Home of Dr. Samuel Phillip Colehour Jr.
and his wife Myrtle Kinney Colehour.
Contributed by Bill Colehour
( This address might be 110 N. Main St. Mt. Carroll)
Biography of Dr. Colehour
This cottage was built the past season for Mrs. Stevens on east Locust street. The cellar
is under the entire building with concrete foundation and well drained. On first floor is kitchen 11x12, dining room 12x12, living room 12x14, chamber 11x12, bathroom 6x8 with closet and vestibule entrance. Second floor has three bed rooms 12x12, 10x12, 8x12 with sewing room and three large closets.
This cottage is heated with furnace, lighted with electricity and is a very desirable residence for a small family.
Photo by Teeter
Sword & Son Construction
Lanark
Contributed by John Sharp
Shoemaker Home about 1915
Wm. and Martha took me to Milledgeville to see this over 124 year old house at Elk Horn Grove settlement, 3 miles East of Milledgeville, owned by Mrs. E. E. Yocum (Jessie). Her grandfather used mud from excavating basement, mixed with straw, trampled by oxen to right consistency, then packed in forms and used to build house - can be seen from attic. Inside plastering applied direct to mud surface - house also plastered on the outside to protect from weather. Outside walls 2 feet thick - hand hewn beams used in framework - 2 fireplaces - one large with an oven - walnut woodwork - 8" oak plank floors - swallows build nests in parlor fireplace so don't use it in spring or summer as sometimes birds fall out of nest - parent birds feed them until they can fly up and out of chimney."
Contributed by Karen Fyock - Labor Day September 5, 1966 - written on the back of picture.
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