Source: Rockford Register Star, Jan. 28, 2022.
Architecture
6786 Guilford Road, Barn restored into spacious four-bedroom Rockford home
Source: Rockford Register Star, February 13, 2022
Local Artist, Major Fashion Designer Virgil Abloh Dies At 41
Source: Thibault Camus/ AP File
Source: Rockford Register Star, USA Today Network, Nov. 29, 2021.
Rockford Public Library groundbreaking ceremony, 215 N. Wyman Street, October 20, 2021
Dignitaries included Mayor Tom McNamara, library board president Paul Logli and director Lynn Stainbrook. Scandroli Construction Co. is building the new library at 215 N. Wyman Street.
Photographed by Jean Lythgoe, 10-20-2021
Photo of remodelled Rockford Public Library, the Compleat Librairie, 1969
Source: Pamphlet for the remodeled Rockford Public Library, 1969. Note that North Wyman Street was a one-way south at that time.
314 (formerly 302) North Avon Street, built in 1887 for L. M. Combs, later owned by Dr. and Mrs. Henry C. Clements
Ssources: Rockford Daily Register, May 24, 1887; Rockford Daily Gazette, March 13, 1890; Rockford Morning Star., August 8, 1891; Google image captured July 2012
Florence Apartments, 613 College Avenue, built 1926
Sources: Rockford Republic, March 23, 1926; Google image captured May 2019. Note carvings on the lintel and pillars as well as Google camera car in reflection of front door.
Rockford Elks’ Club, 210 W. Jefferson Street, opened 1912. Architect: Chicagoan Lawrence E. Buck. Note green tiles.
Sources: Google Image captured May 2019, Rockford Republic, January 24, 1912.
St. Anthony Gymnasium 1017 Ferguson Street
Source: Golden Jubilee: St. Anthony of Padua Church R 282.9773 ST. ANTHONY
Bliss Building, 317 Mulberry Street
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Source: Rockford Morning Star, August 22, 1915
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