Rock River Hotel

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Rock River Hotel
Ogle County Oregon COmm hist dist6 Rock River Hotel2.jpg
Location Oregon, Ogle County, Illinois
Coordinates 42°00′55.2″N89°19′53.3″W / 42.015333°N 89.331472°W / 42.015333; -89.331472 Coordinates: 42°00′55.2″N89°19′53.3″W / 42.015333°N 89.331472°W / 42.015333; -89.331472
Area Oregon Commercial Historic District
Builtc. 1860 [1]
Architectural style I-house, Greek Revival
Website http://www.patchworkinn.com
Part of Oregon Commercial Historic District (ID06000713 [2] )
Added to NRHPAugust 16, 2006

The historic Rock River Hotel, later the Blackhawk Hotel and currently known as the Patchwork Inn bed and breakfast, 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 bed and breakfast but in its earliest years it was a private residence, by 1899 it had been converted for use as a hotel. [1]

Notes

  1. 1 2 National Register of Historic Places Registration Form, (PDF), Oregon Commercial Historic District, HAARGIS Database, Illinois Historic Preservation Agency. Retrieved 30 January 2007.
  2. "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places . National Park Service. July 9, 2010.

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