Naperville, Illinois History Page

Naperville Vintage Postcard, c. 1909

WHAT'S NEW: I've been collecting Naperville vintage postcards for a good many years, and recently launched a little online store to offer high resolution images for print media and enlargements. Each postcard is scanned at 600 dpi resolution, digitally cleaned, restored, and color corrected. I hope you'll stop by and browse around, and visit often, because I'm adding images almost daily! While you're there, be sure to check out Chicago, other northeast Illinois towns, and other cities. Vintage Postcard Images

NAPERVILLE HOMECOMING 1917
May 29th to June 1st 1917
A Work in Progress

PRIVATE RESIDENCES- 1917

John Naper First Frame House Built in Naperville, 1830	Willard Scott
Francis A. Kendall	Charles Albert Nadelhoffer - "Kummerloos"
Francis Granger	C. M. Kuhn
Mrs. Josephine H. Kroehler	J. S. Goodwin - "Heatherton"
W. Robert Johnston	Dr. and Mrs. John A. Bell
E. J. T. Moyer	G. H. Dunlap
E. E. Miller	A. Baumgartner
Bernard Beckman	Valentine A. Dieter
Henry H. Rassweiler - "Three Elms"	Theodore W. Smith
Joseph Kochly / Mrs. Nichols Simpson (on same page)	Charles E. Heydon - "Middleton House"
Dr. E. Grant Simpson	.

TOWN BUILDINGS & SCENES - 1917
(Many more to come)

Preemption House	Stone Quarry
Collins Apartments	.

OTHER FEATURES ON THIS SITE

Early History of Naperville-1857
Early Town Officers - 1857 From "A History of the County of DuPage, Illinois" 1857

1869 "Birdseye View" of Naperville

History of Naperville- 1874 From "1874 Atlas & History of DuPage County, Illinois"

Marcellus Jones and the First Shots Fired at Gettysburg
Diaries and Letters
Biographies

The Taking of the DuPage Courthouse Records

Naperville Deaths

Examination of Land Title- Joseph Naper (123K)
Naperville Businesses - 1930
Naperville Family Memories - Add yours!
History of the Euclid Masonic Lodge of Naperville (use your back button to return)

LINKS TO RELATED INFORMATION

North Central College, The Early Years(use your BACK button to return)

History of the Stenger Brewery (use your BACK button to return)

Naperville Cemetery Transcriptions (use your BACK button to return)

Naper Settlement (use your BACK button to return)

History of the YMCA (use your BACK button to return)

New Book - "Images of America- Naperville, Illinois" by Jo Fredell Higgins

OLD PHOTOGRAPHS

Naperville Vintage Postcards
Naperville Street Scene - 1867
Pre Emption House- photograph
Naperville Panoramic View
Bird's Eye View of Naperville-1869 American Memory Collection-Search Naperville

TRIBUTES

Beverly "Bev" Ann Stenger
1934-2003

Bev contributed so much to the research of the Stenger family and the Stenger Brewery of Naperville, lllinois. She was one of the first people I "met" when I first started working on my Naperville families. She is appreciated and missed.

Dyonne Mertz Brys
September 29, 2009

Dyonne most recently contributed to a Naperville Community Television documentary about the Stenger family and the Stenger Brewery, but she has been involved in local history and genealogy for decades. When I started this web site in 1999, Dyonne was one of the first people who contributed old photographs and information from her grandmother's collection (Emma Scherer Mertz, daughter of Christian Scherer and Mary Stenger) about many of the families of Naperville, Illinois. See NAPERVILLE ILLINOIS DEATHS.

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