Lincoln Middle School

Lincoln Middle School’s Golden-Crowned Kinglet Mural

September 5, 2023September 5, 2023Amber

Artists: Lincoln Middle School students

Title: Unknown

Location: Corner of 9th and State St. near 1230 E State St, Rockford, IL 61104

Date: 2019

Description: Rockford Lincoln Middle School students painted a mural on the wall behind the Revell Avenue Strong House! They chose the Golden-crowned kinglet as the bird they wanted to feature on their mural. Thanks to their teacher, Mrs. Jillian Myers, the United Way of Rock River Valley, and SwedishAmerican for collaborating on this mural.

Sources:

Rockford Area Convention & Visitors Bureau. “Rockford Public Art Trail.” Website Accessed 8/3/2023. https://www.gorockford.com/things-to-do/public-art-trail/
Audubon Mural Projects. Website accessed 8/30/2023: https://www.sinnissippiaudubon.org/audubon-mural-project/?_gl=1*1wvkrks*_ga*MTEyMjc3ODU2Ni4xNjkzNDEwMTE4*_ga_X2XNL2MWTT*MTY5MzQxMDExNy4xLjAuMTY5MzQxMDEyNy41MC4wLjA.

Veterans Who Have Passed–Richard Frank Warner

August 20, 2020Andrew

Source: Rockford Register Star, Aug. 19, 2020.

Lincoln School, later Franklin School (1926), 405 N. Court Street, opened 1892, closed 1971, demolished 1976

July 29, 2020Jean

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.