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Monson Family Home
An elderly woman is holding a child near the steps to the front porch of the house at 2023 Fifteenth Avenue. This is Howard and Phyllis Monson's home.
Monson Family Home
The home of Howard and Phyllis Monson at 2023 Fifteenth Avenue. The foundation is ornamental concrete block which was a popular building material 1890s - 1930s. It was cheaper and easier to use than stone.
Mission Style Architecture
This house may be located in the Brown's Hills area of Rockford. The architectural style is similar to Mission with its stucco walls and box like appearance. It has a flat roof, arched entrance and a prominent chimney with decorative brick work.
Miriam Avenue Homes
Housing on the west side of Miriam Avenue, south of Ashland Avenue looking south-southwest in Northwest Rockford, October 1975.
Mary Dorr Manny's Home
Mary Dorr Manny purchased this home on South Main Street from the Holland family in 1860. The home sat on the north side of Kent Creek surrounded by extensive gardens. The home neighbored Robert Tinker's cottage (built in 1865 on the south side of…
Marshall Street in the Snow
A home on the west side of Marshall Street a half block north of Pershing Avenue in Southeast Rockford. Snow covers the ground.
Marshall Street Homes
Homes along Marshall Street looking north from Pershing Avenue in Southeast Rockford. Snow covers the ground.
Marshall Street Home
Home on the east side of Marshall Street north of Pershing Avenue in Southeast Rockford.
Luke and Effie Williams' Home
The home of Luke and Effie Williams between Rose and Central Avenues about 1918. They moved the house to the front of the property while building another house at 1219 Montague Street. By 1923, they moved into the new house which remained the family…
Lucille Ralston
Lucille Ralston poses outdoors, sitting on a boulder. The building in the background appears to be in disrepair. It has a porch that extends the length of the building with a hipped roof; meeting the main roof at a single horizontal plane.
Log Cabin Home
Tillie Anderson Olesen, Helen Anderson Judson, Mrs. Ephraim Anderson, Christine Anderson Erickson, and Sophia Anderson Hill pose near a log cabin home. The house pictured has glass windows, shutters and evenly shaped "logs" indicating that the home…
Log Cabin
An unidentified pioneer home. Early settlers used building materials that were available in the local landscape.
Lincoln Park Boulevard
Lincoln Park Boulevard looking north from Preston Street in Southwest Rockford. Snow covers the ground.
Leesburg Court Home
New home on Leesburg Court (off North Lyford Road east of I-90) in the snow, February 1978.
Lee Street Homes
Housing on the east side of Lee Street north of Maple Street in Northwest, October 1975.
Leach Farm
Shephard Leach Homestead in New Milford Township. The Leach farm was located at 2801 South Springfield Avenue (Montague Road and Springfield Avenue). This structure is built with boards. The first sawn lumber was available in Rockford in the early…
Lawn Swing
Two ladies on a lawn swing. Early lawns were a status symbol of the wealthy as it was expensive to plant and care for a lawn. Over time as garden hoses and the rotary lawn mower became available, more people could afford to care for a lawn. Outdoor…
Lattice Fence
A small girl playing by a lattice fence. Lattice provides structure for vine plants to grow on. The sidewalk at left is made of wood planks. In America, wood sidewalks were common in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Lapey Street
Homes on Lapey Street in Southeast Rockford in November 1977.
Lake-Peterson House
The Lake-Peterson House, 1313 East State Street, used for administrative offices of Swedish-American Hospital. Once the home of industrialist P.A. Peterson.
Lake Peterson Home
Lake Peterson home at 1313 East State Street. The house was built in 1873 by its first resident, John Lake, who lived there until his death in 1907. It was purchased in 1918 by Pehr August Peterson. He donated the house to Swedish American Hospital…
Knight Family
Possibly the Knight family posing on the lawn of a ranch home.
Joseph and Mary Williams' Home
Former home of Joseph and Mary Williams located at 7208 North Second Street in Rockford, Illinois. They moved into the home in 1922. A new home was built on the property by their grandson Fred Fleming and his wife Shirley. The Rock River is behind…
Johnston Avenue Homes
Housing on the east side of Johnston Avenue south of Anderson Street looking south-southeast in Southwest Rockford, October 1975.
Johnson Family Home
The house Emil and Martha Johnson owned at 1636 Thirteenth Avenue. There is a service flag for their son George in the lower left hand window.
Johnson Avenue Near Southworth Street
Homes on the south side of Johnson Avenue near Southworth Street in Southeast Rockford.
Johnson Avenue Home
Homes on Johnson Avenue in Southeast Rockford.
John Lake Home
John Lake House located at 1313 East State Street. Built in 1873 it is a Victorian Gothic Revival architectural style. Pehr August Peterson purchased the home in 1918. The house is an asymmetrical two-story built with yellow brick and slate tiles on…
Jesse Barloga Home
The home of Harold and Effie Clark at 939 North Second Street. The home was designed by Jesse Barloga in 1934. Effie Clark lived in the home until 1963. Jesse Barloga had a strong influence on the architecture of Rockford during his career that…
Jesse Barloga Home
The home of Harold and Effie Clark at 939 North Second Street. It was designed by Jesse Barloga and built in 1934. Harold passed away February 2, 1953. Effie continued to live in the home until 1963. She passed away September 13, 1967.
Italianate Home
Possibly Wait Forbes Talcott home at 839 North Main Street. Elaborate porches are at both the front and back of the house. This house has horizontal siding, and an Italianate architectural style.
Italianate Architecture
Home of Colonel Thomas G. Lawler (1844-1908), located at 218 Kishwaukee Street. The architectural style of the home is Italianate. It is characterized by the flat roof with overhanging eaves, row of decorative brackets under the roof line, tall and…
Italianate Architecture
Lundvall homestead once located at 2511 Guilford Road. The house is still standing and is now located at 917 Highview Avenue. The house was built about 1900. The architectural style is Italianate.
Irving Avenue Homes
Homes at Irving Avenue and Andrews Street in October 1975.
Interurban. Neighborhood Sidewalks
Eighteenth Avenue before street improvements. Interurban rails are in the foreground.
Indian Terrace River View
Rock River view from 501 Indian Terrace, located in the Indian Terrace Historic District , April 1999.
Indian Terrace Houses
Houses on the Indian Terrace "horseshoe", located in the Indian Terrace Historic District, April 1999.
Indian Terrace
Home in the 500 block of Indian Terrace Historic District in October 1997.
Independence Avenue Homes
Homes on the west side of Independence Avenue, north of Arthur Avenue, in Northwest Rockford in October 1975. The house at the center of the photo may be 1108 North Independence Avenue.
Independence Avenue Homes
Single-family homes on the west side of Independence Avenue north of Blaisdell.
In the Front Yard
Unidentified man and woman posing in front of a house. The house is simple in architecture with a cross gable roof, decorative spindles on the porch railing and exterior shutters.
Hugh and Ellen Breckenridge Home
The home of Hugh and Ellen Breckenridge. The house was located on an 80-acre farm west of Mulford (an address of 1332 Camp Avenue was later assigned to the house location). The farm was purchased by Hugh's father Edward Breckenridge in 1854. Ellen…
Housing Near Work Places
Aerial view looking east across the Rock River. Rockford Country Club is on the left. Ingersoll Machine Tool Company is along the bottom edge of the Rockford Country Club golf course between Willoughby and Fulton Avenues. North Main Street runs…
Housing Demands
2023 15th Avenue (Howard A. and Phyllis Monson's house) and neighboring houses. In the 1940s, there was a demand for housing and a lot of shortages in various building materials. Communities had to be created to offer housing solutions. Using the…
Household Transportation
An unidentified cottage with a couple and a saddled horse.
House Construction
A house under construction. Stack of bricks are on the job site ready to be used. Buttresses are spaced along the exterior wall to help strengthen the wall.
Horton Street Homes
Homes along Horton Street looking north from Sawyer Road in Southeast Rockford.
Homes on Sunset Avenue
Houses on the east side of Sunset Avenue, north of West Jefferson Street, looking Northeast in Northwest Rockford.
Homes on Green Street
Housing on the north side of Green Street, west of Foster Avenue, in Southwest Rockford, October 1975.
Homes in the Victory Homes Co-op
Homes in the Victory Homes Co-op (Senate Drive and Congress Drive) in Southeast Rockford, May 1977.