The Loren House
I also found a handwritten history that said that this was the first house built on North Broadway and was lived in, or owned by, someone named Loren. I do not recognize the house—do you? (This very poor image was taken from a photocopy of a microfilm.)
According to the 1896-97 city directory, there was also a Jeremiah C. Loren (motorman) living 1 building north of North Broadway on the east side of North High Street.
Mary Rodgers (resident of East North Broadway who has been researching the houses along East North Broadway) believes this is a picture of 625 East North Broadway, a house which was in the Broadway Villa subdivision and which I have written about here. It was lived in by the MacIntosh family.
Tags: Evanston, James Loren, N. Broadway
July 16th, 2009 at 2:38 pm
According to the Clinton League memory books, this is the first home on Broadway and was later the home of the McIntosh family.
That family lived at 625 East North Broadway-south side of the street at the railroad tracks. It is no longer there. But, we have several pictures of the home. Its carriage house (loccatd in Broadway Villas a subdivision of the Loren and Dennision subdivision) is now a home and is still standing.
I think it was called the Loren house because it was the first built, not because Loren lived there. According to county records and books of the time, James Loren, one of the developers of North Broadway, lived with his wife and family at the corner of King Avenue and High Street.