Blackwell's White House


County: Fayette
Location: US 40 & 51, 3rd & Gallatin Sts. Vandalia

Erected: 01/01/1954 Erected by: The Illinois State Historical Society


Colonel Robert Blackwell's new two-story frame store and boardinghouse opened on this site in time for the convening of the Ninth General Assembly on December 1, 1834. He advertised board and lodging for 'thirty or forty.'


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