Travel Guides And Tips: U.S. Route 66

After costs so much time near Chicago I thought it would be trivial to restore to the downstate calm of Old U.S. Route 66. Just north of the city of Chenoa, Illinois, the historic section of U.S. Route 66 that is expected the National Register Historic Places ends, but the highway continues southward, about Bloomington. Coming from Pontiac, we first hit Chenoa, in northern McLean County.

Chenoa, Illinois, in northern McLean County

Chenoa is a small city of about 2,000 in the far suburbs of northern McLean County. The appealing downtown, practically a ghost urban the day I went (St. Patrick's Day - so the explanation for the deserted feel is apparent), has been lucky enough to have some treatment put into it, it shows just by looking. Some of the buildings exhibit the architectural harmony we saw in Tampico's Main Street Historic District.

Downtown Chenoa

A stage advertisement has been repainted on the principal sidle of one of the structures, definitely adding to the eccentric of the spot. Absent cars and people, I genuinely did feel like I almost place in a 19th century small city; if only the roads weren't smooth.

Selz Royal Blue Shoes advertisement

Though the whole stretch of Old U.S. 66 through Illinois is an affirmed National Scenic Byway, the only site listed on the National Register in Chenoa is an unaffiliated house; the Matthew T. Scott Housed.

The 1855 & 1863 Matthew T. Scott Housed

The Scott House was built in two phases and, hence, exhibits two apparent architectural styles. The 1855 rear portion is a forward and beam (wiki) I-bungalow, something a zany being was so completely wicked about on Wikipedia that I am not even open to upset linking the expose here. The front portioned was constructed in 1863 and is an actual expand framed (wiki) example of an, I-house.

Matthew T. Scott was an important diagram in early McLean County is known as the miscarry of the Chenoa. He was one of the vicinity's first settlers and farmers, and actively encouraged settlement in the area. The house appears nowadays, much as it did in a 1910 photograph, you can see that coupled below. The Scott Housed was added to the National Register of Historic Places in early 1983.

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