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Post by John on Jan 18, 2007 20:29:45 GMT -6
The brick house that sits kind of behind the American Legion. Its so unusual looking, kind of gothic. Francis Koenig lived there. He was an English teacher at the high school for many years.
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Post by galsal on Jan 19, 2007 7:59:08 GMT -6
When I was growing up I was told that a man hung himself in one of the upstairs bedrooms in the house behind the legion, and that it was haunted.
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Post by DumDave on Jan 19, 2007 14:14:29 GMT -6
I drove past the green/yellow Victorian house next to the Elks yesterday and noticed they have some windows boarded up. I hope that house isn't going to meet the wrecking ball. I love that house. I'd like to get a hold of it and fix it up. Don't care much for the location, but the house has some great details to it. I noticed it also when I was taking pictures of the Elks Club, City Park, Masonic Lodge, ect. It was not looking to good. I hope that some one buys it & fixes it up. My father used to have a real good fishing buddy by the name of B.H. Gamble. Gamble lived with his wife & two old maid school teachers in a big old two story house on W. Hickory or Kent. It was a great house in pretty good condition. Lots of fine wood work. Your right about the houses on S. Monroe. My wife & I saw one that was just right for us. Nice porch, not too big. Then it was sold. One of our forum friends lives on S. Monroe. -Dave
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Post by galsal on Jan 23, 2007 10:30:29 GMT -6
Just found in an early 1900's directory that Jas. Connell had a boarding livery stable at 131 S. Bloomington St. Kind of looks like what is in the picture that Butch posted earlier. Notice all the carriages.
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Post by JessWunman on Jan 23, 2007 18:04:28 GMT -6
Keen observation galsal... adds interesting perspective to an interesting picture!
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Post by Stephanie on Jan 24, 2007 9:45:42 GMT -6
Just found in an early 1900's directory that Jas. Connell had a boarding livery stable at 131 S. Bloomington St. Kind of looks like what is in the picture that Butch posted earlier. Notice all the carriages. Thanks Galsal. That explains a lot about that picture.
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Post by BlueStar7 on Jan 24, 2007 20:34:35 GMT -6
Just found in an early 1900's directory that Jas. Connell had a boarding livery stable at 131 S. Bloomington St. Kind of looks like what is in the picture that Butch posted earlier. Notice all the carriages. Nice observation/search, gs, more plausable then my thinking of a farmers market w/carriages of shoppers...
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Post by Stephanie on Apr 11, 2007 7:57:18 GMT -6
I drove past the green/yellow Victorian house next to the Elks yesterday and noticed they have some windows boarded up. I hope that house isn't going to meet the wrecking ball. I love that house. I'd like to get a hold of it and fix it up. Don't care much for the location, but the house has some great details to it. It looks like the great details of this house are being removed. Some of the trim is being removed. Its sad to see that its going to be torn down. My five year old said we should get a mob going and tell them not to tear it down. I think he picked that up from Spongebob. He & I checked the house out from the road the other day and I pointed out to him the things they were salvaging. I'll hate to see that house gone.
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Post by galsal on Apr 11, 2007 9:18:15 GMT -6
I remember going in there as a youngster to Dr. Lester the eyedoctor. The house was beautiful, but I didn't like him. He was always wanting to take pics of me. I know he was an amateur photographer, but something about him bothered me.
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Post by DumDave on Apr 11, 2007 12:02:38 GMT -6
I almost took a picture of it last year. But I was taking pictures of public buildings, like the Elks & Mason's Lodge. That house just didn't fit it. However, all the way across the park, I saw a neat looking Queen Anne @ the corner of Vermillion & Kent. I get the feeling that there were some great Queen Anne or "Victorian" houses on all four sides of City Park at one time long ago. -Dave
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Post by BlueStar7 on Apr 12, 2007 1:50:02 GMT -6
Not to change the subject here, but I saw that Bertha Paton died and was the owner of "Community Liquors". Wasn't that on the N/W corner of Main and Sterling years ago? I seem to remember windows with dark green trim, and the front entrance, had a corner post/column of some kind...the entrance doors at an angle, facing the opposite corner. You could walk thru or turn around the corner, from either street...into the small "over-hang". I don't know what the style would be called...
Butch, got any pics/
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Post by Job on Apr 12, 2007 6:31:07 GMT -6
I almost took a picture of it last year. But I was taking pictures of public buildings, like the Elks & Mason's Lodge. That house just didn't fit it. However, all the way across the park, I saw a neat looking Queen Anne @ the corner of Vermillion & Kent. I get the feeling that there were some great Queen Anne or "Victorian" houses on all four sides of City Park at one time long ago. -Dave Dave: A few years ago, Jan Hart put together an interesting photo history of some of the old houses in Streator. I have looked around our house a couple of times in the last week, but I have not been able to find my copy.
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Post by galsal on Apr 12, 2007 6:42:37 GMT -6
I just checked my book, and this home is not in it.
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Post by Stephanie on Apr 12, 2007 6:46:52 GMT -6
I just checked my book, and this home is not in it. Yes, you are right, Galsal. I hope they do another booklet like that one. There are many interesting homes in this town that I've always been curious about. My idea of fun would be if this town was a ghost town for just one week and I could wander in and out of the homes checking them out.
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Post by Job on Apr 12, 2007 7:14:25 GMT -6
Years ago, Ted Weber did a series of radio programs on Streator history. The tapes were the genesis of the book Biography in Black. I was not living in town when they aired, but my mother always enjoyed them.
About ten years ago, I purchased tapes of those old shows at the Streatorland Historical Society. They were very well done.
A few years after I purchased the tapes, I wrote to Ted asking if he knew what had happened to the journal Rees Morgan had kept of his trip to California during the gold rush. A few days later, he called me at my office and informed me that he had asked his listeners if anyone knew of the fate of the journal.
Although we never did locate the missing journal, I did learn that Ted prepared the tapes when he was in college.
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