Rock River Hotel

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Rock River Hotel
(U.S. Registered Historic District
Contributing Property)
Location: Oregon, Ogle County, Illinois, USA
Coordinates: 42°0′47″N 89°19′59″W / 42.01306, -89.33306Coordinates: 42°0′47″N 89°19′59″W / 42.01306, -89.33306
Area: Oregon Commercial Historic District
Built/Founded: c. 1860 [1]
Architectural style(s): I-house, Greek Revival
Added to NRHP: August 16, 2006[2] As part of the Oregon Commercial Historic District
NRHP Reference#: 06000713
Governing body: Private ownership

The historic Rock River Hotel, later the Blackhawk Hotel, is a two story I-house brick building in the Ogle County, Illinois city of Oregon. The Hotel is within the Oregon Commercial Historic District. The district and its contributing properties were added to the National Register of Historic Places in August 2006. Today it operates as a hotel but in its earliest years it was a private residence, by 1899 it had been converted for use as a hotel.[1]

[edit] Notes

  1. ^ a b National Register of Historic Places Registration Form, (PDF), Oregon Commercial Historic District, HAARGIS Database, Illinois Historic Preservation Agency. Retrieved 30 January 2007.
  2. ^ NRIS Database, National Register of Historic Places, retrieved January 23, 2007.