AWalking Tour

Of the Historic

Courthouse SquareIn

Macomb, Illinois

EVERY BUILDING

tellSA

STORY

Route of Walking Tour

begin at Western Illinois Museum,

proceed North,

turn East at corner,

turn North at corner,

turn West at corner,

turn South at corner,

end up back at Museum

Start walking tour at the Western Illinois Museum

Walk out the front

door!

Advanced Rehab Building Address: 130 S. Lafayette

Name on building

July 6, 1931

Lawrence Welk and his Novelty Orchestra

Zahren Building1929

Names on buildings across the street from Zahren building

Note windows

Town Square Diner (previously Louie’s/Cookie’s Diner) Address: 118 S. Lafayette

Note windows

PHOTO UNKNOWN DATE

Macomb Police Force c. 1899

Macomb Police Chief Melvin Barclay 1947

Macomb Police Officers at City Hall 1947

Doors to back of police station – jail entrance

Macomb Police Massacre Car Used in Shooting

THIS STORY IS CALLEDA DINER IS

NOT ALWAYS JUST A DINER

Note windows Chicks Address: 103-105 S South Side Square

Note windows 1922

Jack Stites Pharmacy

Vacant lot

Terrell TitleAddress: 117 South Side of square

Vacant lot where plows were displayed

Cottrell Hardware store

about 1873

Vacant lot where plows were displayed

THIS STORY IS CALLED HISTORY REPEATS ITSELF

CLINIC

TERRELL’S

GONE

1911

1975GONE

TERRELL’S CLINIC

2000

2010

GONETERRELL’S

CLINIC

CLINIC

TERRELL’S

Note windows

Note windowsSouth side of

the square

4th window from the right on the top floor is the room Lincoln slept in - room 31

Randolph House Address: 1 to 5 East Side Square and 7-9 East Side Square

4th window from the right on the top floor is the room Lincoln slept in - room 31

See line showing where building was built in two parts

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Early 1900s

ca. 1930

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Demolished one-half of Randolph House Hotel

1937

1937

THIS STORY IS CALLED

NOTHING STAYS

THE SAME

Sullivan & Taylor Coffee HouseAddress: 119-125 S. Randolph

4 stories tall!

Masonic Temple Building Address: 131-137 South RandolphAlso known as the Gamage Building

4 stories tall!

McDonough County Courthouse

Southwest corner of the courthouse

Southeast corner of the courthouse

lawn

Mansard roof 1873

Mansard roof

1873

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Ball’s Barber ShopAddress: 19-23 East Side Square

Barbershop pole

photo unknown date

Wyne sign – The Wyne Dry Goods Co.

West Central Illinois Art Center Address: 25-29 East side of Square

MASONS BUILD 1881 C.V. CHANDLER

BUILDS 1881

MASONS BUILD 3RD FLOOR 1892

1920

Wyne sign

1929

Metal facing covering front of building and the

Wyne sign

about 1970

2004

June 2009 metal sign removed

Century 21 Address: 119 N Randolph

1917

about 1940

McDonough County Voice Newspaper offices Address: 203 N Randolph

New Copperfield’s Bookstore & Countywide Office Supplies Address: 120 – 122 North Side Square

1960s

Note windows

Country Insurance-Keefer Building Address: 100 North Side of Square

Note windows1873

ca. 1910

1922

Allstate BuildingAddress: 28 West side of square

PRESENT ALLSTATE BUILDINGNOT THERE

Note windows

R & R Spa Address: 24 & 26 West Side of Square

Note windowsca. 2000

2nd floor display windows Shiloh’s Restaurant Address: 2 & 4 West Side Square

2nd floor display windows

Macomb Courthouse Square

What can we learn from

historic buildings?

All Historical Photographs Courtesy of Archives and

Special Collections Western Illinois

University Libraries

THE ENDThe End