This Italianate-style house was built in the 1880's. It is a contributing building in the Barrington Historic District. It is located at 120 N Garfield St. in Barrington, IL.
From the Barrington Chamber of Commerce
web site:
"The Barrington area ZIP code 60010 is one of the wealthiest ZIP
codes in the country with a population of 20,000 or more. The area
includes the towns of Barrington, South Barrington, North
Barrington, Barrington Hills, Lake Barrington, Tower Lakes, and
small portions of Deer Park and Inverness. This area is commonly
known as The Barringtons.
While the oak grove and prairie land that lay between Chicago
and the Fox River in the 1830s were both attractive and fertile,
fear of Indian attack during the 1832 Black Hawk War and the lack
of milling facilities kept Eastern farmers from entering the area.
After the war, mills were erected along the Fox River at Dundee and
Algonquin, and land-hungry Yankees flowed in.
William Butler Ogden became interested in connecting the
developing northwest to Chicago's growing port facilities. He
gained control of the Chicago, St. Paul & Fond du Lac Railroad
(later the Chicago & North Western Railway) in 1854 and pushed
its tracks to the northwest corner of Cook County, where a station
named Deer Grove was built.
Although it meant improved profits, many area farmers feared the
railroad would bring too many saloons and Irish Catholics to the
area. In response to the opposition, Robert Campbell, a civil
engineer working for the Fond du Lac line, purchased a farm two
miles northwest of Deer Grove and platted a community there in
1854. At Campbell's request, the railroad moved the station
building to his new community, which he called Barrington after
Barrington, Massachusetts, the original home of a number of area
farmers.
The prosperity of the Civil War era increased Barrington's
population to 300 in 1863. Because leaders believed the growing
community needed tax-supported improvements, an election to
incorporate Barrington was held on February 16, 1865. Homer
Willmarth became the first village president. The village prospered
as many Chicago grain merchants whose homes were destroyed in the
Fire of 1871 decided to construct opulent Queen Anne–style
residences along Barrington's tree-shaded streets.
Although the Elgin, Joliet & Eastern Railway was built
through Barrington in 1889, the village continued to serve
agriculturally based trading interests into the twentieth century.
Dairy farming was the major activity on the meadows and woodlots
surrounding the community. Fueled by post–World War I prosperity,
however, a number of Chicago business leaders built their
residences on large woodland tracts around the village, bringing an
end to dairying.
The large estate acreage that tended to remain in family hands
decade after decade protected Barrington from the densely packed
residential developments that came to neighboring communities in
the 1950s and 1960s. Barrington's population grew from 3,213 in
1930 to only 5,435 in 1960. But with the construction of the
Northwest Tollway five miles to the south in the early 1960s,
development did come to Barrington's south side. Population reached
10,168 in 2000.
Proud of its reputation as an estate community, Barrington's
leaders continue their opposition to dense population developments
replacing estate acreage as it comes up for sale. A proposal to
turn the Elgin, Joliet & Eastern Railway into a
suburb-to-suburb commuter line with Barrington as a major stop met
strong disapproval based on the fear that, as happened with the
towns along the Northwest Tollway, such a transportation
development would clog the city with traffic and noise.
The Barrington Historic District was first surveyed in 1984, by
Hasbrouck Hunderman Architects, on behalf of the Barrington Area
Historical Society. Shortly thereafter, the Society successfully
applied to the U.S. Department of the Interior to have Barrington's
Historic District listed on the National Register of Historic
Places. In 2001, the Village of Barrington enacted zoning
regulations to require historic preservation within the district,
formally establishing it as the Historic Preservation Overlay
District. To provide an updated reference document for properties
in the Historic Preservation Overlay District, the Village
commissioned Thomason and Associates, nationally recognized
historic preservation planners, to conduct a new survey of the
district. Field work and the draft survey were presented to the
Village in early 2005. The Village's Architectural Review
Commission and Planning, Zoning and Economic Development Committee
completed a joint review of the survey in December of 2005. The
document provides certain basic information for each of the more
than 350 properties in the district. The district was placed on the
National Register of Historic Places in 1986.