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William McJunkin House

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Winnetka, Illinois
McJunkin, William House 3
McJunkin, William House 3

The William McJunkin House is a historic house at 151 Sheridan Road in Winnetka, Illinois. The house was built in 1928-29 for William McJunkin, founder and president of the McJunkin Advertising Company. The house's lot was in a desirable location along the shore of Lake Michigan; both the lakeshore and Sheridan Road, which ran alongside it, played an important role in Winnetka's early development and planning. Architect Charles Whitley Stevens designed the building in the Jacobethan style, a less common variation of the popular Tudor Revival style. The house has a limestone exterior and features a large Flemish gable atop a projecting entrance block, a pediment above the doorway, arches surrounding the main entrance and living room windows, and a clay tile roof. Coat of arms over entryway is inscribed “Ne Obliviscaris” meaning “Never Forget”, as are other crests deriving from Scotland's Campbell Clan. The Jacobethan design continues inside the house with intricate plaster reliefs and decorative wallpaper.The house was added to the National Register of Historic Places on March 2, 2006.

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William McJunkin House
Sheridan Road, New Trier Township

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60093 New Trier Township
Illinois, United States
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Indian Hill station
Indian Hill station

Indian Hill is a railroad station in the southernmost portion of Winnetka, Illinois, an affluent suburb north of Chicago. One of three stations serving that village, the Indian Hill stop is served by Metra's Union Pacific North Line trains, with service to Ogilvie Transportation Center in downtown Chicago. Northbound trains go as far as Kenosha, Wisconsin. In Metra's zone-based fare schedule, Indian Hill is in zone D. As of 2018, Indian Hill is the 125th busiest of Metra's 236 non-downtown stations, with an average of 387 weekday boardings.The station is located on Winnetka's southern border, at Green Bay Road and Winnetka Avenue, less than a mile west of Lake Michigan. Outbound trains stop on the west platform, and inbound trains stop on the east platform. Indian Hill lacks a ticket agent office, passengers boarding must buy their tickets on board the train. Travel time to Ogilvie ranges from 31 minutes to 39 minutes, depending on the train. As of April 25, 2022, Indian Hill is served by 26 inbound trains and 25 outbound trains on weekdays, by 11 trains in each direction on Saturdays, and by eight trains in each direction on Sundays. Indian Hill is at the southern end of what is known as "The Big Ditch", which carries the railroad under Winnetka. Before the early 1940s, Winnetka had grade crossings, where accidents caused 31 deaths between 1912 and 1937. The village, federal government and railroad authorities funded a five-year project to rebuild the railroad below grade, and this was completed in 1943, after which there were no more level crossings in Winnetka.