Country Club Hills, Illinois

Completed: February 2009

This comprehensive Historic Structures Report documents the remaining historic fabric of the Stelter Farm, a farmstead dating from the early 1850s that is now engulfed by Chicago’s southwest suburbs. The property includes a largely intact Greek-Revival-style farmhouse, two barns of pin-connected hand-hewn timber, and other outbuildings typical of nineteenth century Illinois farmsteads. Four generations of the Stelter family—originally Lutheran German immigrants from the Kingdom of Hanover—have maintained continuous ownership since 1849.