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Burns' house, the first brick house in the city, had a vernacular gable front plan; such homes were popular at the time, especially in newly formed railroad towns. Burns lived in the house until he moved to a larger one in 1868; he went on to serve as Polo's mayor, a town council and school board member, and a financial benefactor of the city. [2]
Zenas Aplington (1815–1862) The house was built in 1853 by Zenas Aplington, the founder of Polo. When the nearby community of Buffalo Grove refused to let the Illinois Central Railroad build through the town in 1852, Aplington provided his farmland to the railroad; Polo developed around the farmland, and by 1856 nearly all of Buffalo Grove had moved to the new town.
The Polo Public Library at 302 West Mason Street in Polo is operated by the Polo Public Library District. The building is one of several Carnegie libraries on the National Register of Historic Places. The library was established in 1871 as an association which charged a membership fee and was transferred to the town under the new name Buffalo ...
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The Bryant H. and Lucie Barber House is a Registered Historic Place in the Ogle County, Illinois city of Polo. It is one of six overall sites and three homes in Polo listed on the Register. The other two homes listed on the National Register of Historic Places in Polo are the John McGrath House and the Henry D. Barber House.
The Henry D. Barber House was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on March 28, 1974, for its significance in the area of architecture. [2] Joseph Lyman Silsbee, prominent architect of many Chicago structures including the Lincoln Park Conservatory and the interior of the ‘Palmer Castle’ of Bertha and Potter Palmer of the Palmer House in Chicago, designed this house.