This was the home of Elgin’s founder, James T. Gifford. Originally a simple stone house, it reflects a contruction technique native to New York state. Note the cobblestones laid in courses with stone quoins at the corners and stone lintels. The mansard roof and classical detailing (added later) show a Second Empire influence. This is […]
The city agreed Wednesday to annex a planned subdivision whose Phase 1 includes 47 lots for million dollar homes. The development, known as Seven Creeks, is on the far west side, beyond Coombs Road on the south side of Highland Avenue (southwest of Burnidge Forest Preserve). From the description given by the applicant’s […]
That’s what it sounded like if you were at this week’s city council meeting when the Granger family expressed their discontent with the way the police department handled a raid on their home. The Grangers were allowed to go way beyond the three minute limit, taking up about the first half hour of the […]
I finally got around to looking through the CSO’s 2007/2008 subscriber guide, which came in the mail a few days ago. I was of course ecstatic to see Taras Bulba and the Symphony of Psalms on the calendar. In any case, what was very interesting was a two-page spread devoted to the history […]
