Also from The Cabin fever Quarterly Magazine, 2024.
The Rock River Valley Civil War Round Table is just one of several regional military-related organizations to find a home at Veterans Memorial Hall. At least eight other veterans groups have offices or hold meetings there, and the magnificent edifice is often used as a venue for many municipal events.
Designed in a Classical Greek Revival style, the Hall is one of only three such buildings to survive in Illinois to honor veterans. It's also the only building in Rockford, maybe even the state, that was dedicated by a sitting U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt did that in 1903, soon after construction was completed.
The top floor contains an auditorium with a raised stage and a curved balcony. A wide wooden staircase leads down to the Great Hall where names of Civil War battles adorn the tops of walls. Two tablet rooms contain bronze plaques which list the names all veterans from Winnebago County who served in the Civil War and the Spanish-American War and were buried by 1903.
--Old Secesh
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