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Main Street Scene: Town Hall, Normal and Industrial School, 185 S. Main St., Circa 1910

Main Street Scene: Town Hall, Normal and Industrial School, and House at 185 S. Main St. (1910 Postcard to Edgar Snow)

Postcard to: Mr. Edgar Snow, 1201 W. Stoughton, Urbana, Illinois
Dated: November 10, 1910

Well, what is the matter down there? I've been wondering what has become of you; didn't know but ht maybe you had dropped off the earth. Does this scene…

Main Street Sketch: Cooper's Hall and Blacksmith Shop; and Keck's Store

Main Street Sugar Grove Looking North: 1921

Photo cropped from The Ember 1921.

Available in the "School Yearbooks" Collection and at the link below:
https://www.wacots.org/sghistory/z/admin/items/show/3646

Main Street, Sugar Grove, IL

Photo shows Johnson House on west side of Main Street before it was relocated. Photo also shows former restaurant "The Point Restaurant and Lounge" and "Chicago West / The Retreat 1111" on the east side of Main Street before it was demolished. From…

Tags: 1994, Historic Commercial, Main Street, Streetscape, Sugar Grove

Main Street, Sugar Grove, IL, 1986

110 Main - Nell Gordon Home,
Dot Johnson Home

Tags: Dot Johnson, IL 1980s, Main Street, Sugar Grove

Main Street, Sugar Grove, IL, 1993

Located next to the William A. Johnson House at 263 Main Street. Current site of the Bliss House Museum-Sugar Grove Historical Society.

Bergfeld Family Home (last occupants). Lenny, Sue, Linda, Richard and Boyce

Tags: 1993, IL, Main Street, Sugar Grove

Main Street: 110 Main St. House Demolition.

Demolition took place in order to construct the Sugar Grove Animal Hospital on the same site. Former home of Nellie Gordon, built in mid-late 1960's. Later became location of Shear Paw-fection Dog Grooming.