Willits House
The Ward W. Willits House is a historic house at 1445 Sheridan Road in Highland Park, a suburb of Chicago in Illinois, United States. Designed in 1901 by architect Frank Lloyd Wright, the Willits house is considered one of the first of the great Prairie School houses.Photo: JeremyA, CC BY-SA 2.5.
- Type: House
- Description: historic house in Highland Park, Illinois
- Also known as: “Ward W. Willits House”
- Address: 1445 Sheridan Road, Highland Park, IL 60035
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Ross Beatty House and Highland Park station.
Ross Beatty House
House
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The Ross Beatty House is a historic house at 1499 Sheridan Road in Highland Park, Illinois. Built in 1893, the house is the first of two homes built for steel magnate Ross J. Ross Beatty House is situated 980 feet northwest of Willits House.
Highland Park station
Railway station
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Highland Park is a railroad station in Highland Park, Illinois, serving Metra's Union Pacific North Line. It is located at 1800 St. Johns Avenue. In Metra's zone-based fare schedule, Highland Park is in Zone 4. Highland Park station is situated 3,200 feet northwest of Willits House.
Ross J. Beatty House
House
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The Ross J. Beatty House, also known as Halcyon Hall, is a historic house at 344 Ravine Drive in Highland Park, Illinois. Built circa 1909, the house was the second of two homes built in Highland Park for steel magnate Ross J. Ross J. Beatty House is situated 1,200 feet northwest of Willits House.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Highland Park and Highwood.
Highland Park
Photo: JeremyA, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Highland Park is a city in Lake County, Illinois, United States. Per the 2020 census, its population was 30,176. As a suburb of Chicago, Highland Park is located on the North Shore of the Chicago metropolitan area, about 25 miles north of downtown.
Highwood
Village
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Highwood is a North Shore suburb of Chicago in Moraine Township, Lake County, Illinois, United States. As of the 2020 census, the population was 5,074. Highwood is situated 2 miles northwest of Willits House.
Fort Sheridan
Hamlet
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Fort Sheridan is a residential neighborhood within the cities of Lake Forest, Highwood, and Highland Park in Lake County, Illinois, United States. It was originally established as Fort Sheridan, an Army post named after Civil War cavalry general Philip Sheridan, to honor his services to Chicago. Fort Sheridan is situated 3 miles northwest of Willits House.
Willits House
- Categories: single-family detached home, building, historic site, historic building, and residential building
- Location: Lake, Illinois, Midwest, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
42.17884° or 42° 10′ 44″ northLongitude
-87.78699° or 87° 47′ 13″ westInception
1901Open location code
86JJ56H7+G6OpenStreetMap ID
way 1167288258OpenStreetMap feature
building=houseOpenStreetMap feature
historic=buildingWikidata ID
Q8022162
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In Other Languages
From French to Spanish—“Willits House” goes by many names.
- French: “Maison Willits”
- French: “Willits House”
- Italian: “Willits House”
- Portuguese: “Casa Willits”
- Portuguese: “Willits House”
- Russian: “Дом Уиллитса”
- Spanish: “Casa Willits”
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