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These buildings on the west side of Main Street have been demolished for Woodstock Theatre.

217 Main Street: Schuett and Schaff Dealers in Farm Machinery, Carriages, Gasoline Engines This was the site of the J. D. Donovan farm implement business. He sold the business in 1902 to Schuett and Schaff due to ill health. The new owners continued with the farm implements (note the McCormick Harvesting Machines sign on the front of the awning) and added Buick to the line up. In 1908, C. E. Beardsley had taken over the business, calling it Beardsley & Son Auto Livery, but did not change the faded sign. The 1914 City Directory listing is Woodstock Implement Company. The building was demolished some time after 1932 and was the location of the parking lot next to the movie theater for many years.

223 Main Street: The Republican (newspaper) * Job Printing. The McHenry County Democrat (1877-1902) became the McHenry County Republican (1902-1905) and just plain Republican (1906-1918) when it was purchased by the Woodstock Sentinel.

The date of this photo was misidentified as 1904 in the Sesquicentennial photo exhibit.]]> Medlar Studios, Woodstock]]> NO COPYRIGHT - NON-COMMERCIAL USE ONLY

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In Photos 1900-1920 notebook. There are two original cardboard copies, one "loaned by Woodstock Journal," and a print donated by Stephens in 1994]]> Six identical white Buick Model 10 Runabouts (1908-1910) and one dark Buick Model C (from 1905) are lined up in front of 217 Main Street. Names listed on the back of the photo include: Frank Wattles, Clarke Thorne, Ray Beardsley, Bob Sharp, Fred and Miss Schuett, Bill Averill, Earl Bower, C. E. Beardsley, Matt Conrad, John Rowe and George Conn, Jr.
It is difficult to assign street numbers, but using numbers from the 1914 City Directory
209 Main Restaurant
211 Main Boots & Shoes (note the boot hanging over the awning)
213 Main Wm. Whitson Hardware
217 Main Street: Schuett and Schaff Dealers in Farm Machinery, Carriages, Gasoline Engines This was the site of the J. D. Donovan farm implement business. He sold the business in 1902 to Schuett and Schaff due to ill health. The new owners continued with the farm implements (note the McCormick Harvesting Machines sign on the front of the awning) and added Buick to the line up. In 1908, C. E. Beardsley had taken over the business, calling it Beardsley & Son Auto Livery, but did not change the faded sign. The 1914 City Directory listing is Woodstock Implement Company. The building was demolished some time after 1932 and was the location of the parking lot next to the movie theater for many years.]]> Medlar Studios, Woodstock]]> NO COPYRIGHT - NON-COMMERCIAL USE ONLY

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In Photos 1900-1920 notebook]]> By 1905, Woodstock had 27 automobiles in the town, the owners of most being members of the Woodstock Automobile Club.
A search in the Woodstock Sentinel for 1900 had no results for the word "automobile." By 1901, it was a popular topic. There were several automobile parades in 1905, including one each day at the McHenry County Fair.
This photo is unusual since it taken from the east side of the tunnel, viaduct, underpass, culvert. The dirt road splits left and right, unlike the straight street in the background.

The South St. tunnel (culvert/viaduct) is a helicoidal or spiral stone arch. One part was completed in 1867 and the other (over the other train track) was finished in 1897.
Allen Stebbins, Chair of the Woodstock Historic Preservation Commission, provided this insight to the tunnel (or "Culvert"):
"The South St. Culvert as it has been called was built in two
sections. The first in 1867 when the Chicago & Northwestern built a single rail line out this way and the second section 30 years later in 1897 when they expanded to a second line. That's why the two dates on the keystones. I've started collecting some historic records on this bridge.
"What's unusual is both sections were built in what's known as a helicoidal or spiral arch method. These arches are extremely rare in the United States built when a road or railroad crossed another road or river at an angle and at an incline. It posed some real problems for the engineers who looked back to the ancient Romans for ideas to solve the problem and rediscovered the spiral arch! Basically all the engineering up front needed to be pretty precise and once designed the stonemasons cut all the stones exactly the same dimensions then laid them in the spiral arch (oftentimes without the need of any mortar.) These types of arches are extremely strong and durable as witnessed by some of the ancient Roman examples still standing.
"In the United States there are only a few known examples–some in Pennsylvania and the Seventh Street Improvement Arches in Minneapolis. These are listed as landmarks on the National Register of Historic Places. The South St. Culvert is in the historic district and I would like to see it nominated as a national landmark, but do know Union Pacific opposes it. They do have plans in the future to expand the rail lines to three from Barrington all the way out to Harvard when they ultimately put in the Woodstock rail yard. ..."
The tunnel is architecturally and historically significant. The tunnel should be designated a Landmark by the City of Woodstock and preserved, as is the Woodstock Opera House.
[Woodstock Advocate blog, Gus Philpott]
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125 W. Van Buren: Chauncy Hill blacksmith shop and residence
Wood wall built between the shop and the next building.
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In Photos 1900-1920 notebook]]> May 20 was on Monday in 1901 (too early for the cars), 1907, 1912, and 1918. Checking the 1907 Sentinel, the article says that both performances of the Gollimar Circus were well attended.
This could be a meeting of the Automobile Club that was organized in 1904 or possibly an advertisement for the Buicks.
In addition to the McCormick Harvesting Machines sign that can be seen in the Automobile Club 1910 photos (IDs 80 & 81) there is a Deere Corn Planters sign on the awning and a small sign "Auto (Protection?) League between the main floor windows.
217 Main Street: Schuett and Schaff Dealers in Farm Machinery, Carriages, Gasoline Engines This was the site of the J. D. Donovan farm implement business. He sold the business in 1902 to Schuett and Schaff due to ill health. The new owners continued with the farm implements (note the McCormick Harvesting Machines sign on the front of the awning) and added Buick to the line up. In 1908, C. E. Beardsley had taken over the business, calling it Beardsley & Son Auto Livery, but did not change the faded sign.]]> NO COPYRIGHT - NON-COMMERCIAL USE ONLY

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In Oversized photo box]]> Tripp]]> An International Harvestor sign hangs on the corner of the building.Bakkom's Hardware building is the southernmost commercial building on S. Jefferson--beyond that houses are visible.
The corner of the Odd Fellows Building can be seen on the right.
Oddfellows
At that time, E. Jackson street crossed the Chicago & Northewestern Railroad tracks.]]> Public Works Department, Woodstock]]> NO COPYRIGHT - NON-COMMERCIAL USE ONLY

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In Keefe Photos (original)]]> The bandstand has electric lights on the edge of the roof and criss crossing the ceiling. The photo was taken before 1912 when globe type light fixtures were on metal poles on the edges of the park.
Buildings on Cass street and Main street are visible.
106 Cass: D. Moan Board of Trade. The Board of Trade was started by Gustav Behrens in 1900 and the 1912 Sanborn map shows that it was still a saloon. So far, no information is available on D. Moan.

108 Cass: Henry Stone and Son boot and shoe store. This is the old frame building that, after escaping the fire on Main Street in 1892, burned in 1936 and was replaced by a single story tile building. The fire destroyed hundreds of photographic negatives from a succession of photographers: G. A. Burbank, M. Colton and Mel Tripp

112 Cass: B. S. Austin Grocery (see photo ID 62) and Dr. Besley, Dentist
"W. C. Besley, D. D. S. Dr. Besley has recently purchased the good will and office equipment formerly owned by Dr. E. K. Lawrence, and has renewed his social and professional connections in Woodstock. He was connected with the late Dr. Kendall, and afterwards with Dr. Colby, from 1893 to 1895, and now occupies the same dental parlors originally owned by his Preceptors, and is a thorough dentist in everything pertaining to the profession of dental surgery. The doctor was born in Chicago in 1875, operated under Dr. Kendall and Dr. Colby for a number of years, attended the Northwestern University, and is a graduate of the dental department, class of '97. He was interested in the practice of his profession at West McHenry after his graduation, before coming to Woodstock. His parlors are nicely arranged, conveniently located and all work is guaranteed. Dr. Besley makes a specialty of painless dentistry." [Headlight 1898 p. 12]

114 Cass ? Place
116 Cass Pabst Blue Ribbon

The top portions of 208 - 210 Main: Crystal Palace (see photo ID 76) and 212-214 Main: Waverly House (ID 60) can be seen.]]> Persson, Gus]]> NO COPYRIGHT - NON-COMMERCIAL USE ONLY

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In Keefe Photos]]> The bench style show that it was before the new benches provided by Columbia Pictures after the filming of Groundhog Day.

The back of the photo has a note "Angela-call me- J. Keefe" with his phone numbers.]]> Keefe, Jim]]> NO COPYRIGHT - NON-COMMERCIAL USE ONLY

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In keefe Photos (original photos)]]> Corner of Jackson & Throop
Listed as First Baptist Church in the 1914 City Directory

101 N. Throop now is on this location

"The present Baptist church was erected in 1866, being located at the corner of Jackson and Throop streets. It is a frame structure with a seating capacity of about 250, with prayer rooms in the rear, and cost about $7,000. It has been vastly improved in recent years, and the payment of the last obligation in 1927 was celebrated by a happy gathering of the membership. The steeple was blown off during a severe wind and thunder storm many years ago." [Woodstock Sentinel 3-13-1937 Sec 1 p 4]
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233 N. Benton Belcher and Son (also had an entrance on Main St.)
235 N. Benton barbershop
130 Washington: Woodstock News Agency with a Coca Cola sign advertising Fountain Service

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100-108 N. Benton Murphy Building
110 N. Benton Studio 2015
112 N. Benton Stone's
114 N. Benton Lloyd's Paint N Paper
116 N. Benton Uptown Salon
118 N. Benton Cath-Lynn's Gift Shop
120 N. Benton Frames' Menswear

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in Keefe Photos (original photos)]]> 207 N. Benton
209 N. Benton Woodstock Daily Sentinel (no sign)
215 N. Benton
217 N. Benton
219 N. Benton
221 N. Benton Singer Sewing Center
223 N. Benton Duffy's Tavern]]> Public Works Department, Woodstock]]> NO COPYRIGHT - NON-COMMERCIAL USE ONLY

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In Photos 1951-1969 notebook]]> Walsh's Grocery and Market faces Judd St (101 E. Judd) but their Walsh Liquor Store entrance was 224 N. Benton. A Blatz Beer sign is on the back of the market building.
On the E. Judd corner, a large "Dora's Children's Shop" sign has an arrow pointing down E. Judd. On the same wall the end of the Hahn's Friendly Tavern is painted on the brick--maybe Hahn owns the Budweiser Tavern at 126 N. Benton.
Next door, at 124 N. Benton, Dacy Electric Company signs advertise Bendix & G.E. (General Electric).
Continuing down Benton neon signs advertise Benton St. Restaurant at 122 N. Benton and Mitchell Drug Store at 120 N. Benton.
Everything else is obscured except the readable Koblentz Department Store at 106 N. Benton.]]> Public Works Department, Woodstock]]> NO COPYRIGHT - NON-COMMERCIAL USE ONLY

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The brick side of a building on the left is the east side of 100 Cass

The next building houses
207 N. Benton
209 N. Benton Woodstock Daily Sentinel (the same address as in the 1914 city directory)
215 N. Benton Thomas R. Merwin Furniture & Undertaking
217 N. Benton
219 N. Benton
221 N. Benton Singer Sewing Center
223 N. Benton Duffy's Tavern
225 N. Benton
227 N. Benton Stompanato's Beauty Salon/ Barbershop/Real Estate office
Across the street at 228 N. Benton is the corner of the Weathervane gift shop
Behind that the sign for the National grocery store on Jefferson & Church is visible.

At the end of the street, the former Buell & Olmstead building is now Pell-Bari Farms at 305 Clay St.]]> Public Works Department, Woodstock]]> NO COPYRIGHT - NON-COMMERCIAL USE ONLY

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In Photos 1951-1969 notebook]]> The businesses include:
(Dr.). Robert N. Maylott, optometrist 231 N. Benton
? Lounge with Pabst Blue Ribbon Beer sign
Stompanato's Beauty Salon, Barber Shop (226 Main) and Real Estate 227 Benton
Duffy's Tavern with Schoen's Old Lager sign 223 Benton
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This picture shows Benton Street from Van Buren all the way to Church Street.

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