The story
Built 1896 at Main and Central by William Wille; sold to St. John's Episcopal for $750 and moved to Thayer and Wille in 1937; bought back for $1 in 2002; moved to the museum campus in 2008 and opened restored in 2017.
Everything that was here
- 2008–present · still open
Central School (1896)School
The one-room school where the church, the fire department, the women's club and the library were all born.
See the map in 2009 → - 1906–present
Dietrich Friedrichs HouseResidence
A 1906 family home turned village time capsule.
See the map in 1907 → - Date unknown · still open
Mount Prospect Historical Society Museum CampusOther
House museum, education center and schoolhouse on one corner.
Nearby history
St. Paul Lutheran Church (1913 building)
100 S Elm St · 82 m away
The English-language Lutheran church that marked Mount Prospect's turn from farm to town.
Mount Prospect Police & Fire Headquarters (Public Safety Building)
112 E Northwest Hwy · 188 m away
A 1991 public-safety building that lasted barely three decades.
Edward Busse Building
100 E Northwest Hwy · 190 m away
Nearly a century of Busse-family ownership ended with a $1.7 million sale and a bulldozer.
Central Continental Bakery
101 South Main Street · 231 m away
Mount Prospect Public Library
10 S Emerson St · 242 m away
Three library buildings on one Emerson Street block since 1950.
Mount Prospect Station (Metra Union Pacific Northwest Line)
13 E Northwest Hwy · 243 m away
The 1930 depot that made Mount Prospect a commuter town.
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