533 South Adams, Peoria, Illinois

 

Adams Hotel

 

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Compiled and last updated in September, 2015.

 

Source: Peoria City Directories (PCD).

Most city directories are divided into sections, as:

Alpha – An alphabetical list of all persons and businesses, with other information.

Street – A list of all streets, by address, and the occupant.

Business – A list of all businesses, sorted by business type, with other information.

 

Most city directories contain many typographical errors, which have been copied below as printed.

 

On the 1902 Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps, 533 South Adams, which is on the bluff side of the street, south of Bridge (now Franklin) and north of Walnut, is a two-story building attached to 529 and 531 South Adams, which at the time was a cigar factory. There is a stair leading to the second floor between 531 and 533. At the rear of this building are several out-buildings, including a dwelling listed as 533 ½ South Adams.

 

The only evidence that this was a hotel is a city directory listing in 1927, as the Adams Hotel, and again in 1929, as a hotel run by William K. Adams, though it is not listed in the business section under hotels. At other times, there are people living at “over” 533, meaning the second floor, as tenants.

 

Starting in 1932, 529-533 are listed to the hardware company Couch & Heyle, Inc.

 

On the current Google Maps view, this entire square block is now a surface parking lot.

 

Prohibition begins January 16, 1920.

 

1924 PCD:

Alpha – Nicholas R. Day (Nettie), restaurant, 533 South Adams.

Alpha – Edward Bailey (Elizabeth) (Bailey's Garage), resides over 533 South Adams.

Street – 533 South Adams, Nicholas R. Day, restaurant.

Street – 533 South Adams, over, Edward Bailey.

Business – Restaurants and Lunch Rooms – Nicholas R. Day, 533 South Adams.

 

1925 PCD:

Street – 533 South Adams, vacant.

Street – 533 South Adams, over, vacant.

 

1926 PCD:

Alpha – Mrs. Mabel Adams, resides over 533 South Adams.

Alpha – Brystal Club, not listed.

Street – 533 South Adams, Brystal Club.

Street – 533 South Adams, over, Mrs. Mabel Adams.

Business – Brystal Club – Not listed under several headings.

 

ADAMS HOTEL – 1927 and 1929

 

1927 PCD:

Alpha – Adams Hotel (William Callender), over 533 South Adams.

Alpha – William Callender (Adams Hotel), resides over 533 South Adams.

Alpha – Brystal Lunch (William A. Walters), 533 South Adams.

Alpha – William A. Walters (Brystal Lunch), resides Lincoln Hotel.

Street – 533 South Adams, Brystal Lunch.

Street – 533 South Adams, over, Adams Hotel.

Business – Hotels – Adams Hotel, over 533 South Adams.

Business – Restaurants and Lunch Rooms – Brystal Lunch, 533 South Adams.

 

1928 PCD:

Alpha – Henry Peterson (Bertha) (1 child), clerk, resides 533 South Adams.

Alpha – John Hamilton (Agnes), salesman, resides 533 South Adams.

Street – 533 South Adams, vacant store.

Street – 533 South Adams, Henry Peterson.

Street – 533 South Adams, Jack Hamilton.

 

1929 PCD:

Alpha – William K. Adams, hotel 533 South Adams, resides same.

Street – 533 South Adams, vacant (store).

Street – 533 South Adams, William K. Adams hotel.

Business – Hotels – Adams Hotel, not listed.

 

1930 PCD:

Street – 533 South Adams, vacant.

 

1931 PCD:

Street – 533 South Adams, vacant.

 

1932 PCD:

Street – 529-533 South Adams, Couch & Heyle, Inc., hardware.

 

Prohibition ends December 5, 1933.

 

1933 PCD:

Street – 529-533 South Adams, Couch & Heyle, Inc., hardware.