Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Depot
Foot of 17th Street NOTE: The pictured postcard is not the one originally featured with this article. From its earliest days, Rock Island was a city of railroads. With the … [ Continued
Beth Israel Synagogue
2128-30 Third Avenue This stately building on the corner of 3rd Avenue and 22nd Street usually arouses curiosity. Although now it’s a sports bar, it still evokes its religious past … [ Continued
Wagner House
904 23rd Street Postcards of houses are not easily found. And when they are found, the pictured house is often unidentified or has been demolished. Relatively few house postcards were … [ Continued
Spencer Square, Part 2
2nd -3rd Avenues; 19th -20th Streets An earlier article told the first half of the story of Spencer Square in downtown Rock Island — how the square block between 19th … [ Continued
