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The Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad (CB&Q) was opened in 1862 and added a station in modern-day Hinsdale, Illinois two years later. Before the station was built, real estate developer William Robbins purchased 700 acres (2.8 km 2), the first land in Hinsdale, including a lot for his own home.
53 S. Lincoln St. (1935) - Colonial Revival freestanding commercial building; United States Post Office Hinsdale, IL (1939–40) - Georgian Revival United States Post Office designed by Louis A. Simon; 33-35 S. Washington St. (1900) - Queen Anne and Classical Style commercial block; Fox Building (1891) - Colonial Revival commercial block
Hinsdale is located 20 miles (32 km) west of Chicago and is bordered by Oak Brook to the north, and Burr Ridge and Willowbrook to the south, Western Springs to the east, Clarendon Hills and Westmont to the west. The eastern boundary of Hinsdale is Interstate 294 and the western boundary is Route 83.
The congressional district covers parts of Cook County, DuPage County and Kane County, as of the 2011 redistricting which followed the 2010 United States census.All or parts of Addison, Arlington Heights, Barrington Hills, Bloomingdale, Carol Stream, Carpentersville, East Dundee, Elgin, Elk Grove Village, Glendale Heights, Hanover Park, Hoffman Estates, Lombard, Palatine, Rolling Meadows ...
The house is on a 177-by-170-foot (54 m × 52 m) lot at the southwest corner of First Street and Park Avenue in Hinsdale. It is a wood-frame building, approximately 80 by 35 feet (24 m × 11 m). Most of the building is two stories; a section in the rear is only one story. This one-story section is a 1950s kitchen addition.
1924 - Harold Zook Home & Studio - Hinsdale, Illinois [8] 1928 - Jensen House (or W. W. Thompson Home), 325 East Eighth Street, Hinsdale, Du Page County, IL [3] 1928 - Pickwick Theater - Park Ridge, Illinois; 1933 - Salerno Cookie Factory, 4500 Division St., Chicago (demolished in 2015) 1934 - Burns Field Shelter
Immanuel Hall, previously known as Immanuel Evangelical Church, is a historic Late Gothic Revival church in the Carpenter Gothic style located in Hinsdale, Illinois.Saved from demolition in 1999, renovated, and reopened to the public, the building, renamed Immanuel Hall, is owned and operated as the headquarters and Archives of the Hinsdale Historical Society.
The company was the largest employer in Hinsdale in 1900. Bassett retired in 1907, passing the business to his son-in-law, and moved to Pasadena, California in 1910. Bassett's grandson Egdar Washburn lived in the residence until 1913, when it was sold to Quaker Oats treasurer Robert Gordon. The house was renovated in 1942.