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Sign reads "VILLAGE OFFICE, POLICE DEPT."

Municipal Center, Main Street, old school gone

No information

Photo through fence of architectural drawing that reads
"FUTURE HOME OF KANELAND SOUTH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL"

Grade school, Main St. @ Cross St.

S. G. School, corner Cross & Main

Cross & Main St., Temp. walk

Tree at School, Main & Cross St.

Parking Lot at School, Main & Cross St.

New School, Pravillian Firehouse

New School corner of Cross & Main

Looking South - North side of Pravillian off Main St.

No information (Assume New School)

No information (Assume New School)

Printed on the front:HOTEL WEST SUGAR GROVE ILL

Stamped on the back:

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…

Printed on the front:

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…

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.

Handwritten on the back:

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