…scored to mimic the look of limestone blocks.  The home is furnished in period style and includes a parlor, dining room, bedroom, children’s room, sewing room and an “updated” kitchen from the early 1900s.The “updated” kitchen features a cast iron wall hung sink with built-in drainboard, a porcelain top cabinet, an enameled yellow and green gas stove and a 1936 refrigerator with the motor mounted on top and a tiny freezer compartment.  An oak wall telephone would have been in use until the 1950s when the rotary dial phone was introduced in the area.

…interest is the convertible high chair/stroller The rolltop desk was used by early settler and one time Village President Albert Hulett.  Prior to living in Rockton he farmed in Owen Township where he was the town supervisor.  His niece Alta Hulett is known for being the first woman in the state of Illinois to be admitted to the bar and the youngest woman ever to become a lawyer.  In the 1870s she was responsible for drafting pioneering legislation prohibiting discrimination against women in the workplace.  She was born in Rockton township in 1854 and died in 1877 in California where she had moved in the hope the climate would help cure her tuberculosis.

…Sewing Room.  Sewing notions and a sample of counted crossstitch on perforated paper are displayed along with a battenberg lace collar pattern.

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