The landmarked Classical Revival, Beaux Arts Main Street Train Station was built in 1911. Construction of the original train station began during the civil war and was completed in 1864 […]
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This landmarked Queen Anne home in Straube’s Subdivision includes many of the features of a Queen Anne style of house, including the original wood clapboard, wood shingles on the 2nd story,
This landmarked Victorian was built about 1904. It was the second home landmarked in Downers Grove. The three-story Victorian house was the Gustav H. Bunge family home and was originally
This two-story Gothic Revival house was the first landmarked property in Downers Grove. This house with a basement was designed by the petitioner’s grandfather and completed in 1888. The house
The Tivoli was the second theater in America designed and built for talking movies (the first was Brooklyn Paramount in November of the same year). When it opened on Christmas
On April 3, 1947, the Twin-City Zephyr Passenger Train, en route from Minneapolis to Chicago, traveling at 70 mph, collided with a 14 ton tractor near the Main Street Train
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