The first photo is from 2025 and the next photo is from May 1998.
1612 Lowell
Previous house number was 1448
FIRST LISTED IN CITY DIRECTORY : 1920
RESIDENTS
1920-1922 Rice T. Briggle
1923-1936 Benjamin S. DeBoice
1938 D. W. Kinsbury
1939 not listed
1940-1942 James B. Sudduth
1944-1947 Gorden R. Titus
1948-1955 Harry G. Alcox
1956 no return
1957-1975 Sol Sabath
1976-1993 R. Sabath
1994-1995 Craig L. Stauch
1997-1999 T. Kunita / Stuart Ruch
2000 Roberta Lanier
2001-2008 no listing (Edward Russo Trust?)
2008-2023 Ethan Lewis & Corrine Frisch
2023 – Corrine Frisch
Rice Tyler Briggle (1856-1928) was the first owner of 1612 Lowell. He was a farmer whose land and livestock were just east of Riverton. His son, Charles Briggle, and grandchildren lived at 1605 Lowell during the few years he resided across from them.
Benjamin S. DeBoice was a probate judge for Sangamon county from 1930-1950. Prior to his retirement in 1969, he was an attorney. A fixture and a great raconteur of local politics, he was a frequent speaker on the political circuit expounding the GOP philosophy. DeBoice was an elected delegate to the Republican national convention in 1940; and he attended all of them between 1916-1952, with the exception of 1924 when the choice of Coolidge was a foregone conclusion. He gave an interview of 90, still weighing his typical 250 pounds. He remarked that the only indication of his age was his increasing proclivity to reminiscence. SJR Interview 1979
For more information about the Meyer family of 1620 Lowell, see HPNA newsletter December 1, 2006.