Sunderlage Historic Farmhouse
Johann Sunderlage
The “History of the Village of Schaumburg Website” indicates, “The first recorded settler of Schaumburg Township was German born Johann Sunderlage. According to legend, Sunderlage was a member of a survey team that divided Cook County into townships around 1833. He liked the area so much that, upon completion of the project, he brought his family from Germany and settled in the area around 1836.”
Sunderlage Farmhouse
Johann Sunderlage bought 160 acres of land from the federal government in the 1840s through the federal land sale of 1842. The Sunderlage Farmhouse was built in 1856. Hiram Thurston a Yankee carpenter from Palatine was the builder of the house.
The upstairs of the house has 6 rooms and a large attic. The lower level includes a kitchen a large meeting room and is used for meetings, programs, and is available for small group rental.
The Sunderlage farmhouse and Smokehouse Address is: 1775 Vista Ln, Hoffman Estates, IL 60169 and is located to the west of the Triphahn Community Center & Ice Arena off of Volid Drive.
Sunderlage Farm Smokehouse
The property includes the smokehouse which is on the National Register of Historical Places.
According to Wikipedia, “The smokehouse was built circa 1860 as part of the Sunderlage Farm; it and the farm's farmhouse are the only remaining farm buildings in Hoffman Estates. While the area that is now Hoffman Estates was rural for much of the early nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, its farms were subdivided into suburban housing in the 1960s. The smokehouse, which was used to cure and hold the farm's meat supply, is well-preserved compared to other surviving contemporary smokehouses in northeastern Illinois. Its functional design uses the then-popular Greek Revival style and includes brick detailing below the roof line.”
The smokehouse was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1990.
For Further Information
The Sunderlage property is currently owned and maintained by the Village of Hoffman Estates. For further information about the Sunderlage Farmhouse and Smokehouse contact the Historical Sites Commission through the Village of Hoffman Estates.
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