Cheapish Illinois Victorian Home For Sale $90K

OHU50K Notes $90,000

Victorian home for sale. Adorable on the outside, and although it is a white out, the inside has lots to admire. The home sits on a corner lot in the downtown area opposite a gorgeous stone church and was originally built for a prominent surgeon. Per US Census records, build date is earlier than 1900.

House View featured at 428 19th St, Rock Island, IL, 61201

Realtor Comments

Fantastic opportunity & possibilities. The property was previously used as a group home. Lots of living space, with a 2nd exit staircase. Spacious rooms, main floor office and 4 bedrooms upstairs. Tall ceilings. Roof approximately 10-15 years old. Great front porch, aluminum siding. To be sold as is! Priced to sell.

4bed
1.5+bath
Circa 1911

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428 19th St, Rock Island, IL, 61201 $90,000

Contact Realtor: Paula Nabb
Brokered by: Mel Foster Brokerage, LLC – Mel Foster Co. Moline
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History

Most recently, this home was used as a group home, but originally it was the home and office for Dr. Lewis Durley Dunn (1834- 1916), a highly respected physician and surgeon who started his practice in 1857. Dr. Dunn lived in the home with his wife Julia Mills Dunn (1837-1922), his spinster daughter Clara, and a servant.

Per Rock Island County Biographical Record, 1897:

“Dr. Dunn was born in Hennepin, Putnam county, September 18, 1834, and is a son of Ferrel and Lydia (Fleming) Dunn, a descendant of Sir Thomas Fleming, who came to Virginia in 16 17, renouncing estates and titles in Scotland to become a citizen of this country. The family is still prominent as it was in colonial days, numbering many statesman among its members. His father was one of the rangers in the Black Hawk war and early became familiar with the varied experiences of frontier life. The Doctor’s birth occurred in the little log fort near the Illinois river, but later his father entered land in Bureau county, where the family lived in the vicinity of what was then called Indian Town, a settlement of friendly Indians, now Tiskilwa.

Shabbona, the chief, became quite attached to the Doctor and used frequently to entertain him at the Indian camp.

In 1856 he entered Rush Medical College of Chicago, where he was graduated the following year. Returning to Tiskilwa, he there opened an office, and as his ability was demonstrated by success in his practice he secured a liberal patronage. For eighteen years he remained at that place and enjoyed a large practice that came from all parts of the surrounding country. This, however, necessitated long rides and much arduous night work, and in consequence he determined to remove to a city where his practice might be of a local character. Accordingly he came to Moline and within a year had succeeded in securing a liberal share of the public support.

While a resident of Tiskilwa he was married to Miss Julia Mills, a descendant of the Cleveland family, one of the oldest families of New England. From them she inherited a literary taste that has distinguished other members of the Cleveland family, notably Edmund Clarence Stedman, Bishop Arthur Cleveland Coxe, of New York, and many of the best known writers of the country. She is a charter member of the Illinois Woman’s Press Association, and founded the Board of Associated Charities of Moline thirteen years ago, of which she is and always has been a prominent officer. She is president of the Illinois Equal Suffrage Association.

She has done some fine work in water-color painting, and exhibited her work at several art exhibitions. The members of this family are recognized leaders in cultured society circles and their home is noted for its hospitality.

He and his wife and daughter all belong to the Unitarian church, and throughout the community they are held in the highest regard by a large circle of friends.”