FALL FAIR - SEPTEMBER 13
50/50 Raffle Tickets Enclosed
Tickets for the 50/50 drawing to be held at the Fall Fair are enclosed with this newsletter. Tickets are $1 each or six for $5. Attendance is not required.
Please send your completed ticket stubs and donation to Kevin Beatty, 140 Sidener Lane, Springfield, Illinois 62707.
The Home will be open to the public during the fair. Tours will be free.
Penny Greek (546-8890) and her committee are looking for those “special” items (antiques, collectibles, china, crystal, etc) that you might like to donate for the Silent Auction. Bids will be taken until 2:00 p.m.
Country Kitchen will need baked goods for the Fair. Suggestions are pies, cakes, breads, cookies, pizelles or brownies. We would appreciate it if you would package and label the goods in zip lock bags. Cakes, pies and breads should be labeled and covered in saran or clear wrap. Baked items can be dropped off at the Home on Friday, September 12 from 8 am – 2 pm. If baked items cannot be delivered on Friday, we need them no later than 8 am on Saturday. If you are unable to bake an item and wish to donate to the Home, please send your check made payable to the Brinkerhoff Home, 1500 N. 5th Street, Springfield, IL 62702.
Vose’s concession will be serving food.
VICTORIAN TEA - OCTOBER 19
Keep in mind the date for the Victorian Tea. The event will be chaired by Sharon Strasbaugh. Mark your calendars now so you won’t miss this event.
NEW MEMBER
Welcome to new member, Wendy Porch-Casey.
UPDATES ON MAILING LIST
If you have any change of address, phone number or any deletions, please contact Nancy Nolan at 528-5087.
MEMBERSHIP DUES
Just a reminder – if you haven’t paid your dues for 2008, please remit your check made payable to the Brinkerhoff Home.
ICE CREAM SOCIAL
Despite the weather, the July 11th ice cream social was held indoors and was quite a success. Thanks to all who helped!!
RENTALS
If you are interested in renting the Home for a wedding, reception, shower, dinner party, etc., please contact Nancy Nolan at 528-5087.
This web presence is provided as a free service by DSDigitals.com, We are the Official photographer for the Brinkerhoff Home in Springfield, Illinois. Additional Brinkerhoff pictures may be found on our website. See DSDigitals link below left. For additional information on the Brinkerhoff House, see History at bottom. Copyright 2012 by Dulany F Sriner/ DSDigitals.com all rights reserved.
Brinkerhoff Home History
George Brinkerhoff, a successful businessman and political associate of Abraham Lincoln, built the Home for his wife and six children in 1869 for the sum of $35,000. Elijah E. Myers was the architect. After Mr. Brinkerhoff's death in '1928, the then Springfield Junior College purchased the home and began classes there.
By 1974 the home had deteriorated so badly the college considered razing it. Doris Bucari, a college trustee, was given one year to show evidence of saving the home. work progressed slowly until she and other community members founded a not-for-profit corporation, Brinkerhoff Inc. in 1977. Restoration of the home was the aim of the organization and with help of the Brinkerhoff Auxiliary, a group of interested citizens organized by Doris, and the assistance of many other people, work on the home was put in high gear. Through the years Brinkerhoff Inc. and the Brinkerhoff Auxiliary have been disbanded and replaced by the Brinkerhoff Foundation. Practically the entire interior has been restored. paint has been stripped and reapplied, new wallpaper applied in some rooms and, of course, plumbing and rewiring. The floors, blackened from age and hard use, were stripped and refinished. Lovely chandeliers have replaced hanging fluorescent fixtures. Each room has been beautifully furnished with period furniture in keeping with the time of the home. Some of the furnishings have been donated, the rest purchased with funds obtained from the Spring and Fall Fairs held each year and other money raising events. The exterior brick has been completely tuckpointed and in 1984 an Illinois Department of conservation matching grant provided for the reconstruction of the cupola. We feel
Doris would be more than proud to see the Home as it is today. The Home has been placed on both the National and Illinois Registers of Historic Places and provides elegant ambience for weddings, receptions, catered parties and a variety of private celebrations.
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About Me
DSDigitals official Brinkerhoff photographer
Welcome to the Brinkerhoff Home web blog. On March 15th, the Brinkerhoff House Foundation, Board of Directors designated me, Dulany F. Sriner owner of DSDigitals.com their official photographer. As we pursue the development of this Blog, we will be providing a listing of events along with other Brinkerhoff information. Regular posts will provide up to date announcements from the board. Please be patient as we try to build the site with the goal of making it available for registered members to post their own announcements. At that point, I will provide help as needed but it should manage itself. Until that point, postings will come through me. For current pictures of the Brinkerhoff House on my web site go to: http://www.gallerypg.com/WebGallery/Brinkerhoff%20Home/index.htm
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