Chicago Heights Historic Preservation Advisory Committee

RESIDENCES

William John McEldowney House - 149 West 14th Street

Dr. Hugo Long House - 229 Country Club Drive

Robert P. Wallace House - 77 W. Main Street

Helbing House - 1422 Schilling Avenue

Kennicott-Abbott House - 155 W. 14th Street

McCracken-Campbell House - 260 W. 14 Street

Schilling House - 270 W. 15th Place

EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTION

Bloom Township High School - 101 W. 10th Street

DISTRICTS

Euclid Area Historic District - Bounded by Thorn Creek on the west, Aberdeen Street on the east, the EJ& E Railroad tracks on the south and the former  Michigan Central right-of-way on the north.

PLACES OF WORSHIP

Payne Chapel A.M.E - 1511 Center Avenue

SITES

Bloomvale Cemetery - 27th Street and East End Avenue

 Chicago Heights Country Club - 1100 Scott Avenue

 Bloom Presbyterian Cemetary - Chicago Road

 Mary H. McEldowney Park -  14th Street and Edgewood Drive

SOCIAL

Harold Colbert Jones Memorial Community Center - 220 E. 15th Street

Ashland (Smith/Scott) Park Field House - 1432 Ashland Avenue

Former Elks Lodge / Union Street Gallery- 1527  Otto

COMMERCIAL

Former First National Bank of Chicago Heights Building - 1651 Halsted

Star Building - Otto Boulevard

LOST!

Flatiron Building - 1449 Emerald Avenue (DEMOLISHED - 2008)

Was also listed on the National Register of Historic Places

St. Joseph Church - 263 E. 15th St. (DEMOLISHED - 2006)

 "Therefore, when we build, let us think that we build for ever. Let it not be for present delight, nor for present use alone; let it be such work as our descendants will thank us for, and let us think, as we lay stone on stone, that a time is to come when those stones will be held sacred because our hands have touched them, and that men will say as they look upon the labor and wrought substance of them, "See! this our fathers did for us." For, indeed, the greatest glory of a building is not in its stones, or in its gold. Its glory is in its Age. "

     John Ruskin

DESIGN GUIDELINES

CRITERIA FOR LANDMARK DESIGNATION