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$1 500 000 hotel

“Clear Midway Hotel Site” – building Faust Hotel, 1927

June 9, 2016Jan

Midway-FaustCalled Midway hotel because the new hotel, unnamed, was across the street from Midway Theater,

Workmen felled trees and carried them away. The old Haines stone house to be demolished to build the new $1,500,000. hotel.

Source:  Rockford Morning Star Sept. 10, 1927

 

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