Wednesday, May 1, 2013
Take a glimpse into Lemont’s past, courtesy of the Lemont Area Historical Society.
The Lemont Area Historical Society has generously offered to share photos and accompanying information with Patch readers each week, depicting people, places and things from the village's storied past. This week's featured photo shows the 400 block of Main Street in downtown Lemont. Residents might recognize the original structure of Village Hall, which was constructed in the 1890s. Village Hall still stands today, though the building recently underwent extensive renovations. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Discover more about Lemont history at the historical society museum in the Old Stone Church at 306 Lemont St. The museum is open to the public and welcomes visitors. For more information, visit the LAHS web site at http://www.…
Wednesday, April 10, 2013
Take a glimpse into Lemont’s past, courtesy of the Lemont Area Historical Society.
The Lemont Area Historical Society has generously offered to share photos and accompanying information with Patch readers each week, depicting people, places and things from the village's storied past. This week's featured photo is of what has commonly known as Old Central School, located at 400 McCarthy Road. The photo depicts the original structure, which was built in 1869 and opened in 1870. An addition was made to the building in 1896 to accommodate high school facilities. Three more additions were built in 1956, 1958 and 1963. The building has since been converted to condominiums. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Discover more about Lemont history at the historical society museum in the Old Stone Church at 306 Lemont St. The museum is open…
Monday, March 25, 2013
Take a glimpse into Lemont’s past, courtesy of the Lemont Area Historical Society.
The Lemont Area Historical Society has generously offered to share photos and accompanying information with Patch readers each week, depicting people, places and things from the village's storied past. This week's featured photo is of the 1953 Little League Lemont Indians baseball team. The Lemont Little League celebrated its opening day on Memorial Day, 1951, with six teams participating. Players were boys ages 9 to 12, and all games were played at the Recreational Bowl. Between 1951 and 1971, the league grew to 21 teams with 365 boys participating, according to the Lemont Area Historical Society. A girls division was formed in 1976. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Discover more about Lemont history at the historical society museum in the Old…
Monday, March 18, 2013
Take a glimpse into Lemont’s past, courtesy of the Lemont Area Historical Society.
The Lemont Area Historical Society has generously offered to share photos and accompanying information with Patch readers each week, depicting people, places and things from the village's storied past. This week's featured photo is of the Lemont Dairy, which used to deliver goods to residents out of a horse-drawn wagon. If anyone needed a gallon of milk in the late 1800s/early 1900s, they called Mr. Morah. "It was a little different than swinging by Chipain's and grabbing a gallon on the way home,” said John Quinn of the Lemont Area Historical Society. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Discover more about Lemont history at the historical society museum in the Old Stone Church at 306 Lemont St. The museum is open to the public and welcomes …
Monday, March 11, 2013
Take a glimpse into Lemont’s past, courtesy of the Lemont Area Historical Society.
The Lemont Area Historical Society has generously offered to share photos and accompanying information with Patch readers each week, depicting people, places and things from the village's storied past. This week's featured photo is of the Fischbach Building, which stood at the corner of Lemont and Canal streets (next to what is now "The Vault") until the 1980s, when it was torn down for a parking lot. “If it could have lasted another 10 years I think they would have saved it. What an awesome building it was,” said John Quinn of the Lemont Area Historical Society. - - - - - - - - - - - - - Discover more about Lemont history at the historical society museum in the Old Stone Church at 306 Lemont St. The museum is open to the public and …
Monday, March 4, 2013
Take a glimpse into Lemont’s past, courtesy of the Lemont Area Historical Society.
The Lemont Area Historical Society has generously offered to share photos and accompanying information with Patch readers each week, depicting people, places and things from the village's storied past. This week's featured photos are of what has commonly known as Old Central School, which has been converted to condominiums. The first is a classroom photo, circa 1900 – and the second, a view of the back of the building, which featured a long, tube-like fire escape. It’s been said that many kids who lived in the area (perhaps even some of the students pictured in the classroom) used to climb up and slide back down the fire escape, just for fun. We doubt they told their moms and dads about their dangerous escapades! - - - - - - - - - - - - - …
Monday, February 25, 2013
Take a glimpse into Lemont’s past, courtesy of the Lemont Area Historical Society.
The Lemont Area Historical Society has generously offered to share photos and accompanying information with Patch readers each week, depicting people, places and things from the village's storied past. This week's featured photo is of Saint Matthew Evangelical Lutheran Church at 305 Lemont Street, circa 1900. The cornerstone for the church was laid June 26, 1887, and the church thrived until Jan. 18, 1918, when an overheated furnace started a fire that gutted the structure’s interior. Two weeks after the fire, the congregation voted to rebuild – and on Nov. 17, 1918, a new church building was dedicated with the original walls and a newly dug basement. The structure, without the tall steeple of yesteryear, still stands today at Lemont and …
Monday, February 18, 2013
Take a glimpse into Lemont’s History courtesy of the Lemont Area Historical Society.
The Lemont Area Historical Society has generously offered to share photos and accompanying information with Patch readers each week, depicting people, places and things from the village's storied past. This week's featured photo shows future Lemont leaders discussing the important events of the day on the merry-go-round at Virginia Reed Park at 51 Eureka Drive in the 1960s. The park opened in June 1948 after several Lemont moms got together to build a neighborhood park for their children. The group, later known as the Singer-Warner Mothers Club, cleared the land, raised funds and purchased teeter-totters, a sandbox, horizontal bars and a slide. The park was named in memory of the club's first president, Virginia Dillman Reed, who led the …
Monday, February 11, 2013
Take a glimpse into Lemont’s history courtesy of the Lemont Area Historical Society.
This week, the historical society takes us back to the 1890s in Lemont, during the construction of the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal. Running nearly parallel to the no longer used Illinois and Michigan (I & M) Canal, by its completion in 1900, the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal linked the south branch of the Chicago River with the Des Plaines River just north of Joliet. In the first photo, a small steam-powered train hauls rock away from the construction site of the ship canal -- a project that was quite an engineering feat for those days. In the second photo, a steam engine powers a looping conveyor to haul rock up to the surface in the final phase of construction of the ship canal near Lemont, circa 1897. - - - - - - - - - - - - - …
Monday, February 4, 2013
Take a glimpse into Lemont’s history courtesy of the Lemont Area Historical Society.
With Cubs and Sox Spring training just around the corner, baseball season won’t be far behind. This week, the historical society takes us back to summer memories of the crack of a wooden bat and the thrill of a favorite player rounding the bases. Members of the 1928 Lemont baseball team are, from left, bottom row: George Freehauf, Pete M., Syl Nona, Jim Lynch, Tom Hennebery, Tye Krivikas, Dan Larson and H. Sniegowski; and top row: Phil Steck, John Dillman, John Alfelt, John Goodwin, Alex Novak, Ray Goodwin and Joe Summers. - - - - - - - - - - - - - Discover more about Lemont history at the Lemont Area Historical Society Museum in the Old Stone Church at 306 Lemont St. The museum is open to the public and welcomes visitors. For more …
John Quinn
7:54 am on Wednesday, March 27, 2013
The second photo has the names of the people in the picture. Enjoy! more ›