Addison Township in Bensenville in DuPage County, Illinois — The American Midwest (Great Lakes)
Churchville School
Photographed by Sean Flynn, July 10, 2024
1. Churchville School Marker
Placed on National Register of Historic Places, February 1999
Erected 2003 by Elmhurst Historical Commission; City of Elmhurst, Illinois.
Topics. This historical marker is listed in these topic lists: Education • Settlements & Settlers. A significant historical year for this entry is 1846.
Location. 41° 56.107′ N, 87° 57.235′ W. Marker is in Bensenville, Illinois, in DuPage County. It is in Addison Township. It is on South Church Road 0.3 miles north of West Grand Avenue. Touch for map. Marker is at or near this postal address: 3N784 Church Road, Bensenville IL 60106, United States of America. Touch for directions.
Regionally, this marker is in Greater Chicago. It is also in the American Midwest and on the Great Lakes. Globally, it is in North America, the Western Hemisphere, the Western World, and the Anglosphere. Historically, it finds itself in what was once the territory of the Mississippian Culture and also the Northwest Territory.
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More about this marker. Although the building is owned by the City of Elmhurst, it sits outside city limits, in an unincorporated section of DuPage County with a Bensenville postal address. A small cemetery for Elmhurst's early German settlers is located next to this schoolhouse. A newer Elmhurst school, Churchville Middle School, is located today about 1½ miles southeast of here.
This stretch of Church Road near Bensenville and Elmhurst has, since the mid-1800s, been known as Churchville, due to a number of churches that dot the area. The schoolhouse today is across the street from Holy Trinity Ukrainian
Photographed by Sean Flynn, July 10, 2024
2. Churchville School
Regarding Churchville School. August Fischer, an early settler to Addison Township, about 18 miles west of downtown Chicago, donated the land for this one-room school house to the local school district. It remained in use as a school until 1930, when the area needed more space for students. Over the next 30+ years, it was used occasionally by local groups and schools, and in 1967, a group of former students formed the Churchville Historical Society and restored the old building. In 1988, Fischer's descendants donated the property to Elmhurst School District 205, which used it for living history demonstrations. In 2001, the school district gave the land to the City of Elmhurst, which restored the building; today, the museum space is operated by the Elmhurst History Museum.
Also see . . .
1. Churchville Schoolhouse. The official website from the Elmhurst History Museum, which operates this property owned by the City of Elmhurst. (Submitted on July 10, 2024, by Sean P. Flynn of Oak Park, Illinois.)
2. Elmhurst History Highlight: Churchville in Addison Township, Illinois.
Courtesy of Elmhurst History Museum, circa 1895
3. Churchville School
The caption from the Elmhurst History Museum: "Churchville School (School District #3, Du Page County) students and their teacher, Miss Gertrude Koch."
Excerpt: "Since the middle of the 19th century, a stretch of road between Elmhurst and Bensenville has been known as Churchville due to several religious buildings that have long occupied the area. Though presently located in unincorporated Addison Township, the lands history frequently overlaps with that of neighboring Elmhurst. For the majority of the townships history, the landmarks of Churchville have been Zion Lutheran Church, Immanuel Reformed Church, and the Churchville One Room Schoolhouse."(Submitted on July 11, 2024, by Sean P. Flynn of Oak Park, Illinois.)
3. Churchville School's National Register of Historic Places application. The NRHP application from 1999 has a long history of the building, from its founding in the 1840s through its renovations and later use by local schools. (Submitted on July 11, 2024, by Sean P. Flynn of Oak Park, Illinois.)
Credits. This page was last revised on September 18, 2024. It was originally submitted on July 10, 2024, by Sean P. Flynn of Oak Park, Illinois. This page has been viewed 192 times since then and 42 times this year. Photos: 1, 2. submitted on July 10, 2024, by Sean P. Flynn of Oak Park, Illinois. 3. submitted on July 11, 2024, by Sean P. Flynn of Oak Park, Illinois.
