coulter Farm</span> United States historic place

Chenoweth–Coulter Farm, also known as Shady Brook Farm, is a historic home and farm located in Wayne Township, Huntington County, Indiana. The farmhouse was built in 1866, and is a two-story, three-bay, Greek Revival style brick I-house with a 1+12-story rear wing. It has a one-story, Italianate/Gothic Revival style front porch. Also on the property the contributing well house, wood house, garage, drive-through corn crib, chicken house, bank barn (1870), and privy.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Langford and Lydia McMichael Sutherland Farmstead</span> United States historic place

The Langford and Lydia McMichael Sutherland Farmstead is a farm located at 797 Textile Road in Pittsfield Charter Township, Michigan. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2006. It is now the Sutherland-Wilson Farm Historic Site.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">William Horton Farmhouse</span> United States historic place

The William Horton Farmhouse is a single family home located at 1647 West Miller Road near Morrice, Michigan. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986. It is one of the finest rural Italianate farm homes in the area.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Ella Sharp Museum</span> United States historic place

The Ella Sharp Museum is a historical museum located at 3225 4th Street in Jackson, Michigan. The original structure is a nineteenth-century farmhouse, the Ella Sharp House, which was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1972.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">James M. Jameson Farm</span> United States historic place

The James M. Jameson Farm is a farmstead located at 10220 North Parma Road near Springport, Michigan. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">James and Anne Atmore Bryant Farmstead</span> United States historic place

The James and Anne Atmore Bryant Farmstead is a farm located at 12557 L Drive North in Convis Township, Michigan. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Corron Farm</span> United States historic place

Corron Farm is a historic farm at 7N761 Corron Road in rural Campton Township, Kane County, Illinois. Robert Corron, who was one of Kane County's first settlers, claimed the farm in 1835 and gradually purchased its land from the government over the 1840s. Corron and his family originally lived in a log cabin on the site, but in the early 1850s they built a brick farmhouse; the house's design blends elements of the Italianate and Early Classical Revival styles. The farm also has a workers' house from the 1880s with an I-house plan, a common vernacular type in the Midwest at the time. Other buildings on the farm include a dairy barn with a silo, a horse barn, a hog house, a chicken coop and feed house, a milk house, and two corn cribs.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Walker-Combs-Hartshorne Farmstead</span> Historic house in New Jersey, United States

The Walker, Combs, Hartshorne, Oakley Farmstead is located in the historic district of the village of West Freehold, a part of Freehold Township in Monmouth County, New Jersey, United States. The house was built in 1686 and was added to the National Register of Historic Places on October 14, 1990.

References

  1. 1 2 "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places . National Park Service. March 13, 2009.
  2. 1 2 Hoffman, Joanna (August 1, 2006). "National Register of Historic Places Registration Form: Vial, Robert, House" (PDF). National Park Service. Archived from the original (PDF) on March 4, 2016. Retrieved May 1, 2013.
  3. 1 2 "The Robert Vial House". Flagg Creek Heritage Society. 2009. Retrieved August 24, 2014.

Commons-logo.svg Media related to Robert Vial House at Wikimedia Commons