901 Third St

Parcel Number: 06-500-140-03
Historic Function: Domestic - Single Dwelling
Current Function: Domestic - Single Dwelling
Construction Date: 1850-1859 (c1854)
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Areas of Significance: Architecture,
Category: Domestic, Single Dwelling
Structural:
Stories: 1
Form or Plan: central passage
Foundation: Concrete facing
Style: ,
Exterior: vinyl siding
Roof Material: asphalt shingles
Roof Type: Side-gable
Windows: Windows are original wood 2/2 double- or single-hung.
Porch:
Modification: Slightly Altered

Historical Summary: ="Galena Looking Back (Excerpt) By Alice L. Snyder Privately Printed 1939 When my father arrived in 1835, there was but one brick building, Mr. Brush's general store, now occupied by the Asmus Hardware Company. There my father obtained his first job. My father came by Erie Canal from Utica, New York, to Buffalo, thence by the lakes to Cleveland. He was three days and four nights on the boat, went by stage to Cincinnati, where he took another boat for St. Louis coming later to Galena. My mother came with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Samuel McLean, arriving in Galena at 2 A.M. September 25, 1838, after a journey of 33 days from Philadelphia. They had come by train as far as Chambersburg, Penn., thence to Wheeling, West Virginia, by stage, where they took the ""Eutaw."" The Ohio being low, this boat ran aground on Petticoat Bar, and they were transferred to the ""Adventure,"" a Galena boat, larger but more crowded. They made short stops in Cincinnati, Louisville and St. Louis. My Grandmother wrote in a journal of each day's happenings. At St. Louis, they took the ""Palmyra"" for Galena, landing some distance above where the Green Street bridge now stands. The first bridge built there was a drawbridge, as was also the one at Meeker Street. As the house they were to occupy was not finished, the MacLean family remained some time at Carpenter's Hotel. My grandmother was much shocked at having to pass through the bar-room with her young daughters on their way to bed at night, this being the only staircase to the upper story. The house to which they later moved was on the east side, where now stands the Illinois Central water tank. At the building of the railway, it was removed to Third and LaFayette Streets. A little ferry plied between the two sides of the river............."