Rogers Park / West Ridge Historical Society

eeping the history of our community alive is a primary part of the Society’s mission, and our collections provide an important way for us to tell those stories. Physical artifacts can illustrate a point or help people physically experience history through the texture of a limestone ornament from the Granada Theater, or the three-dimensional lines of a piece of furniture in the Art Moderne style of the '20s, or the beauty of a stained glass lighting fixture designed in the Craftsman style. Even the weight of a telephone receiver or the sound the dial makes can help people who are used to flip phones begin to understand what it meant “to telephone” someone fifty or more years ago.