{"nrhp_refnum":"89001210","name":"Sunderlage Farm Smokehouse","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"1775 Vista Walk","address_restricted":false,"city":"Hoffman Estates","county":"Cook County","state":"IL","lat":42.05133646500008,"lon":-88.12352597199998,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1990-02-20","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Agriculture","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A one-story, twelve-by-sixteen-foot common brick smokehouse at 1775 Vista Walk in Hoffman Estates, Cook County, Illinois, built circa 1856 on the former Sunderlage farmstead. It stands about 30 feet south of the farmhouse kitchen entrance.","why_significant":"The nomination argues it is an excellent, nearly unaltered example of a domestic secondary structure, with its fire pit, smoke hood and hanging timbers intact. It reflects Greek Revival detailing combined with a steeper, Italianate-like roof. It is also presented as the only surviving farm outbuilding of the early settlement of the area now in Hoffman Estates.","narrative":"This small brick smokehouse at 1775 Vista Walk in Hoffman Estates, Illinois, dates to about 1856 and served the Sunderlage family farmstead. It measures roughly twelve by sixteen feet and has brick walls, a wood-shingled gable roof, a dentil-patterned brick cornice and gable returns. Inside, a fire pit, a brick smoke hood, a curved brick ceiling and heavy timbers for hanging meat survive, along with layers of whitewash and soot and a dirt floor scorched near the hearth. It was restored in 1988. The building was recognized for its architecture as a well-preserved example of a farm outbuilding that was never converted to other uses, unlike many smokehouses elsewhere in northern Illinois. Its Greek Revival proportions and detailing are combined with a steep roof recalling Italianate work. It is also tied to early farming in an area now fully developed, and today it sits in a village park beside the farmhouse.","period_of_significance":"c.1860","architect_builder":"Believed built circa 1856 by Hiram Thurston, then president of Palatine, Illinois (per a local historical society president); the form lists the architect/builder as N/A.","architectural_style":"Mid-19th Century/Greek Revival","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Restored in 1988 with new cedar shingles and cleaned brick; now part of a village park next to the farmhouse, which serves as a village cultural center. The smokehouse is classified as a museum use.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:35.526409-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/2/8920/28892002/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_IL/89001210.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/89001210/0b63e1efdc-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/89001210/0b63e1efdc-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"G LeTourneau","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sunderlage_Farm_Smokehouse_(Hoffman_Estates,_IL)_02.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">G LeTourneau</a>, <a href=\"http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 3.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sunderlage_Farm_Smokehouse_(Hoffman_Estates,_IL)_02.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/28892002","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunderlage_Farm_Smokehouse","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q97332794"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/illinois/cook-county/sunderlage-farm-smokehouse-89001210/"}