lllinois historical places::I have said before i am not a republican nor a reagan fan, but it is significant history for northern illinois and needs to be talked about lllinois historical places

lllinois historical places::I have said before i am not a republican nor a reagan fan, but it is significant history for northern illinois and needs to be talked about.
Today we see the ronald reagan birthplace building.
He was born in the second floor apartment of a commercial building in downtown tampico, illinois.
The building was constructed in 1896 and became known as the graham building.
From 18961915 the building housed a tavern and in 1906 jack reagan moved his family into the second floor apartment.
While they lived there jack and nelle reagan had two sons, john neil in 1906 and ronald in 1911.
For a case of pareidolia, notice the apparition in the window, who could that be?
From 19151919 the structure housed a bakery and from 19191931 a bank, first national bank.
Today the first and second floor have been restored.
Interestingly, the apartment features a skylight in the center of its main room and is decorated to the period when the reagans lived there, although none of the original reagan furnishings are there.
The building is very similar to the other structures in the main street historic district.
It is two stories with three upper floor, flatheaded windows.
The graham building also has a metal cornice which closely matches the cornice lines of the adjacent structures, contributing to the overall architectural harmony of the historic district.
When i went it was july, 105 degrees, and the woman inside, a volunteer, seemed truly glad to see me.
In fact she chased me down on the hot street.
But she came outside to get me, eventually she gave me a free tour of the bank, the apartment and told me numerous tales about the reagan family.
Even recalling when ronald reagan actually visited the birthplace during the 1980s or 1990s or some such.
It was very interesting and for her kindness i bought a magnet and donated five dollars to the museum.
This is the last post on reagan, i am almost suffering from overload.
Join us tomorrow as we return to sycamore for highstyle italianate.