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Evangelical Congregational Church, records

  • US-IlHpCH 2022.3
  • Collection
  • 1855-2016

The Evangelical Congregational Church of Highland Park marked its official founding on June 28, 1896, with the dedication of its newly erected church building, but the church’s origins date back further. The early church was comprised of German speaking pioneer settlers from Pennsylvania who had been members of the Evangelical Association found by Jacob Albright. In 1839, these settlers started a church in what is now North Northfield. Some of these church families relocated to Highland Park and formed a group that by 1873 was part of the Des Plains circuit. A church building was erected in 1883 on the northwest corner of Central Avenue and Green Bay Road. In 1894, the Illinois Conference of the United Evangelical Church was organized following a division of the Evangelical Association. The First United Evangelical Church of Highland Park was organized under this conference and construction began on the permanent church building.

Upon the dedication of the church building in 1896 by Bishop Rudolph Dubs, H. H. Thoren became the first pastor. The church originally held its services in German until introducing an English service in 1898 and the earliest records of the church are written in German. In 1913 the church sent out its first missionary, Homer Dubs, to China and enlarged the basement of the building. The church decided to remain independent during the merger of the two national denominations, The United Evangelical Church and the Evangelical Association in 1922. The interior of the church was remodeled in 1935. During the 1950s the basement was enlarged again, and the steeple lowered due to deterioration of the wood. On June 24, 1962, groundbreaking ceremonies were held for a new Christian Education Building to provide more space. The completed building was dedicated on May 26, 1963, by Bishop H. H. Scanlin. The church became affiliated with the Evangelical Congregational Church headquartered in Myerstown, Pennsylvania, the successor to the United Evangelical Church. The last service at the Evangelical Congregational Church of Highland Park was held on December 28, 2010.

The collection is organized into eight series: Administrative Records; Organizations; Women’s Missionary Society and Sunday School; Special Days; Memorabilia; Photographs; Publications; and Miscellaneous. The records document the operations, activities, and members of the church as well as their relationship with regional and national church groups.

Evangelical Congregational Church

Homefinders at Highland Park Real Estate Files

  • US-IlHpCH 309
  • Collection
  • 1954-1970

Correspondence, real estate listings, notes, purchase offers, sales agreements, closing statements, surveys, photographs, and other records related to properties for sale in Highland Park, Illinois.

Homefinders at Highland Park

Metzel Family collection

  • US IlHpHS 2012.4
  • Collection
  • Bulk, 1960-1966

This collection documents the Metzel family from the Civil War era 1860s through the 1960s. Its contents include a family history, landscape architecture blueprints by celebrated landscape architect, O.C. Simonds, contracts, and images.

A.J. Metzel and his family moved to Highland Park, Illinois in 1912 and developed an elaborately landscaped estate. This collection holds hand-colored images of the estate. The family owned the Cutler Shoe Company in Chicago from 1885-1937. A.J.’s son, Truman became the sole owner of the company in 1929 when his father died. The collection includes a family history written by Truman Thwing Metzel that spans from ca.1860-1960.

Metzel Family

Mandel family collection

  • US IlHpHS 2014.11
  • Collection
  • circa 1928-1945

This collection consists of three series: Images, bibliography and artifacts: more than 80 glass slide images of dwellings, landscape and interior of dwelling designed by David Adler and Frances Adler Elkins for Robert and Stella Mandel, a 32 volume descriptive bibliography of their library and artifacts documenting the Mandel family department store.

Mandel family

Bryna G. Gamson papers

  • US-IlHpCH 308
  • Collection
  • 1970-2005

Records of Gamson's civic involvement in the City of Highland Park Government, Highland Park Community House, League of Women Voters, and Moraine Township Democrats. 2025 Addition includes Gamson's records from her participation in the Highland Park Arts Task Force and subsequent Highland Park Cultural Arts Commission as well as information about the Peter Voulkos sculpture "Miss Nitro".

Gamson, Bryna G.

Santi Dairy, Inc. records

  • US-IlHpCH 307
  • Collection
  • 1951-1953

Two account books for Santi Dairy, Inc., one from July 1951 and the other from May 1953. The books detail the milk, cream, butter, eggs, and cheese delivered to customers and the charges for the dairy products.

Santi Dairy, Inc.

Highland Park Music Club, records

  • US IlHpHS musi.clu
  • Collection
  • 1928-2022 (Bulk 1950-2000)

Materials in this collection include yearbooks, minutes, announcements, scrapbooks, newspaper publications and programs. Box 1 holds the first accession: announcements, minutes, and sheet music, circa 1950-1989. It is arranged chronologically.
There are two series in the 2014 accession: records and scrapbooks.
Box 3 holds five scrapbooks assembled by members and the Club. One scrapbook contains minutes, clippings and other documents related to scholarship concert, 1956 - 1958. Other scrapbooks are chiefly composed of newspaper clippings and fliers dated 1950 -1973, 1973 - 1990, 1990 - 2006, 2007 - 2010.
Box 2, 1928-2010, holds minutes, treasury ledgers, club bylaws, newspaper drafts and clippings, membership directories, and a club history:
Ledger, July 1929 - May 1981
Secretary's board meeting notebook, February 1928 - June 1938
Treasurer's notebook, May 1960 - May 1981
Treasurer's notebook, August 1981 - May 1994.
Box 4 holds 2024.003 Accession: Membership directories and a scrapbook with fliers, photographs, news clippings and other materials related to the club's activities.

Highland Park Music Club

Highland Park High School Class of 1948

  • US IlHpHS 2011.9
  • Collection
  • 1948

Class images of grammar schools St. James School, Elm Place School, Ravinia School, Deerfield Grammar, Oak Terrace, Lincoln School.

Highland Park Class of 1948

Hotel Moraine-on-the-Lake Collection

  • US IlHpHS hote.mor
  • Collection
  • Bulk, 1950-1972

The Hotel Moraine-on-the-Lake Collection contains correspondence, records, promotional material, photographs and items relating to the operation of the Hotel Moraine-on-the-Lake. The collection contains materials from all periods of operation, but focuses mainly on the years between 1960 and 1968 when it operated as a site for industry conventions. The collection also documents the development proposed by Bert Schwartz and the community activism of the Moraine Citizens Committee. The Highland Park Historical Society was active in the last years of the hotel's existence celebrating its history and accruing items that would become this collection. Also documented in this collection is the Hotel Moraine (Highwood, Illinois). The Hotel Moraine (Highwood) is represented by news clippings, photographs, and original architectural plans

Highland Park Historical Society

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