Press Release - Wednesday, July 12, 2006
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Sunday afternoons at Bishop Hill Colony Hotel
BISHOP HILL, IL - Travel back in time at the Bishop Hill Colony Hotel each Sunday in July. A variety of historic activities will be demonstrated Sunday afternoons in July from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. at the Colony Hotel, also known as the Bjokrlund Hotel, which is located at the southwest corner of the Bishop Hill Park
The schedule follows.
July 2. Rye Bread will be made using the wood fired bake oven.
July 9. Demonstrations of the treadle lathe and shaving horse.
Hand Sewing: Making a Colony Shirt
July 16. Baking Cornbread in the wood fired bake oven.
July 23. "Meet Sven Bjorklund, Hotel Proprietor" at 2 p.m. and 3 p.m.
July 30. Aebleskivers will be made on the Hotel's 1860s cook stove.
Built in the mid 1850s, the Colony Hotel, which was owned communally by the residents of Bishop Hill, hosted as many as 20 visitors a day. Sven Bjorklund, the hotel's second proprietor, lent his name to the large lodging house, which included guest rooms,
common areas and a third-floor ballroom. The architecture of the Hotel complemented other Colony buildings, and the interior was nicely furnished.
It was owned privately after the Colony's dissolution in 1861, and in the 1920s was converted to an apartment building. The State of Illinois purchased the building in 1968, and has since operated it as a historic tourist attraction.
The Hotel is open to the public daily along with the Colony Church and the Bishop Hill Museum. These activities are sponsored by Bishop Hill State Historic Site and are free to the public. For additional information contact the Site at (309) 927-3345 or bishophill@winco.net.
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