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Sycamore High School (SHS) is a four-year public high school in Sycamore, Illinois, United States. It is a member of the Illinois High School Association and a part of Sycamore Community Unit School District #427. Sycamore High School is the only high school in the city, and serves students in grades 9–12 living in Sycamore and the ...
The Sycamore Historic District is a meandering area encompassing 99 acres (400,000 m 2) of the land in and around the downtown of the DeKalb County, Illinois county seat, Sycamore. The area includes historic buildings and a number of historical and Victorian homes.
Charles O. Boynton was born in 1826 in Rockingham, Vermont.He came to Illinois in 1847 and opened a dry goods store in Chicago.Two years later he moved to Sycamore and opened another store, this time a general store.
The carriage house was built at the same time as the Queen Anne residence, next door, of Sycamore businessman and land speculator, Charles O. Boynton, in 1887. [1] The home and the carriage house were held as one property until the Charles O. Boynton House was sold out of the Boynton family in 1986. [3]
Sycamore is a city in DeKalb County, Illinois, United States. It has a commercial district based and centered on Illinois Route 64. The population was 18,577 at the 2020 census, [2] up from 17,419 at the 2010 census. Sycamore is the county seat of DeKalb County and was named after the sycamore tree.
DeKalb County's area is approximately 632.7 square miles, and it is located 63 miles west of Chicago. There are 19 townships in the county; the county seat is Sycamore. Between 1834 and 1837, after the Potawatomi people had been pushed out, European Americans formed settlements in DeKalb County along streams and wooded areas due to fertile soil ...
The George P. Wild House is a large two-story Italianate home constructed in 1869 by George P. Wild, a successful Sycamore dry goods dealer, when he commissioned a Chicago architect, either John W. Ackerman or George Ackerman, [13] to build the two-story house for $4,000. The final cost of construction was $4,500 and the bill outraged Wild.
It stands directly across the street from another key structure in the district, the Sycamore Public Library and cross-corner from the district's largest structure, the DeKalb County Courthouse. It is open M-F from 8:30 am – 6:00 pm, Saturday from 9:00 am – 3:00 pm, and it is closed on Sunday.