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The oak staircase in the Ira Judd House was crafted by The Foster Munger Co. in Chicago and cost $79.50 at the time. A description of the sales brochure is transcribed below.

THE FOSTER MUNGER CO, CHICAGO, STAIRWAY

This flight of stairs…

Click on PDF for a compilation of photos.

Original House no longer at location:
Norris Rd, Sugar Grove, IL (Approx. PIN 14-11-178-001)
Currently Walnut Woods Subdivision & Aurora West Forest Preserve.

Ira Judd Home
Located in the area of the current Prestbury Subdivision in Sugar Grove, Illinois.

Around 1836, this spot was settled on by Silas Reynolds, grandfather of Ira Judd. The brick in this house represents the house built in 1847 and…

Photos depict a house being relocated from its original site on Galena Blvd.

Newspaper Article Transcription:

SUGAR GROVE LANDMARK MAKES WAY FOR PROGRESS

On Galena Road (Business 30), what has been know as Myers Hill for years, is to be cut down and widened, thereby requiring the demolition of the first Post Office in…

Southeast corner of Route 47 and Prairie Street

Will A. Johnson House, 263 Main Street

The Will and Marie (Laycock) Johnson home at 263 Main Street was constructed in 1906 for Lydia Finley, who never lived in the house. It was initially the residence of farm employees of the Finley farm. It was…

Handwritten Note on Back:

Seavey Home: 6 miles from Batavia, Illinois.

Built in 1860s.

James Snook and Mary Elizabeth George probably lived here then. Their daughter Mattie married Frank Seavey in 1886, and they probably lived here, too. …

Located just north of Cooper's Hall and Blacksmith Shop.