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Take Historical WalkThrough HomewoodOne of the features of Home wlt;xd's 75th anniversary festivities in 1968 that touched most directly upon the village’s past was the historical walk A look at that walk, describe in the May 23. 1968, issue of The Star refreshesmemories of those old buildings. some of which have disap peared in the past eight years:• F irst Presbyterian church. 17929 Gottschalk avenue, first organized December 19, 1858• Cordt-Ryan funeral home.r18022 Dixie highway, the former Fred II Gold residence,built in 1910• BANNON Floor Coverings. 18120 Dixie highway, the first public school building in Home wood, built in 1880I.Paul Rvangelical church • Dr William Doepp li’s home, 18165 Martin avenue, built in 1908 by Dr Fred Doepp,another son of Dr WilliamDoepp 11• Standard school, 18126 Dix Ie highway built in 1904• OWEN W Fee home, 18217 Martin, built in 1897 as a parsonage for St Paul Evangelical church• St Paul Community church. 18200 Dixie highway, the second oldest congregation in Homewood, dating back to1865 with the organization of StHigh School NotesFrom First Issue• Charles A Howe home, 183rd street and Martin, built about 1880 with bricks from theHomewood brick factory• Homewood Chamber of Commerce, 2117 West 183rdstreet, built about the turn ofthe century and home of many businesses over the years(From the first issue of the Chicago Heights Star, April 12,1901 IMr Hawkins visited the Caesar class Tuesday afternoonThe sophomores are making rapid progress in geometry Lillian Lestina spent Monday and Tuesday in the city, Business called her there Wheeling is quite good Mr Hopkins rode his wheel to school Wednesday morning Some of the botany class are taking occasional strolls to the woods for specimensLAST NIGHT the senior classmet at the home of Miss BessieKush to continue their studv in*zoologyThe mam hall of the second floor at the Washington school has been decorated with a bustpleased to know that the boardhas kindly consented to furnish a speaker, so that the class is assured of one who will make their graduating exercises interesting The seniors are laboring under the “reactions taking place in different members of the sulphur group They are also progressing slowly but surely in their Virgil, under the instruction of Mr Hopkins Misses Taylor and Pickens will hardly w ish to experiment with carbon bi sulphide again While they were dissolving some sulphur in it the other day they accidentally heated the solution over a lamp and a pretty bonfire resulted, filling the room so full of sulphur fumes that the members of thechemistrv class were neariv«• »strangled• MCWILLIAMS Plumbing, 2135 183rd street; the Pancake House, 2203 183rd street, and Homewood Animal hospital, '2207 183rd street These three houses were built in 1880 by William Gottschalk as homes for his employees in the brick factory• Arthur building, 18216 Harwood avenue The north, south and west walls of this building are the original walls of the Homewood Steam Flouring mill, built by public subscription in 1856• Keros apartment house, 18101 Martin avenue, built in the early 1890 s as a home byHenry Gottschalk. who later became president of the Homewood State bank• New Gate Coffee House. 18136 Martin avenue, built in 1893 and used as a meat market by the Slolzenbach family
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Frankfort Star Herald
Frankfort, Illinois, US
Thu, Sep 30, 1976
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