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Die Cast Picnic Rescue Squad 1972
Woodstock Die Casting was Woodstock's largest employer in 1972. So many people attended the event at City Park (now Emricson Park) that the Rescue Squad had two vehicles. A group of men line up in front of one van (the gentleman on the right is, I…
Die Cast Picnic Train Ride 1972
Woodstock Die Casting was the largest employer in town. Their employee picnic was held in the city park (now Emricson Park) with carnival rides, games and refreshments. The train ride on tracks (!) is set up under the trees with a Dean's Milk truck…
Die Cast PicnicBall Field and Pool House 1972
Woodstock Die Casting was the largest employer in town. Their employee picnic was held in the city park (now Emricson Park) with carnival rides, games and refreshments.
This long shot shows the baseball field and dugout with the pool house in the…
This long shot shows the baseball field and dugout with the pool house in the…
Die Cast Site 1-6 1997
The Woodstock Die Cast site was surrounded by Clay, Newell, First and Wheeler Streets. The first factory building was constructed in 1894 for the Tappan & Wheeler Steam Pump Company. Woodstock had offered incentives for this company to relocate from…
Die Cast Site 6-10 1997
This second series of Die Cast site photos shows the neighborhood around the factory.
Die Cast Site 6 was taken on Clay St looking south toward the factory at the intersection of First St. The white residence at 703 Clay St is still standing.
Die…
Die Cast Site 6 was taken on Clay St looking south toward the factory at the intersection of First St. The white residence at 703 Clay St is still standing.
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Duffy's fire 1992
Duffy's Tavern caught fire the evening of May 22, 1992, near the end of the filming of Groundhog Day. Duffy's address was on Benton St but this is taken on Main St.
This photo was taken after the fire was struck. Firemen are still on the…
This photo was taken after the fire was struck. Firemen are still on the…
Dushnack Block
A. J. Dushnack purchased the Austin block in 1921 and at the same time purchased the building to the west on Cass Street. He combined the two with a new modern brick façade. He opened his Cozy Inn Café on the main floor and had a Karmel Korn shop as…
East Jackson looking west from Jefferson ca 1955
The Odd Fellows Temple & State Bank of Woodstock on the left with the First National Bank of Woodstock on the right. The Square park trees are fully leafed out so any details are blocked.
110 E. Jackson (demolished for bank expansion)
Odd…
110 E. Jackson (demolished for bank expansion)
Odd…
East Jackson to Public Square
This is an unusual view, looking down East Jackson toward the Spring House. The only clue to the date is the style of lamp posts that were installed in the downtown area in 1912.
Two frame buildings, one a business style and the other a Greek…
Two frame buildings, one a business style and the other a Greek…
East Judd looking toward N. Benton ca 1954
Snow has fallen in this next photo--probably taken the same day as the other in the series.
The photographer stood on the tracks at the intersection of E. Judd and Jefferson streets looking toward the building on N. Benton. Good closeup of a…
The photographer stood on the tracks at the intersection of E. Judd and Jefferson streets looking toward the building on N. Benton. Good closeup of a…
East Judd looking toward N. Benton ca 1955
The Rail Crossing (not railroad since part of the arm is missing) sign is located at the tracks at E. Judd & N. Jefferson streets.
The left shows the dining room awning for Budweiser Café 126 N. Benton
In the center the Woodstock Sentinel and…
The left shows the dining room awning for Budweiser Café 126 N. Benton
In the center the Woodstock Sentinel and…
East Side of Square 1850s
One of the oldest known photos of the Square
John Medlar came to Woodstock in 1856; his studio was on the third story of the Hoy Block
Back of photo says "before Civil War"
"The first building from the left is the old Exchange Hotel, which stood…
John Medlar came to Woodstock in 1856; his studio was on the third story of the Hoy Block
Back of photo says "before Civil War"
"The first building from the left is the old Exchange Hotel, which stood…
East side of Square 1867-72
Shows the east side of the Square after a snowstorm sometime before the fire of 1872. Garvis Blakeslee began his business after 1866. Whitson's & Sons Hardware and Stoves came to Woodstock in 1854. The fire of 1872 started in the Whitson's store,…
East Side of Square postcard
Taken between 1907 (start of E. C. Kropp Co.) and 1912 (brick streets). Postcard #394
100 N. Benton
102 N. Benton
104 N. Benton
106 N. Benton
108 N. Benton
110 N. Benton
112 N. Benton
114 N. Benton Whitson's Hardware
116 N. Benton
118 N.…
100 N. Benton
102 N. Benton
104 N. Benton
106 N. Benton
108 N. Benton
110 N. Benton
112 N. Benton
114 N. Benton Whitson's Hardware
116 N. Benton
118 N.…
East Side Square 1907
Jim Keefe took a photograph of the original so the photographer is unknown but the style resembles Tripp. 1907 is handwritten on the photo.
The dirt on Benton St. shows the marks of the wagons. People are standing on the sidewalk and even in the…
The dirt on Benton St. shows the marks of the wagons. People are standing on the sidewalk and even in the…
Edgetown Motors
1010 Lake Avenue
Edgetown Motors automobile dealership was located at the intersection of Route 14 (now Lake Avenue) and Route 47. The signs outside and inside are all for Hudson automobiles. Edgetown became a Studebaker dealer around 1950. Note the…
Edgetown Motors automobile dealership was located at the intersection of Route 14 (now Lake Avenue) and Route 47. The signs outside and inside are all for Hudson automobiles. Edgetown became a Studebaker dealer around 1950. Note the…
Elks Home, Woodstock Lodge
This undated postcard shows the Elks Club on the corner of Cass and Throop. Note the number of windows that are no longer visible. A. S. Wright, Red Front Drug Store, published this postcard. He was in business between 1880 and 1940.
Nancy Baker…
Nancy Baker…
Evans Meat Market 1929
The interior of Evens Meat market, dated 1929 on back. The name Harold Evans is also on the back.
There are several intriguing items in the photo. There is a cash window on the right with a sign saying "Thank you call again" which indicates they…
There are several intriguing items in the photo. There is a cash window on the right with a sign saying "Thank you call again" which indicates they…
Excelsior Market on Benton Street, circa 1883
110 N. Benton: Exclesior Market and part of the G. F. Stone Drug Store [112 N. Benton] also known as the Old Reliable Drug Store.
Woman seated in a buggy driving a horse and three men & a boy look on. The dirt street is lower than the sidewalk and…
Woman seated in a buggy driving a horse and three men & a boy look on. The dirt street is lower than the sidewalk and…
Fair Diddley Benton St and E Judd 1971
Fair Diddley fairgoers on the northern end of Benton with East Judd in the background.
Jan Hervert is the tall man with light shirt, dark jacket and glasses in the middle of the street.
112 N. Benton Stones Drug Store
114 N. Benton Lloyd's…
Jan Hervert is the tall man with light shirt, dark jacket and glasses in the middle of the street.
112 N. Benton Stones Drug Store
114 N. Benton Lloyd's…
Fair Diddley Benton Street and Cass 1971
Fair Diddley fairgoers on Benton St.
100 CassGibson's Rexall Drugs
106 Cass Woodstock True Value Hardware
116 N. Benton Buschkopf's Walgreen Agency
124 N. Benton Dacy Electric Zenith Applicance
100 CassGibson's Rexall Drugs
106 Cass Woodstock True Value Hardware
116 N. Benton Buschkopf's Walgreen Agency
124 N. Benton Dacy Electric Zenith Applicance
Fair Diddley Square at Dean entrance 1971
Kids are drinking from the open water fountain, located where the Spring House will be built as part of the U.S. Bicentennial celebration in 1976.
People fill the sidewalk towards the Dean Street entrance and children are obviously attracted to…
People fill the sidewalk towards the Dean Street entrance and children are obviously attracted to…
Fair Diddley Square looking towards Cass 1971
The writer for the Eltra Woodstock Die Casting company took pictures of community events to include in the employee newsletter "The Spotlite." This series of photos was taken for Fair Diddley in 1971. Fair Diddley booths did not extend into the…
Fair Diddley Square Park looking toward Benton 1971
Square Park has no Fair Diddley booths. The center sidewalk between Johnson and Benton has wide flower beds on either side. The view is of the back of the Soldier Monument and looking towards the First National Bank and State Bank of…
Fair Diddley Square with young boys 1971
Three boys, obviously not interested in shopping at Fair Diddley's craft booths, stand near the center of the Square Park. They are standing near young trees and bushes, but two of the original elm trees show in the background near the Dean St.…
Fair Diddley State Bank on Benton 1971
Fair Diddley craft tables are set up in front of the State Bank of Woodstock. One table seems to be selling ceramics and the Woodstock Fine Arts Association is selling candles and flowers.
101 S Benton
101 S Benton
Field Hardware on Main St
This store at 213 Main Street was Whitson's Hardware from 1910 until it was purchased by Edward J. Field from his great uncles in 1919. He remained here until the property was purchased in 1929 for the expansion of the Miller Theater after which he…
Fire at Armory 1910 from Calhoun St
This dark print of the same fire at the Woodstock Armory on Calhoun Street as in ID 438 is taken from a different angle and at an earlier time. The photographer is standing on Calhoun St and more of the back wall is standing. The house that was on…
Fire at Armory on Calhoun St 1910
The fire that destroyed the Armory on Calhoun Street in the early hours of November 12, 1910 was of unknown origin. Because it was made entirely of wood and the contents included ammunition, fire fighters did not try to save the building.
The…
The…
Fire at Hall and Eckert 1908
The remains of the fire at Hall & Eckert lumber yard at Madison and E. Jackson streets in 1908. Since the tracks run at the bottom of the photo, we are viewing it from Jefferson St. Jim thought the unknown photographer was standing on the roof of the…
Fire Department in front of Opera House
Woodstock Fire Department shown with two fire trucks in front of Woodstock Opera House. The truck on the left has been dated as ca. 1936.
Photo shows original wood doors and the Fire Department lettering over the doors as well as the original…
Photo shows original wood doors and the Fire Department lettering over the doors as well as the original…
Fire Department on Calhoun Street
Three fire trucks are parked in front of the Fire Department Garage on Calhoun Street. The department was moved here from the front of the Opera House when the addition was built in 1939. The two trucks on the right appear to be the same Seagrave…
Fire Department respirator
Photo of two fire trucks in front of the Fire Department garage on Calhoun St. Lee Dittman is holding a respirator. The Suitcase at his feet is labelled M. S. A. Chemox Breathing Apparatus.
Woodstock Square Fire East Side 1872 North View
The fire of August 27, 1872, destroyed all of the buildings on Benton street between E. Jackson and E. Judd. This photo shows the ruins with (blurred) views of the buildings on E. Judd Street which was known as Washington Street at that time.
220 N.…
220 N.…
Woodstock Square Fire East Side 1872 South View
Fire August 27, 1872
The fire started by a disgruntled employee of Whitson's Hardware (124 N. Benton, now Lloyd's) and destroyed all of Benton street from E. Jackson to E. Judd. This photo was taken by Medlar, probably from his window on the upper…
The fire started by a disgruntled employee of Whitson's Hardware (124 N. Benton, now Lloyd's) and destroyed all of Benton street from E. Jackson to E. Judd. This photo was taken by Medlar, probably from his window on the upper…
Fire station on Calhoun St ca 1958
Four fire engines face out of the garage doors of the Fire Station on Calhoun St. behind the Opera House.
Dr. Emil Windmueller's 1903 Haynes-Apperson - Circa 1903
Dr. Emil Windmueller and Dr. Clayton H. Charles shown driving in a 1903 Haynes-Apperson.
First Methodist Church 1940s
201 W. South
Although Paul R. Vogel Co. (1911-1940s) is printed on the back, the postage stamp area shows the EKC monogram of E. C. Kropp company (1907-1956.)
The lettering on the face of the postcard is very similar to the printing on the C…
Although Paul R. Vogel Co. (1911-1940s) is printed on the back, the postage stamp area shows the EKC monogram of E. C. Kropp company (1907-1956.)
The lettering on the face of the postcard is very similar to the printing on the C…
First Methodist Episcopal Church
First Methodist Episcopal Church has been located at 201 W. South Street since 1871. The original frame building burned in 1923 and was replaced by this brick structure in 1924. A new church building had already been in the planning stages.
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First National Bank interior 1950
Interior of the newly remodeled First National Bank (101 N. Benton). Six giant Medlar photos are displayed on the wall. Several of the photos are now displayed in City Hall.
Amcore Bank scans (in History Photos) include a photo of this interior…
Amcore Bank scans (in History Photos) include a photo of this interior…
First Presbyterian church 1859
The Presbyterians built a frame church on the corner of Church and Jefferson in 1848 (hence the name Church Street). In 1856 they sold the building to the German Presbyterians who moved it to Queen Anne Prairie. That same year they built this brick…
Flag Day Exercises in the Park
Another Tripp Photo taken in 1930, this shows a large crowd of men and boy scouts lined up on the sidewalks facing the bandstand. A conductor appears to be leading a small band on the bandstand. Small flags, the same size as in the photo taken Feb…
From Courthouse Roof 1900-1902
Taken from the roof of the old courthouse, this shows only one existing Square building at 130 Cass Street which the State Bank of Woodstock erected in 1889. The other clue to the date of the photo is the long light colored building in the distance…
Grease Pole Climb 4th of July, 1910
One of the many contests that took place as part of the July Fourth celebration, a boy can be seen climbing the pole on South Benton, reaching about as high as the store awnings. This is one of the few photos that shows this particular part of the…
Great Snow Storm of 1881 Benton Street
This stereoscopic of the east side of the Woodstock Square shows the square following the March 19, 1881 blizzard. Stone’s Drug Store is on the far left. The “Murphy Block” is next, then across Jackson is the “Rathole” and a glimpse of the spire of…
Greenwood Ave looking west ca 1956
Greenwood Avenue is unpaved and the curb ends at the bottom of the photo. There are trees on both sides of the street and small ranch houses on the left.
Greenwood Cemetery
Undated photo of Greenwood cemetery. Both the sign and fence are different than the current ones.
Greenwood subdivision dirt road ca 1956
An empty field, dirt road, telephone posts and a barn in the distance--just before work on the Greenwood subdivision started.
Hall & Eckert Lumber Yard fire 1908
One of the most stubborn fires ever tackled by the local department occurred on the morning of Friday, April 17, 1905, when incendiaries touched off a blaze at the Hall & Eckert lumber yard, bounded by the railroad, East Judd and Madison streets. At…
Hicksgas
1023 Lake Avenue
Hicksgas was founded by Harold Hicks in 1946. This photo was taken during the same time frame as the others at this intersection, so could be as late as 1953. In addition to the propane tanks, appliances such as a refrigerator,…
Hicksgas was founded by Harold Hicks in 1946. This photo was taken during the same time frame as the others at this intersection, so could be as late as 1953. In addition to the propane tanks, appliances such as a refrigerator,…