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2002-4 b a
Kitty West Lorah - West's Hotel (AKA - Uncle Tom's Hotel) Early to Mid 1900's

After the first Uncle Tom's Cabin burned down in 1879, new residential housing, West's Hotel, was built in 1880 on the same site at the northwest corner of Main St. and the Railroad Tracks.

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Sugar Grove Hotel
May 1936

The ornate building that served as a boarding house for student scholars called Uncle Tom's Cabin burned downed in 1879, only 3 years after it was built. It was a great loss as Thomas Judd…

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W. W. VAN OSDEL. PHOTOGRAPHER
AURORA, ILL

The ornate building that served as the boarding house for student scholars called Uncle Tom's Cabin was destroyed by fire in…

No information (Assume New School)

No information (Assume New School)

Looking South - North side of Pravillian off Main St.

New School corner of Cross & Main

New School, Pravillian Firehouse

Parking Lot at School, Main & Cross St.

Tree at School, Main & Cross St.