Ed and Teresa Buck Home201 S. Washington Street
The Buck home was built in 1881 by John Marshall at the cost of $3,500. The home was owned by the Marshall family until 1940 when it was purchased by Harry and Henrietta Selke and their three children, Lawrence, Harold, and Ruth. Ed and Teresa Buck bought the home in 1980. The home has been restored and today features a new master bedroom suite completed in 1999 and a new custom built kitchen completed in 2008. The wedding dress on display at the home was worn by Emma Pollard in 1904. Emma and Ephrem Pollard lived in what is currently the Dan and Cris Willett home. Emma was responsible for bringing Eugene Buck (Ed’s father) to Manito from Ohio in 1931. Come visit to see all the old and new beautiful features of this historic home.
J.A. Marshall Home built in 1881
History of J.A. Marshall as taken from the Mason County History Book
J.A. Marshall is one of the most enterprising business men of Manito, being now engaged in the sale of buggies, surries, wagons, hardware, stoves, and everything found in a first-class establishment of this kind. He was born September 23, 1846, in Madison County, Ohio, and is a son of Joshua Marshall who was born in Virginia in 1814. Joshua moved to Kankakee, Illinois, in 1846 and built a new hotel that burnt in 1858 and suffered losses of $6,000. This caused him to move to Mason County where he was more prosperous. In March 1838, he married Drusilla Rackstraw, and to them was born J.A. Marshall.
In 1878 J.A. built the North Elevator in Manito at a cost of $3,500, and in connection with his brother Horace engages in grain dealing. In the fall of 1881, he came to Manito to purchase lots and built him a home. He has a fine residence 14x28 feet, with a front 18x20 feet, two stories in height, with a kitchen 20x14, built at the cost of $3,500. It is supplied with all the modern improvements and is one of the finest homes of the village. He also built his hardware and implement store at a cost of $3,400. There is a hall above the main building with a stage, and seating capacity of 300. In his store is the public telephone, and he also has a private telephone connected with his house. Mr. Marshall married Elizabeth Docker on October 23, 1873 and they had 3 children. In 1883 Elizabeth passed away. Mr. Marshall again married on December 10, 1884, his second union being with Sarah A. Strickler and later born one child, Samuel J. in 1886. J. A. Marshall is sagacious and far-sighted and by his perseverance and well directed efforts he ahs gained a handsome property which numbers him among the substantial citizens of the community.
Mike and Dee Hohenshell ResidenceIn 1894, Dr. M.S. Blazer and his wife Agnes moved into their newly constructed house on Broadway Street, which served as an office and residence to Dr. Blazer. An etched glass window advertising his practice remains in the front door today. Leading to the front door is a quarried stone walkway, said to have been cut to Dr. Blazer’s specifications by prisoners at Joliet State Prison and shipped to Manito by rail. Serving Manito as a country doctor for nearly 42 years, Dr. Blazer treated patients in his office and sometimes performed surgery in a large room on the second floor. Occasionally patients spent the night in the house or were transported by train to a hospital in Peoria.
After the deaths of Doctor Blazer in 1931 and his wife in 1939, the property sold at auction in 1940 to Robert and Mattie Jane Cranwill, who raised their large family in the house. The next owner, Ed Skaggs, purchased the house more than 40 years later with the intent of restoring it. Before completing the restoration, he sold the house to John and Lois Crown, who finished much of the restoration. They sold the house located at the corner of South Street and South Broadway Street to the current owners, Mike and Dee Hohenshell. In 1994, 100 years after the house was first occupied by Dr. Blazer, the Hohenshells moved in.
The original woodwork, lattice work, built in china cabinet, and front door remain inside the house. Outside, lilac bushes and jonquils said to have been cultivated by Dr. Blazer
Mr. and Mrs. Harold Thompson ResidenceThe home of Harold and Donna Thompson located at 107 West Market Street is one of the oldest homes in Manito. It was the former residence of the Hodkinson family and was also the dental office of one of the sons, Dr. Frank Hodkinson. It is possible the home came into the Hodkinson family via the mother, Caroline Black Hodkinson.
With the passing of all the Hodkinson family, the two sons Dr. Frank and Clyde (a rural mail carrier who never married), the house became the property of Birdie Schmidt. Birdie had been the housekeeper for the family for many years.
At the time of her death the house set empty for many years. When it was finally sold at public auction it was purchased by John and Mary Thompson, parents of Harold Thompson. The property by this time was located on the Manito Blacktop, a road not in existence in the early days of Manito.The home has under gone extensive remodeling. The dentist office is now the front room of the home. A summer kitchen was torn down and an apartment built for Donna’s mother Pearl Lee, was added on the back of the house. With Pearl’s passing it is now an all family dwelling. Visit on the tour for more stories of “Old Manito.”
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