This image shows rental cabins located on the north side of the channel running east from the Huntinton Street Bridge, on property at the southwest end of Lake Street. They were owned and rented out by Beckman of Beckman Furniture Store until the...
This image shows rental cabins located on the north side of the channel running east from the Huntinton Street Bridge, on property at the southwest end of Lake Street. They were owned and rented out by Beckman of Beckman Furniture Store until the...
This image shows rental cabins located on the north side of the channel running east from the Huntinton Street Bridge, on property at the southwest end of Lake Street. They were owned and rented out by Beckman of Beckman Furniture Store until the...
This image shows rental cabins located on the north side of the channel running east from the Huntinton Street Bridge, on property at the southwest end of Lake Street. They were owned and rented out by Beckman of Beckman Furniture Store until the...
This image shows rental cabins located on the north side of the channel running east from the Huntinton Street Bridge, on property at the southwest end of Lake Street. They were owned and rented out by Beckman of Beckman Furniture Store until the...
Here is a photograph, and a newspaper clipping about said photo. The photograph shows rental cabins located on the north side of the channel running east from the Huntinton Street Bridge, on property at the southwest end of Lake Street. They were...
This image shows a rental cabin located on the north side of the channel running east from the Huntinton Street Bridge, on property at the southwest end of Lake Street. This cabin was owned and rented out by Beckman of Beckman Furniture Store until...
William J. Johnson, 1953-1918, and his wife Ida were the first Johnsons to live in this home, though it stayed in the Johnson family from about 1890 until 1945. After William J. Johnson died in 1918 it became the home of his brother David and his...
The Broadway School dominated its Broadway Street neighborhood until it was set on fire December 31, 1969. For a complete description of the school refer to the Broadway School entry in the collection.
This building was a former high school from 1878 to 1907 at which time it became a grammar school from 1907 to 1918. In 1918 it became a junior high school and was used as such until 1928, when it was sold for private use. In the 1939 city...
The original part of the building was built sometime in the early to mid 1800s with a new front being added in 1868. It served as a private home, an inn, and a private seminary in the 1850s, according to Brooklyn Cull, who has researched the...
On November 6, 1922, Lide White sent the following letter to fellow citizens: "Dear Friend: The old Lower Seminary is no more and where it stood for so many years, a handsome up-to-date building is in process of construction. Among the many and...
While the Catholic Church had maintained various schools for its children from almost the beginning in Madison, these had been schools mostly of tenuous positions, depending on availability of teachers, resources and facilities. In 1905 came the...
The original Washington Elementary School was built in 1896 and destroyed by fire in 1930. This 1932 building, located at Columbus Avenue and 23rd Street, was used by the Anderson School System until the early 1980's. It is now Liberty Christian...
In 1886 the Sandborn Fire Insurance maps list this address as a dwelling but by 1902 it is listed as a bakery. However, one year later a grocery store was located on the property and it remained a grocery store until the mid 1920's. J. H. Waltz...
Starke County (Ind.); Golf; Clubhouses;Farmhouses;leisure
In 1927 Fred M. White sold a part of his farm to developers who built the Bass Lake Golf Course. The farmhouse was used as the Clubhouse until the 1970's.
Buchta's was a popular meeting place at Cedar Point partly because of its location but also because the store sold a little bit of everything for tourists. This structure remained intact until it was torn down for new residential homes in 2005.
Starke County (Ind.) ; Posters; Memorabilia; Big bands;
During the 1920s and 30s, Maurie Sherman was a well-known leader of a Chicago band who appeared often at the College Inn of the Hotel Sherman (no relation) . Maurie gained much popularity via his frequent remote radio broadcasts, both local and...
She was built in Dubuque in 1896 as the "Quincy" for the Diamond Jo Line for use in the St. Louis-St. Paul trade. She was sold to the Streckfus Line and was completely rebuilt to become the super excursion boat, the "J. S. Deluxe." She was the...
Steamboats; Greene Line; Greene, Chris B.; Greene, Gordon C.; Greene, Mary B.; Greene, Letha; "Delta Queen"; Riverboats; "Tom Greene"
The "Tom Greene" was built in 1923 and was owned by the Greene Line of Cincinnati. The "Tom Greene" was in the Cincinnati-Louisville trade until 1947. She was later made into a landing boat and offices. Gordon C. Greene named his boat after his...
