November 2nd, 2021
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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 ...
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November 2nd, 2021
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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 ...
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November 2nd, 2021
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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 ...
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November 2nd, 2021
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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 ...
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November 2nd, 2021
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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. ...
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November 2nd, 2021
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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 ...
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November 2nd, 2021
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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: ...
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November 2nd, 2021
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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:
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November 2nd, 2021
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Self-Guided Walking Tour #2 - North First to North Fourth
220 North Third - 1910
Dance studio Just for Kix is located in the former Christian Science Church. The columned portico and steeple are later additions to the structure.
309 Oak – 1930/1931DeKalb ...
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November 2nd, 2021
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College and Augusta Avenues comprise a large portion of the locally designed Ellwood Historic Neighborhood. The area began developing with the opening of Northern Illinois State Normal School (NIU) in the fall of 1899. By the early 1920s, College, Augusta, ...
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