November 17th, 2021
Season’s Readings! The first annual adult winter reading program, Season’s Readings, takes place Wednesday, December 15, 2021 through Wednesday, January 12, 2022.
Stop by the adult services reference desk to sign up and receive your reading log and a bookmark. Your reading ...
read more
November 2nd, 2021
DeKalb-County-Tours-and-Spots-Houses-BrochureDownload
North County Houses
Almon Parke House | 1884 - Located on Route 23 between Sycamore and Genoa, north of Lloyd Road. Parke was a Captain in the Civil War, and a brick and stone mason. His son Henry H, Parke was ...
read more
November 2nd, 2021
DeKalb-County-Tours-and-Spots-Opera-Houses-1Download
DeKalb-County-Tours-and-Spots-Opera-Houses-2Download
Even small towns like Kirkland, Malta and Sandwich were known in the late 1800’s to contain a building, usually downtown, known as an Opera House. Opera Houses were different from theaters, as they were then known, in that theaters were ...
read more
November 2nd, 2021
DeKalb-County-Tours-and-Spots-Things-about-NIU-tourDownload
Altgeld Hall’s Cornerstone Laying | While the actual ground breaking for what is now Altgleld Hall at NIU ad taken place on September 17. 1895, the laying of the building’s cornerstone did not occur until October 1, 1895. The event ...
read more
November 2nd, 2021
DeKalb-County-Tours-and-Spots-Train-DepotsDownload
Chicago and Northwestern/ Union Pacific Railroad Depot | Designed in 1890, opened for use in 1891. Designed in Romanesque Revival style architecture by Charles Sumner Frost of the Firm Frost and Granger, the official architects of the railroad under President ...
read more
November 2nd, 2021
DeKalb-County-Tours-and-Spots-Forest-Preserves-and-ParksDownload
Parks
Franklin Township Park | Located one block south of Route 72, on Third Street in Kirkland. Focal point of the park is the Northern Illinois Veterans Memorial. The effort to bring the memorial about began in 1989 and cost $300,000 ...
read more
November 2nd, 2021
DeKalb-County-Spots-and-Tours-HospitalsDownload
Sycamore
Westgate Building/Sycamore Hospital | 1899/1900 – 215 West Elm Street – Built for Dr. Letitia A. Westgate, Sycamore. Dr. Westgate was the county’s first female doctor, who settled here in 1892. Intended to cost $10,000, the final cost reached $25,000. ...
read more
November 2nd, 2021
DeKalb-County-Tours-and-Spots-Banks-and-CemeteriesDownload
DeKalb County Banks
First National Bank of Malta | Located at South Third and East Adam Street, started business in 1901. The building’s exterior still remains much the way it was almost 120 years ago. This bank was the forerunner of ...
read more
November 2nd, 2021
DeKalb-County-Spots-and-Tours-MiscellanyDownload
Waterman’s Rock Monument |A 15 foot tall structure on the 400 block of Hickory Street, dating back to 1931. Waterman’s foremost Doctor- Paul E.N. Greeley- had it erected to honor the town’s early settlers. It includes a plaque which reads: ...
read more
November 2nd, 2021
Self-Guided-walking-tour-3Download
South Second and South Third Streets south of Franklin, to where the brick pavement ends on each, were designated a local historic district by the City of DeKalb in the early 1980s. Some of the places of special significance include:
320 ...
read more