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Plaza del Lago is a shopping center at 1515 Sheridan Road in Wilmette, Illinois, United States, which opened in 1928 as Spanish Court.It has been reported as the second-oldest shopping center in the United States designed for automobile use, [3] [4] [5] and the first such center in the state of Illinois.
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The district includes 911 contributing buildings; all are houses except for two churches, Trinity United Methodist Church and the Community Church of Wilmette. The southern half of the district was originally part of the Ouilmette Reservation, an Indian reservation which was sold to developers and became the original village of Wilmette in 1872.
Edens Plaza is a strip mall in the town of Wilmette, Illinois.It was built by Carson Pirie Scott & Co. (Carson's) in 1956, and, until 2018, was anchored by one of their stores.
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[1] In 1942, after decades of disputed ownership and legal wrangling, the area was annexed by the village of Wilmette. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] The club burned down shortly thereafter. The area is now the home of the Plaza del Lago shopping center on the west side of Sheridan Road and a small number of anomalous high-rise residential buildings east of Sheridan.
The first fourteen homes on Oak Circle were platted in 1907 as part of Joseph Woodruff's Addition to Wilmette. Oak Circle was paved in 1911, and homes on the west side of the street were likely built between 1917 and 1920; however, the permits indicating the precise dates of their construction were lost in the 1920 Palm Sunday tornado outbreak.
The Goldblatt family offered to sell it to the village of Wilmette's government to serve as a community center. This offer was rejected, and the mansion was demolished between 1949 and 1950. The land was then purchased in 1951 by the BaháΚΌí Faith organization, whose North American continental temple is located across Sheridan Road.