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Mayslake Peabody Estate

Houses completed in 1921Houses in DuPage County, IllinoisHouses on the National Register of Historic Places in IllinoisNational Register of Historic Places in DuPage County, IllinoisOak Brook, Illinois
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Mayslake Peabody Estate Mayslake Hall
Mayslake Peabody Estate Mayslake Hall

The Mayslake Peabody Estate is an estate constructed as a country home for Francis Stuyvesant Peabody between 1919 and 1922. The estate is located in the western Chicago suburb of Oak Brook, Illinois, United States, and is now part of the Mayslake Forest Preserve administered by the Forest Preserve District of DuPage County. Originally encompassing an area of over 848 acres (3.4 km2), the estate now contains a total area of 87 acres (0.4 km2). The entire complex features the Tudor Revival style Mayslake Hall, its retreat wing, and the Portiuncula Chapel, a replica of the Chapel of St. Francis in Assisi, Italy. Approximately 22 acres (0.1 km2) of wetlands, lakes, restored prairies and two small oak savannas are included within the 87 acre (0.4 km2) territory. On November 8, 1994, Mayslake Hall was listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

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Mammoth Spring (Illinois)
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Mammoth Spring: 46  or Mammoth Springs is a water spring in York Township, DuPage County, Illinois, United States. It was used from 1861 to the early 20th century; the spot is now on the property of the DoubleTree hotel in Oak Brook near Elmhurst, Illinois.It opened suddenly in 1861 on the Talmadge family farm, and was used until 1889 for irrigation. Around 1874, Mammoth Spring was described as "located in the highway, between lands owned by G.H. Talmadge and Robert Reed": VI  and a drawing of the George H. Talmage farm, with a portion of the spring shown and labeled, appears in the same book.: 46  The road is named Spring Road because of the wooden conduit extended along it from the spring; a wooden conduit was constructed in 1889, and from 1889 to 1916, before being depleted, the spring supplied all of the water for nearby Elmhurst (including supplying the source water for the Elmhurst Spring Water Company) and some of the water for Oak Brook (including supplying the source water for the Mammoth Spring Ice Company).Eventually artificial ice replaced natural ice, after which the Mammoth Spring Ice Company was sold in 1910. The City of Elmhurst took over the water supply from the Elmhurst Spring Water Company in 1916, and drilled its own wells as well; Mammoth Spring was abandoned as a water source for Elmhurst sometime between 1918 and 1927. The spring's original trough was destroyed when Spring Road was widened in 1979.