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Mar 26, 1979
Muller House (Arlington Heights Historical Society) - National Register of Historic Places
Statement of Significance: The Muller Family was one of the earliest families settling both home and business in Arlington Heights. The latter is most important, for the establishment of commercial concerns signified the beginning of the change in the community from farm settlement and isolated village to a part of the vast suburban matrix surrounding Chicago. The prime instigation of this change in Arlington Heights came in the 1853 extension of the Illinois and Wisconsin Railroad (now the Chicago and Northwestern Railroad), but the settlement of non-agrarian industry such as the F. W. Muller and Sons soda water company had a great and rapid effect on the shape and type of community. The Muller house also reflects some unusual and interesting hybrids in American architecture. The Greek cornice and regular geometry of the house may reflect the prevailing admiration of the Greek Revival that had swept the nation at the time of the house's construction, but the house is not Greek Revival styled beyond these details, and contains few historical references. The combination of a functional factory with the opulence of middle- and upper-class Victorian residences is unusual as well. The juxtaposition of the interior and exterior reflects two major forces in American design at this period, the industrial ethic and Victorian rococo. Arlington Heights, like so many other modern suburban communities in the middle West, has a substantial history pre-dating the suburban sprawl of the mid-twentieth century. The Muller House I Arlington Heights Historical Society is most significant as an important preservation of this community's past.
Muller House (Arlington Heights Historical Society) - National Register of Historic Places
Statement of Significance: The Muller Family was one of the earliest families settling both home and business in Arlington Heights. The latter is most important, for the establishment of commercial concerns signified the beginning of the change in the community from farm settlement and isolated village to a part of the vast suburban matrix surrounding Chicago. The prime instigation of this change in Arlington Heights came in the 1853 extension of the Illinois and Wisconsin Railroad (now the Chicago and Northwestern Railroad), but the settlement of non-agrarian industry such as the F. W. Muller and Sons soda water company had a great and rapid effect on the shape and type of community. The Muller house also reflects some unusual and interesting hybrids in American architecture. The Greek cornice and regular geometry of the house may reflect the prevailing admiration of the Greek Revival that had swept the nation at the time of the house's construction, but the house is not Greek Revival styled beyond these details, and contains few historical references. The combination of a functional factory with the opulence of middle- and upper-class Victorian residences is unusual as well. The juxtaposition of the interior and exterior reflects two major forces in American design at this period, the industrial ethic and Victorian rococo. Arlington Heights, like so many other modern suburban communities in the middle West, has a substantial history pre-dating the suburban sprawl of the mid-twentieth century. The Muller House I Arlington Heights Historical Society is most significant as an important preservation of this community's past.
Mar 26, 1979
Posted Date
Apr 05, 2022
Historical Record Date
Mar 26, 1979
Source Name
United States Department of Interior - National Park Service
