UI archaeologist wants 109-year-old house looking Sharp again
By Paul Wood
Sunday December 21, 2008
John Dixon
The reconstruction of the porch on Brian Adams' Queen Anne-style house on Elm Street in Urbana continues.
It was the house that Urbana's own Casey Jones built, with railroad iron in its foundation, and it was about to be restored to its 1899 grandeur when a fire snaked up from the porch to the third floor in May.
Now a University of Illinois archaeologist, Brian Adams, is putting back together the Queen Anne house at 412 W. Elm St., built for Zachariah F. Sharp, the tough-as-nails engineer for the Indiana, Bloomington and Western Railroad (IBW), better known as the I'd Better Walk.
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