BuilCom Highland Park Building Company Highland Park Historical Society

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2012-07-13 Generated by Access to Memory (AtoM) 2.6.0 2026-05-15 01:13 UTC English JLS G4 1-2 Highland Park Building Company BuilCom 1870 - 1925 7 books [mixed materials] : 2 boxes Highland Park Historical Society

Highland Park Building Company

The Highland Park Building Company, led by resident manager Frank P Hawkins (also the first mayor of Highland Park), was created on May 29, 1867 when a group of business men purchased land from Walter S Gurnee with intent of creating a fashionable community "of means and taste*." Other members of the Company included Cornelius R Field (sales), William French (engineer), Horace Cleveland (landscape architect), and the Reverend William Wallace Events. The Company chartered special trains from Chicago to the North Shore to hold grand sales events on lots and present plans for Gothic and Italianate Victorian homes. The Company purchased the Highland Park Hotel and renamed it the Central Hotel in 1867 also.The Highland Park Building Company took an active role in community planning and development to attract home owners. They built the (former) Highland Park train depot. The Company financed the first public school in Highland Park, the Port Clinton Avenue School, and established Highland Hall, a girls finishing school. Additionally, the Company provided funds for Baptist and Methodist Churches.*Pioneer to Commuter : the Story of Highland Park/ by Marvyn Wittelle 1958, p. 41.

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Business records, including ledgers, letter books, stock certificates and minutes from the Highland Park Building Company.

Real estate development--Illinois--Highland Park Business records--Illinois--Highland Park Highland Park (Ill.)--History

Items are extremely fragile. Some are brittle.

Donated to the Highland Park Historical Society by the estate of Frank P. Hawkins in 1966.

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Processed by Konstadina Argyropoulos.

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Highland Park Bulding Company Bonds BuilCom-2.1.66-2-1 1872-1925 1 book

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Highland Park Building Company shares certficates, from 1872-1925.

Records BuilCom-2.2.66-8-1 Oct 1905 - Jan 1916 1 book

accession number 66-8-1

Frank P. Hawkins Real Estate

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Transactions ledger, October 1905 to January 1916.

Bills payable BuilCom-1.2 1873-1880 1 book

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Highland Park Building Company ledger.

Letters BuilCom-1.1 1870-1873 1 book

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Company letter book with index in front.

JLS G4 Records BuilCom-1.3.66-2-2 1 book

accession number 66-2-2

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This book contains the meeting records for the Highland Park Building Company in its early years.

Highland Park Bulding Company Stock Ledger BuilCom-2.3 1874 1 book

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Stockholders' information and index.

Highland Park Bulding Company Stock and land purchase BuilCom-2.4 1873 1 book

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This book contains the stock information associated with the Highland Park Building Company from 1873.