Gross Point Village Hall

The Gross Point Village Hall, located at 609 Ridge Road in Wilmette, Illinois, was the village hall of the defunct village of Gross Point, Illinois. The village of Gross Point, named for a French description of a turn in nearby Lake Michigan's shoreline, was settled from the 1830s onward and incorporated in 1874. In 1896, Gross Point built a village hall to both house its government and serve as a community center. The two-story brick building has a Victorian design with two projecting front entrances, which originally led to the fire department and the village offices respectively. The small village relied heavily on alcohol taxes to fund its government, and had many taverns as a result; protests from prohibitionists in nearby Evanston, combined with opposition to new taxes to fund a sewer system, led to the village voting to dissolve itself in 1919. The village hall was sold to a private resident to pay back debts from the sewer system.[2]

Gross Point Village Hall
Location609 Ridge Rd., Wilmette, Illinois
Coordinates42°04′33″N 87°43′22″W
Arealess than one acre
Built1896 (1896)
Built byHeinzen,Joseph
ArchitectFischer, Alb.
Architectural styleVictorian
NRHP reference No.91001001[1]
Added to NRHPAugust 5, 1991

The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places on August 5, 1991.[1] It is now home to the Wilmette Historical Museum.

References
  1. "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. November 2, 2013.
  2. Blanchard, Belinda S.; Weaver, Catherine (February 6, 1991). "National Register of Historic Places Registration Form: Gross Point Village Hall" (PDF). Illinois Historic Preservation Division. Retrieved September 16, 2019.


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