You may feel like your home is old, but here are some really old homes. They surely don’t make them like this anymore (and that’s probably a good thing). These 12 Illinois homes from the 1930s are something else.
- These people hang out on the doorstep in front of their Chicago home.
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- George Finkle and wife relax in their home near Marseilles, Illinois in 1937.
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- This was the 1937 home of Oscar Gaither, tenant farmer and father of five children.
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- Miner’s children stand on porch of their Zeigler home in 1939.
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- This was a home of an unemployed miner in 1939.
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- This man was rebuilding after the flood devastated his Shawneetown home in 1937.
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- This is a kitchen scene from the Carr home in Chicago.
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- This home, now demolished, once stood in Elgin.
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- This was the Chicago home of a wealthy man.
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- This was the home of a Rehabilitation Administration client. He liked in Gallatin County, Illinois in 1939.
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- This miner had his home in Cambria, Illinois (1939).
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- This was the home of a Rehabilitation Administration client back in 1939 in Gallatin County.
Arthur Rothstein/Photogrammar
Did your family live in a home like one of these? If you have pics, be sure to share them on the Only in Illinois Facebook page.
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