The Charles H. Hibbard House, in the McHenry County city of Marengo, Illinois, has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since 1979.

[3] Some time after its 2003 the home underwent some renovation and no longer appears dilapidated on its exterior, as it did in a 2003 photo featured by the LPCI.

Upstairs, on the second floor, there are six bedrooms, a long hallway, a back staircase and bathroom.

[5] The home also contained a secret, underground room in the yard, it had a hidden entrance near the front porch.

[5] Hibbard died in Lawson, Missouri in 1872 and by 1874 the home was owned by Joseph Dietz who ran a machine shop in Marengo around 1877.

Dietz married Caroline Sponable, the first white child to be born in Seneca Township.