These 12 Houses In Illinois From The 1930s Are Different

You may feel like your home is old, but here are some really old homes. They surely don’t make them like this anymore (and that’s probably a good thing). These 12 Illinois homes from the 1930s are something else.

1. These people hang out on the doorstep in front of their Chicago home.

2. George Finkle and wife relax in their home near Marseilles, Illinois in 1937.

3. This was the 1937 home of Oscar Gaither, tenant farmer and father of five children.

4. Miner's children stand on porch of their Zeigler home in 1939.

5. This was a home of an unemployed miner in 1939.

6. This man was rebuilding after the flood devastated his Shawneetown home in 1937.

7. This is a kitchen scene from the Carr home in Chicago.

8. This home, now demolished, once stood in Elgin.

9. This was the Chicago home of a wealthy man.

10. This was the home of a Rehabilitation Administration client. He liked in Gallatin County, Illinois in 1939.

11. This miner had his home in Cambria, Illinois (1939).

12. This was the home of a Rehabilitation Administration client back in 1939 in Gallatin County.

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