Quincy

The South Side German Historic District is a neighborhood within Quincy, Illinois just south of downtown. The neighborhood includes most of Quincy's... rich German architecture. The region is also widely known as "Calftown", named for the number of calves once owned by its inhabitants. It was added into the United States National Register of Historic Places in 1992 with a boundary increase in 1995. 9th and York Street Once said to be a brewery larger than Anheuser-Busch, the Dick Brothers Brewery was founded in 1857 by three brothers. At one time, 70,000 barrels of brew would be produced and shipped round the Midwest. The brewery suffered under the Prohibition era and after World War II. The brewery closed in 1951, but the building still remains to this day. 415 Jersey Street Dr. Richard Eell was an abolitionist and his home provided a stop on the Underground Railroad from 1835 to 1846. 8th and State The Eighth Street Business District forms the heart of the South Side German Historic District, and many notable features are along or nearby this interchange including the State Room, LaGondola's Spaghetti House, Gem City College, and the Salem Church.
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The Morgan-Wells House, also known as the Norwood-Morgan-Wells House, was added to the United States National Register of Historic Places on November... 16, 1977. The house is located in the Adams County city of Quincy, Illinois. This Italianate structure was built in 1860 onto another structure by Edward Wells. The original building, which is now the rear of the house, was constructed in 1853 by J.E. Norwood, a pork packer. Quincy banker Lorenzo Bull, who owned the home by 1901, gave it to the Cheerful Home Association and it became the first licensed children's home in the state of Illinois in 1901. In 1933 the YWCA purchased the home for $10.
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The Robert W. Gardner House in Quincy, Illinois, Adams County, is designed in the Second Empire style and found its place among the locales on the... National Register of Historic Places on April 20, 1979. Though the building was constructed in the later half of the 19th century, 1873, the architect as well as the builder are unknown. The interior woodwork, all original, has been fully restored including the walnut staircase. Gardner invented the speed governor used in steam engines and the Gardner Museum of Architecture and Design in Quincy is named for him.
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Robert Livingston was an American film actor. He appeared in 135 films between 1921 and 1975. Often billed as "Bob Livingston," he was the original... "Stony Brooke" in the "Three Mesquiteers" Western B-movie series, a role later played by John Wayne for eight films. He also portrayed the Lone Ranger in a mysterious 1939 serial directed by William Witney and co-starring Chief Thundercloud as Tonto, most of which is currently believed to be lost. Livingston was born in Quincy, Illinois and died in Tarzana, California from emphysema. He was buried in Glendale's Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery.
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Tad M. Hilgenbrinck is an American actor, known for his role as Matt Stifler in American Pie Presents: Band Camp and The Hills Run Red. Hilgenbrinck... was born in Quincy, Illinois, and attended Quincy Senior High School, where he was actively involved in music and theater. He performed as part of the resident company for Summer 2003 at Music Theatre of Wichita in Wichita, Kansas, where he performed in the musicals Footloose, Oklahoma!, Good News, Chicago, and The Scarlet Pimpernel. He has a BFA Musical Theatre and Dance minor from Millikin University and IES London. While at Millikin he spent his summers at The Little Theatre on the Square in Sullivan, Illinois, as a performing intern. He has performed in roles such as The Artful Dodger in Oliver!, Gideon in Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, and Chuck Cranston in Footloose. He polished his creative craft, studying Shakespeare intensively in London and has starred in multiple theatrical pieces including A Midsummer's Night Dream, Chicago, and Oliver!. After many successful performances in New York and London, he ventured to Los Angeles giving himself only two weeks to make it or go home.
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Henry Kolker was an American stage and film actor and director. Kolker, like fellow actors Richard Bennett and Robert Warwick, had a substantial... stage career behind him before entering silent films. On stage he appeared opposite such leading ladies as Edith Wynne Matthison, Bertha Kalich and Ruth Chatterton. Kolker is best remembered for his motion picture appearances and for appearing with Barbara Stanwyck in the ground-breaking Pre-Code film Baby Face as the elderly CEO of the company whom Stanwyck's character seduces. Kolker entered films as an actor in 1915 and eventually ended up trying his hand at directing. Kolker's best known directorial effort is Disraeli , starring George Arliss which is now a lost film with only one reel remaining.
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Micki Free is a Grammy-winning Native American guitarist and singer, and a two-time Native American Music Award winner. He is also the director of... Promotions & Special Events for the Seminole Tribe of Florida, owners of Hard Rock International. Free, African American and part Native American, was discovered by Gene Simmons of KISS. He joined Shalamar in 1984, just in time for some of that band's big successes, most notably a #17 position in U.S. Top 20 in 1984 with "Dancing In The Sheets" from the Footloose soundtrack, and a Grammy for "Don't Get Stopped In Beverly Hills" from the Beverly Hills Cop soundtrack in 1985. With Shalamar, he was nominated for a Grammy three times. After Shalamar, Free and Jean Beauvoir founded AOR band Crown of Thorns. He later founded "The Micki Free Electric Blues Experience," with Jon Brant on bass, and Curly Smith on drums. Recognition for his musical career after Shalamar came from the Native American Music Awards, where he won Male Artist in 2002 and Pop Rock artist in 2004. In 2002, he was cast to play Tonto in a new production of The Lone Ranger.
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Bob Havens is an American big band and jazz musician who appeared on The Lawrence Welk Show from 1960 to 1982. His instrument is the trombone. Born... to a musical family in Quincy, Illinois. He began studying violin and trombone at age seven and played both instruments throughout his school years. He landed his first professional job with a local dance band at age 12. By the age of 16, his talent as a trombonist was recognized with a scholarship from the Interlochen Music Camp in Michigan and Bob held the first trombone chair in the school's 250 piece concert band. He later held the first trombone chair in the Quincy Symphony while also playing in many popular dance groups in Illinois. After serving in the Illinois National Guard as a bandsman during the Korean War, he left Quincy in 1955 to tour with the Ralph Flanagan Orchestra. In 1956, he joined George Girard's Dixieland Band at the Famous Door in New Orleans. There, he met his idol, Jack Teagarden. In 1957, Bob joined Al Hirt at Dan's Pier 600 on Bourbon Street when Hirt formed his very first band. The front line consisted of Hirt, Havens and Pete Fountain.
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Robert Livingston was an American film actor. He appeared in 135 films between 1921 and 1975. Often billed as "Bob Livingston," he was the original... "Stony Brooke" in the "Three Mesquiteers" Western B-movie series, a role later played by John Wayne for eight films. He also portrayed the Lone Ranger in a mysterious 1939 serial directed by William Witney and co-starring Chief Thundercloud as Tonto, most of which is currently believed to be lost. Livingston was born in Quincy, Illinois and died in Tarzana, California from emphysema. He was buried in Glendale's Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery.
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Tad M. Hilgenbrinck is an American actor, known for his role as Matt Stifler in American Pie Presents: Band Camp and The Hills Run Red. Hilgenbrinck... was born in Quincy, Illinois, and attended Quincy Senior High School, where he was actively involved in music and theater. He performed as part of the resident company for Summer 2003 at Music Theatre of Wichita in Wichita, Kansas, where he performed in the musicals Footloose, Oklahoma!, Good News, Chicago, and The Scarlet Pimpernel. He has a BFA Musical Theatre and Dance minor from Millikin University and IES London. While at Millikin he spent his summers at The Little Theatre on the Square in Sullivan, Illinois, as a performing intern. He has performed in roles such as The Artful Dodger in Oliver!, Gideon in Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, and Chuck Cranston in Footloose. He polished his creative craft, studying Shakespeare intensively in London and has starred in multiple theatrical pieces including A Midsummer's Night Dream, Chicago, and Oliver!. After many successful performances in New York and London, he ventured to Los Angeles giving himself only two weeks to make it or go home.
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Henry Kolker was an American stage and film actor and director. Kolker, like fellow actors Richard Bennett and Robert Warwick, had a substantial... stage career behind him before entering silent films. On stage he appeared opposite such leading ladies as Edith Wynne Matthison, Bertha Kalich and Ruth Chatterton. Kolker is best remembered for his motion picture appearances and for appearing with Barbara Stanwyck in the ground-breaking Pre-Code film Baby Face as the elderly CEO of the company whom Stanwyck's character seduces. Kolker entered films as an actor in 1915 and eventually ended up trying his hand at directing. Kolker's best known directorial effort is Disraeli , starring George Arliss which is now a lost film with only one reel remaining.
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Laura Bowman was an actress.