If This House Could Talk...

Can you guess the correct answer? If you are the first person to send in the correct answer, you will receive a prize from P.A.S.T. Send your response to P.A.S.T. of Union County, P.O. Box 778, Jonesboro, IL 62952, or reply on the web site: pastonline.org. Please include any history you know of the house or memories of it.

House Talk 1

If this house could talk, it would tell you that in the 1880s it was described as "one of the most beautiful homesteads in Southern Illinois" by historian William Henry Perrin.

 

House Talk 2

If this house could talk it would say it was believed to be the oldest house in Jonesboro.

 

 

House Talk 3

If this Anna house could talk, it would reveal that, like the White House, it too has a Lincoln bedroom.

 

 

House Talk 4

John M. Coffman, brick mason, built this Anna house c.1914

 

 
 

House Talk 5

If this house could talk it would reveal that the first recorded mention of the land upon which it now sits was when the United States government granted Levi Craver 80 acres in 1839

 

 
 

House Talk 6

If this house could talk, it would reveal that Benjamin W. Brooks, a physician and landowner, built this residence located about ¾ of a mile south of the Jonesboro square.

 

 
 

 

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