Building date: 1856, demolished in 1958 or 1960 by AT&T Illinois Bell Telephone Company
Original use: Residence
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Masons who worked on building: Andrew Jackson Simons
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Map views courtesy Google Maps. Address is Google Earth confirmed; 42°14'11.88"N 88°20'19.40"W.
Town of Algonquin and McHenry County Maps.
The original owner was James T. Pierson. The original size of the house is unknown. There were numerous additions, causing the house to spread out in all directions!
"Cobblestone Homes Adorn Crystal Lake", The Sunday Courier News, 10/12/1975, from the files of the McHenry Historical Society, Grace Moline, Historic Sites Chairperson.
 PiersonJT-cropped.jpg ¹ James T. Pierson |  PiersonJT House ca1910.jpg ¹ ca. 1910 |  PiersonJT House-1.jpg ¹ |  PiersonJT House-2.jpg ¹ |
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¹ Image courtesy Crystal Lake Historical Society, Diana Kenney email 10/17/2020.
