Lillibridge House

William and Lottie Lillibridge built this house in 1908. It represents one of the few examples of prairie-style architecture in the City of St. Charles.

Lillibridge House is made of pre-cast and tinted cement blocks. These blocks were meant to create the illusion of being made of stone. 

William P. Lillibridge was born in Harvard Junction, Illinois in 1869. He attended Beloit College and the Rockford Business College. William was engaged in the lumber business in Harvard, Illinois, and Marathon County, Wisconsin, before moving to St. Charles in 1892 to serve as general manager of a lumberyard. Lillibridge later purchased the St. Charles Lumber Company.

Lottie Marsden, the daughter of St. Charles manufacturer,  Thomas Marsden, married William Lillibridge in 1894. Lottie was the Circuit Clerk of Kane County for four years before her marriage to William.

The Lillibridges had three children, all involved in the family business.

By 1920, the Lillibridge family had established the St. Charles Net and Hammock Company. William served as president, and Lottie was vice president of the company. Their son, Duane, was secretary, and their daughter, Beulah, was a stenographer for the company. After Beulah married, her husband was employed by the St. Charles Net and Hammock Company as a salesman.

Sources

■ Biographical Record of Kane County, Illinois. Chicago: S.J. Clarke, 1898

■ U.S. Federal Census, 1910, 1920, 1930