Visit our Warehouse for everything you need for your old house.The 1882 Charles Cantine house is being restored to serve as our Education CenterVolunteer at Old House Society and learn more about old houses, landscapes and neighborhoods.We sell plumbing supplies, trim, doors, windows, and almost anything you could ever want for your house.We moved this house!We restore salvage items in our Restoration Center so that they are more useful to you.

 

Books

In an effort to preserve and promote the history of Central Illinois, Old House Society has published Picturesque Bloomington 1907 and Bloomington-Normal Lost. More publications are in the planning stages. If you are interested in working with us on similar publications, email us at info@oldhousesociety.org or call the warehouse at (309) 820-0548.

Picturesque Bloomington 1907


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Buy it now at Barnes & Noble!
 

Price: $25 softcover / $45 hardcover

Description: More than 150 pages of remarkable photographs taken in and around Bloomington in 1907 will allow readers of all ages to develop a very real sense of what they would have seen in the area back then. (Read more...

Published: 2005

Available online at: Barnes & Noble.com
Available in Bloomington at
: Old House Society Warehouse, McLean County Museum of History, David Davis Mansion Gift Shop, About Books, Barnes & Noble Booksellers, Cydney’s Fine Gifts & Decorative Accessories, Timothy Kent Gallery, A. Gridley Antiques
Available in Normal at: Babbitt’s Books, The Garlic Press
Also available at: Funk Prairie Home (Shirley, IL).

Picturesque Bloomington 1907 can be ordered at any Barnes & Noble store.

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Bloomington-Normal Lost: An Account Of Our Vanishing Architectural Heritage


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Price: SOLD OUT!

Description: Nearly 200 pages of before and after photos of properties in Bloomington-Normal that have been destroyed, modified, and preserved or restored.

Published: 2000

Available at: This book has sold out. A reference copy is available in our library.

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