Photos

We Love Pictures! — Pictures of Houses in the Elgin Historic District

If the pictures are fuzzy, give it a little more time to download. This has the Gylleck collection of photos. To access the Courier News Collection of pictures  click here. For the Courier, you tell the museum the number and they will scan and email it to you. $10 for personal use, more for advertising or display use. Go here to see a map and description including pictures of all of the houses in Elgin that have been plaqued.

• Before and after rehab of houses in the Historic District1
• Channing Street homes in 1981
• Channing Street in 2008
• 104 N. Channing slide show of interior and exterior details
• 110 S. Channing
• 152 N. Channing details
• 159 S. Channing
• 70 S. Chapel interior pictures
• Chicago Street in 2008 slide show
• Chicago St. homes in 1981
• 326 E. Chicago transformation
• 443 E. Chicago is on the Historic American Building Survey HABS
• 600 E. Chicago Painted lady revisited
• Chapel Street In 2008 slide show
• Chapel Street in 1981
• 364 Division interior
• 433 Division details
• 467 Division Porch restoration
• Division Street in 2008 slide show
• Division Street in 1981
• 272 Division – St. Joe’s rectory rehabilitation
• 439 Division outside details
• 490 Division inside and out
• Downsizing in the Historic District – homes changed back to single family
• 269-275 DuPage before and after
• Dupage Street in 2008 slide show
• DuPage Street in 1981
• 442 DuPage
• Fulton Street in 1981
• Fulton Street 2008
• Geneva Street slide show
• Gifford Street slide show
• Gifford Street in 1981 slide show
• 4 N. Gifford details
• 59 S. Gifford includes several interior and exterior pictures
• 71 S. Gifford
• 105 N. Gifford interior after interior details were sold
• 105 N. Gifford – D.C. Cook mansion – interior details were sold to a salvage yard in Chicago
• David C. Cook’s other mansion in California
• 155 S. Gifford exterior pictures
• 155 S. Gifford porch resurrection
• 155 S. Gifford gardens
• 155 S. Gifford interior pictures
• 156 S. Gifford
• 165 S. Gifford Porch resurrection
• 165 S. Giffford porch details
• 165 S. Gifford interior and exterior
• 205 N. Gifford
• Grand View vandalism
• 126 Hill
• 163 Hill interior
• Hill Street in 2008
• Hill Street in 1981
• Hilton Place in 1981
• Hilton Place in 2008
• 116 Hilton
• 119 Hilton
• Hinsdell Place in 1981
• Hinsdell Place 2008
• Liberty St. in 1981
• Liberty St. in 2008
• 72 N. Liberty interior
• 17 S. Liberty – interior
• 55 N. Liberty inside and out
• North Street 2008
• North Street in 1981
• 318 North Street details
• Park Street in 2008
• Park Street in 1981
• 359 Park restoration
• 373 Park
• 582 Park porch restoration
• Park Row in 1981
• Park Row in 2008
• Porter Street in 2008 slide show
• Porter St. in 1981 slide show
• 116 N. Porter exterior details
• Prairie Street in 1981
• Prairie Street in 2008
• 357 Prairie interior
• 363 Prairie – the Stone Cottage- inside and out
• 444 Prairie interior
• Rugby Place 2008
• Rugby Place 1981
• Stella Street slide show
• Tennyson Court 1981
• Villa Street 2008
• The saga of 259 Villa
• 222 Villa
• 259 Villa
• 259 Villa Saga
• Villa Street in 1981
• Walker Place 1981
• Walker Place in 2008
• Warwick Place 2008
• Warwick Place 1981
• Over 100 pictures of houses in Elgin from the 1920’s