realtor.com – RPL's Local History

946 North Ave. – 2011

May 9, 2018Jan

Source: www.realtor.com

House for sale April 2011, 3 bedrooms, 2.5 baths, $47,900.

4200 Spring Creek Rd.

May 5, 2018Jan

4200 Spring Creek Rd., photographs are from realtor.com

The house was for sale in 2010 for $425,000; 2.38 acres, 4 bedrooms, 3.5 bathrooms

2606 Country Club Terrace

January 3, 2017Jan

For sale, 2016. 2001 sale price was $99,500.

According to Rockford Township Assessor, house was built in 1940. No architect listed in newspaper.

First listing in newspaper is 1958, for Mr. and Mrs. Fred Horton, who lived there until 1966.

1967 to 1973: owner were Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Street. [Employed at Rockford Computer Service Inc]

The next owners were Mr. and Mrs. Philip Dundas. He was the Headmaster of Keith Country Day School.

Source: all photographs are from www.Realtor.com

501 Gregory St. – Catlin House, built 1866

November 19, 2016Jan

Photo from Realtor.com House built by 1866, confirmed in City Directory Home of Dr. and Mrs. A.S. Catlin, Rockford’s earliest physician on East Side of Rockford, was residing here in 1846.

Originally numbered 401 Gregory St., Mrs. A.C. Catlin obituary showed it as 501 Gregory in 1902. Dr. Catlin died in August, 1892 at age 91.

House for sale in Nov. 2016 at $36,458.

House built 1900? According to ad for sale of house. First listing in city directory by address is 1907 owner Matthew Richmond. 1910 Federal Census lists spouse as Emily Richmond, 3 daughters at home in 1910.

Photographs from Realtor.com . 3 daughters married 1917-1918. One died (Mrs. James Rogers) in 1919. 4 bedrooms, 2 full bathrooms and 1 half bath, 2 car garage.

Other early residents include: Mrs. H. E. Shipley (a niece of Mr. Richmond) (1931), Carl J. and Dorothy Dolan (1947), Mrs. C. Capron (1929), Leslie Einhorn (1948), Max L. Richards (1935). Some may have rented a room, as there were ads in the newspaper re: room for rent. Source: newspaper ads and articles