From VanHorne Point to a Railroad Namesake
New Lenox was first settled in the late 1820s near what was known as VanHorne Point, close to present-day Route 30 and Gouger Road. New Lenox Township was established alongside Will County in 1852, the same year the Chicago & Rock Island Railroad was built through the area; the community was first called 'Tracey' after the railroad's general superintendent before being renamed New Lenox at his request. The village itself was not incorporated until October 4, 1946.
A 1946 Incorporation, Growth Waves Ever Since
Because New Lenox didn't incorporate until 1946, its housing stock is dominated by postwar and later construction rather than the pre-Civil-War building stock found on Joliet's East Side, which means moisture problems here more often trace back to mid-century crawlspace and attic ventilation choices than to a much older envelope.
Mold Remediation in New Lenox
Matching the Fix to a Postwar Foundation
A New Lenox home built in the years around its 1946 incorporation was framed to a different, but still dated, set of moisture-control assumptions, so an assessment should account for that construction-era gap rather than treat the house as recently built.