The Brueggemann House, built by Philip Mager for Henry Brueggemann in 1913, is an American foursquare home influenced by the Chicago Prairie Style and reflecting the simple design and efficient floor plan that made the style common in residential neighborhoods across the country from the late 1890s through the 1930s. Typical of the style, the house is 2½ stories high, with four rooms on each story, a full-width front porch, and a pyramid roof with a central dormer; its first floor includes a foyer, living room, dining room, and kitchen, while the upper level usually has three bedrooms and one bath, though this house has five bedrooms. Five generations of the Brueggemann family, including a great-grandson of Henry Brueggemann, have lived here. Henry Brueggemann, born in 1879, was a prominent citizen of Tinley Park who operated the local grain elevator east of what is now Zabrocki Plaza after Christian Andres, Sr., retired, held a land lease with the Chicago Rock Island & Pacific Rail Road that in 1959 was noted as the longest unexpired lease in the railroad's history, served nearly 49 years on the Tinley Park volunteer fire department including 15 years as fire chief, and also served as village clerk from 1908 to 1910, trustee for Community Consolidated School District 146, Bremen Township supervisor, deputy sheriff, and director of Bremen State Bank of Tinley Park and Cook County Trust & Savings of Blue Island. According to family lore, he was credited with several Tinley Park firsts, including owning the first telephone, electric light, radio, television, and automobile, the last co-owned with Ernst Rice.