10 20 182 https://museum.sugargrovehistory.org/files/original/9c5f9c92454a7c61b84b8bdc3f5615af.png db573141bda773d5b792bebf74d6e9ad https://museum.sugargrovehistory.org/files/original/7c36b126fbc884983343a48ead49d8c3.png d6778bd7a5f109715f3882ceb74489ac https://museum.sugargrovehistory.org/files/original/353cfb0f96cfffcb3bf5127a1ab5697f.png 27fc444c83f5a2360fae6a09d97894f9 https://museum.sugargrovehistory.org/files/original/98d429bdbbc0b3b675a4bfe324830830.png 97f83c11ead2e5bfd4276d4a1c5d275f Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Old Hotel West Still Image A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Sugar Grove Hotel / Hotel West Subject The topic of the resource Sugar Grove Hotel Description An account of the resource Printed on the front: Sugar Grove Hotel May 1936 The ornate building that served as a boarding house for student scholars called Uncle Tom's Cabin burned downed in 1879, only 3 years after it was built. It was a great loss as Thomas Judd “Uncle Tom” had no insurance. However, he then built a new hotel on the same site. Since there was no insurance on the original boarding house, the community came together with labor and materials, and rebuilt it using the stacked lumber method for the outside walls. The hotel was later purchased by W.M. West and came to be known as Hotel West. During the first half of the 1900s, Kitty Lorah owned the building. Sundays found automobiles with license plates from as far away as Wisconsin and Iowa parked in front of the hotel where Kitty served family style meals, all of which were cooked on two gigantic cast iron cook stoves in the basement kitchen. Her dining room was filled with families on Sundays and railroad personnel at noon during the week. Kitty continued to operate her restaurant and manage the apartments in the hotel, well into her later years. She could be found seated outside early on summer mornings, shelling a bushel of peas or stinging a like amount of beans, which were headed for her huge kettles and the dinner plates of diners. After many years of housing students, guests, and residents, the Old Hotel West was torn down in 1999. It became the site of Veterans Park on the west side of Main Street just north of the railroad tracks. Source: "Sin-Qua-Sip: A History of Sugar Grove Township, Kane County, Illinois" by Patsy Mighell Paxton. https://museum.sugargrovehistory.org/files/original/6c03d79121f094dd7a27939c5a9faa97.jpg 393c3af80b4df7c1a6ad50b3ea1c4fc4 https://museum.sugargrovehistory.org/files/original/51f1e5c6d55e0236daa25b089efd878b.jpg 6728f90ec0aa3c0bbe358bbd2ff6cc6a https://museum.sugargrovehistory.org/files/original/98b509f100f037f086b3e2d7d0b942e7.jpg 4836f7817c82828a3b8762aaa6153fa7 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Old Hotel West Postcard Printed Card for mailing. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Hotel West Post Card Subject The topic of the resource Hotel West Post Card Description An account of the resource Printed on the front:HOTEL WEST SUGAR GROVE ILL Stamped on the back: W. W. VAN OSDEL. PHOTOGRAPHER AURORA, ILL The ornate building that served as the boarding house for student scholars called Uncle Tom's Cabin was destroyed by fire in 1879, only 3 years after it was built. It was a great loss as Thomas Judd "Uncle Tom" had no insurance. However, he then built a new hotel on the same site. Since there was no insurance on the original boarding house, the community came together with labor and materials, and rebuilt it using the stacked lumber method for the outside walls. The hotel was later purchased by W.M. West and came to be known as Hotel West. During the first half of the 1900s, Kitty Lorah owned the building. Sundays found automobiles with license plates from as far away as Wisconsin and Iowa parked in front of the hotel where Kitty served family style meals, all of which were cooked on two gigantic cast iron cook stoves in the basement kitchen. Her dining room was filled with families on Sundays and railroad personnel at noon during the week. Kitty continued to operate her restaurant and manage the apartments in the hotel, well into her later years. She could be found seated outside early on summer mornings, shelling a bushel of peas or stinging a like amount of beans, which were headed for her huge kettles and the dinner plates of diners. After many years of housing students, guests, and residents, the Old Hotel West was razed in 1999. It became the site of Veterans Park on the west side of Main Street just north of the railroad tracks. Source: "Sin-Qua-Sip: A History of Sugar Grove Township, Kane County, Illinois" by Patsy Mighell Paxton. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Lucy Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 2001-8d . 7-10 AURORA W. W. VAN OSDEL. PHOTOGRAPHER West's Hotel