The story
The Quentin Corners shopping center was built on the burned-out Cow Palace site in 1987. Its name was borrowed from a tiny old settlement at Quentin and Rand Roads.
Everything that was here
- 1987–present · still open
Quentin Corners Shopping CenterShopping Center
The Quentin Corners shopping center was built on the burned-out Cow Palace site in 1987. Its name was borrowed from a tiny old settlement at Quentin and Rand Roads.
See the map in 1988 → - 1978–1981
La Romana RestaurantRestaurant
La Romana succeeded Uncle Andy's Cow Palace in 1978. The building burned down in 1981.
See the map in 1979 → - 1964–1978
Uncle Andy's Cow PalaceNightclub
A supper club with a giant cow out front, named Andy's Belle by public contest in 1967.
See the map in 1965 → - 1952–1964
Supper clubs (Paul Peterson's / Grier's / Evergreen / Campbell's Hearthstone)Restaurant
After Deynzer sold in 1952 the roadhouse was known variously as Paul Peterson's Supper Club, Grier's Supper Club and the Evergreen Supper Club. In 1958 owner Oscar Craig was charged with manslaughter in the death of…
See the map in 1953 → - 1946–1952
Radio Club FarmRestaurant
Jack Deynzer opened the Radio Club Farm restaurant and cocktail lounge in 1946, five years after buying the Converse farm, and brought in mules for donkey baseball games to promote his new beverage, the Moscow Mule. He…
See the map in 1947 → - 1885–1941
Converse FarmFarm
The Edwin Converse family farmed this corner for more than fifty years after buying it from Elisha Pratt; the Converses built a Queen Anne house at 234 N. Plum Grove Road in 1885 and sold the farm to Jack Deynzer in…
See the map in 1886 →
Nearby history
Quentin Tap
Brandt's of Palatine
Daisys Ice Cream
India Foodie Lounge
Countryside Mall
Palatine Hills Golf Course & Clubhouse
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