P. Y. Bliss House

Built in 1838 in the Greek Revival style, the Peleg Young Bliss House is an example of post and beam construction using large wooden timbers joined with wooden pegs, a technique once common in nineteenth-century homes, churches, barns, and covered bridges but now rarely surviving. The building housed the first mercantile business in Sugar Grove Township and later served as a residence and Methodist meeting house. When it was slated for demolition to make way for a new housing subdivision in the 1990s, the historically and architecturally significant structure was relocated to Main Street by the Sugar Grove Historical Society to serve as a museum. Its relocation and rehabilitation resulted from a public-private partnership between the Society and the Sugar Grove Township Board, with additional support from the Kane County Historic Preservation Commission and The Custom Source, a division of St. Paul Financial Development Corporation. In 2000, the project received third place in the Illinois Governor's Hometown Awards Program.

Sugar Grove, Illinois · United States