Dymond House - 130 W. Maple - One of many historic homes/buildings in the neighborhood

 

• This is the Dymond home on Division St. in 1910. This home still stands at what is now 130 W. Maple Ave. (The street name was changed from Division St.) This is one of the many historic homes in the Maple/Brainerd/Douglas/Jackson/Stewart neighborhood. It is likely Dymond Lake, Mundelein, IL and Dymond Road, Libertyville, respectively, are named for this important and influential family in Libertyville. (Photo used by permission, from p. 122 of Jim Moran's 2006 book, "Images of America: Libertyville." )

• The original Butler house stands at the Maple/Brainerd street terminus.  It was moved to this location from its original location closer to the current Libertyville High School.  Butler was an important early resident of the town of Libertyville, and Butler Lake (behind the high school) and Butler Lake Park (ball and football fields) are named for the family. 

• At 311 Brainerd stands a large Victorian home originally owned by the Butler family.

• Long since gone, the Lake County Courthouse used to stand at 206 W. Maple, now occuped by an apartment building.  Libertyville used to be the county seat, until the seat was moved to Waukegan.

• At 320 W. Maple stands a Victorian farmhouse which may be the oldest house in Libertyville, built in 1850. Huge hand-hewn oak beams line the sill of the "Chicago commons" brick foundation wall which rests on field boulders. True 2x4 hand-sawn floor joists and wall studs are respectively mortised horizontally and vertically into the sill beams for rock solid support.

• The architectural genre of 305 W. Maple is very similar to the 320 W. Maple Ave. house.  It was probably built in roughly the same time period.  Note the raised brick foundation, 1.5 story construction, approximately 45 degree angle roof, simple clapboard siding, central chimney (for centralized stovepipe heating back in the day), and overall building proportions.

• Brainerd High School.  In the opinion of many, one of the greatest actors who ever walked the planet, who heavily influenced other great actors, Marlon Brando attended school here in the 1940s, although he didn't graduate. There are those who still live in our community who were with him when he went here.

• See comments about 212 W. Maple Ave., the Heath house, below.  This is the house the Saving Maple Neighborhood Group helped save from demolition.

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