Bathrooms Older Than Indoor Plumbing Itself
Belvidere's 19th-century county-seat core, anchored by the 1854-1855 Italianate courthouse built for about $9,000, holds some of the area's oldest bathrooms, plumbing often having been added to houses built well before indoor bathrooms were standard.
A Rebuild Frozen in One Moment
Blocks rebuilt quickly after the April 21, 1967 tornado, which killed 24 people in Belvidere, are a completely different story -- late-1960s bathrooms installed all at once during an emergency rebuild, frequently to a builder-grade standard of that specific moment.
Before You Request a Bathroom Remodel Quote
Tell us whether your Belvidere home is part of the 19th-century courthouse-era core or the immediate post-1967 tornado rebuild, since the two eras call for very different remodel assumptions.
Bathroom remodeling project paths in Belvidere
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