Sources: Image source: Google.com Image captured July 2017, newspaper sources: Rockford Morning Star, December 17, 1891 and June 16, 1892
A Digital Collection of Rockford, Illinois History
Sources: Image source: Google.com Image captured July 2017, newspaper sources: Rockford Morning Star, December 17, 1891 and June 16, 1892
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.
Source: Rockford Today 1904, The Rockford Morning Star, The Clark Company Press, 1903, p. 81.
327-329 Seventh Street
Source: Google Images, May 2019.
Source: 1892 Atlas of Winnebago County
Dotted line on street farthest right (east) in tiny print is the West End St/ Railway tracks and is S. Wyman St. Rockford Silver Plate Co. factory is on So. Wyman St.
Small print in street, approximate center of page says Rockford City Av. and is S Main St. Holland House Hotel is on S Main St.
The Nelson Hotel is also on S. Main. There are pictures in this database of the Nelson Hotel, also known as Hotel Nelson.
Source: The Rockford Morning Star April 7, 1892
Price Building, 100 block So. Wyman, directly south of the alley, had an Odd Fellows Hall and also an Arthur Lodge, Knights of Pythias Hall.
City Directory and newspaper listings of lodge meetings, 1892.
Germania House, Christian Finkbeiner, proprietor, 217 So. Main street
Source: 1892 Rockford City Directory
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