Source: Rockford Register Star, May 1, 1995. Photo: Google.com. image captured May 1029
Architecture
Lincoln School, later Franklin School (1926), 405 N. Court Street, opened 1892, closed 1971, demolished 1976
Sources: Photo: Photo Gravere Views, 1893; Map: Sanborn Atlas, 1913-1928 [Note that North Street is later Park Ave.]; Article: “Lincoln School Third Hospital,” Rockford Daily Register-Gazette, October 11, 1918, p.5. In October, 1918, it was one of three emergency hospitals during the Spanish flu pandemic, along with the Boys’ Club and the Knights of Columbus building on N. Main St. Lincoln was renamed Benjamin Franklin School in 1926, when Abraham Lincoln Middle School was built on Charles Street.
New Furniture Store To Open Blomquist Furniture August 29, 1913
Source: Daily Register Gazette August 29, 1913 pg.7
Stephenson County Historical Society & Arboretum
Source: Northwest Quarterly, Autumn/Holiday 2019, v.16, no.5
Skandia Hardware: Closing
Source: Rockford Morning Star, Sept. 26, 1959.
Skandia Hardware building from google.com (image captured May, 2019). Skandia Hardware sign is still
visible in window left center. The business closed in September of 1959.
Skandia Hardware Company
Source: Rockford Today 1904, The Rockford Morning Star, The Clark Company Press, 1903, p. 81.
327-329 Seventh Street
Source: Google Images, May 2019.
City, RVC aim to salvage talks on Colman Village
Source: Rockford Register Star September 23, 2019
Rockford Watch Company Clean-Up
Source: Rockford Register Star, Jeff Kolkey.
Auburn Theater
Source: Rockford Morning Star December 28, 1940
Home of D. H. Ferguson 704 North Church
Source: Picturesque and Descriptive History of the City of Rockford
Printed at the Daily Gazette Establishment 1887