Building date: ~1848
Original use: Residence
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Masons who worked on building: Charles Henry Pendleton
Unique features: Porch tuscan columns built with cobblestones.
Map views courtesy Google Maps. Address is Google Earth confirmed; 42°02'10.04"N 88°16'43.11"W. Current owner of record, Austin Holdings LLC as of the 2020 Tax Roll.
Township of Elgin and Kane County Maps.
.jpg) | Current photographs with audio and text description of historic and architectural significance, courtesy Historic Elgin website. There is a gallery of six photographs of the structure on this webpage. Photography courtesy Historic Elgin.com. |
The left side of the house was taken off to build the building next door. Owners had twice covered it with substitute siding. See photographic image 319 DuPage.jpg below. Dan Miller email 4/11/2021.
They tuckpointed the building using brixment insted of a soft lime mortar. The owner could not afford our masonry specialist. They did not try hard enough to match the color. Dan Miller email 4/13/2021.
Exterior restoration of sided and stuccoed residence revealed to be cobblestone, by Dan Miller
.jpg) Scan_20190623 (11).jpg |  319 DuPage2.jpg |  IMG_8129.jpg The impression of the cobblestone wall in the stucco after removal. |
For years that house had been rumored to be a cobblestone. The owner finally asked me to look into it. The house had been stuccoed and then aluminum-sided. I took some off and we were very pleasantly surprised to see cobblestone. Our neighborhood organization has an event called the great unveiling where we take off substitute siding for people for free in the spirit of an old-fashioned barn raising. We also give them a $1000 reward to help with the renovation. We have done over 30 houses in 40 years. We had a lot of fun on that one. Above is a picture of the group that did it and one of the house with two coats of substitute siding on it. Dan Miller emails 4/17/2021 and 5/3/2021.
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¹ Photography courtesy Dan Miller.
