Abundant Architecture in Quincy, IL Guide

Street parking is easy & free in this quiet residential neighborhood. You’re also welcome to park at The Quincy Museum (below). We encourage you to tour this magnificent masterpiece now open to the public. The terrain is level and easy to navigate on foot or bike. BikeQuincy offers free 2-hr rentals > SeeQuincy.com / Reservations recommended 532 Gardner Expy / CALL 800.978.4748 or TEXT 217.242.3728. 18-POINT MAP NEXT PAGE > > > > LISTED ON THE NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES

NEWCOMB-STILLWELL MANSION / 1601 MAINE Now The Quincy Museum / 217.224.7669 / thequincymuseum.org > 20K sq-ft home built for Richard Newcomb, president of Quincy Paper Co. > Originally housed a wine cellar & bowling alley in the basement > Newcomb was one of four millionaires in Quincy at the time of his death in 1904; the mansion was passed to his daughter Elizabeth Stillwell

1 890 / RICHARDSONIAN ROMANESQUE / ERNEST WOOD & HARVEY CHATTEN arch

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WILLIAM WARFIELD HOUSE / 1626 MAINE

> Built for wholesale grocer, William Warfield > Stone imported from Minnesota,with decorative terra cotta ornament molded and fired near Chicago > Inspiration for the Newcomb Mansion built four years later

1886 / RICHARDSONIAN ROMANESQUE & QUEEN ANNE / J. LYMAN SYLSBEE arch

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