H I S TO R Y & A R C H I T E C T U R E BROADWAY HISTORIC DISTRICT Rock Solid.Rock Island. Growth & Development Aggressive growth came to the Broadway neighbor- Join us for a sampling of great hood,located just a few blocks south of Rock Island’s downtown,in the 1860s.Additions were platted by architecture in this neighborhood Webber,Mixter,Buford,Schnell,Spencer,Dart and others.As convenience was the impetus for the with a terrific “sense of place.”And neighborhood’s development,the sections of Broadway closest to downtown developed first.The while each home is an architectural area north of 9th Avenue was mostly developed prior to 1890,while the area south of 9th Avenue was gem,some associations with early developed from 1890 to 1915,with housing construction moving progressively south with time. residents are equally compelling. Many of Broadway’s homes were custom built for people who had professional or managerial occupations in downtown Rock Island.People like druggist Frank Bahnsen,architect Leonard Drack, dentist William Magill,newspaper publisher Minnie Magnificent “Sense of Place” Potter,attorney Edward Sweeney,brewer Robert This grand Victorian neighborhood is the premier Wagner,oil company magnate Frank Welch,and historic area in Rock Island,where old houses are department store owners Frank Youngand William regarded as treasures.Great architecture,constant McCombs are just a few.Working class folk were also restorations,and a first rate neighborhood association represented in the neighborhood.Locksmith Charles have made this area the place to be in the Quad Cities Fiebig,stone mason Robert McFarlane,railroad for old house lovers.More than 550 homes make up conductor Thomas Cookand grocer Charles Hansgen the Broadway collection,which has numerous lived here,too. examples of Queen Anne,Italianate and Colonial Revival architecture.The earliest home is from 1854, The name “Broadway”comes from the original name but most of the area was built between 1890 and of 23rd Street.Broadway Presbyterian Church at 710 1915.The Broadway neighborhood is listed on the 23rd Street still bears that historic name.In 1876,a National Register,and hosts outstanding Tours of new name system for streets was implemented, Homes each May.It features more Rock Island land- creating the current numbered streets and avenues marks than any other neighborhood,and is nationally throughout the city.Broadway is the only street name famous for founding the “Great Unveiling”program, from the previous system that remains in use in any where artificial siding is removed from historic form.In 1988,the neighborhood’s Broadway Historic homes.To learn more about the ambitious and inno- Area Association adopted the historic name to vative Broadway Historic District Association,go to perpetuate this neighborhood’s identity and to their website at www.broadwaydistrict.org. promote the preservation of its historic resources. 2 3 Growth & Development Aggressive growth came to the Broadway neighbor- Join us for a sampling of great hood,located just a few blocks south of Rock Island’s downtown,in the 1860s.Additions were platted by architecture in this neighborhood Webber,Mixter,Buford,Schnell,Spencer,Dart and others.As convenience was the impetus for the with a terrific “sense of place.”And neighborhood’s development,the sections of Broadway closest to downtown developed first.The while each home is an architectural area north of 9th Avenue was mostly developed prior to 1890,while the area south of 9th Avenue was gem,some associations with early developed from 1890 to 1915,with housing construction moving progressively south with time. residents are equally compelling. Many of Broadway’s homes were custom built for people who had professional or managerial occupations in downtown Rock Island.People like druggist Frank Bahnsen,architect Leonard Drack, dentist William Magill,newspaper publisher Minnie Magnificent “Sense of Place” Potter,attorney Edward Sweeney,brewer Robert This grand Victorian neighborhood is the premier Wagner,oil company magnate Frank Welch,and historic area in Rock Island,where old houses are department store owners Frank Youngand William regarded as treasures.Great architecture,constant McCombs are just a few.Working class folk were also restorations,and a first rate neighborhood association represented in the neighborhood.Locksmith Charles have made this area the place to be in the Quad Cities Fiebig,stone mason Robert McFarlane,railroad for old house lovers.More than 550 homes make up conductor Thomas Cookand grocer Charles Hansgen the Broadway collection,which has numerous lived here,too. examples of Queen Anne,Italianate and Colonial Revival architecture.The earliest home is from 1854, The name “Broadway”comes from the original name but most of the area was built between 1890 and of 23rd Street.Broadway Presbyterian Church at 710 1915.The Broadway neighborhood is listed on the 23rd Street still bears that historic name.In 1876,a National Register,and hosts outstanding Tours of new name system for streets was implemented, Homes each May.It features more Rock Island land- creating the current numbered streets and avenues marks than any other neighborhood,and is nationally throughout the city.Broadway is the only street name famous for founding the “Great Unveiling”program, from the previous system that remains in use in any where artificial siding is removed from historic form.In 1988,the neighborhood’s Broadway Historic homes.To learn more about the ambitious and inno- Area Association adopted the historic name to vative Broadway Historic District Association,go to perpetuate this neighborhood’s identity and to their website at www.broadwaydistrict.org. promote the preservation of its historic resources. 2 3 BROADWAY HISTORIC DISTRICT AUDIO TOURS 17TH STREET 18TH STREET 19TH STREET 20TH STREET 21ST STREET 22ND STREET 23RD STREET TIIwsshlleaaebnn 5sddi0t’ sPe b rwauenesilebddrs idvnitaogetws iao intnn lh o tCtahotdepm :tB/mh/rewois aawsduiowwdn.iaro hyi g taHoosviu sa.rtol ostroogri /cycc roDietuiyasrdtt ecreiodcpm tat htrpoteumumtree earn,-rttbesra /aascnveesaddfie l/taarob utuloder si yot oohtuofr ourt uhrfsage.vshhoe ta rmsiutaledm. iFaoeou drbd oyuioowi-ludnlriils noctogeannds.vi noJeungns itdteh egnevoc ieC ct,ieott, yhtt hheoe efR nRoocckk 11 stroll or drive through the neighborhood.Maps are included on the web page.The themed tours include: 2 M Movers & Shakers 3 L Rock Island Landmarks 6TH AVENUE U Unique & Outstanding Architecture 4 I Italianate Architecture Q Queen Anne-influenced Architecture 21 20 5 C Colonial Revival & Classical Revival Architecture 7TH AVENUE 49 48 24 22 23 6 47 26 25 19 1.516 23rd Street – Cameron House I 26.720 20th Street – Case-Mitchell House M U I 46 27 18 2.524 23rd Street – Speidel House M I 27.735 20th Street – Weishar Apartments 7 3.536 23rd Street – Beardsley House L U I 28.804 20th Street – Barnhart House U 28 17 4.603 23rd Street – White House LI C 29.816 20th Street – Sweeney House M L I 29 8 50 16 5.625 23rd Street – Marshall House U 30.842 20th Street – Huesing House M L I 45 30 15 9 6.710 23rd Street – Broadway Presbyterian Church 31.848 20th Street – Hansgen House L U I 44 32 31 10 9TH AVENUE 7.742 23rd Street – Wakefield House Q 32.1915 9th Avenue – Stearns Cottage L 14 12 11 8.817 23rd Street – Welch House M L U Q 33.917 19th Street – Anderson House M U C 33 43 9.837 23rd Street – McFarlane House L C 34.1043 20th Street – Ammermann-Harris House M C 10.839 23rd Street – Reeves House Q 35.1223 20th Street – Gustafson House Q 10TH AVENUE 11.903 23rd Street – McCandless House U C 36.1209 21st Street – Sexton House Q 12.904 23rd Street – Wagner House M L U C 37.1038 21st Street – Greenough-Scott House U Q 13.1034 23rd Street – Duvon House 38.1036 21st Street – West House Q 38 13 14.902 22nd Street – Brinkerhoff House Q 39.1330 20th Street - Schoessel House L C Q 34 37 15.836 22nd Street – Drack House L Q C 40.1710 Lincoln Court – Channon House 12TH AVENUE 42 16.830 22nd Street – Young House M L U Q C 41.1236 17th Street – Yerbury House C 36 17.810 22nd Street – Hartz House Q 42.1203-1205 17th Street – Willis House Q C 35 18.729 22nd Street – Quincey House U 43.916 17th Street – Tremann House M Q C 41 13TH AVENUE 19.700 22nd Street – First Church of Christ,Scientist L U 44.852 19th Street – Sturgeon-Bahnsen House M L I 20.2207/2209 7th Avenue – Murphy House L U 45.842 19th Street – Simon-McCombs House M Q 39 21.2125 7th Avenue – Old Lincoln School L U 46.727 19th Street – Cook-Pearce House L Q 22.705 20th Street – Spencer House M L U 47.725 19th Street – Steele House U I 40 23.709 20th Street – Plummer House M U 48.1906 7th Avenue – Potter House M L U C 24.702 20th Street – Conner-Parker House L U I Q 49.1804 7th Avenue – Buford Mansion M U 25.715 20th Street – Magill House L I 50.833 17th Street – Fiebig House M L 4 5 BROADWAY HISTORIC DISTRICT AUDIO TOURS 17TH STREET 18TH STREET 19TH STREET 20TH STREET 21ST STREET 22ND STREET 23RD STREET TIIwsshlleaaebnn 5sddi0t’ sPe b rwauenesilebddrs idvnitaogetws iao intnn lh o tCtahotdepm :tB/mh/rewois aawsduiowwdn.iaro hyi g taHoosviu sa.rtol ostroogri /cycc roDietuiyasrdtt ecreiodcpm tat htrpoteumumtree earn,-rttbesra /aascnveesaddfie l/taarob utuloder si yot oohtuofr ourt uhrfsage.vshhoe ta rmsiutaledm. iFaoeou drbd oyuioowi-ludnlriils noctogeannds.vi noJeungns itdteh egnevoc ieC ct,ieott, yhtt hheoe efR nRoocckk 11 stroll or drive through the neighborhood.Maps are included on the web page.The themed tours include: 2 M Movers & Shakers 3 L Rock Island Landmarks 6TH AVENUE U Unique & Outstanding Architecture 4 I Italianate Architecture Q Queen Anne-influenced Architecture 21 20 5 C Colonial Revival & Classical Revival Architecture 7TH AVENUE 49 48 24 22 23 6 47 26 25 19 1.516 23rd Street – Cameron House I 26.720 20th Street – Case-Mitchell House M U I 46 27 18 2.524 23rd Street – Speidel House M I 27.735 20th Street – Weishar Apartments 7 3.536 23rd Street – Beardsley House L U I 28.804 20th Street – Barnhart House U 28 17 4.603 23rd Street – White House LI C 29.816 20th Street – Sweeney House M L I 29 8 50 16 5.625 23rd Street – Marshall House U 30.842 20th Street – Huesing House M L I 45 30 15 9 6.710 23rd Street – Broadway Presbyterian Church 31.848 20th Street – Hansgen House L U I 44 32 31 10 9TH AVENUE 7.742 23rd Street – Wakefield House Q 32.1915 9th Avenue – Stearns Cottage L 14 12 11 8.817 23rd Street – Welch House M L U Q 33.917 19th Street – Anderson House M U C 33 43 9.837 23rd Street – McFarlane House L C 34.1043 20th Street – Ammermann-Harris House M C 10.839 23rd Street – Reeves House Q 35.1223 20th Street – Gustafson House Q 10TH AVENUE 11.903 23rd Street – McCandless House U C 36.1209 21st Street – Sexton House Q 12.904 23rd Street – Wagner House M L U C 37.1038 21st Street – Greenough-Scott House U Q 13.1034 23rd Street – Duvon House 38.1036 21st Street – West House Q 38 13 14.902 22nd Street – Brinkerhoff House Q 39.1330 20th Street - Schoessel House L C Q 34 37 15.836 22nd Street – Drack House L Q C 40.1710 Lincoln Court – Channon House 12TH AVENUE 42 16.830 22nd Street – Young House M L U Q C 41.1236 17th Street – Yerbury House C 36 17.810 22nd Street – Hartz House Q 42.1203-1205 17th Street – Willis House Q C 35 18.729 22nd Street – Quincey House U 43.916 17th Street – Tremann House M Q C 41 13TH AVENUE 19.700 22nd Street – First Church of Christ,Scientist L U 44.852 19th Street – Sturgeon-Bahnsen House M L I 20.2207/2209 7th Avenue – Murphy House L U 45.842 19th Street – Simon-McCombs House M Q 39 21.2125 7th Avenue – Old Lincoln School L U 46.727 19th Street – Cook-Pearce House L Q 22.705 20th Street – Spencer House M L U 47.725 19th Street – Steele House U I 40 23.709 20th Street – Plummer House M U 48.1906 7th Avenue – Potter House M L U C 24.702 20th Street – Conner-Parker House L U I Q 49.1804 7th Avenue – Buford Mansion M U 25.715 20th Street – Magill House L I 50.833 17th Street – Fiebig House M L 4 5 Again,long-term ownership by a single family may 3.Beardsley House have contributed to such a high level of architectural 536 23rd Street Rock Island Landmark integrity.Conrad and Margareta Speidel and their descendents lived in this house from 1870 to 1940. The Major James M.Beardsley House is named for a After Conrad’s death in 1914,daughter Thekla is listed Rock Islander who earned his title in the Civil War. as the owner;Margareta had died in 1899 and brother Beardsley,a deputy County Clerk,helped organize Ernest in 1892.Thekla died in 1950,but the home had Company D of the 13th Volunteers in 1861,initially been turned into apartments about ten years earlier. signing up for three years of service. Many Broadway homes were converted to apartments He returned to Rock Island after seeing action at beginning in the 1940s. battles of Lookout Mountain,Chickasaw Bayou, Speidel was an early pioneer of Rock Island,known to Vicksburg and Ringgold Gap.In 1869,he and his wife, be in the apothecary business by 1845.City directories Lurany,purchased a large lot fronting on both 22nd promoted his personal entrepreneurship:“Conrad and 23rd streets from pioneer settler Samuel Bowles. Speidel,established in 1858,practical druggist and The lot probably held a house,because a year later it apothecary and dealer in drugs,medicines,perfumery, was reported that Beardsley had exchanged his toilet and fancy goods and medicinal wines and Broadway (as 23rd Street was then called) home with liquors.”His earliest Rock Island operation was likely Joseph Conet,his father-in-law,for 800 acres of Iowa with Erich Clacius on Otter Street,between Illinois and land.He also sold smaller portions of the Broadway Orleans,which today we would know as the Old land to others. 1. Cameron House 2. Speidel House Chicago Addition on 12th Street,between 2nd and 516 23rd Street 524 23rd Street In 1871,he built a “new”residence here,which is 3rd Avenues.Speidel was also secretary-treasurer of likely the front,most visible,part of this home.Only Our first home on the tour is also among the oldest, Built about 1870,five years before the home just visit- the German-language Volks-Zeitung newspaper. three years later he sold to Alvin Hull,whose family and its architectural integrity may be related to 60 ed,one can see that the front gable Italianate style years of ownership by one family.Joseph C.Cameron, dominated for several years in Rock Island.However, whose mother and father settled in Rock Island in this version is constructed of wood and not brick.Note 1843 and 1844,moved just one block east when this the extremely tall,narrow,elaborately hooded win- home,then addressed 70 Broadway,was built in 1875. dows,which are characteristic of Italianate homes.In Joseph was a ship’s carpenter who eventually rose to the Speidel House,the first floor windows nearly the level of ferry captain during the time he lived touch ground level.The details above the doors and here.Cameron was the captain of the J.W. Spencer windows,as well as beneath the overhangs are steamboat,which was operated by the Rock Island prominent in the Italianate style.The double front Ferry Co.He and wife Clara had several children,and door,paired roof brackets and three-window bay she continued to live here into the 1930s,two decades complete the nod to the Italianate period. after Joseph’s passing. This home has amazing architectural integrity and is relatively unchanged since its 1875 construction. Though relatively rare in other communities,front gable Italianate style homes are plentiful in Rock Island.This brick example shows elaborate wood brackets,stone window hoods and a wonderfully preserved front stoop above paired doors.Notice the south side of the home has many windows,while the north side has relatively few.The windows are placed on the south side of the house to let the sunlight naturally warm the house year-round.This practice is still used by modern architects. 6 7 Again,long-term ownership by a single family may 3.Beardsley House have contributed to such a high level of architectural 536 23rd Street Rock Island Landmark integrity.Conrad and Margareta Speidel and their descendents lived in this house from 1870 to 1940. The Major James M.Beardsley House is named for a After Conrad’s death in 1914,daughter Thekla is listed Rock Islander who earned his title in the Civil War. as the owner;Margareta had died in 1899 and brother Beardsley,a deputy County Clerk,helped organize Ernest in 1892.Thekla died in 1950,but the home had Company D of the 13th Volunteers in 1861,initially been turned into apartments about ten years earlier. signing up for three years of service. Many Broadway homes were converted to apartments He returned to Rock Island after seeing action at beginning in the 1940s. battles of Lookout Mountain,Chickasaw Bayou, Speidel was an early pioneer of Rock Island,known to Vicksburg and Ringgold Gap.In 1869,he and his wife, be in the apothecary business by 1845.City directories Lurany,purchased a large lot fronting on both 22nd promoted his personal entrepreneurship:“Conrad and 23rd streets from pioneer settler Samuel Bowles. Speidel,established in 1858,practical druggist and The lot probably held a house,because a year later it apothecary and dealer in drugs,medicines,perfumery, was reported that Beardsley had exchanged his toilet and fancy goods and medicinal wines and Broadway (as 23rd Street was then called) home with liquors.”His earliest Rock Island operation was likely Joseph Conet,his father-in-law,for 800 acres of Iowa with Erich Clacius on Otter Street,between Illinois and land.He also sold smaller portions of the Broadway Orleans,which today we would know as the Old land to others. 1. Cameron House 2. Speidel House Chicago Addition on 12th Street,between 2nd and 516 23rd Street 524 23rd Street In 1871,he built a “new”residence here,which is 3rd Avenues.Speidel was also secretary-treasurer of likely the front,most visible,part of this home.Only Our first home on the tour is also among the oldest, Built about 1870,five years before the home just visit- the German-language Volks-Zeitung newspaper. three years later he sold to Alvin Hull,whose family and its architectural integrity may be related to 60 ed,one can see that the front gable Italianate style years of ownership by one family.Joseph C.Cameron, dominated for several years in Rock Island.However, whose mother and father settled in Rock Island in this version is constructed of wood and not brick.Note 1843 and 1844,moved just one block east when this the extremely tall,narrow,elaborately hooded win- home,then addressed 70 Broadway,was built in 1875. dows,which are characteristic of Italianate homes.In Joseph was a ship’s carpenter who eventually rose to the Speidel House,the first floor windows nearly the level of ferry captain during the time he lived touch ground level.The details above the doors and here.Cameron was the captain of the J.W. Spencer windows,as well as beneath the overhangs are steamboat,which was operated by the Rock Island prominent in the Italianate style.The double front Ferry Co.He and wife Clara had several children,and door,paired roof brackets and three-window bay she continued to live here into the 1930s,two decades complete the nod to the Italianate period. after Joseph’s passing. This home has amazing architectural integrity and is relatively unchanged since its 1875 construction. Though relatively rare in other communities,front gable Italianate style homes are plentiful in Rock Island.This brick example shows elaborate wood brackets,stone window hoods and a wonderfully preserved front stoop above paired doors.Notice the south side of the home has many windows,while the north side has relatively few.The windows are placed on the south side of the house to let the sunlight naturally warm the house year-round.This practice is still used by modern architects. 6 7 remained here for the next 20 years.Beardsley,who massing of the original wing. That addition is now pioneering Kentucky contingent.Both were related to became an attorney,would move frequently over his the newest rather than the oldest part of the house. the famous Supreme Court Justice,John J.Marshall.In remaining years. the early 1860s,Marshall and his wife Elizabeth moved The historic Italianate front has a steeply pitched back to Kentucky for unknown reasons.In 1868, The main house is a high styled Italianate,while the hipped roof topped by a flat area with iron cresting. Jephthah Monroe purchased the Marshall house.The rear wing is a simple 1 1/2 story cottage.The original Other details include a traditional box shape, home has since changed owners many times. back part is believed to have been built about 1860. decorative window hoods,beautiful paired brackets In the 1980s,it was severely damaged by a fire and complete with hanging pendants,and a magnificent The home reflects the Greek Revival period of ultimately removed. During a major renovation and double door topped by a semicircular transom.The architecture.It is a simple but elegant rowhouse with restoration in 1998,Rock Island architect Jeff Dismer wide front porch dates from the early 1900s.Large parapet walls.The frieze along the roofline that designed a new addition that evokes the design and porches were a popular addition to Italianate homes, originally contained brackets,the transom and which usually had much smaller porches or stoops. sidelights around the front entrance,and the small flat pilasters are all characteristic of the Greek Revival style. 6. Broadway Presbyterian Church 710 23rd Street The cornerstone of Broadway Presbyterian Church was laid on May 2,1876.The first services were held in February 1877,but the formal dedication didn’t take 5. Marshall House place until November 3,1878.A burgeoning 625 23rd Street congregation prompted two expansions in 1895 and The Robert Marshall house is one of the oldest docu- 1920.When a tragic fire engulfed the magnificent mented homes in Rock Island.The home was built for stone church on March 17,1947,headlines in the Robert Marshall of Mason County,Kentucky in the Argus newspaper read:“Only the massive stone walls mid-to late 1850s.Marshall moved to Rock Island in survived the conflagration.”Local architect William 1855 to practice law.He was a cousin of Lucy Duke Stuhr designed the new sanctuary and reversed the Buford,wife of Charles Buford and one of Rock Island’s interior orientation from south to north. 4. White House 603 23rd Street Rock Island Landmark Mr.White was well established in the buggy and automobile business.He was a locally known car- Dwight and Sarah Safford originally built the George riage,buggy and automobile builder,and was hired Oscar White house as a rental home in 1872.It was away from his own factory in Pennsylvania to man- not until 1903 that George Oscar White purchased the age the J.H.Wilson Buggy Company in Moline.White home and began making improvements to it.He ren- was eventually manager and board member of the ovated the originally simple Italianate structure into a Rock Island Buggy Company.During his years with the Colonial Revival,which was the “latest style”of the buggy and automobile trade,White manufactured day.He made changes to the windows,doors and automobiles around 1909,and eventually produced porches.He also made a large addition,which greatly curtain lights and batteries for automobiles. added to the scale of the home. 8 9 remained here for the next 20 years.Beardsley,who massing of the original wing. That addition is now pioneering Kentucky contingent.Both were related to became an attorney,would move frequently over his the newest rather than the oldest part of the house. the famous Supreme Court Justice,John J.Marshall.In remaining years. the early 1860s,Marshall and his wife Elizabeth moved The historic Italianate front has a steeply pitched back to Kentucky for unknown reasons.In 1868, The main house is a high styled Italianate,while the hipped roof topped by a flat area with iron cresting. Jephthah Monroe purchased the Marshall house.The rear wing is a simple 1 1/2 story cottage.The original Other details include a traditional box shape, home has since changed owners many times. back part is believed to have been built about 1860. decorative window hoods,beautiful paired brackets In the 1980s,it was severely damaged by a fire and complete with hanging pendants,and a magnificent The home reflects the Greek Revival period of ultimately removed. During a major renovation and double door topped by a semicircular transom.The architecture.It is a simple but elegant rowhouse with restoration in 1998,Rock Island architect Jeff Dismer wide front porch dates from the early 1900s.Large parapet walls.The frieze along the roofline that designed a new addition that evokes the design and porches were a popular addition to Italianate homes, originally contained brackets,the transom and which usually had much smaller porches or stoops. sidelights around the front entrance,and the small flat pilasters are all characteristic of the Greek Revival style. 6. Broadway Presbyterian Church 710 23rd Street The cornerstone of Broadway Presbyterian Church was laid on May 2,1876.The first services were held in February 1877,but the formal dedication didn’t take 5. Marshall House place until November 3,1878.A burgeoning 625 23rd Street congregation prompted two expansions in 1895 and The Robert Marshall house is one of the oldest docu- 1920.When a tragic fire engulfed the magnificent mented homes in Rock Island.The home was built for stone church on March 17,1947,headlines in the Robert Marshall of Mason County,Kentucky in the Argus newspaper read:“Only the massive stone walls mid-to late 1850s.Marshall moved to Rock Island in survived the conflagration.”Local architect William 1855 to practice law.He was a cousin of Lucy Duke Stuhr designed the new sanctuary and reversed the Buford,wife of Charles Buford and one of Rock Island’s interior orientation from south to north. 4. White House 603 23rd Street Rock Island Landmark Mr.White was well established in the buggy and automobile business.He was a locally known car- Dwight and Sarah Safford originally built the George riage,buggy and automobile builder,and was hired Oscar White house as a rental home in 1872.It was away from his own factory in Pennsylvania to man- not until 1903 that George Oscar White purchased the age the J.H.Wilson Buggy Company in Moline.White home and began making improvements to it.He ren- was eventually manager and board member of the ovated the originally simple Italianate structure into a Rock Island Buggy Company.During his years with the Colonial Revival,which was the “latest style”of the buggy and automobile trade,White manufactured day.He made changes to the windows,doors and automobiles around 1909,and eventually produced porches.He also made a large addition,which greatly curtain lights and batteries for automobiles. added to the scale of the home. 8 9 The Gothic appearance of this structure is maintained 8. Welch House with arched window tops,and small stone-capped but- 817 23rd Street Rock Island Landmark tresses.Notice the decorative chimneys and chimney pot on either side of the east gable.The gabled roof of This Queen Anne and Shingle style house was built the bell tower is unusual for buildings of this style. about 1897 and is named for long-term resident Frank P.Welch,who moved here in 1915 and enlarged John Volk was the wood contractor and McConochie it in the 1920s.Welch was a founder of the Illinois Oil and McFarlane,whose own home is just up the street, Company.Welch’s widow,Grace,lived in the house were the stone contractors. until her death in 1990.She occupied one of the eight apartments into which the house was divided after 1940.Careful restoration has returned the home to its single-family status. th The Shingle style evolved in the late 19 century from the Queen Anne movement.Among its features, all present in this example,are multi-light sash or casement windows,eaves close to the wall,pedi- mented gables,and shingle siding – three shapes here – covering all or a large part of the structure. The gambrel or barn style roof,common to the Shingle Style,is used on the small “ells”to the north and south,as well as on the main body of the house. Towers are common to the Shingle style.The Welch House tower has a low-pitched roof and is broken by a 7.Wakefield House gable so that it is integrated more fully with the 742 23rd Street overall roof design.Nearly all of the attic windows This home is documented back to 1892,but may have have multi-paned upper sashes and the dormer has a been completed as early as 1890.The family of multi-paned casement window.Note the restored iron Theodore Wakefield owned it from 1892 until the fence,which also dates from the 1920s. mid-1940s.Theodore was a traveling salesman for the Rock Island Lumber Company.He died in 1897,but his widow Etta and daughters Etta and Sarah continued to live here for many decades.Mother Etta was a schoolteacher at Lincoln School,while daughter Etta was a teacher at the old Eugene Field School.Sarah was a deputy clerk for the circuit court. It is Queen Anne in style with a complex roofline and asymmetrical shape.The windows are outstanding, featuring Eastlake-inspired frames with tiny brackets, incised trim and heavy cornices.Multiple glass treat- ments continue the ornate theme,with square beveled and leaded panes as well as stained glass stairway windows on the north.Topping it all off is the elaborate shingle work in the gable and the intricate brick pattern in the chimney.The large front porch is an early 1900s addition. 10 11