Where we build: towns we serve from Spring Grove

McHenry County

• Johnsburg

  The village says it has the most Chain O'Lakes waterfront; 8 minutes from the shop.

• Richmond

  A historic village of Greek Revival and Victorian homes, 8 minutes north of the shop.

• Algonquin

  Fox River resort village, Old Town's 300 historic structures, and the subdivisions that doubled the village in the 1990s.

• Spring Grove

  Our shop is here, beside the Chain O'Lakes.

• McHenry

  River cottages and postwar subdivisions, 15 minutes from the shop.

• Crystal Lake

  Charles Dole's 1865 lake estate, two villages that became one city in 1914, and the subdivisions that followed O'Hare.

Lake County

• Hawthorn Woods

  Early ranches of cedar and redwood, and a village hall in the old farm barn.

• Long Grove

  Country lots, no sidewalks or residential street lights, and a kitchen of ours.

• Riverwoods

  Modernist houses in the woods, about 30 private associations, and a permit for dead trees.

• Lake Forest

  Five local historic districts, and a city rule of thumb: a permit for anything but flooring, painting or planting.

• Libertyville

  A railroad village rebuilt in brick after the 1895 fire, with a downtown on the National Register since 2025.

• Highland Park

  Lake bluffs, ravines and Prairie School estates, three Wright houses, and more than 130 local landmarks.

• Deerfield

  The Caspar Ott log house of 1837, and a village that grew fast around the time the Edens Expressway opened.

• North Barrington

  Biltmore's 1926 lake estates and Wynstone's golf homes, 27 minutes from the shop.

• Lake Bluff

  A Methodist camp town of 25-foot lots, then lake estates, on the bluff.

Cook County, North Shore

• Kenilworth

  A planned village of 1889, and a permit is needed to replace kitchen cabinets.

• Winnetka

  Tudor Revival streets and lakefront ravines; no permit for a straight cabinet swap.

• Glenview

  The Park, begun in the 1890s, the streets built after the Edens opened, and The Glen on the old naval air station.

• Wilmette

  The first suburb north of Evanston on the lake: Prairie and Craftsman houses, Oak Circle's bungalows, and 38 landmarks.

• Northbrook

  Shermerville until 1923, then a village that grew more than sevenfold between 1950 and 1970.

• Glencoe

  Frank Lloyd Wright's Ravine Bluffs and Keck's Forest Crest, among the ravines.

Cook County, northwest

• South Barrington

  Founded in three days in 1959 to keep out quarter-acre lots; 45 private lakes and ponds.

• Inverness

  Planned in 1926 with one-acre lots and no fences, curbs or street lights.

• Park Ridge

  A brick town from the 1850s, planned for large homes on wide lots, with an arts community and 18 landmarks.

• Barrington Hills

  Five-acre horse country across four counties, with heritage-tree rules.

• Barrington

  A railroad village of 1865, one of the largest frame-home districts in Illinois, and the Queen Anne houses of Lake Street.

Cook and DuPage, west

• Hinsdale

  Robbins Park, a National Register district of 368 buildings, and new houses on older lots.

• Elmhurst

  Cottage Hill's 1843 tavern, houses by Wright, Griffin and Mies, and older blocks where new houses replace old ones.

• Naperville

  Joseph Naper's 1831 settlement, a downtown historic district, and the subdivisions Harold Moser began in 1956.

• Western Springs

  Founded in 1886 by a Quaker developer, grown one neighborhood at a time, from Old Town to Timber Trails.

Kane County

• Campton Hills

  A village only since 2007, on country lots with wells and septic.

• Geneva

  The Kane County seat, a 670-property historic district of river-stone and Victorian houses, and three Wright projects.

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