Stupey Log Cabin

06/02/2026

If you're interested in learning more about Highland Park, Illinois history, please stop by the first Stupey Sunday this year, June 7, 2-4 PM.

In this Part 2 of Hollywood in Highland Park, Cookie Monster pauses for an interview in this neighborhood captured in this circa 1900 slide : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jGiNsz_5_Sg one century later.

Happy one-day late birthday to HP resident and Highland Park High School graduate, .

05/30/2026

Looking down the river from Kanahwa Falls, West Virginia, 1911/ photographed by Jesse Lowe Smith. Smith photographed this site to use in the curriculum at Elm Place School. While there are no notes with the slide one might surmise that this as used as part of discussion of events leading to both westward expansion and the American Revolutionary War.
(Lord) Dunmore's war of 1874 between American colonists and Alqonquin tribes, including the Shawnee, marked the first formal military actions by settler-organized militia, albeit under the aegis of the "Crown." Many bloody native and Civil War battles also took place in this valley.
Kanahwa was the preferred name by many when West Virginia became a Union state in 1863. Legends translate Kanahwa as She-Who-Sings-to-the-Stones. In 2026 the Falls are a short distance from the New River Gorge National Park and Preserve .

05/28/2026

Our Stupey fox stops by.

05/25/2026

05/21/2026

The Stupey Cabin will be open Sundays, 2-4PM, excepting June 14 and 21, this summer and fall, beginning June 7. Please stop by! We are also open by appointment.
The Historical Society obtained these photostats from the Royal Prussian Archives in Berlin, Germany in the 1960s. The Prussian script and German language were transcribed and translated by Ravinian Dr. D. Warren Strange.

05/18/2026

Artifact of the Week (is back) . This well-loved ribbon* was awarded as part of the prize for the HP150 contest in three categories by age. For the America250 event the Highland Park Historical Society is again having a contest: "In Pursuit." For more information visit our website events page. We are also looking for volunteer judges!

Other summer events will include the Historical Society's 60th anniversary, the Stupey Open House Sundays, June-October, and more America250 events and reflections.

*in line for conservation

05/07/2026

Even before the Rectenwalds and Stupeys...

Join us tonight via Zoom. (DM, email or telephone for link.)
Lake Michigan’s Western Shore: Before and During the American Revolution with Myra Coddens, Genealogist. Tracing our region's contributions to the American Revolution, including battles in Illinois.

Photo credit: Partie occidentale du Canada ou de la Nouvelle France où sont les nations des Illinois ..., 1688/ Coronelli, Vincenzo (1650-1718). Cartographe. Bibliothèque nationale de France.

04/20/2026

George Ezra Millard (1879-1949) was named after his uncle, the bookseller George Madison Millard (1846-1918). Millard and his wife Alice engaged Frank Lloyd Wright house to build their home on Lake Ave. in Highland Park (1906). In the 1910s, Wright built their home "La Minitura" in Pasadena, California.
George E. Millard and his wife Elizabeth Erksine also moved to Pasadena in 1923. They returned to visit family and friends in Highland Park frequently.
Please join us at books this Thursday, April 23, for a presentation, "How Alice Millard (1873-1938), Internationally Prominent Bookseller, Developed from Her Time in Highland Park" with Simmons University Dean Emerita Michèle Cloonan.

Photo: Class of [18]98. Highland Park High School. LtoR Ira Hole, George Millard, Frank McCaffrey, Newmn Finney. From the Highland Park Schools Collection.

04/13/2026