Buildings and Landmarks

  1. Buildings and Landmarks
    1. Repainting of 3 old building advertising signs on Main Street.
      1. Link to WJEZ radio interview about Occident Flour Sign repainting.
      2. Link to WJEZ radio interview about Swing & Steidinger sign repainting.
      3. Link to WJEZ radio interview about Archer House sign repainting.
      4. Blade article in 2020 about all 3 signs.
      5. Plan of Fairbury Improvement Group including repainting of all 3 old building signs.
      6. 2017 information about repainting 1891 Swing & Steidinger sign.
      7. Research for repainting the Archer House.
      8. 2019 research on repainting the Swing & Steidinger sign.
    2. What Happened to the Deer on Route 24?
    3. History of the Seth Thomas 1912 clock on old City Hall.
    4. Round Barns
      1. Round Barns never really became popular by Dale C. Maley
      2. Copy of 1982 Application to add 7 Round Barns to the Registry of Historic Places.
      3. Cropsey Farmer Managed Technological Change by Dale C. Maley
      4. 1910 University of Illinois bulletin on the Economy of Round Dairy Barns.
    5. Little Castle house at 608 E. Ash Street. There is some evidence that T. D. George was the builder of the Historic Beach House and the Little Castle house
      1. Research and general info about the Little Castle House.
      2. Civil War Veteran and Early Fairbury Businessman. Bert Slaughter's father, Stephen Slaughter.
      3. Fairbury Businessman and Township Official [Bert Slaughter].
      4. Bert Slaughter's 100 year predictions.