Fairbury Echoes Museum
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History Stories 

  1.  Hospital
    1. 1953 Open House Brochure
    2. History of the Fairbury Hospitals by Dale C. Maley
    3. History of the Taylor House by Dale C. Maley. Used as a Fairbury Hospital on South 5th Street
    4. Hospital proposed by Dr. Langstaff that was never built.
    5. March 20, 1952, Blade article about tearing down the old Taylor house with 2 photos.
    6. February 13, 1952, Pantagraph cracked negative of old Taylor house shortly before they tore it down. Cracked negative repaired and colorized by ChatGPT AI software.
    7. February 14, 1952, Blade article with hospital history. No Photos.
    8. Info on the 3 old houses on the east side of 5th Street that were all eventually torn down to make room for the new brick hospital complex. Includes 1924 Sanborn Insurance map and north house being torn down.
    9. Long Fairbury hospital history article published in the April 3, 1958 Fairbury Centennial issue of the Blade. Includes photo of the old Taylor house.
    10. Link to many Pantagraph negatives of Fairbury Hospital. As of May 2026, there are 161 hospital-related photos. More are being added as they get more old Pantagraph negatives digitized.
    11. May 5, 2025, photos of the new condos being built on the site of the former Fairbury Hospital.

 

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